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March 29, 2023
Left: Katie Geneva Cannon, 1995. [Pearl ID: 171115]  Right: Portrait of Phyllis Wheatley c. 1753. Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

--by Matty Marrow

The passage below details a monumental moment in not just Black American history, but the history of Black American women. It can be found repeatedly, almost word for word, in the works of Katie Geneva Cannon...

March 20, 2023

Organized in 1852, the Presbyterian Historical Society is the oldest denominational archives in the United States and serves as the national archives for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its predecessor denominations. As record keepers of the denomination, PHS collects records of historic value from mid councils and congregations. 

What are records of historic value created by churches and mid councils?

Churches and

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March 20, 2023

--by Marsha Heimann

I was born in the middle of the United States. The Midwest values and work ethic were instilled in me at a very early age.  For as long as I can remember I was told to do the job well, to do the best I could, and to give to the best of my ability. That has followed me in everything I do. I also love to be creative and to think outside the box, which has allowed me to enjoy the results of a job well done.

My father was the President of a small liberal arts college in Iowa, so I witnessed the importance and success of building pride for the college in...

March 19, 2023

What is your role at PHS? What do you do from day-to-day?

I’ve been Records Archivist here since 2011, and the role exists to accession incoming archival collections. That means that any box of stuff that comes in, I’m the person who unpacks it, separates out non-permanent stuff for return or disposal, describes the permanent stuff, takes some very basic preservation actions (usually pulling vinyl binders or old plastic, adding acid free folders or sleeves) and gets the new collection on the shelf.

More than a third of our incoming collections come...

March 16, 2023

The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to award four Research Fellowship grants for 2023.

Dr. Kazimierz Bem, a senior lecturer at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Wrocław, Poland, and a UCC pastor in Massachusetts; Morgan Crago, a graduate student at the Boston University School of Theology; Ezer Roboam May May, a graduate student at...

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