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Writing Life, Writing Back, and Writing Through: Saloma Furlong's Why I Left the Amish: A Memoir and Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties to Two Worlds

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2016
In recent years, the memoir boom has left publishers searching far and wide for new material. As part of this trend and the immense demand for anything Amish, non-professional writers have seized the opportunity make their voices heard.
Sabrina Voelz
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Amish girl facing away

open access: yes, 1990
Young Amish girl in green skirt, blue jacket, and blue bonnet faces away from camera standing on gravel. Several Amish men seen in background. Filed under “Amish Children” in the Dennis Hughes Collection of Amish Photographs.https://jayscholar.etown.edu ...
Hughes, Dennis L.
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New York Amish, 2nd Edition

open access: yes, 2018
Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, this book draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors.
Karen Johnson-Weiner
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Book reviews of Weaver-Zercher's Thrill of the Chaste and Keiser's Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2014
"Over the course of her book, Valerie Weaver-Zercher guides us through an analysis of the constituents of the increasingly popular Amish-fiction genre.
Sarah Stork, Lara Downing
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Nature and the Environment in Amish Life—David McConnell and Marilyn Loveless

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
"In this symposium review, three agricultural and environmental researchers discuss the book Nature and the Environment in Amish Life by David McConnell and Marilyn Loveless, both of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
Steven Reschly   +2 more
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Old Order Amish Education: The Yoder Decision in the 21st Century

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015
Prior to the 1972 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Wisconsin v. Yoder, et al., parents found themselves in court in a number of states. This essay explores the Yoder decision and its relevance for the Amish today, contrasting the understanding of ...
Karen Johnson-Weiner
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Amish girl on bench

open access: yes, 1989
Amish girl on bench leans against woman, both facing away from camera. Bare foot of another Amish child on bench next to girl. Amish man with paper bag in pocket seen in background.
Hughes, Dennis L.
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Realignment and Division in the Amish Community of Allen County, Indiana: A Historical Narrative

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2013
The Amish have long faced disagreement over matters of internal policy and adoption of external ideas like evangelical emphases. In Allen County, Indiana, several branches of Anabaptists have developed from the original Swiss Amish settlers because of ...
Christopher Petrovich
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Review of: Anderson, Cory, and Jennifer Anderson. 2019. Amish-Mennonites across the Globe. Amish-Mennonite Heritage Series, Vol. 2. Millersburg, OH: Acorn Publishing.

open access: yesThe Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
The Amish-Mennonites across the Globe is a coffee-table type book, a 320 page documentary of the international mission efforts of the “car-driving” Amish groups, known variously within the plain communities as Beachy, Amish-Mennonite, or Fellowship ...
Karen Conley
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Amish women on bench

open access: yes, 1989
Two Amish women in blue and black dress sit on bench facing away from camera. Two Amish girls sit on bench in front of them. Several other Amish women and girls in background along with white building and trees. Filed under “Amish Children” in the Dennis
Hughes, Dennis L.
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