Today was my last day at Disciples of Christ Historical Society in Nashville. June 1, 2011 would have marked five years at the Society. I visited DCHS for the first time as a researcher in March or April 1992. I was working on a high school history project and Uncle RD Ice suggested I might find [...]
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Update
Posted in archives, DCHS, research on 10 December 2010 | 3 Comments »
Nashville Churches of Christ History Group on Facebook
Posted in A. M. Burton, Athens Clay Pullias, Austin McGary, B. C. Goodpasture, C. E. W. Dorris, Central Church of Christ, Charlotte Avenue Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ, congregational history, David Lipscomb, David Lipscomb College, DCHS, Duke Street Church of Christ, E. G. Sewell, Foster Street Christian Church, Foster Street Church of Christ, G. P. Bowser, Gospel Advocate, Grace Avenue Church of Christ, Green Street Church of Christ, H. Leo Boles, Hall Laurie Calhoun, history, J. C. McQuiddy, J. S. Ward, J. W. Shepherd, James A. Allen, James A. Harding, Jesse P. Sewell, Jo Johnston Church of Christ, Joe McPherson, Joseph Avenue Church of Christ, Life & Casualty Insurance Company, Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ, Lipscomb, Lischey Avenue Church of Christ, mac-writing, Marshall Keeble, McQuiddy Printing Company, ministry, Nashville, Nashville Bible School, Nashville Churches of Christ, Nashville history, Nashville Stone-Campbell Sites, Preston Taylor, research, S. H. Hall, shameless self promotion, South College Street Christian Church, State and Local History, stone-campbell studies, Tennessee history, V. M. Metcalfe on 30 April 2010 | 2 Comments »
Nashville Churches of Christ History group is open to anyone interested in the Stone-Campbell movement in Nashville and Davidson County. Here is the first post I made a few days ago: I envision this community as a place to share common interest in the rich story of the Stone-Campbell Movement in Nashville. I am conducting [...]
Genealogical Workshop
Posted in archives, Catholic Church in nashville, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, congregational history, DCHS, genealogy, mac-speaking, Nashville, Nashville Churches of Christ, research, shameless self promotion on 24 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
Genealogists in the Nashville area will want to know about this event: Located in the buckle of America’s Bible belt, Nashville, Tennessee is home to several major repositories of religious records. Denominational archives, publishing boards, and local congregations offer a wide array of research opportunities. In addition to documenting denominational histories, religious archives also preserve [...]
Tweets from the Past
Posted in archives, DCHS on 19 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My colleague Sara Harwell has an innovative project afoot. In 2007 DCHS was given a marvelous collection of material from First Christian Church, Frankfort, Kentucky. Included in the gift were decades worth of diaries kept by FCC minister George Darsie. In brief daily entries George recounts the ins and outs, the people and moments, the [...]
Two Disciples websites, and a reflection on archiving
Posted in archives, blogging, C. E. W. Dorris, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ, congregational history, DCHS, history, periodicals, research, scholarship, stone-campbell studies, writing on 14 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DisciplesWorld‘s website will change and evolve over the next few months. Keep up with it all at Verity Jones’ blog here and get connected at the Intersection, a social networking site for Disciples and friends, here. Change and evolution is the order of the day it seems. It remains to be seen what an archive [...]
Louisville Free Public Library flood damage
Posted in archives, DCHS on 14 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read the story and see the pictures at Library Journal. Eerie…really eerie. Especially since as I type this we have workmen in T. W. Phillips Memorial replastering the ceiling in the Fiers Lecture Hall in preparation for painting to be followed by new flooring. Then the crew will move downstairs for more painting, more new [...]
I keep these handy
Posted in archives, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ, congregational history, DCHS, genealogy, research, stone-campbell studies on 17 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
The summer of 2009 has been, without question, the busiest research season in my three years at DCHS. It’s been terrific: lots of people are working on congregational history, personal family history and genealogy, scholarly articles and presentations, theses and dissertations, plus an array of books. In one sense our stacks are my reference shelf, [...]
DCHS card catalog back online
Posted in archives, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ, congregational history, DCHS, genealogy, history, research, stone-campbell studies on 15 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
http://www.discipleshistory.org/catalog/alex.htm Happy searching!
DCHS on Twitter
Posted in DCHS on 13 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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TSLA Workshop Materials Available
Posted in archives, biblical studies, Bibliographies, blogging, Colossians, DCHS, genealogy, mac-speaking, research on 3 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just added to the Spoken Word page are one presentation and three handouts from yesterday’s workshop. ——- I spent a few in the reading room after the workshop. I will post sometime this week another installment in the Dorris Research Unanswered Question series. ——- If you have not already heard about it, check out this article at [...]
