Tag: Anabaptist & Pietist Studies

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December news and new books

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Amish Quilters Wanted

Drive through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or Holmes County, Ohio, and you can’t miss signs advertising quilts for sale. Quilts have become one of the objects most closely associated with the Old Order Amish, and these bedcovers frequently serve as souvenirs from tourists’ visits to these regions.  Yet prior to around 1970, no one used the…

Amish Quilters Wanted

Drive through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or Holmes County, Ohio, and you can’t miss signs advertising quilts for sale. Quilts have become one of the objects most closely associated with the Old Order Amish, and these bedcovers frequently serve as souvenirs from tourists’ visits to these regions.  Yet prior to around 1970, no one used the…

November news and new books

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November news and new books

Support the scholarly community by ordering direct from us with this special discount! Enter code HDPD at checkout to receive a 30% discount on all books featured in this blog post or mention this code when calling in your order at 1-800-537-5487. News and Notes / Praise and Reviews The New York Review of Books…

A Century Later, Conscientious Objectors Tell Their Story

Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…

A Century Later, Conscientious Objectors Tell Their Story

Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…

Quilting the Cover

Amish women have long been connoisseurs of fabric, skilled at assessing the differences in weight, hand, color, and texture. The Ordnung—or guidelines that govern church districts at the local level—has long limited Amish families’ fabric choices for clothing to solid colors. As a result, for much of the twentieth century Amish women typically executed quilts…