Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Prologue
Author: Pennsylvania Births, Northampton County, 1733-1800
Author: John T. HumphreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781887609043
Category : Northampton County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Souls for Sale
Author: John Frederick WhiteheadPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl B]ttner, two young German men, arrived in America on the same ship. Each man sold himself into servitude to a different master, and, years later, each wrote a memoir of his experiences, leaving invaluable historical records of their attitudes, perceptions, and goals. Despite their common voyage to America and similar working conditions as servants, their backgrounds and personalities differed. Their divergent interpretations of their experiences are the substance of rich and varied firsthand accounts of the transatlantic migration process, the servant labor experience of Germans in colonial America, and post-servitude life. Souls for Sale presents these parallel memoirs -- Whitehead's published here for the first time -- to illustrate the condition of German redemptioners as well as their religious, familial, and literary contexts during a crucial period of migration in Europe and America. The editors provide helpful introductions to the works as well as notes to guide the reader.
Preserving Our Heritage
Author: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
A History of Lutheranism
Author: Eric W. GritschPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451407750
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In a clear, nontechnical way, this noted Reformation historian tells the story of how the nascent reforming and confessional movement sparked and led by Martin Luther survived its first battles with religious and political authorities to become institutionalized in its religious practices and teachings. Gritsch then traces the emergence of genuine consensus at the end of the sixteenth century, followed by the age of Lutheran Orthodoxy, the great Pietist reaction, Lutheranisms growing diversification during the Industrial Revolution, its North American expansion, and its increasingly global and ecumenical ventures in the last century.
Mennonite Family History
Author: Annals of the Classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch Church, and of the Churches Under Its Care
Author: Benjamin Cook TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bergen (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Research Outlines
Author: To the Latest Posterity
Author: Corinne P. EarnestPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271023687
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"To the Latest Posterity is filled with examples of family registers from museum and private collections, many of them never before published, including early handmade work as well as printed registers that were filled in by hand in the nineteenth century. Bringing the art into the twentieth century and beyond, the Earnests discuss the adoption of the art by the Amish, who continue the practice of illuminated family record keeping today."--Jacket.