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Remembering Bill Marshall

March 21, 2022

--By Nancy J. Taylor

It is with great sadness that we share the news of former PHS Board member Bill Marshall’s death on March 13. He had been living with pancreatic cancer for several years.

When Bill joined the PHS Board in 2011, he brought his deep well of knowledge and passion for history. Having served as the Director of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Kentucky since 1976, he enthusiastically pushed PHS to expand its programming. Drawing on his own experience, he helped us reinvigorate our oral history program and even conducted...

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Nancy
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News and Events
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Lucy Craft Laney and the Haines Institute

March 18, 2022

Lucy Craft Laney was many things. A college graduate, a loving daughter and sister, a fervent and faithful Presbyterian, an educator, a leader, and the headstrong founder of the Haines Institute—these are only some of the things that characterize the history and far-reaching influence of her life.

A Learned Adolescence: Lucy’s Childhood and Teenage Years

Lucy Craft Laney was born on April 13, 1854, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister who bought his and his wife’s freedom twenty years before the birth of their child. Theirs was a large...

Author: 
McKenna
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Womens History, African American History
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The 1933 General Assembly On War And Capitalism

March 17, 2022
Commissioners of the PCUSA General Assembly, Broad Street Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Ohio), 1933. Accession 16-0110.

At the 1933 PCUSA General Assembly in Columbus, Ohio, the Social Welfare committee recommended maintaining prohibition, decried pre-Hays Code movies and comics -- alliteratively accosting "the putrid picture and the polluted page" -- and then turned to...

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David S
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General Assembly, Great Depression
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Past PHS LIVE: Religious News Service Photographs

March 11, 2022

PHS holds over 60,000 Religious News Service photographs depicting domestic and international religious news between 1945 and 1982. Through a digitization pilot project funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Reference and Resources grant, we added almost 500 RNS images to Pearl, the Society’s publicly accessible digital archives. Click here to see the images.

On March 10, PHS staff were joined by Religion News Service Photo Editor Kit Doyle to share about the Religious News...

Author: 
McKenna
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PHS Live, Religious News Service
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Marianne Moore: Of Gardens and Toads

March 10, 2022

An American modernist poet and life-long Presbyterian, Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was considered by many critics to be the nation’s greatest living poet in the mid-twentieth century. Moore's most famous poem is perhaps the one entitled Poetry, in which she hopes for poets who can produce "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Poetry begins with the following stanza:

“I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it,...

Author: 
Lisa
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Womens History
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