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September 4, 2024

The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to welcome RNS Project Archivists Lauren Pash to our staff!

Lauren will be joining Megan Genovese on the team digitizing photographs for the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Religious News Service Photographs Digitization Project.  

Lauren 

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August 27, 2024
William Hogan of St. Martin's Catholic church, Chicago, is carried off by police in a civil rights demonstration protesting racial imbalance in the city's public schools. [Pearl ID: 151362]

The Presbyterian Historical Society will display an exhibit featuring Religious News Service photographs during the Religion News Service's 90th Anniversary Symposium and Gala in September.

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May 31, 2024
Memorial Service for Armenian Catholicos, 1907. [Pearl ID: 139161].

A woman floats in Lake Urmia. An American doctor poses next to a Kurdish leader. A group of Assyrian women gather in a home in Urmia.

This spring, descendants of the Shedd family prepared boxes of records and delivered them to the Presbyterian Historical Society archives. The records, which were...

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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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...

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