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April 4, 2024

PHS Will Develop RNS Exhibit With Support from Lilly Endowment Grant

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

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March 22, 2024

Each month, the Presbyterian Historical Society is diving deep into the archives and sharing stories from the family and personal papers in our collections. This month, we’re highlighting the Anna B. Criswell Papers.

What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month than by exploring an archival collection that illustrates the life of a woman dedicated to her church, her pupils, her family, and her own happiness?

Record...

March 19, 2024
Group photograph at the wedding of Eunice Blanchard and Richard Poethig (left to right: Erna Poethig, Eunice Blanchard & Richard Poethig, Juliet Rumsey Stroh Blanchard, David Blanchard), June 7, 1952. Pearl ID: islandora:356169 [RG 545, Box 43, Folder 17]

The Richard and Eunice Poethig Family Papers have been processed as...

March 19, 2024

In 2023, PHS was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 22,500 photographs and supporting documents from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection. Learn more about the project.

The Religious News Service Photograph Collection includes images that were shot between 1945 and 1982. To kick off the RNS Photographs Digitization Project, we prioritized appraising and scanning images from 1964...

March 18, 2024

The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to award four Research Fellowship grants for 2024.

Luca Azuma, Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, N.C.); Dr. Elesha Coffman, Associate Professor of History at Baylor University (Waco, Texas); Dr. Emily Conroy-Krutz,...

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