Week of October 24, 2011

The Amish

In the News: At least five Amish men have been charged with kidnapping and burglary after a series of attacks on other Amish citizens in the eastern Ohio area. The men have been accused of cutting their victims’ beards and hair.

The America of the Amish (DVD)
Directed by Alexandre Fronty. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2006
Call Number: E184 .M45 A447 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Amish: Not to Be Modern (Streaming Media)
Directed by Victoria Larimore & Michael Taylor. Filmakers Library, 1985
Call Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online

Amish in Michigan
By Gertrude Enders Huntington. Michigan State University Press, 2001
Call Number: F575 .M45 H86 2001

The Amish and the Media
Edited by Diana Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Call Number: P94.5 .A46 A47 2008

Amish Education in the United States and Canada
By Mark W. Dewalt. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
Call Number: LC586 .A45 D49 2006

Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits
By Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
Call Number: BX8128 .W36 K73 1995

Amish Home
By Raymond Bial. Houghton Mifflin, 1993
Call Number: E184 .M45 B52 1993

The Amish in Their Own Words: Amish Writings from 25 Years of Family Life Magazine
Compiled by Brad Igou. Herald Press, 1999
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost

The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910
By Steven D. Reschly. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
Call Number: F630 .M45 R47 2000 (At Jupiter)

Amish Riddle (Streaming Media)
Directed by Francois Jeannet and Vincent Mercier. Filmakers Library, 1992
Call Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online

Amish Women: Lives and Stories
By Louise Stolzfus. Good Books, 1997
Call Number: F157 .L2 S77 1997 (At Treasure Coast Campus)

Driving the Amish
By Jim Butterfield. Herald Press, 1997
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost

Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
By James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Call Number: E184 .M45 L44 2007

New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
By Karen M. Johnson-Weiner. Cornell University Press, 2010
Call Number: F130 .M45 J64 2010

The Riddle of Amish Culture
By Donald B. Kraybill. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
Call Number: E184 .M45 K73 2001 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)

Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas
By Anna L. Peterson. Oxford University Press, 2005
Call Number: BX8129 .A5 P48 2005 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)

Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler
Edited by David L. Weaver-Zercher. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost