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Prohibition: 100 Years Later

January 16, 2020

"Close the Saloons" poster, 1918. [Pearl ID: 139358]

One hundred years ago today, the United States officially went dry.

On January 16, 1919, the United States ratified the Eighteenth Amendment with approval by 36 states, establishing a constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages and entering the country into what is commonly referred to as the Prohibition Era. One year later, the outlaw of “intoxicating liquors” went into full effect...

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Allison

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Temperance, Pearl Digital Collections

Highlights from the RNS Digitization Project

September 19, 2019

In 2018, the Presbyterian Historical Society received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant. The grant funded a planning project for the future digitization and sharing of photographs from the Religious News Service (RNS) collection, one of the first news outlets to report about religion across faiths and denominations. The historical RNS photographs—most with extensive captions—document the history of Protestant...

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Allison

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Religious News Service, Digitization

Dr. Edith Millican's Global Service

March 31, 2019

At the end of Women’s History Month, PHS is celebrating the illustrious career and legacy of Dr. Edith Millican, a Presbyterian medical missionary who dedicated her life to serving those in need—both at home and abroad.

Left: Aimee and Edith Millican, ca. 1917. [...

Author:

Allison

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Mission History, Missionaries, Medical missions

Baird and Adams Families: Early Korea Missionaries

February 28, 2019

With the one hundred year anniversary of the March 1st Movement celebrated this year, PHS is reflecting on the lives of two notable missionary families in early twentieth century Korea: the Adams family and the Baird family.

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Author:

Allison

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Korea, Mission History, Missionaries

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Prohibition: 100 Years Later

Highlights from the RNS Digitization Project

Dr. Edith Millican's Global Service

Baird and Adams Families: Early Korea Missionaries