The Mennonite Historical Bulletin, our 16-page periodical published quarterly, presents history in a popular, user-friendly style. It features historic events and people, recently-acquired records and papers, news of regional historical societies and upcoming conferences, book reviews, and an annual Directory of Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees.  A table of contents for 1995-1999, plus many complete articles, follow.

July 1999
Why don't we tell the beginning of the Story? by Rich H. Meyer
Recent Publications

April 1999
Managing Mennonite Memory by Dennis Stoez
What is Your Humor Index? by Jep Hostetler
Pioneering at Mayton by Beulah Stauffer Hostetler
Book Reviews: Driving the Amish and The Amish and Their Neighbors: The German Block, Wilmot Township by Dale Bowman

January 1999
To Make a Point: Stories from History for Preaching, Teaching and Pondering by John E. Sharp
Telling A Story That Has Told Me by Ron Kennel
Book Review: Harold Bender reviewed by Stanley Shenk

January 1998
Book Review: Yonie Wondernose reviewed by Kathryn Aschliman
The Riddle of Things Past by John L. Ruth
Mennonite Historians Directory

April 1998
Managing Mennonite Memory by Dennis Stoesz
A narrative to accompany a Century of Mission by John Sharp
A Century of Mission Timeline

July 1998
I Wish I'd Been There by Gordon Oyer
Remember J.C.
Mennonite Mirth by Jep Hostetler
Recent Publications

October 1998
Heritage Works
A Rare Find: The Discovery of an 1838 Letter by Paton Yoder
An Amishman of the Amish: The Reflections of Paton Yoder by Paton Yoder
Managing Mennonite Memory: Congregational Archival Records by Dennis Stoesz

January 1997
The Relevance of Menno Simons for Evangelical Christians by John D. Roth
The Significance of Menno Simons by H. S. Bender, 1936
New Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Directory of Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
News and Notes

April 1997
Keeping the Faith: Dynamics of the Amish Movement Since the Division of the 1690s by Roy Kline

Martyrs’ Mirror or Bloody Theater by James W. Lowry
An Anniversary Celebration Notebook by John Bender
Book Review:
Toews, Paul, Mennonites in American Society, 1930-1970: Modernity and the Persistence of Religious Community, Herald Press, 1996. Reviewed by Leonard Gross
News and Notes
Recent Publications
 
July 1997
Illinois Amish Interpretive Center by Wilmer Otto
I Wish I’d Been There:
       Hubmaier v. Zwingi by Arnold Cressman
       Worship at Mellinger by Steve Nolt
New Treasures: Archives of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
News and Notes
Recent Publications

October 1997
“All Believers”: Reflections on the History of the General Conference Mennonite Church by Steve Estes
“Der Weiss” Jonas Stutzmann: Amish Pioneer and  Mystic by Greg Hartzler-Miller
“An Unscriptural Passion” or “A Mighty Power”: The Advent of Sunday Schools in the Mennonite Church    by John E. Sharp
News and Notes
Recent Publications
 
January 1996

The Master and the Mennonites or "Did Anslo Make it?" by Julia Kasdorf
I Wish I’d Been There:
     Coup d’etat at Münster by J. Robert Charles
     Whenever You Drink Coffee in Vienna, Think of Michael Sattler and the Turks by Joseph S. Miller
     Historians’ Collaboration on the Mennonite Encyclopedia by Rachel Waltner Goossen
     Choosing a Hymnal by Amos B. Hoover
Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest Winners 1995
Archives of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Recent Publications
News and Notes
Remembering the Birth of Menno Simons, 1496 [fraktur purchase order form]

April 1996
The Portraits of Menno Simons by Irvin B. Horst
More Faces of Menno by John E. Sharp
Present at the Inception: Menno Simons and the Beginnings of Dutch Anabaptism by Abraham Friesen
Menno Answers His Critics on the Issue of Peace and Violence
News and Notes

July 1996
Harmony Revisited by Larry D. Rohrer
I Wish I’d Been There:
My Mother and the One-armed Preacher by Russell Krabill
     Menno "Doing Church" by Leonard Gross
     Joseph Summers’ Travel Stories by Levi Miller
Amish Anabaptists in Switzerland in 1861: Ch. Aug. Ramseyer’s Letter to Shem Zook, February 1, 1861, Translated and edited by Leonard Gross and Paton Yoder
Archives of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Book Review:
     Mennonite High School Education at Half Century by Dale Shenk
News and Notes

October 1996
Ora Troyer: Steward of His Community’s History by Dennis Stoesz
A Call To Faithfulness: Dutch Mennonites Facing the Storm in 1940 by Gerlof D. Homan
Log Cabin Captures a Moment in History by Roxana Currie
Book Reviews
From Hazelbrush to Cornfields, the First One Hundred Years of the Amish-Mennonites
in Johnson, Washington and Iowa Counties of Iowa, 1846-1946, by Katie Yoder
Reviewed by Lorraine Roth
News and Notes
Recent Publications
A Fraktur Memento Recalling the Work of Menno Simons 1496-1561 [order form]

January 1995
The Organizational Children of MCC by Calvin Redekop
Community, Place and Peoplehood in New York by Kimberly D. Schmidt
History Keeping in the Shenandoah Valley by Randy Shank
Archives of the Mennonite Church by Dennis Stoesz
Mennonite and Related Church Historians and Committees
News and Notes
John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest Winners 1994

April 1995
Theological Uncertainty Beyond the Mystic Border by Joseph Miller
Mennonites in Kansas by John D. Thiesen
Menno Simons Surfaces Again by Donald F. Durnbaugh
Recent Publications
Book Reviews:
Breaking the Silence on Faith and Economics by Daniel J. Miller
Guides to Amish and Mennonites: Four Approaches by Troy David Osborne
News and Notes

July 1995
Amish Mennonites and the U.S. Supreme Court: 110 Years Before Yoder by Steve Nolt
Conferences and Congregations: A Review of Mennonite Church Polity by James M. Lapp
Book Review:
     Ignited and Extinguished Torches: Society of Brothers in Review by Marlin Jeschke
New Book Released - My Dear Joe and companion volume, My Dear Alice,
The Effects of an MC-GC Merger on Archives and Historical Activities by John D. Thiesen
News and Notes

October 1995
Reading Between the Lines: Stories of Women Leaders in the Franconia Conference by Mary Jane Hershey
Open Windows: English Quakers View European Mennonites by Harold D. Lehman
News and Notes
The Archives Scrapbook Page by John Sharp
Recent Publications

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