Books in the Pennsylvania German History and Culture series

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, it also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. This study explores Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.

Explores the relationship between ethnicity and the buildings, personal belongings, and other cultural artifacts of early Pennsylvania German immigrants and descendants. This title demonstrates that more than anything, socioeconomic status and religious affiliation influenced the character of the material culture of Pennsylvania Germans.

Known in Pennsylvania Dutch as brauche or braucherei, the folk-healing practice of powwowing was thought to draw upon the power of God to heal all manner of physical and spiritual ills. This work examines the practice of powwowing and shows that, contrary to popular belief, the practice of powwowing is active.

An examination of how the German Lutheran and Reformed populations of eastern Pennsylvania integrated themselves successfully into the early American republic. Their story illuminates the path that other immigrants and ethnic Americans would travel in the decades to follow.