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PHS Celebrates the Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection

October 30, 2023

On Thursday, October 12, the Presbyterian Historical Society celebrated the completion of the Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection, a collaborative effort among PHS, The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary and The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University Libraries).

Coinciding...

Author: 
Fred T
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Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection, News and Events
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African American Leaders: the Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon

October 25, 2023

Each month, the Presbyterian Historical Society is bearing witness to the lives of African American leaders throughout the history of the denomination. Click here to learn how PHS is collecting records of the Black Presbyterian experience through the African American Leaders and Congregations Initiative.

Additionally, a free bulletin insert about each figure is available for download at the end...

Author: 
McKenna
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African American Leaders Series, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection
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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...

Author: 
PHS Staff
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Presbyterian Heritage, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection
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Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection Update

December 1, 2022
Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, circa 2000s. Pearl ID: islandora:171117

The Presbyterian Historical Society is excited to announce the completion of the second phase of an inter-institutional effort to publish the personal records of the founding voice of womanist theology, Katie Geneva Cannon. Researchers can now view the entirety of records from The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University Libraries) in the...

Author: 
Allison
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Digitization, African American History, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection, Womens History, Pearl Digital Collections
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Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection Update

March 31, 2022
Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, 1995. Pearl ID: islandora:171115

PHS is excited to spotlight some developments made in an inter-institutional effort to publish the personal records of the founding voice of Womanist/feminist/mujerista theology, Katie Geneva Cannon. Researchers can now view the first installment of records from the Burke Library at Union Theological...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Digitization, African American History, Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection, Womens History, Pearl Digital Collections
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