History and Archives Videos

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A Royal Recollection

July 8, 2015

Queen Elizabeth II visited Trinity in July 1976, to observe the bicentennial of U.S. independence, and to collect 279 years of back rent from the...

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Summer Camp, 1967 Style

July 1, 2015

Going to camp has been a rite of summer for decades and Trinity Church Wall Street has been involved with the custom many times in its more than three...

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Trinity Seaside Home

June 25, 2015

The oldest film in the Trinity Archives, this video depicts the Trinity Seaside Home circa 1925. It may have been used to encourage donations to the...

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Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are

June 10, 2015

The Very Rev. Michael Battle is coming to New York City to serve on the faculty of General Theological Seminary and to direct the Desmond Tutu Center...

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Throwback: Eyewitness to History

June 3, 2015

If you have seen the movie “Selma,” you probably remember the performance of Stephan James in the role of John Lewis, beaten by Alabama State Police...

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The Death Penalty Nun

May 26, 2015

Sister Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun who became an activist for abolition of the death penalty after serving a spiritual advisor to a death row inmate. She chronicled her experience in the book Dead Man Walking, later made into a major motion picture, and her advocacy led to an official change in the catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. This video was produced in 2006, when Sister Helen was a speaker at Trinity Institute National Theological Conference.

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Confronting Death

May 26, 2015

On Sunday, March 18, at 1pm, Jon M. Sweeney, Phyllis Tickle’s official biographer, discussed her written work over fifty years (poetry, plays...