After 345 years, in March 2012, a magnificent relic of the Anglo-Dutch wars returned to England—at least temporarily. As part of the celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the Rijksmuseum loaned to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich the ornate stern carving from the warship Royal Charles, captured by the Dutch in 1667.
Jerry Voorhis (1901–1984) was a Democratic congressman from California who served from 1937 to 1947, known for supporting New Deal policies and for losing his seat to Richard Nixon in the highly contested 1946 election.
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?
The name Dirk Hartog sounds as if it belongs to the swashbuckling hero of a Rafael Sabatini adventure novel or a similar Hollywood epic, and perhaps that’s fitting, for this Dutch sailor and explorer certainly led such a life.
Selected papers from the Rensselaerswijck Seminar, now the New Netherland Seminar, are presented online in "A Beautiful and Fruitful Place."
Henry Clay Van Voorhis (1852–1927) was an Ohio lawyer, banker, and Republican politician who represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1905 before returning to banking and civic leadership in Zanesville.
The initial settlement of New Netherland was created for reasons that were very different from those that motivated the English and French. In many ways,...
Numerous myths and misapprehensions have developed around the so-called Dutch "purchase" of Manhattan.
Daniel Van Voorhis (1878–1956) was a United States Army lieutenant general and pioneer of modern mechanized warfare whose leadership helped shape the development of the Army’s armored forces before and during World War II.
Our most recent conference, the 44th, in October 2022, was Alida Livingston's World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York, held in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society.
