• Lecture: Moravians and Early American Holidays

    Address 41 West Locust Street, Bethlehem, PA, United States

    Online lecture via Zoom (please register by completing the form below) by Thomas McCullough, assistant archivist, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem What can we learn from Moravian engagement with early American holidays and secular events such as Independence Day and Washington's Birthday? Surveying the diaries and meeting minutes for these particular instances, McCullough explores the Americanization of […]

  • Lecture: Finding Peace on a Violent Frontier: Papunhank and Native Moravians in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 1765-1775

    Address 41 West Locust Street, Bethlehem, PA, United States

    Online lecture via Zoom (please register by filling out the form below) by Dr. Richard Pointer, Westmont College Displaced refugees amid Pontiac’s War (1763-64), Native Moravians in Britain’s northeastern colonies spent the next decade struggling to secure a peaceful homeland where they could live, work, and worship as they wished. Widespread violence, settler expansion, racial […]

  • Archives Closed

    Address 41 West Locust Street, Bethlehem, PA, United States

    The Moravian Archives is Closed in observance of Good Friday.

  • Presentation: Unveiling Haidt: The Discovery of an Unknown Moravian Painting

    Address 41 West Locust Street, Bethlehem, PA, United States

    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 […]