Despite the current obsession with “fake news,” it was much more difficult to discern facts from fiction in the 17 th and 18 th centuries. With no standard well of information to pull from other than ...

It’s a language that was a cornerstone of life for European immigrants and is still spoken fluently in thriving Amish and Mennonite communities across North America and beyond. Longtime Lehigh Valley ...

The Amish population in North America nearly doubles every 20 years, according to a 2023 study by Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This suggests the number of ...

The Berks History Center is continuing its in-person and online Pennsylvania Dutch classes beginning the week of Sept. 15. In-person classes will take place at the center, 940 Centre Ave., Reading.

About 245 people, most of Pennsylvania German ancestry, celebrated the Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture during the 84th annual Pennsylvania Dutch Gathering of Berks County held at the Leesport ...

For the last half century, the Palatines to America Genealogy Group has been a major force in helping people research their German-speaking ancestors. The organization’s name stems from the ...

Facebook brought them in and YouTube helped get them started, as dozens of eastern Pennsylvania residents gathered in Lehigh County for the preservation of something that once belonged to their ...