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Title:
COVID-19 Pandemic
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
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:
Ecumenical and interfaith activities
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
Title:
Education
Description:
History of Presbyterian-affiliated Sunday schools, mission schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, and educators. See the following related collections: Higher education; Church work with youth.
Featured image: Biology class at Knoxville College, ca. 1950.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Education., Education, Secondary., Education, Higher., Religious education., Junior colleges., Sunday schools., Presbyterian theological seminaries., Presbyterian vacation schools., African American schools., African Americans--Education., Religious educators., Presbyterian universities and colleges.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:education
Title:
Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers
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:
1909
End date:
1998
Creator:
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
Title:
Foreign missions
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
Title:
Henry Harmon Spalding and Eliza Hart Spalding Papers
Description:
In 1836, Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding, under appointment by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the Osage Indians, met Marcus Whitman and were persuaded to go to the Northwest as Presbyterian missionaries. The Spaldings and Whitmans made a hazardous six months journey, the wives being the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains. The Spaldings established a mission among the Nez Percé in the Lapwai Valley (present Idaho). They opened a school, set up the first printing press in the Northwest, and trained the Indians in farming. In 1847, they escaped the massacre which claimed the lives of the Whitmans. The collection consists of eight original letters by Henry and Eliza Spalding to family members. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Portrait of Henry Harmon Spalding by Matthew Brady, 1871.
Creator:
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874. (creator), Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851. (creator)
Subject names:
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Indians of North America--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:spalding
Title:
Higher education
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
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:
Korea Beautiful.
Description:
Slide presentation depicting the country and people of Korea. Slides arranged for children's lecture; can be rearranged for adult lecture. Script and original art work by Rev. Archibald W. Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Archibald, 1890-1977. (artist)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:slidesb72
Title:
Korea mission history
Description:
History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in Korea. Mission work began in 1884 and was primarily medical and educational. Early mission work centered in Seoul and Pyengyang and eventually nine stations were established. Work was done in cooperation with several other denominations, including Methodists and Southern, Canadian, and Australian Presbyterians. Featured image: Old Theological Seminary in Pyengyang, circa 1923.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:korea_missions
Title:
Leiper Family Papers
Description:
The Leiper Family Papers document the professional and personal life of Henry Smith Leiper, and the lives of several of his family members. The collection includes photographs, audio, writings, and correspondence. The Carrell Leiper Hall autograph collection consists of letters written to Henry Smith Leiper by church leaders of many denominations, statesmen, philanthropists, and other notable public figures. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Portrait of Henry Smith Leiper.
Creator:
Leiper (Family : Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975), Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975. (author), Hall, Carrell Leiper, 1916-2006. (compiler), Leiper, Fanny Smith, 1863-1896. (artist)
Subject names:
Leiper, Henry Smith, 1891-1975
Topics:
Christian union., Communism and Christianity., Ecumenists--United States., Interdenominational cooperation., Missionaries--Oklahoma., Missionaries--China--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg490
Title:
LGBTQIA+ history
Description:
LGBTQIA+ history across the theological spectrum, including Presbyterian national agency records, personal papers, photographs, and oral histories collected as part of the LGBTQIA+ Collecting Initiative.
Featured image: Chicago Gay Pride Parade, 1987.
Topics:
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Church work with gays--Presbyterian Church., Lesbian clergy--United States., Gay clergy--United States., Gay rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Sexual orientation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Christian sexual minorities--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:lgbtqia
Title:
Maps
Description:
Featured image: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. map of church extension, ca. 1950s.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:maps
Title:
Mary Louise Blatchley Papers.
Description:
Little is known about Mary Louise Blatchley's life. In 1889 she joined the Wayne Presbyterian Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania with her parents, Charles and Mary Blatchley, and older siblings, Henry, Charles and Clara Blatchley. From 1897-1910, she served as Secretary for Young Peoples' Work for the Presbytery of Chester's branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. In that capacity, she spoke frequently before various women's and children's societies on the subject of foreign missions. In addition, until at least 1923, she was active in the Wayne Presbyterian Church, supervising several youth groups. On numerous occasions, she hosted foreign missionaries in her home and spoke on the subject of foreign missions to diverse groups within the church. Her papers reflect her interest in foreign missions. Of particular importance are the speeches she made to various Christian Endeavor societies at local Presbyterian churches throughout the Presbytery of Chester from 1902-1935. Her incoming correspondence, which dates from 1889-1907, is primarily of a personal nature but also includes letters from individuals associated with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Philadelphia, the oldest and largest of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.'s women's missionary boards. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Mary Louise Blatchley personal notebook, 1890-1894.
Creator:
Blatchley, Mary Louise. (author), Blatchley, Charles Gilbert. (author), Blatchley, Henry Gilbert. (author), Blatchley, Charles Alfred. (author)
Subject names:
Blatchley, Mary Louise--Archives., Blatchley, Mary Louise--Diaries., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chester--Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions., Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions., Presbyterian women--Diaries., Women in church work--Pennsylvania.--Presbyterian Church, Women in missionary work., Women--Societies and clubs.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg225
Title:
McCartee Family Papers
Description:
Dr. Divie Bethune McCartee (1820-1900) and his wife Juana M. Knight McCartee (d. 1906) served as missionaries in China and Japan for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions from 1844 until their retirement in 1900. Dr. McCartee served as a physician and also performed consular services. This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Divie Bethune McCartee and his wife, Juana Knight McCartee, 1854-1906. The correspondence is mostly outgoing and includes letters to the Board of Foreign Missions, to Henry William Rankin, the McCartee's nephew, and to Franklin Knight, Juan McCartee's father. Also included is correspondence relating to Dr. McCartee's consular service. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Portrait of Divie Bethune McCartee, 1843.
Start date:
1854
End date:
1906
Creator:
McCartee family. (creator)
Subject names:
Knight, Franklin., Rankin, Henry William., McCartee, Divie Bethune, 1820-1900., McCartee, Juana Knight, d. 1906., United States. Office of Consular Affairs., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Japan Mission.
Topics:
Diplomatic and consular service--China., Diplomatic and consular service--Japan., Missionaries, Medical--China., Missionaries, Medical--Japan., Presbyterian Church--Missions, Medical--China., Mission, Medical--Presbyterian Church--Japan.
Geographic subjects:
China., Japan.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg177
Title:
Millican Family Papers
Description:
Correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs documenting the Millican family's missionary experiences in China, and to a lesser extent in the Philippines, emphasizing the difficulties of their work during the Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s and during the post-World War II years. Edith Millican's correspondence documents medical work in China during and after World War II, giving insight into the training and experiences of, and opportunities for, American women doctors. Also included are photographs documenting Edith Millican's time serving the Board of National Missions as a physician in New Mexico. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Aimee and Frank Millican just before going to China, 1907.
Start date:
1900
End date:
1984
Creator:
Millican family. (creator)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. China Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Philippine Mission., Christian Literature Society for China., Chenhsien Hospital (Hunan, China), Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--New Mexico., Missions--Educational work--China., Evangelistic work--China., Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Philippines., Religious literature--Distribution--China., Missions, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Religious broadcasting--China., Religious broadcasting--Philippines., Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico., China., Philippines.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:rg199

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