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Heritage Sunday 2024
Fifty years ago, at the 1974 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA), David Sindt rose from his seat and bravely and hopefully held up a sign with a single question: Is Anyone Else Out There Gay?
PHS hosts exhibit and talks on missionaries to Persia
Through April 30, the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) is hosting a traveling exhibit, “Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home.” In conjunction with the exhibit, PHS welcomed Dr. Hooman Estelami of Fordham University for an event and talk on March 21.
Traveling history
The Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) will use a $94,750 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to develop a traveling exhibit of photographs from its Religious News Service Collection.
The planning grant will fund the design and fabrication of an exhibit prototype that explores how the Religious News Service covered the interplay of religion, domestic politics and foreign affairs from 1936 to 1983.
2024 PHS research grants awarded
PHS’s Research Fellowship program awards travel grants of $2,500 for scholars, students and independent researchers who demonstrate a need to work in the society’s collection for a minimum of one week and whose normal place of residence is farther than 75 miles from Philadelphia.
African American Leaders and Congregations Collecting Initiative
The Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) continues to make progress on its effort to document the Black Presbyterian experience through the African American Leaders and Congregations Collecting Initiative (AALC).
Through a lens: Black History Month
As staff members at the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) further familiarize ourselves with the contents of the Religious News Service Photograph Collection, we have discovered powerful photos that speak to the experiences of African American Christians. These images, these moments captured by a lens, allow us to time travel, revisiting the tumultuous and varied history of the mid-20th century, as the collection spans the years 1945 to 1982.
This month, in celebration of Black History Month, we want to share some of the images that grabbed our attention and pulled at our heartstrings. We encourage you to browse digitized RNS images and our African American History Digital Collection in Pearl Digital Collections to find your own.
Archives sneak peek: Florence Helen Ray Boyes papers
After visiting Lebanon’s Kennedy Memorial Hospital in 1950, Dr. Paul S. Rhoads, working for the Board of Foreign Missions of the PCUSA, typed up a descriptive account of all he’d witnessed. The report is full of praise for the clinic, its staff and the medical missionary couple who ran it. Through Rhoads’s words, we are offered a glimpse into the world of Kennedy Memorial — the world of Florence and Henry Boyes.
OGA In Focus: building a culture of philanthropy
The history of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is deep, and the Presbyterian Historical Society has a devoted staff of archivists, communicators, administrators, and fundraisers to ensure its collections are cared for and accessible. In this week’s OGA In Focus, Luci Duckson-Bramble, director of development, shares how her work opens opportunities for Presbyterians and the public to step back in time to learn about the past and the future.
Now processed: Presbyterian Peacemaking Program records
The Presbyterian Historical Society has processed the Peacemaking Program Records as Record Group 542, and the guide to the records is now available for researchers: https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-542.
The collection totals 59 boxes, with a scope covering the history and actions of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program (PPP) and its staff as they worked to find ways for the denomination to respond to Christ’s call to be peacemakers. Additionally, there are records of the Presbyterian United Nations Office (PUNO) and the files of the Rev. Donald J. Wilson, chiefly documenting his work in peacemaking and international affairs before the creation of the PPP.
The Clifton Kirkpatrick Oral History Project
The Presbyterian Historical Society is happy to announce that three oral history interviews with Emeritus Stated Clerk of the General Assembly the Rev. Dr. Clifton Kirkpatrick are now available through Pearl Digital Collections.