Once a refuge for Protestant exiles, Berlin’s Rixdorf remains a quiet enclave of Czech heritage with new relevance in a ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

For two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland's first documented royal house, who reigned ...

Bones exhumed from cathedral reveal secrets of medieval kings - New DNA evidence unsettles a nation’s founding myth ...

Moravian College is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The twin campuses sit in the historic old town, where 18th century buildings, vintage shops and modern bars sit side-by-side. Nearby, the cities ...

This memorial column is the most outstanding example of the Moravian Baroque style that developed in the 18th century in Central Europe. It has a high symbolic value as it represents the religious ...

Sometime in the early 18th century (sources differ from 1710 to ... John Heckewelder (1743-1823), later the best known of the Moravian missionaries. But for Post there was little rest.

It appears that Mary wasn’t looking to be married, unlike many of the single sisters who only stayed a short time in this section of the 18th-century Moravian community before joining the ...

It contains North America’s first pumped municipal water system, the world’s oldest surviving Moravian example of a Gemeinhaus and a 1761 tannery, the only 18th-century Moravian industrial building ...

The settlements illustrate the global dissemination of the Moravian Church’s distinct religious and social ideals in the 18th century, which are expressed in the towns’ plans and architecture with ...