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NEH Award to Digitize Religious News Service Photos

April 10, 2018

The Presbyterian Historical Society is the proud recipient of a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant.

Announced yesterday, the $44,000 grant award allows PHS to digitize photographs from its large Religious News Service collection and to plan for future sharing of the entire RNS collection online.

The historical RNS photographs held in Philadelphia include 68,000 images dating from 1945 through 1982. The photographs—most with...

Author:

Fred T

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Religious News Service, Pearl Digital Collections, News and Events

CCP at PHS: Student Essays

March 10, 2018

In the fall of 2017, students from the Community College of Philadelphia visited 425 Lombard Street to conduct research.

In preparation for the Society's first collaboration with an entire CCP class--part of a long-term effort to use the archives' primary-source materials to bolster student research and problem-solving skills--Technical Services and Reference Archivist Jennifer Barr worked closely with CCP Professor Joel Tannenbaum. Their planning included familiarizing students with the archives (...

Author:

Fred T

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American History, Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers, News and Events

Consortium Wins CLIR Grant

January 8, 2018

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded a prestigious Digitizing Hidden Collections grant to an interdenominational consortium of institutions holding historic records of Philadelphia congregations.

The Presbyterian Historical Society is one of the consortium’s 11 collecting groups.

The $385,000 grant award enables the...

Author:

Fred T

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Congregational Records, Philadelphia, News and Events

Two New Board Directors

December 6, 2017

The Presbyterian Historical Society recently welcomed Ben Chandler (Versailles, KY) and Michael Livingston (Trenton, NJ) to its Board of Directors’ class of 2021. With many years of experience serving the public interest through government and non-profit organizations, Chandler and Livingston bring a shared passion for history to their board leadership.

Pisgah Presbyterian Church, Versailles, KY, 1959...

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Fred T

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News and Events

Philadelphia Church History Updates

July 21, 2017

2017 marks the 300th anniversary of the Presbytery of Philadelphia. In honor of that major celebration, presbytery churches are writing brief, updated congregation histories. Susan Aggarwal, a member of the presbytery's History Team and of PHS's Delaware Valley Council, is collecting these histories and sharing them with PHS. All completed histories can be viewed on the PHS website using the Philadelphia Presbytery 300 blog tag.

Sixty-...

Author:

Fred T

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Philadelphia, Philadelphia Presbytery 300