In the early- and mid- 1800s, they left Switzerland and northern France (and Napoleon's military conscription) for religious freedom in the New World. About 150,000 now live in 22 states and Canada.

Amish girl brain-damaged in 2006 school shooting when she was only six years old dies 18 years later ...

An Amish father who says childhood vaccines run counter to his family’s religious beliefs is suing to overturn New York’s ban on religious exemptions that let unvaccinated children attend school.

A young Pennsylvania woman who survived a 2006 mass shooting at her Amish school has died nearly 18 years after she was left permanently brain-damaged in the rampage.

Opinion: Iowa's 1970s clash with Amish families has resonance today amid COVID-19 The controversy over mandatory masks vs. optional masks raises questions that Kim Reynolds should find uncomfortable ...

While many believe that the origin of the pie's name comes from the act of having to "shoo" flies away while preparing the super-sweet filling, it's likely that the dessert got its name from a ...

An Amish woman who was 6 when she was shot by a gunman who killed five other students in a schoolhouse, was severely injured in the shooting 18 years ago and died this week.

Half-a-dozen men were working on the construction on a recent afternoon, within walking distance of the site of the school where a gunman shot 10 Amish girls Oct. 2, killing five of them.

Three Amish children were killed on their way to school when an SUV crashed into their horse-drawn buggy in Indiana this week.

Around that same time, his stepmother began teaching in a one-room Amish school, and Nye soon found himself milking cows on a Mennonite dairy farm with his Amish neighbors.

The conference starts, naturally, at the home of Thaddeus Stevens, the savior of public education. It ends at Amish one-room schools still in operation.

Amish laborers have come together in the spirit of a barn-raising to rebuild an early 1800s tannery that was destroyed in an arson fire last year at the historic Union Mills Homestead. "As old ...