Margaret Bendroth is a historian who served over 15 years as Executive Director of the Congregational Library and Archives. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University and worked as a Professor of History at Calvin College from 1998 to 2004. Over the course of her career, she has been president of the American Society of Church History (2015) and authored and edited eight books and numerous articles on modern American religion, including The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past (2015), Fundamentalists and the City: Conflict and Division in Boston's Churches, 1885-1950 (2005), and Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (1993).