Research Guides
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Archives & AAEHC
The Archives and African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC) are open for research.
Library News
New Display! Private Prayers: Lay Devotion in Tudor England
April 23, 2026
"Private Prayers: Lay Devotion in Tudor England" is a new display right outside the Bishop Payne Library's rare book room. Drawing on materials from both the VTS and GTS collections, it tells the story of sixteenth-century English lay devotion beyond...
Repairing the Aitken Bible
March 25, 2025
In January of 1781, a printer named Robert Aitken submitted a petition to the new U.S. Congress, hoping to garner their support for his endeavor to print the first complete American Bible. During the Revolution, the volume of imported English Bibles...
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