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African American history
Description:
African American history, including church, mid council, and national agency records; personal papers; photographs; publications; and oral histories collected as part of the African American Leaders and Congregations Initiative. Featured image: Student minister with boys, Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C., circa 1950.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
United States.--Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church, United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:afam
Title:
Domestic missions
Description:
History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in domestic fields.
Featured image: Missionary Kate McBeth with the first Women's Missionary Society organized in Lapwai (present-day Idaho).
Topics:
Missionaries--United States., Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States., Home missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:domesticmissions
Title:
Early American history
Description:
History of Presbyterianism in Colonial and Revolutionary-era America (1600-1789).
Featured image: Painting of Reverend Charles Beatty and Reverend George Duffield preaching to the Indians on the banks of the Muskingum River by Mary W. Bonsall, undated.
End date:
1789
Geographic subjects:
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775., United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:early_american
Title:
Easter COVID-19 collection
Description:
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, churches across the nation have shown themselves to be beacons of hope—providing food and social services, pastoral care, and online worship. The Presbyterian Historical Society has responded to this unprecedented moment by gathering 2020 Easter Sunday worship services and sermons from PC(USA) congregations and other worshiping communities. The COVID-19 collection is a curated selection of these contributions, including services from congregations in California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania -- including Arabic and Hakha Chin services from First Presbyterian Church (Allentown, Pa.) -- Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Topics:
COVID-19 (Disease)--United States., Easter sermons--United States--21st century., COVID-19--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:covid19
Title:
Japanese American incarceration during World War II
Description:
Images of, and publications regarding, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Includes the entirety of Frederick Thorne's "Japanese American forced removal and incarceration during World War II slide collection," a circa 1944 slide collection documenting life at Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II, including Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Features images of imprisoned Japanese Americans as well as scenes of Presbyterian mission work in the camps. In 2023, description found in this digital collection was revised as part of ongoing effort to address harmful and offensive language. For more information, contact us at refdesk@history.pcusa.org.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Manzanar War Relocation Center., Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Topics:
Japanese Americans--Missions., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Rohwer (Ark.), Manzanar (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:slides_b34
Title:
Katie G. Cannon Collection
Description:
Katie Geneva Cannon was the first Black woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church. She was born in 1950 in the Fisher Town neighborhood of Kannapolis, N.C., one of the seven children of Corine and Esau Cannon. She graduated from Barber-Scotia College (Concord, N.C.), completed a Doctor of Divinity at Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, and was the first African American to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). She was ordained by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Catawba in 1974. A founding voice in Womanist theology, Cannon taught at Temple University, and Union Presbyterian Seminary (Richmond, Va.). In 2018 she founded the Center for Womanist Ethics at Union in Richmond; she died August 8, 2018. This collection represents in a single online location personal records of Katie's that she intended to distribute among Presbyterian Historical Society, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Featured image: Katie G. Cannon preaching, circa 1993.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (creator)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women., Womanist theology.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:kgc
Title:
PCUSA Special Committee on Racism, Truth and Reconciliation
Description:
The Special Committee on Racism Truth and Reconciliation was created by the 222nd General Assembly (2016) with a mandate to interrogate institutional racism within the Church. In support of the committee’s work, this collection brings together records of the Presbyterian Church’s responses to the Confession of 1967, the Black Manifesto, and other passages from the long-standing struggles of Black, Brown and indigenous power movements against white supremacy. The committee presents its full report and recommendations to the 225th General Assembly (2022).
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:scrtr
Title:
Presbyterian General Assemblies
Description:
History of Presbyterian General Assemblies--annual and now biennial meetings to review the work of the denomination and resolve controversies within the church.
Featured image: Rev. Joan Salmon Campbell at the 202nd General Assembly, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1990.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Government., Presbyterian Church--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:general_assemblies
Title:
Presbyterian Historical Society
Description:
The Presbyterian Historical Society, founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1857, is the oldest denominational historical society in the country. This collection details the history of the Presbyterian Historical Society/Department of History from its founding in 1852, including the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in Montreat, NC, which merged with PHS in 1983.
Featured image: Postcard of the Presbyterian Historical Society building in Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., 1973.
Start date:
1852
Creator:
Presbyterian Historical Society. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Historical Society--Archives.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:phs
Title:
Presbyterians in Puerto Rico
Description:
Photographs, audio, and video documenting the Presbyterian communities of Puerto Rico.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Puerto Rico., Presbyterians--Puerto Rico., Presbyterianism--Puerto Rico.
Geographic subjects:
Puerto Rico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:puerto-rico
Title:
Rachel Henderlite Papers
Description:
Rachel Henderlite was a teacher, writer, ordained minister, and activist. In 1965, Henderlite was ordained by Hanover Presbytery as the first woman minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. The collection includes photographs, audio and video recordings, a scrapbook, correspondence, lecture and sermon notes, speeches and writings, and publications. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Bishop Frederick D. Jordan congratulates Dr. Rachel Henderlite.
Creator:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991. (creator)
Subject names:
Henderlite, Rachel, 1905-1991--Archives.
Topics:
Women clergy--United States., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States., Ordination of women--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg504
Title:
Religious News Service Photographs
Description:
Conceived by journalist Louis Minsky (1909-1957), Religious News Service (RNS) was established in 1934 as an affiliated but independently managed agency of the National Conference of Jews and Christians (later the National Conference of Christians and Jews), and was dedicated to providing authoritative and bias-free news about religion and ethics to both the secular and religious press. This collection contains photographs documenting Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish groups. Coverage of Protestants (especially mainline Protestants) and Catholics constitutes the bulk of the images. View the collection guide to learn more. Digitization of some of the images in this collection made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Featured image: Father James Groppi, the civil rights activist priest from Milwaukee, and militant leader Rennie Davis are taken into custody during an anti war demonstration a block from the White House.
Creator:
Religious News Service. (creator)
Subject names:
Catholic Church--History--20th century., National Conference of Christians and Jews., Orthodox Eastern Church--History--20th century., Religious News Service.
Topics:
Catholics--History--20th century., Foreign news--History--United States--20th century., Jews--History--20th century., Journalism, Religious--History--20th century., Judaism--History--20th century., Protestantism--History--20th century., Protestants--History--20th century., Religion--Photographs., Religion and politics--History--20th century., Religion and sociology--History--20th century., Religion and international relations--History--20th century., Religious institutions--History--20th century., Religious leaders., Social movements--Religious aspects--History--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
United States--Social policy--20th century., United States--Politics and government--20th century., United States--Religion--20th century., United States--Social conditions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rns
Title:
Support Agency Photographs
Description:
This collection consists of photographs from the Board of National Missions and its predecessor agencies used to document and promote the various missions carried out by the Board. Some of the images were used in brochures, exhibits, filmstrips, newsletters, and slide sets. Images represent schools, hospitals, community and neighborhood centers, mission and non-mission churches, missionaries and mission workers, and general assemblies. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Portland Oregon lumber camp, 1922.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Educational Work., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Unit of Visual Aids., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Office of Visual Aids., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Pictorial works., Home missions--United States--Pictorial works., Church buildings--United States--Pictorial works.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg303

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