https://hugo.chnm.gmu.edu/tags/primary-sources/ Recent content in Primary Sources on Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:19:00 +0000 https://hugo.chnm.gmu.edu/blog/40000-documents-from-religious-bodies-census-digitized-nearly-a-century-later/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:19:00 +0000 https://hugo.chnm.gmu.edu/blog/40000-documents-from-religious-bodies-census-digitized-nearly-a-century-later/ <p>Today the <em>American Religious Ecologies</em> project is releasing the <a href="https://omeka.religiousecologies.org/s/census-1926/">initial version of a website</a> that makes available tens of thousands of documents from the 1926 U.S. Census of Religious Bodies. These schedules, or forms, describe religious congregations from the early twentieth century from a wide range of religious traditions. These documents are freely available to scholars, students, and local historians, who can browse or search for them by location or by religious identification.</p>