PCA HISTORICAL CENTER
Archives and Manuscript Repository for the Continuing Presbyterian Church


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with a primary focus on improving our website. Please keep us in your prayers.
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The David Bays Calhoun Manuscript Collection has just
this month been received by the PCA Historical Center.
Arrangment & description of this collection will begin soon.
Watch this space for updates.
Two New Collections : Check back soon for more news:
The Janet L. Sparkman Collection for Presbyterian Women
Rev. William Buell Sprague :
The Thomas E. Martin Collection
L. Roy Taylor
Manuscript Collection

Women authors are the main focus of this collection, but there are also works by men where the subject is of special concern for women.
While we work to build the home page for this Collection, much of the JLS Collection can be viewed on "Warfield," our book catalog.

William Buell Sprague [1795-1876] was a prominent Presbyterian pastor, serving for many years in Albany, New York. This is a collection recently donated by a retired judge in Pennsylvania. Search "Warfield" to view the works in this Collection.

Dr. L. Roy Taylor served as Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America from 1998-2020. The finding aids(folder by folder indexes) for the Taylor Collection are now posted to our site. Click here to view.



Electronic Records : Selected Readings.
As the PCA takes up the concern voiced in 2023's Overture 20, we've begun to gather some selected readings to better educate our research on this matter.


  Helps for the 51st General Assembly: Overtures before the Assembly this year.
Analysis of Overtures by:
(1.) TE David Coffin
(2.) RE Howie Dunahoe
(3.) TE Fred Greco
Additional helps, other aspects of GA, here.

The Historical Center of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a ministry of the PCA Stated Clerk’s Office, located in St. Louis, Missouri on the campus of Covenant Theological Seminary. Our mission is to preserve the records of the Presbyterian Church in America along with those of four predecessor denominations. The Center also holds the manuscript collections of over 150 people connected with those denominations, plus history materials for some 700 congregations. A modest research library, with focus on American Presbyterianism, augments the Center’s collections.