The following has been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one of the main Old Order ...

The American Experience documentary The Amish portrays Old Order Amish people and communities in North America. They are a distinctive Christian subculture that traces its roots to the 16th ...

Byler pointed out that Pennsylvania Dutch is many Amish people’s first language, perhaps explaining why they don’t use an English term like quiverfull. Yet many of their beliefs about women’s roles in ...

Three Amish children died on the way to school when their horse-drawn buggy was rear-ended by an SUV in northern Indiana, ...

For over two decades, Dr. Jonathan Haines has studied genetic factors that contribute to diseases of aging and “successful” aging in the Old Order Amish. A growing health concern in the US population ...

She was 23. King was left unable to walk, talk, or feed herself when she was shot execution-style by gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV inside an Old Order Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines on Oct. 2 ...

It was every parent’s nightmare: a few days before Christmas 1999, Elizabeth and Samuel Glick, Old Order Amish dairy farmers in rural Dornsife, Pennsylvania, an hour’s drive north of ...