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PHS Will Develop RNS Exhibit

April 4, 2024

PHS Will Develop RNS Exhibit With Support from Lilly Endowment Grant

The Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) will use a $94,750 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to develop a traveling exhibit of photographs from its Religious News Service Collection.  

The planning grant will fund the design and fabrication of an exhibit prototype that explores how the Religious News Service covered the interplay of

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Author: 
Kristen
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Religious News Service, News and Events
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New in Pearl: RNS Photos

February 9, 2024

The Presbyterian Historical Society is thrilled to announce that the first batch of images digitized as part of the Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project have been added to Pearl Digital Collections.

The 1,117 records added to the Society’s online archive include 753 images and 424 records of accompanying text including press releases and clippings. The records are the first to be digitized as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant funded project that will make 22,500 images and related documents from the...

Author: 
Kristen
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Religious News Service, Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections
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African American Leaders Series in 2023

December 18, 2023

This year, PHS kicked off its African American Leaders series, a blog series that celebrates the lives and work of Black Presbyterians. Each month in 2023, we've published biographies of African American ministers, educators, organizers, theologians, and human rights activists. And, included in each blog post is a free bulletin insert that churches can download and share with their congregation. Continue reading to learn more about these trailblazers and stay-tuned as we’ll...

Author: 
Kristen
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African American History, African American Leaders Series, African American Presbyterians
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Religious News Service Digitization Project Update

December 18, 2023
Novices ofthe Franciscan Missionary Servants of Christ the King, Smithtown, N.Y., 1948. [Pearl ID: 148427]

Work is underway on the Presbyterian Historical Society’s grant-funded digitization project that will make 22,500 images, newspaper clippings, and related documents from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection available online. The work—funded by a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources...

Author: 
Kristen
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Religious News Service, News and Events
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PHS Welcomes New Staff

October 18, 2023

The Presbyterian Historical Society happily welcomes Maura Weil to our staff! Maura joins us as an Archives Technician. As a member of the Technical Services team, Maura will help catalog books, periodicals, and archival collections in the Society’s online databases.

Maura grew up in Philadelphia and enjoys reading in her free time. She interned at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and earned her master’s degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University.

Her first day was October 16. Welcome,...

Author: 
Kristen
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News and Events, Staff
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