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Illuminating the Past: More Light Presbyterians Records

October 8, 2024

--by Nick Skaggs and David Staniunas

This Spring, PHS received 48 cubic feet of original More Light Presbyterians (MLP) records from Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives. The records, which date back to the organization’s founding in 1974 are now processed and accessible to the public for the first time.

What were the records of the chief grassroots LGBTQIA+ advocacy organization in the PC(USA) doing at Rutgers in the first place? At...

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PHS Staff

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Presbyterian Heritage, LGBTQIA+ History, Archival Processing, Collections

Case Study in Reparative Description: Tucson Indian Training School Records

July 22, 2024

Tucson Indian Training School students ready to leave for a basketball game off campus, Spring 1937. Pearl ID: islandora:362723

--by Elaine Shilstut, Nick Skaggs, and Allison Davis

In 1906, an 8-year-old Akimel O'odham (Pima) student named Annie Moore enrolled at the Tucson Indian Training School. “We were not allowed to speak the Pima tongue at school,” Moore would recall almost 70 years later...

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PHS Staff

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Reparative Description, Native Americans, Archival Processing

Prophetic Witness: Dean Lewis and the Advisory Council on Church and Society

September 26, 2023

--by Nick Skaggs and David Staniunas

At a 1987 consultation held at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, Dean Lewis, head of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) office charged with developing social policy, fielded a question about the theological basis of implementing statements of the General Assembly. Under what basis does the Church act in the world?

Lewis answered, in part: “It comes from the fundamental...

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PHS Staff

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Presbyterian Heritage, Collections, Archival Processing

BKBB Archives Intern Interview: Sade Trice

August 29, 2023

In July, PHS welcomed BKBB Archives Intern Sade Trice. Read the interview below to hear about Sade's experience at the Presbyterian Historical Society.

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What initially interested you in an internship at the Presbyterian Historical Society?

S: I realized that I was passionate about the librarianship field, so I wanted to explore opportunities that were in or closely related to that area. I enjoy researching, learning, and helping others, and it...

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PHS Staff

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Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers

The Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection

April 24, 2023

In 1987, the first Black woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, used the term Womanist to explore an interpretation of the Bible that was concerned with Black women’s liberation. Her book that followed one year later, Black Womanist Ethics, helped launch the field of womanist ethics.

The Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) is thrilled to announce that this year, 35 years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, the entirety of Rev. Dr. Cannon’s personal papers has been digitized and made freely accessible through...

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PHS Staff

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Presbyterian Heritage, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection

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Illuminating the Past: More Light Presbyterians Records

Case Study in Reparative Description: Tucson Indian Training School Records

Prophetic Witness: Dean Lewis and the Advisory Council on Church and Society

BKBB Archives Intern Interview: Sade Trice

In July, PHS welcomed BKBB Archives Intern Sade Trice. Read the interview below to hear about Sade's experience at the Presbyterian Historical Society.

The Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection