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In early 2024, the Presbyterian Historical Society was awarded a $94,750 grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to develop a traveling exhibit prototype of photographs from its Religious News Service Collection. The exhibit, Faith & Justice in the 1960s: Religious News Service Covers Civil Rights, provides a window into news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement from 1961 to 1965, illuminating some lesser-known stories of people of faith who fought for justice, transforming the United States.

The first venue for the exhibit prototype was the Religion News Service’s 90th...

Many of the exciting new initiatives the Presbyterian Historical Society launched in 2018 are reflected in Pearl, the Society's home for digitized and born-digital collections. Pearl provides researchers online access to a rapidly growing repository of images, publications, audio, and video content. In 2018, 2,400 items were added.

Oral history content is one of the PHS initiatives that picked up digital steam in 2018. Staff traveled across the country to interview prominent Presbyterians and collect stories that fill...