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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

New NEHH collection - General Association of Connecticut

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.

Davida Foy Crabtree was active with the United Church of Christ beginning in her teenage years. As a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was deeply involved in the social change movements prevalent to this era.

We are pleased to announce the latest additions to our New England's Hidden Histories program. Although they come from some of the oldest churches in Massachusetts, their earliest records have been lost.

The South Congregational Church was established in 1868; it was a formalization of what M. C. Andrews and J. B. Fairfield started in 1852 when they established a Sunday School. Over the years, the church went through many changes before closing in February 2015.