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Title: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
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Title:Description:Images, documents and sound and video recordings pertaining to American history, with a particular emphasis on the role of Presbyterians and Presbyterianism in the spiritual, social, political and cultural life of the nation.
Featured image: "This is our land, now" (ca. 1948) from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection.Geographic subjects:United States--History--19th century, United States--History--20th centuryURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:americanhistory
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Title:Description:Images of animals from the Presbyterian Historical Society's collection.Topics:Animals., Pets.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:animals
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Title:URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:audio_collection
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Description:This collection consists of materials digitized for use in Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers (BKBB), an archives-based learning project that brings students, educators, and student-support networks from Community College of Philadelphia together with the resources of the Presbyterian Historical Society. Learn more about how these digitized materials are used in the project and the Building Knowledge and Breaking Barriers student exhibit. Support for BKBB has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.Topics:Study and teaching.--History, Archives and education., Libraries and education.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:bkbb
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Title:Description:Carroll R. Stegall (1891-1965) was a missionary for the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. He worked at the Luebo and Lubondai mission stations in the Congo from 1915 to 1950. This collection consists of negatives and photographs of native people, missionaries, and the radio equipment Stegall used at Luebo in the 1930s. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Carroll R. Stegall with radio equipment.Creator:Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965. (creator)Subject names:Stegall, Carroll R. (Carroll Richard), 1891-1965., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.Topics:Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:crstegall
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Title:Description:Christmas images from the Presbyterian Historical Society's collections.Topics:Christmas.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:christmas
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Title:Description:Images of church buildings.
Featured image: Church at Emerson Institute, Blackville, South Carolina.Topics:Church architecture., Church buildings., Presbyterian church buildings.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:churchbuildings
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Title:Description:History of Presbyterian and Reformed church governance, congregations, ministers, and theology. See the following related collections: Presbyterian General Assemblies; Church buildings; Protestant Reformation; and Sermons.
Featured image: Synod of Catawba clergy and lay commissioners.Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)--History., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--History., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--History., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--History., United Presbyterian Church of North America--History.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Government., Presbyterian Church--United States., Church architecture., Church buildings., Presbyterian church buildings., Presbyterian Church--Doctrines., Reformation--Early movements.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:churchhistory
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Title:Description:In 1946, seventeen denominations formed Church World Service (CWS) as a relief agency. Churches throughout the United States provided over 11 million pounds of food and medical supplies to communities in Europe and Asia that were affected by World War II. Over the course of the next two decades, CWS expanded its work into Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and the mission of the organization shifted from providing immediate disaster relief to creating long-term development projects in partnership with local communities. CWS also began to work in the United States to provide aid after natural disasters and established refugee resettlement offices around the country.
View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Hurricane Flora aftermath, Haiti, 1963.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service. (creator)Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service.Topics:Ecumenical movement--United States--20th century., Human rights--Religious aspects--Christianity--20th century., Disaster relief--United States--20th century., Church work with refugees--20th century., International relief--20th century., Church work with disaster victims--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:cws
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Description:History of Presbyterian and ecumenical involvement in civil rights movements, protests, and social justice issues, as well as individual social reformers and activists.
Featured image: Presbyterian peacemaking rally to freeze nuclear weapons, 1985.Topics:Anti-war demonstrations., Christianity and politics., Social justice--Religious aspects., Church and the world., Social reformers., Civil rights demonstrations., Race relations--Religious aspects., Civil rights--Religious aspects., Civil rights movements., Civil rights workers.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:protest_reform
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The PCUSA's Board of Foreign Missions was organized in 1837 to convey the Gospel throughout the "heathen and anti-Christian world." This collection documents the Board of Foreign Mission's work through photographs, glass slides, and negatives. Subjects depicted include missionaries, mission stations, educational institutions, churches, medical facilities, projects and certain prominent events. The bulk of the collection is from the twentieth century.
Featured image: Korean conspiracy trial prisoners.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg223
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Title:Description:A collection of Presbyterian responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic, including sermons, worship services, and oral histories. See the following related collection: Easter COVID-19 collection.
Featured image: Oregon Trail Presbyterian Ministry (Marysville, Kan.) Easter worship video.Topics:COVID-19 (Disease)--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:pandemic
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Title: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
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Title: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:1789Geographic 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
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Title: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
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Description:History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America.
Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.Subject names:Religious News Service., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America., American and Foreign Christian Union., American Sunday-School Union., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America., Home Missions Council of North America., World Council of Churches.Topics:Interdenominational cooperation., Ecumenical movement.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:ecumenical
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Description:Eugene R. Kellersberger (1888-1966) was a medical missionary to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) and General Secretary of the American Mission to Lepers. This collection includes photographic materials related to Dr. Kellersberger's time as a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo and to his 1946 world and 1947-1948 Far East tours. His Africa photograph album contains over 2,000 items, and it primarily spans the years from the 1920's to 1940. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Eugene Kellersberger and pet monkey, ca. 1925.Start date:1909End date:1998Creator:Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966. (creator)Subject names:Kellersberger family., Kellersberger, Edna Bosche, 1888-1923., Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966., Kellersberger, Julia Lake Skinner, 1897-1986., Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010.Topics:African trypanosomiasis., Leprosy., Leprosy--Hospitals--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions to leprosy patients., Tropical medicine--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:erkellersberger
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Title:Description:History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields.
Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.Topics:Missionaries., Presbyterian Church--Missions.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:foreignmissions
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Title:Description:History of Presbyterian-affiliated colleges, seminaries, and universities.
Featured image: Rev. Dr. Kenneth Bailey and Rev. Emile Zaki with pre-seminary students in Assiut, 1963.Topics:Presbyterian universities and colleges., Education, Higher., Religious education., Junior colleges., Presbyterian Church--Education., Presbyterian theological seminaries., African American schools., African Americans--Education.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:highered
