Our Videos
Discover a wide range of educational videos that bring the story of New Netherland to life. From lectures and interviews with leading scholars to classroom resources and historical explorations, these videos provide engaging insights into the people, places, and legacy of America’s Dutch colonial past.
A documentary DVD about the New Netherland Project, where more than 18 volumes of the official archives of New Netherland have been transcribed, translated, and published to date, and its connection with modern times.
A talk in which New Netherland Research Center director Dr. Charles Gehring discussed the Center's promotion of scholarship and dissemination of knowledge of the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland, presented by the Friends of the New York State Library on November 28, 2012.
In a talk from NNI's 2012 summer institute for elementary and middle school teachers, artist, writer, and re-enactor Arthur Kirmss explains the history of wampum and demonstrates how the shell beads were made, using reproduction tools and 17th-century techniques.
“Trading places: men, women and the negotiation of gendered roles in the port of Nieuw Amsterdam.” Virginie Adane, EHESS, (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Paris
“The View from the Dutch Republic: Protestant Conceptualizations of Indians.” Stephen T. Staggs, Western Michigan University
“Buildings on Paper: Our Current Knowledge and Understanding of New Netherlandic Architecture.”Jeroen van den Hurk, Principal Architectural Historian at Coastal Carolina Research, Tarboro, NC
“A man and his sloop: Abraham Staats on the North River and beyond.” Eric Ruijssenaars, 2011 Senior Scholar in Residence at the New Netherland Research Center, Dutch Archives, Leiden, the Netherlands.
“New Light on an Old Story: Re-examining the English Invasions of New Amsterdam, 1660-1664” Dennis Maika, 2012 Senior Scholar in Residence at the New Netherland Research Center, Fellow of the Holland Society of New York, the New Netherland Institute, and the New York Academy of History
“Marriage Law in New Netherland, 1621-1664.” Deborah Hamer, PhD Candidate in History Columbia University
“The New Netherland Landdag, the development of a Dutch assembly (1649- 1664)” Brecht Cornelisse, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
“Curating Van der Donck’s New Netherland” Bethany Romanowski, Guest Curator at the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House in Queens, New York
“The New Netherland Landdag, the development of a Dutch assembly (1649- 1664)” Brecht Cornelisse, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
“Painting New Netherland: An Art Historian’s Perspective on the Visual Culture of New Netherland.” Alena M. Buis, PhD Candidate Art History, Queen’s University, Toronto
“People on the move: migration movements from the Southern to the Northern Netherlands in the time of the Dutch Revolt"
The Flemish Contribution to European Settlement in America
Ryan Fitzpatrick talks to Dr. Charles Gehring, director of the New Netherland Project at the NYS Library. Together they discuss the 1609 exhibition, Henry Hudson and the role of Dutch in the early colonial period.
This special program brings together scholars who are at the cutting edge of this work. How did Blacks live in New Amsterdam? What was “slavery” in the colony? When did the first Africans arrive?
