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RNS Digitization Project Update

October 10, 2024

We are back again to share some more updates from the Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project.

During the third quarter of 2024, PHS was thrilled to welcome Lauren Pash to the team as our new RNS Project Archivist. Working alongside Megan, the two of them were busy appraising, rehousing, scanning, and describing historical RNS...

Author: 
Allison
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Religious News Service, From the Archives, Digitization
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Religious News Service Project Update

July 12, 2024
1,050 University of Wisconsin undergraduates assembled in the First Congregational church here attending a twice-weekly lecture on political science. The rapid influx of college students this fall, most of them veterans taking advantage of the federal education benefits, has crowded the usual college classrooms, 1946. [Pearl ID: islandora:360547.]

The Presbyterian Historical Society is excited to share some digitization highlights as part of the Religious News...

Author: 
Allison
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Religious News Service, Digitization, News and Events
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African American Leaders: Benjamin Johnson Anderson

February 21, 2024
First Negro Smith College chaplain, 1964 [islandora:350264].

Each month, the Presbyterian Historical Society is bearing witness to the lives of African American leaders throughout the history of the denomination. Click here to learn how PHS is collecting records of the Black Presbyterian experience...

Author: 
Allison
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African American Leaders Series, African American History
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Pearl Digital Collections: 2023 Highlights

December 15, 2023
St. James Presbyterian Church, Harlem, New York, 1928. Pearl ID:  islandora:345468

The digitization team at PHS has had a busy, busy year!

This winter we wrapped up an inter-institutional effort to publish the personal records of the founding voice of womanist theology through the Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection.

In April, PHS was awarded a...

Author: 
Allison
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Pearl Digital Collections, News and Events
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Acknowledging and Repairing Harmful Description in PHS Collections

November 16, 2023
Japanese American Incarceration Camp. Pearl ID: islandora:82698

As a researcher or someone interested in learning more about the past, you may have spent a lot of time exploring online databases for resources related to your topic of interest. During those hours of searching, you might stumble across some terminology that makes you pause. For example, you might discover colonial language related to Christian missionary work that elevates the white Protestant...

Author: 
Allison
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Collections, Reparative Description
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