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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

Covering 1840 to the present, but most concentrated between 1920 and 1980, this resource collects many sources for the first-hand accounts of immigrants to North America.  Religious beliefs, religious communities, religious differences, religious festivals, and religious missions are just a few of the topics included.  Search by author, topic, years, places, religion, cultural heritage, and much more using the Advanced Search screen, or browse the collection.  Images from Puck Magazine and audio files from the Ellis Island Oral History Project are also included.

Posted September 19th, 2008 by Tracy Powell
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Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp-Online Now

How far can a class project go? While students at Emory, Matt and Erica Hinton produced a short video about the a cappella music tradition called Sacred Harp or shape note singing. By 2006, that project had become a feature length documentary shown on PBS and sold on Amazon. This week only, Pitchfork TV is showing the film on their streaming video website at http://pitchford.tv

Pitts Theology Library and the Music and Media Library at Woodruff also have DVD’s of the film that can be checked out. Find it in the Pitts media collection at ML3188 .A93 2006 DVD.

To learn more about this compelling style of hymn singing and the community of persons who share it, consider exploring the dozens of Sacred Harp scores, books, and articles available at Pitts Library. Or experience singing Sacred Harp in the Atlanta area. (Visit http://www.atlantasacredharp.org/ to find a schedule, including the annual Emory singing in Cannon Chapel next February.)

Posted September 1st, 2008 by pziebart
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