One title was released in 2012: Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia by Susan L. Trollinger, English professor at the University of Dayton. Three titles were released in 2010: Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries by history professor Tobin Miller Shearer of the University of Montana, The Hutterites in North America by Fresno Pacific University professor Rod Janzen and Brigham Young University professor Max Stanton and An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community by Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell of The College of Wooster.

The series began in 2007 with the publication of Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools, a comprehensive study of Old Order Mennonite and Amish schools in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania by Karen Johnson-Weiner, professor of anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. Three more books were also published in 2007: Growing Up Amish: The Teenage Years by retired Messiah College professor Richard Stevick in April; Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities by Goshen College professors Steven Nolt and Thomas Meyers in May; Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War by James O. Lehman and Steven Nolt in September.

The fifth book in the series, The Amish and the Media, edited by Diane Zimmerman Umble, professor of communication at Millersville University, and David L. Weaver-Zercher, associate professor of American religious history at Messiah College, was published in 2008. The sixth, Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia by Peter J. Klassen, professor emeritus at California State University, Fresno, was published in 2009.

Book Acquisition and Development

Series editor Donald B. Kraybill guides the acquisition and development process for new manuscripts. For a description of the scope of the Young Center Books series, see the overview.

For a description of the acquisition process, see the acquisition document.