Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission. (1976). Dr. William J. Reynolds Retrieved February 22nd, 2018
I arrived at the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission at 8:00 a.m. I resumed digitizing oral histories. The next cassette was also related to America's Bicentennial and Baptists. It was of Dr. William J. Reynolds whom was Secretary of the Church Music Department of the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville. Dr. Reynolds discusses the aspects of Baptists singing during the colonial times. Reynolds even says, "Singing in the Baptist Churches during the 17th Century may have existed in the American colonies more so than those of England" (MBHC, 1976). I took a break for lunch at 12:40 p.m. and returned at 1:10 p.m. The next cassette was of University of Richmond Professor of History, Dr. Harrison Daniel, concerning his paper "The Significance of the American Revolution in American History." This is obviously less of a religious view of the American Revolution. During the recording, Dr. Daniel points out the different interpretations of The American Revolution by historians. For instance, he points out the differences between what he refers to as imperialist and progressive historians. According to Reynolds, the imperialist historians felt that the "American Revolution could not strictly be viewed from an American perspective but must seen as an integral pat of the history of the British empire" (MBHC, 1976). The Progressive historians, on the other hand, saw the American Revolution as a result of economic interests between the Colonies and England as well as an internal revolution happening within the colonies themselves (MBHC, 1976 ). After digitizing these two oral histories, I left the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission at 4:30 p.m.
(Since the subject matter has pertained to the American Revolution and today is George Washington's Birthday, Here is a Picture of the First President of the United States!!)
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