"People always ask us how we can farm that way," said a Leacock Township Amish man, who asked not to be identified. "I tell them, you can do a lot if you get up early ...

A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...

SPARTANSBURG, Pa. -- At first glance, Allen Troyer is typical of the Amish: living simply, traveling by horse and buggy and likely to have his sons follow him into the family business. Except, like a ...

In this careful community study, Pratt (a professor and assistant dean at Notre Dame) analyzes the tension between assimilation and cultural distinctiveness among the northern Indiana Amish in the ...