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Herrnhuter Moravian Stars
5″, 16″, 27″ Plastic Stars, garlands of 10 5″ stars; and 5″ Star home assembly kits. $24.95-$134.95 A colorful holiday tradition now in Winston-Salem
Book Series
Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees, C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck, eds. Complete Set, vols. 1-10. $300 reduced rate for all volumes as a set
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V. 10 March to Removal, Part 5: ‘This is not my home any more,” 1834-1838 (2020 Fall Pre-Order) $40 new
V. 9 March to Removal, Pt 4: ‘They Shall Not Be Forsaken,’ 1830-1833 (2019) $40
V. 8 March to Removal, Pt. 3: In Their Own Voice – ‘Power to Remove,’ 1828-1830 (2018) $40
V. 7 March to Removal, Pt. 2: Death in the Land and Mission. 1825-1827 (2017) $40
V. 6 March to Removal, Pt. 1: Safe in Ancestral Homeland. 1821-1824 (2015) $40
V. 5 The Anna Rosina Years, Part 3: Farewell to Sister Gambold. 1817-1821(2013) $40
V. 4 The Anna Rosina Years, Part 2: Warfare on the Horizon. 1810-1816 (2012) $40
V. 3 The Anna Rosina Years, Part 1: Success in School and Mission. 1805-1810 (2011) $40
V. 2 Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School. 1802-1805 (2010) $40
V. 1 Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission 1752-1802 (2010) $40
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250th Anniversary Chapter Booklet Series from With Courage for the Future
Herrnhuter Moravian Stars
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Thanks to an arrangement with the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, PA, the Moravian Archives in Winston-Salem and our building housemates at the Moravian Music Foundation are the exclusive North Carolina distributors of the original Herrnhuter Moravian Stars, made in the factory founded by P. H. Verbeek in Herrnhut, Germany in 1897. Herrnhuter stars come in a variety of colors. We are offering color styles not otherwise available in the local market. All stars are plastic and come with their own power supply cords. Use the drop down menus below to select the color in the style you wish to order.
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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees, vol. 1-10
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck, 2017-2020.
Edited by Archivist C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck, 2010-2015.
$40.00 + tax, per volume; $300.00 + tax + $15 S&H per set (reduced rate for complete sets)
Here is perhaps the earliest, longest-running account of daily life in the Cherokee Nation. This book series spans from 1801—the beginning of the Moravian mission in today’s Georgia— through the Trail of Tears in 1838, and up until the Civil War and beyond. In diaries, letters, and reports, Moravian missionaries noted the events, momentous as well as routine, that affected them and the Cherokee people. The Moravian Archives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is compiling these volumes with the principal support of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and additional funding by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Moravian Historical Association, Wachovia Historical Society, and Friends of Moravian Archives.
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Click below to order Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees, vols. 1-10 (complete set)
V. 10 March to Removal, Pt. 5: ‘This is not my home any more,’ 1834-1838
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck
498 pages; map; translators and transcribers; “Catalogue of Scholars,” 1821-1838; mileage lists to Salem, Springplace; Resolution of the Cherokee Council; pictures of quotes and Cherokee names; glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2020
An unwanted treaty sets the Cherokee Nation on the Trail of Tears. The Moravian missionaries prepare to precede the Removal to meet again in new land.
V. 9 March to Removal, Pt. 4: ‘They Shall Not Be Forsaken,’ 1830-1833
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck
481 pages, script pictures, glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2019
The State of Georgia sweeps Cherokee Nation of white men. Renters seize the Moravians’ mission stations at Spring Place and Oochgeloogy. But the Cherokees are promised that they won’t be abandoned.
V. 8 March to Removal, Pt. 3: In Their Own Voice — ‘Power to Remove’. 1828-1830
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck
522 pages, script pictures, glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2018
The newspaper Cherokee Phoenix debuts to speak for Cherokee Nation, and the political and legal debates begin over the choice presented to the Cherokee: emigrate or submit to Georgia jurisdiction. The new President asserts that he stands by with “power to remove.”
V. 7 March to Removal, Pt. 2: Death in the Land and Mission. 1825-1827
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck
536 pages, script pictures, glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2017
Sequoyah’s alphabet comes to church services, and there are fresh converts at the Moravians’ missions. But sale of nearby Creek Nation lands rips apart trust in that community, and the deaths of Cherokee and Moravian leaders create uncertainty for the future.
V. 6 March to Removal, Pt. 1: Safe in Ancestral Homeland. 1821-1824
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
543 pages, script pictures, expanded glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2015
As the Cherokees build their nation’s capital at New Echota and adopt a syllabary for printing their language, Moravians renew mission work at two stations, Springplace and Oochgeelogy.
V. 5 The Anna Rosina Years, Part 3: Farewell to Sister Gambold. 1817-1821
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
550 pages, maps; pictures; thumbnail pictures of Cherokee names and words, glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2013
Anna Rosina sees her scholars off to school in New England. Just as a second mission station is being established, she is “called home.” This volume includes Brother Abraham Steiner’s thirteen-page vocabulary of Cherokee words, and the Moravians’ “Catalogue of Scholars, 1804-1821.”
V. 4 The Anna Rosina Years, Part 2: Warfare on the Horizon. 1810-1816
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
583 pages, expanded glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2012
A Cherokee chief becomes a Moravian. Yet earthquakes accompany a world in turmoil: Napoleon in Europe, the War of 1812, and Cherokees vs. Creeks in the Creek War. The Moravians’ mission to the Cherokees abides.
V. 3 The Anna Rosina Years, Part 1: Success in School and Mission. 1805-1810
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
599 pages, map, pictures, thumbnail pictures of Cherokee names and words, glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2011
With the arrival of John and Anna Rosina Gambold, the Moravian mission at Springplace takes on new life. The Moravians benefactor, Chief James Vann, is murdered, but the mission gains its first member in the Cherokee Nation.
V. 2 Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School. 1802-1805
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
435 pages, pictures, writer’s signatures, glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2010
Moravian missionaries have come into the Cherokee Nation to begin a mission. The Cherokees want a school for their children. Can a compromise be reached, or must the Moravians ”return”?
V. 1 Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission 1752-1802
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
400 pages, maps, pictures, expanded glossary-index.
$40.00 + tax
Published 2010
Following decades of exploratory meetings, Cherokee chiefs permit Moravian missionaries to “make an experiment” to “instruct us and our children.” With little fanfare the Springplace mission is begun on July 13, 1801.
My Name Is Dorothea: A Salem Story
by Dana Myers
ISBN:978-1731595423
205 pages $11.95 + tax
Published March 2019
The story of Dorothea Elizabeth Meyer Boner, Dorothea was the daughter of Salem’s Tavern Keepers, the musician who entertained President Washington on his Southern Tour in 1791, and a courageous young woman who defied tradition and followed her heart by marrying the man she loved in spite of all obstacles. Although the work is historical fiction, it has been described as a “warm story of faith, hope and love that is as accurate as it is compelling.” Moravian author Dana Myers is a 6th grade teacher, Girl Scout troop leader, business owner and amateur historian. She is currently working on her next project, “My Name is Jane,” the story of Jane Ross of the Cherokee people. Part of the proceeds from sales of this book here go to the Archives.
Faith, Love, Hope: A History of the Unitas Fratrum
by C. Daniel Crews
ISBN 978-0-9719411-3-7
440 pages $29.95 + tax
Published June 2008
C. Daniel Crews tells the thrilling and ultimately tragic story of the pioneer Reformation church, the Unitas Fratrum, the Unity — the early Moravian Church. A major hardcover publication, it features three maps, 63 pictures, a timeline, a copious bibliography, and lists of bishops of the Unity and rulers of Bohemia. This is a beautiful book to own and read.
Around-the-World Moravian Unity Cookbook
by C. Daniel Crews
ISBN 978-0-9719411-5-1
248 pages $9.00 + tax newly reduced price
Published October 2008
Take a global cooking tour, as C. Daniel Crews serves up dishes from Moravian Church centers throughout the world. With these 212 recipes we can share in the rich diversity of the Moravian Church from Alaska to South Africa, Nicaragua to Nepal, Denmark to Suriname.
Former Archivist C. Daniel Crews has been a prolific writer of narrative histories of the Church and publisher of translations of heretofore unstudied primary materials
With Courage for the Future: The Story of the Moravian Church, Southern Province
by C. Daniel Crews & Richard W. Starbuck
ISBN 0-9719411-0-6
950 pages $24.95 + tax
Published September 2002
The only history of its kind about the Moravian Church in the Southern United States from the first permanent settlement in 1753 into the 21st century. Thorough, complete, yet intimate and a joy to read. Includes maps and 58 pictures. An extensive appendix includes a time line of events from 1751 to 2002, historical dates of churches, bishops of the Province, pastorates of the Province, and a select bibliography. With Courage for the Future was published by the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, as part of the 250th anniversary celebration of the Province.
Memorabilia of Salem Congregation, 1931-1961
by J. Kenneth Pfohl
490 pages $6.00 + tax newly reduced price
Published 1993
A comprehensive review of each year, as given by Bishop Pfohl at Home Moravian Church on each eve of the new year.
A Unity Creed
by Rev. Alay Gonzalez Rosado and Rev. Obed Erelio Martinez Lima, edited by Julie Tomberlin
20 pages $10.00 + tax
Published 2019
The booklet features a creed originally written by two Moravian Cuban pastors in Spanish, then translations by Moravian women into 8 other languages (English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Czech, Dutch, German, Miskito, Swahili), with original watercolor illustrations by Gail Morris of Home Moravian Church (and a former Archives Commission member). Alay and Obed developed the creed in 2018 while preparing for a series of workshops aimed at reducing violence against women. The creed focuses on Jesus’ interactions with women and on female attributes of God, and explicitly calls for unity between men and women in service to Christ. All profits from booklet sales support the work of the Unity Women’s Desk.
Wachovia: A Poetry Collection
by Ed Lyons
40 pages $10.00 + tax
Published 2019
A touching collection of verse describing a wide variety of aspects of the Moravian experience, with new images for Moravian traditions and mission work, and new words for the joys of fellowship and struggles of faith. Pennsylvania-born Lyons moved to Florida at the age of 11, and had composed his first important poem at the age of 17. He attended St. Petersburg College, where he met Doug Stuber, then the University of Florida, and Florida State University, eventually taking a Master’s of Science in Instructional Systems, a discipline which brought him into contact with friends from all over Latin America. After leaving academia, Ed spent twenty years in Roanoke, VA, away from most poetry, working on interests in guitar and music. When he moved to Winston-Salem in 2011 after an illness, he transferred his church membership to Trinity Moravian, where he was asked to join the choir and write hymns. In 2014, Ed rejoined his old friend Doug Stuber to help establish the anthology Poems from the Heron Clan, which has become a beloved forum for Raleigh/Durham/ Chapel Hill poets. The new interest in Ed’s poetry work encouraged him to write “Wachovia.” A generous portion of the proceeds of this work go to the Archives.
Moravian Ships
edited by Robert Tuttle
45 pages $6.50 + tax
Published originally by Jordan in 1895; reprinted with corrections and additions by Tuttle in 2011, available thru Archives in 2018
Originally published as “Moravian Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1734-1767” by John W. Jordan in the Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society in 1895, this booklet reprints and corrects errors in the original description of the four ships used to transport colonists to the New World. Editor Tuttle is a local churchman whose fascination with the story led him to research extensively and construct scale models of ships like the Moravians owned. Offered here in celebration of a month of Irene remembrances in September 2018.
Bethania: A Fresh Look at its Birth
translated and edited by C. Daniel Crews
26 pages $3.50 + tax
Published originally 1993, reprinted 1995 and 2018
With insights from documents in the Herrnhut Archives, this sketch follows diaries, letters, and planning alternatives for the founding of the village, and lists the texts of the petition and agreement made between non-Moravian and Moravian members of the settlement. Reprinted with the support of the Bethania Historical Association.
John Hus – Martyr for the Faith:
A Life to Remember through Six Hundred Years
by C. Daniel Crews
ISBN 978-0-9719411-6-8
44 pages $4.95 + tax newly reduced price
Published November 1, 2014
For the 600th anniversary year of the martyrdom of John Hus, this brief biography is a perfect introduction to one whose death in 1415 shaped and inspired religious thought down the ages to today with his clarion call of service to Christ over human institutions. A softbound booklet (with map, illustrations, time line, and copious notes), John Hus — Martyr for the Faith is a reprint of chapters three and four of Faith, Love, Hope, Daniel Crews’s 2008 history of the early Moravian Church.
Civil War Notables of Salem God’s Acre and Salem Cemetery
by Richard W. Starbuck
24 pages $3.95 + tax
Published October 2005
Take a tour of the Salem Moravian graveyard and the public Salem Cemetery, and visit gravesites of a few who lived, fought, and died in the great American tragedy. This litte booklet features 10 period photographs plus a handy map of the burial grounds.
This We Most Certainly Believe: Thoughts on Moravian Theology
by C. Daniel Crews
ISBN 0-9719411-2-2
52 pages $5.95 + tax
Published January 2005, reprinted 2018
Who are the Moravians and what do they believe? In a down-to-earth style for the everyday reader, Former Archivist C. Daniel Crews explores that portion of Christian faith that makes Moravians distinctly, uniquely Moravian.
Funeral Chorales of the Moravian Church
by Adelaide Fries
20 pages $4.00 + tax
Published 1905, republished 2004
One of the most beautiful customs of the Moravian Church is the playing of a band at a funeral service. But what does the band play and why? These questions are answered in a slim booklet first published in 1905 and now refreshed for today’s readers.
Ghosts of Salem and Other Tales
compiled by Richard W. Starbuck
artwork by Lu Newman
ISBN 0-9719411-1-4
42 pages $6.95 + tax
Published September 2002, reprinted 2018
The Little Red Man, the strange exit of Br. Staub, the Cold Spot, and other tales inhabit a delightful little booklet of stories about the Moravian community of Salem, NC.
Our 250th anniversary series:
These booklets comprise the first three chapters, the 12th chapter and other excerpts of With Courage for the Future, the 250th anniversary history of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. Written by Dr. C. Daniel Crews, Archivist and church historian, they tell of the beginning of Wachovia, from its first settlement of Bethabara in 1753 through the turmoil of the Revolutionary War and the peace of 1783, plus the Civil War period, 1860-1865, the twofold story of the Moravians and slavery and St. Philips Moravian Church, and the tragedy of the Cherokee Nation and the Moravian mission that served them.
Faith and Tears: The Moravian Mission among the Cherokee
by C. Daniel Crews
60 pages $5.95 + tax
Published 2000, reprinted 2018
The Moravian Church ministers to the Cherokee, and follows beyond the “Trail of Tears” to the Indian Territory in the West.
Neither Slave nor Free: Moravians, Slavery, and a Church That Endures
by C. Daniel Crews
57 pages $4.95 + tax
Published 1998
Temporarily out of print
One small Protestant denomination of European heritage wrestles with the great national sin. One small congregation of African heritage traces its roots from slavery to today.
A Storm in the Land: Southern Moravians and the Civil War
by C. Daniel Crews
40 pages $4.95 + tax
Published 1997
Moravians, South and North, march off to war in America’s greatest national tragedy.
Through Fiery Trials: The Revolutionary War and the Moravians
by C. Daniel Crews
60 pages $4.95 + tax
Published 1996
The story of the Moravian Church in the American war for independence. Buffeted by Tory and Patriot alike, members of the church hold to their religious principles as the shadow of war looms ever nearer.
My Name Shall Be There: The Founding of Salem
by C. Daniel Crews
58 pages $4.95 + tax
Published 1995
The Salem part of Winston-Salem is begun as the Moravians set out to build their central community in the North Carolina colony. Also in Wachovia, the country congregations of Friedberg and Friedland are begun.
Villages of the Lord: The Moravians Come to Carolina
by C. Daniel Crews
44 pages $4.95 + tax
Published 1995
Temporarily out of print
Dedicated members of the Moravian Church carve settlements out of wilderness in the North Carolina colony of the 1750’s. Bethabara first and then Bethania are established in Wachovia, the huge tract of land the church purchased in 1753. And refuge is given to frontier families fleeing the perils of the French and Indian War.
All Needful Gifts
Six Hymns by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf
translated by C. Daniel Crews and Nola Reed Knouse
22 pages $3.50 + tax
Published 1999
The second joint publications of the Moravian Archives and the Moravian Music Foundation. The booklet has six hymns of Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, and offers words of encouragement and admonition for Christians today. They are translated and set to chorales for use by church choirs and congregations.
Be Now and Evermore Our Head
Six Hymns by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf
translated by C. Daniel Crews and Nola Reed Knouse
24 pages $3.50 + tax
Published 1996
The first joint publication of the Moravian Archives and the Moravian Music Foundation. The booklet has six hymns of Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, and offers words of encouragement and admonition for Christians today. They are translated and set to chorales for use by church choirs and congregations.
The Moravian Idea: Christ Is All
by J. Kenneth Pfohl
15 pages $1.25 + tax
Published 1994, reprinted 2002
A brief answer to the oft-asked question: Who are the Moravians and what do they believe.
The Story of the Thirteenth of August 1727
by Gerhard Reichel
translated by
Douglas L. Rights
47 pages $4.95 + tax
Published 1994
The events that took place — the controversy and the blessing — that made the village of Herrnhut into a “living congregation of Jesus Christ.” Also included in this booklet is “Moravian Views of the Holy Spirit” by C. Daniel Crews, Archivist of the Moravian Church, Southern Province.
Salem, 1901-1902
by Graham H. Rights
$4.95 + tax
Published 2004
Lee and Jackson’s Bloody Twelfth: The Letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, First Lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry
by Johnnie Perry Pearson (Editor)
$29.95
Published 2012
Offering a fascinating look at an ordinary soldier’s struggle to survive not only the horrors of combat but also the unrelenting hardship of camp life, Lee and Jackson’s Bloody Twelfth brings together for the first time the extant correspondence of Confederate lieutenant Irby Goodwin Scott, who served in the hard-fighting Twelfth Georgia Infantry.
The collection begins with Scott’s first letter home from Richmond, Virginia, in June 1861, and ends with his last letter to his father in February 1865. Scott miraculously completed the journey from naïve recruit to hardened veteran while seeing action in many of the Eastern Theater’s most important campaigns: the Shenandoah Valley, the Peninsula, Second Manassas, and Gettysburg. His writings brim with vivid descriptions of the men’s activities in camp, on the march, and in battle. Particularly revelatory are the details the letters provide about the relationship between Scott and his two African American body servants, whom he wrote about with great affection. And in addition to maps, photographs, and a roster of Scott’s unit, the book also features an insightful introduction by editor Johnnie Perry Pearson, who highlights the key themes found throughout the correspondence.
By illuminating in depth how one young Confederate stood up to the physical and emotional duress of war, the book stands as a poignant tribute to the ways in which all ordinary Civil War soldiers, whether fighting for the South or the North, sacrificed, suffered, and endured.
Johnnie Perry Pearson is a retired state service officer formerly with the North Carolina Division of Veteran Affairs. He served as an infantry platoon sergeant during the Vietnam War and lives in Hickory, North Carolina. Pearson is also a Friend of the Archives and a loyal volunteer and supporter of our work.