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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, one of the earliest and most prolific missionary organizations in American history. To aid our researchers, we've put together a list of Frequently Asked Questions and tips to help find American Board materials in our online catalog.
This guide can be helpful for scholars looking for information about the American Board itself, specific mission stations, or individual missionaries. We hope it will be of use to many of you.
Many of our local scholars have participated in Peggy Bendroth's three-week seminar on Congregational history, Growing Deeper Roots. But even more of you live far away and can't attend in person. So now we've created an online version for our members, along with timelines and recommended reading. There is a preview video on our YouTube channel, and the first part is available now, with two more coming over the Summer.
If you have a member account already, sign in and start learning. If you are a member of the library, but don't have an account yet, email the webmistress to set one up. And if you're not a member yet, please consider becoming one.
If you've never been to the Congregational Library in person but would like to have a look around, you're in luck. We've put together a brief video that contains a tour of the library, as well as an introduction to our history, resources, and services. Take a few minutes and see what you've been missing.
Attention scholars! If you're doing research on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, you might want to consider submitting a paper to the bicentennial conference that we will be hosting this September in association with Bentley University and the Boston Theological Institute.
For details and contact information, please see our Program & Workshop schedule.
Thanks to the newly united Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, we can now offer our patrons in Massachusetts access to over 30 databases of citations and full-text articles from Gale and ProQuest. They cover thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference books across a wide range of disciplines, so we have listed the ones most likely to be useful to our researchers on our Useful Links page. You can view the full list of available databases by clicking on the link above the bulleted list.
Please note: These subscriptions use geolocation verification, so you can only use them if you are in Massachusetts.