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Making the past relevant to the present

The Congregational Library and Archives strives to enliven a tradition of care for the world's future by preserving and interpreting the stories of the past.

an original manuscript record book and an article about NEHH in the New York Times

Records rescued for the future

We're expanding our New England's Hidden Histories program with some help from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

a group of researchers read manuscript records

Grow Deeper Roots

Learn the story of the Congregational and Christian tradition and why "history matters" in the world today.

a path in the historic Granary burial ground

Find a Congregationalist

Search our database of thousands of Congregational and Christian ministers and missionaries spanning nearly four centuries.

Puritan Boston Tests Democracy

We have an app! Download our comprehensive and interactive digital reference to the first 60 years of Boston's history.

New England's Hidden Histories

Congregational church records are an unparalleled source of information about the religious activities of the early colonists, and about many other aspects of early American life. The Congregational Library and Archives, in partnership with the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale is currently preserving these records and making them available to the public.
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Transcribe an 18th-Century Document

News & Highlights

Additional NEHH materials from Sturbridge, Mass.

Last fall we published the digitized versions of the bound records from the Congregational Church in Sturbridge, Mass.

We are excited to announce the the availability of two new collections in our New England's Hidden Histories program. Both are from towns close to us here in eastern Massachusetts.

We are pleased to announce the the availability of two new collections in our New England's Hidden Histories program.

Brockton, Mass. First Parish Congregational Church

The General Association of Connecticut (now the Connecticut Conference, UCC) was assembled from a number of county-level ministerial associations and church consociations. In partnership with the present conference leadership, we have digitized dozens of volumes of their earliest records.

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Obituary Database

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