Margaret Bendroth

Peggy Bendroth was the Executive Director of the Congregational Library and Archive from 2004 to 2020. She is former president of the American Society of Church History. Her many important publications include The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past (2015); Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston’s Churches, 1885-1950 (2005); and Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (1993). She is a distinguished scholar of American religion, and has written about Protestants across the theological spectrum. Her current research project is entitled: “Not Feminists, But: Mainline Protestants Between the Times, 1920-1980,” which explores the changing dynamics of women’s roles in the period after the suffrage movement and before the advent of second-wave feminism.

Watch Peggy Bendroth describe her current research here.