During the first half of the 18th century, Pennsylvania became home to a variety of German-speaking sectarians. One such group was the Snow Hill Cloister, which

Winner, 2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Winner, 2005 Outstanding Publication, Communal Studies Assoc

Describes the austere lifestyle and culture of the eighteenth-century religious community, led by Conrad Beissel, that lived, worked, and worshiped at the Ephra

A concise look at the American Revolution in 1776, the year George Washington and his army experienced numerous defeats, forcing them to retreat from New Jersey

Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and expl