Online presentation via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) by Dr. Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives In the fall of 2020 the Moravian Archives was able to acquire a painting by Moravian artist John Valentine Haidt. The painting shows the Nativity and it is a rare example of a Biblical painting by Haidt […]
Online lecture via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) by Dr. Mark David Turner, Memorial University In 1959, the community of Hebron in Labrador was forcibly resettled by the Moravian Church, Newfoundland Government and International Grenfell Association. The fifty-eight families that lived there were dispersed across the remaining communities of northern and central Labrador. The […]
Online lecture via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) by Alice Smith Duncan, Alna, Maine Rufus Grider, born in Lititz in 1817, lived in Bethlehem for many years of his life. He was a gifted artist who carefully documented his surroundings in numerous watercolors. In 1883 he suddenly moved to Canajoharie, […]
Online lecture via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) by Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood, Moravian Theological Seminary In 1749 the British Parliament passed the "Moravian Act," which affirmed the legitimacy of the Moravian Church as "an antient and episcopal church". This act granted the Moravians unusual privileges to operate schools, churches, and […]
Virtual panel discussion hosted by PSU Press Please register here Join PSU Press and the authors of recent books in religious studies for a virtual panel on Thursday, May 5th at 4pm! The authors will discuss their work and answer your questions. Guests: David Bundy, Geordan Hammond, and David Sang-Ehil Han editors of Holiness and […]
Talk by Dr. David Hewitt at the Gemeinhaus Saal, Moravian Museum, Bethlehem, PA (Reception to follow in Central Moravian Church) Please register through Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites. Early 19th-century administrator of the Moravian Church Lewis David von Schweinitz was an integral part of the scientific communities of Europe and the U.S. Schweinitz also produced […]
Presentation of the new book, Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722-1732 at the Moravian Archives or by live stream | co-hosted with the Center for Moravian Studies Online participation only. Registration for in-person attendance has reached capacity (attendance in person is limited because of Covid precautions). For online participation, click here. Join us for the launch of […]
Emmaus Historical Society November Program Moravians In Emmaus: The First 100 years, 1742-1842 November 16, 2022 7:00 PM St. John's Lutheran Church 501 Chestnut Street, Emmaus, PA Join Assistant Archivist Tom McCullough for Emmaus Historical Society's November program Moravians In Emmaus: The First 100 years, 1742-1842 including the early settlers, how the village became […]
Lecture by Dr. Scott Gordon, Lehigh University in person at the Moravian Archives; online via Zoom (for online participation, please fill out the form below) This talk will offer a new account of how enslaved men and women were brought to Bethlehem, who owned enslaved men and women in Bethlehem, how some enslaved men and […]
Lecture at the Moravian Archives, with reception to follow; and via Zoom by Dr. Christina Petterson This presentation will outline some of the basics of the Moravian mission to Greenland, namely its history, its organization, and its end in 1900. It will then discuss the mission within Moravian organization as a whole, and finally turn […]
Presentation at the Moravian Archives, with reception to follow; and via Zoom (please register below) by Steven Erisoty, Heather Reinert, and Paul Peucker In 2020 an oil painting was discovered in Germany that soon proved to be a painting by Moravian artist John Valentine Haidt. The Moravian Archives was able to purchase it and during […]
Lecture at the Moravian Archives, with reception to follow; and via Zoom by Dr. Christina Petterson and Dr. Paul Peucker Anton Ulrich, an African man from St. Thomas, is usually remembered as the instigator of Moravian mission work. After meeting Zinzendorf in Copenhagen in 1731, Anton traveled to Herrnhut and gave the members of the […]
Lecture via Zoom by Dr. Paul Peucker This year it is 300 years ago that Henriette Louise von Hayn was born in Idstein, Germany. She is the author of the well-known Moravian hymn "Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice" ("Weil ich Jesu Schäflein bin"). A recent find sheds new light on the origins of this popular […]
Lecture at the Moravian Archives, with reception to follow, and via Zoom Diane Windham Shaw, Director of Special Collections, Emerita, Lafayette College August 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Marquis de Lafayette’s “Farewell Tour” of America. This 1824-25 tour was an event unlike any other in American history. Fifty years after […]
online lecture by Meaghan O'Riordan, Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province When Meaghan O’Riordan arrived to serve as archivist for the Moravian Archives in the Southern Province in August of 2022, the archives had been without an archivist for two years. It was clear that this was a well-loved and treasured collection […]
Lecture at the Moravian Archives, with reception to follow, and via Zoom (registration below) Christopher J. Malone, Curator at Historic Trappe Our lecture series is sponsored by Campbell, Rappold & Yurasits LLP The Moravian town of Bethlehem went through a series of developmental changes that saw the community go from a closed-form of church-controlled communalism […]
noontime lecture at the Moravian Archives by Dr. Māra Grudule in person at the Moravian Archives; online via Zoom (for online participation, please fill out the form below) Georg Heinrich Loskiel (1740-1814), a Baltic German, is known for his history of the Moravian missions among the Native American. He served as pastor of the Bethlehem […]
noontime lecture at the Moravian Archives by Dr. Jared Burkholder in person at the Moravian Archives; online via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) In the early decades of the twentieth century, baseball-player-turned-celebrity-evangelist, Billy Sunday was a sensation. At the height of his preaching career, Sunday held campaigns in America’s cities that […]
“From every perspective it would be beneficial if the bridge over the Lehigh were undertaken”: The 1792 Lehigh Bridge as a Turning Point in Bethlehem’s History noontime lecture by Dr. Kate Carté online lecture via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) Leading citizens of Bethlehem were divided over the bridge project undertaken […]
Panel presentation by Dr. Katherine Faull, Dr. Paul Peucker, and Joshua Follweiler In person at the Moravian Archives or online by Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) Moravians had a strong sense of place. Many of the localities where 18th-century Moravians settled continue to be important Moravian centers: Herrnhut, Nazareth, Winston-Salem, Bethlehem, […]
