Race and Religion in Revolutionary America: Music and other Clips from 3/14

Our intended guest who will join us next week instead:
http://www.historyfestival.org/hogan.html
where he's from:
http://www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm

These are the pieces we will examine in class today:

1776 - I played the DVD, but you can see excerpts at
youtube.com such as

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk5NAeIRY4k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xV1LA6EHU&feature=related

Randy Newman's Sail Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chaP4MCXp4w

Lyrics:
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/randy-newman/sail-away.html

Orchestra New England performs a stirring rendition of Chester, the first American national anthem. William Billings first wrote this in 1770.

Lyrics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_%28song%29#Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhRXHtX4pg&feature=related

Field trip to the Library of Congress: (click on images to enlarge)

Religion and the Founding

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel03.html

African American Sites in the Digital Collection

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/afam/afam-1763.html

Colonial Williamsburg African American Experience Program

http://www.history.org/media/videoplayer/index.cfm?cat=african%20americans&file=FreedomBound

Interactive Role playing Game:

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/dayinthelife/interact_role.cfm

Video link:

http://mfile.akamai.com/17525/mov/colonialwil.download.akamai.com/17525/ditl/DITLS-1-512k.mov?obj=25277

Slave Work Songs: Electronic Field Trip

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/february03/worksongs.cfm

Reenactors consider our topic:

http://www.patriotsweek.com/friday.php

http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/slavery.html

HBO’s John Adams – Slaves Building the White House 3:28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0PE_kC-3EY