When "The Amish: Shunned" airs Tuesday (Feb. 4) on public television's American Experience series, Donald Kraybill will be seeing it for the first time. That may sound strange, because the Amish ...

In "Amish Mafia" if you want to know the gossip, you go to Mary Troyer, known as "Mean Mary." Troyer's off-camera history is equally dramatic (although far less salacious). She grew up and was a ...

To the outsider, the Amish way of life is intriguing and sometimes puzzling. Amish customs can seem contradictory. Although the Amish chief mode of transportation is horse and buggy, sometimes they ...

It was only a year ago when Esther Schmucker was living a "normal" life in a quiet sect of Lancaster County. A mega-hit television series changed all that, virtually overnight. "I still feel like a ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/top-ten-faq/ The author of several books about the Amish and other Anabaptist groups, Donald B. Kraybill is a ...