The Moravian Archives publishes books, a newsletter, and the Journal of Moravian History.
Together with the Moravian Historical Society, the Moravian Archives publishes the bi-annual Journal of Moravian History, a scholarly journal dedicated to the history of the Moravians.
The official journal of the Moravian Archives and the Moravian Historical Society.
The Journal of Moravian History (JMH) is a peer-reviewed English language journal which publishes scholarly articles and reviews publications in all areas of the history of the UnitasFratrum (Moravian Church, Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine). JMH also publishes research notes and original primary source materials.
The Journal of Moravian History (ISSN 1933-6632) is published in two issues per year by Pennsylvania State University Press on behalf of the Moravian Archives, in Bethlehem, and the Moravian Historical Society in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. For information about subscriptions, click here.
The Journal of Moravian History is the continuation of the Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society.
This periodical is indexed in the following databases:
Electronic copies of articles from JMH are available on the Scholarly Publishing Collective (2006-current), JSTOR (2006-2019), and Project Muse (2012-2022).
Hard copies of JMH can be ordered from the Moravian History Store.
Subscriptions to JMH are handled through our publisher, Penn State University Press. All questions regarding subscriptions, renewals, delivery, etc. must be addressed to them. Click here, or call at 1-800-548-1784.
Individual issues can be purchased from the Moravian Archives. You can order from the Moravian History Store or by calling us directly at (610)866-3255.
Paul M. Peucker, Editor
Moravian Archives, Bethlehem
Craig D. Atwood
Moravian Theological Seminary
Jared Burkholder
Grace College
Kate Carté
Southern Methodist University
Katherine M. Faull
Bucknell University
Scott Paul Gordon
Lehigh University
Jindrich Halama
Charles University, Prague
Felicity Jensz
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Heikki E. Lempa, Book Review Editor
Moravian University
Christina Petterson
Australian National University
Colin Podmore
London
Jon Sensbach
University of Florida
Peter Vogt
Predigerseminar der Brüder-Unität, Herrnhut, Germany
Rachel Wheeler
Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis
Winelle Kirton-Roberts
Geneva
Thomas J. McCullough, Editorial Assistant
Moravian Archives, Bethlehem
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The editors invite submissions of original articles in all areas of the history of the Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church). We also welcome (translations of) primary source materials, research notes, as well as book reviews. All articles deemed appropriate for JMH are sent out anonymously for peer review by scholars who are experts in the author’s particular field. We cannot accept or review articles that have been published elsewhere or are under consideration by any other journal or publisher. Each author will receive a copy of the issue in which the article appears.
Articles are to be submitted through our Editorial Manager online submission system (see below). Articles can be submitted at all times of the year. JMH only accepts submissions in electronic form (Word 2007 or later; files in other formats such as WordPerfect cannot be accepted). An accompanying hard copy (printout) is not necessary.
All submissions should be formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style, latest edition.
All quotations must be translated into English, with the original text provided in a footnote.
The preferred length for articles is between 6,000 and 11,000 words or 20 and 35 pages.
In order to protect anonymity, the author’s name should not appear on the manuscript; all identifying references and footnotes will be masked for the review process.
Please number the manuscript pages consecutively in the upper-right corner.
Illustrations, maps (at least 300 dpi, JPEG or TIFF), and tables are welcome. They can be submitted through Editorial Manager. Please do not place digital images in the text of the manuscript. Illustrations will be printed in black and white.
Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions for illustrations after the article has been accepted for publication. You must provide the editors with copies of letters of permission from the copyright holders or from the individual or institutional owners of uncopyrighted illustrations.
All submissions have to be submitted through our online submission system. The system will notify you automatically about the status of the review process.
When you use Editorial Manager for the first time, you need to register as a user. After you provide your information, you will receive an email with a temporary password. You need to log on to submit your materials.
Together with the text of your article, you need to submit a 150-word abstract. The system will not accept your submission without an abstract.
The Editorial Manager system will also ask you for:
Click here to visit the Editorial Manager online submission site.
There are online instructions available.
One or more members of the editorial board will read each contribution. If they decide that an essay warrants further consideration, the editor may ask one or more anonymous reviewers to offer a written assessment of it. You can offer suggestions for reviewers through the Editorial Manager system.
When the reviewers return their assessments, the editorial board confers about the essay and makes a decision. This process generally takes a few months. The editorial board reserves the right to accept or reject any manuscript, even contrary to the recommendation of a reviewer or without any external review whatsoever.
If the editorial board accepts your submission, they usually have comments, questions, and other suggestions for you to consider. We ask you to make these changes within a thirty-day time frame.
After you return your revised submission, we will edit your manuscript and send you the edited version for your approval. How to retrieve the edited version of your submission.
Your approved manuscript will be sent to our publisher, Penn State University Press. The editorial staff at the Press will copyedit your manuscript (according to The Chicago Manual of Style, latest edition), and return it to you by regular email for review. This will be the final stage at which you may make changes.
Later the editorial staff at Penn State Press will send you one set of page proofs, at which time you will have two days to mark any typographical errors. If you do not respond by fax, e-mail, or telephone within two days, the editors may not be able to incorporate your corrections into the printed version of your essay. At this stage you can only change typographical errors; changes to the text can only be made at a charge.
For any questions, please contact the editor: Dr. Paul Peucker Moravian Archives 41 W. Locust Street Bethlehem, PA 18018. USA tel. 610.866.3255 fax 610.866.9210 email: paul@moravianchurcharchives.org
The Official Newsletter of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Voices from the Vault is published twice a year and is sent to all the Friends of the Archives.
To download the latest issue, click below:
This first comprehensive biography of Haidt, based on extensive archival research in Germany and America, was written by Vernon H. Nelson, former archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Northern Province. The book includes a translation of Haidt’s original autobiography as well as of his Treatise on Art.
The Bethlehem diary was the official chronicle of life in Moravian Bethlehem, beginning in 1742 and continuing into the 20th century. The years 1742 – 1745 and 1745-1746 have been translated and published by the Moravian Archives.
Christian David, carpenter and itinerant preacher, was the founder of Herrnhut who encouraged countless Protestants from Moravia to settle in Herrnhut. His memoir, written by Zinzendorf, and a selection of letters by David, were translated and edited by former archivists Carl John Fliegeland Vernon H. Nelson.
This collection of early texts by Georg Neisser describing the history of Moravian work in North America offers a wealth of information and detail. The translations by former Moravian archivists William N. Schwarze and Samuel H. Gapp include extensive annotations.
Salem Elsewhere: Images and Records of Salem in Archives around the World (Bethlehem: Moravian Archives, 2014)
Moravian archivists from around the world chose documents and images from their collections relating to the history of Salem, North Carolina. The book is dedicated to C. Daniel Crews on his retirement as archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province.
Paul Peucker, A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2015).
This book unravels the mystery of the Sifting Time, a crisis that occurred at the peak of the popularity of the Moravian movement in the late 1740s.
Paul Peucker, Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722-1732 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022).
New history of the origins of the Moravian Church, based on archival research in Germany and the US.
available in April 2022
Paul Peucker, Herrnhut, 1722-1732: Entstehung und Entwicklung einer philadelphischen Gemeinschaft (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021).
German translation of Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722-1732.