Robert P. Swierenga is an American historian known for his extensive research on Dutch-American immigration and culture. A longtime professor at Kent State University, he authored numerous books documenting the Dutch experience in the Midwest.
David William Voorhees (b. 1947) is an American historian and documentary editor whose scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch America includes leadership roles with the Jacob Leisler Institute and the Holland Society’s journal De Halve Maen.
William J. Bouwsma was a leading twentieth-century Renaissance historian, renowned for studies of humanism, Calvin, and early modern European culture.
With the New Netherland Institute’s dedication to Dutch matters, you may wonder what the English Captain James Cook is doing here. In many of the other Totidem Verbis articles you can witness the courage of Dutch navigators whose place in global exploration and discovery deserves attention and fair consideration.
Dale K. Van Kley is an American historian specializing in the religious and political origins of the French Revolution. A professor at Ohio State University, he is known for influential studies on Enlightenment Europe.
Slavery, race, community, and family were vital to the history and development of colonial New Amsterdam and New York. Examining familial and community networks of diverse women, especially enslaved women, reveals multiracial and dynamic connections among ordinary people who shaped the trajectory of the city’s history.
This bibliography gathers key works on Dutch influence in colonial America, with a focus on New Netherland, the Hudson Valley, and the transition from Dutch to English rule. Covering politics, society, law, architecture, trade, culture, and daily life, these sources provide a comprehensive foundation for studying Dutch contributions to early American history and their lasting legacy.
Studying African presence in Euro American colonial history is about striking a balance between acknowledging the horrors of slavery and finding the traces of humanity and resilience in the archive.
Heiko A. Oberman (1930–2001) was a Dutch-American historian and theologian known for his scholarship on the Reformation and late medieval theology. His influential biography Luther: Man Between God and the Devil reshaped modern understanding of Martin Luther and the Reformation.
In August 1664, the WIC ship Gideon arrived in New Amsterdam with 290 enslaved Africans, doubling the colony’s enslaved population. Though the voyage was momentous, almost nothing is known about those forced aboard or the ordeal they endured to reach the city.
