Introduction: Pennsylvania German Studies / Simon J. Bronner and Josua R. Brown
Part 1. History and geography
The old world background / Mark Häberlein
To the new world: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John B. Frantz
Communities and identities: nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Diane Wenger and Simon J. Bronner
Part 2 . Culture and society. The Pennsylvania German language / Mark L. Louden
Language use among Anabaptist groups / Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and Edsel Burdge Jr.
Religion / John B. Frantz
The Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and Joshua R. Brown
Literature / Sheila Rohrer
Agriculture and industries / R. Troy Boyer ; Architecture and cultural landscapes / Gabrielle Lanier
Furniture and decorative arts / Lisa Minardi
Fraktur and visual culture / Lisa Minardi
Textiles / Candace Kintzer Perry
Food and cooking / Yvonne J. Milspaw
Medicine / David W. Kriebel
Folklore and folklife / Simon J. Bronner
Education / William W. Donner
Heritage and tourism / William W. Donner ; Popular Culture and Media /Simon J. Bronner.