Anyone searching for information about Cornelis Evertsen must be careful; there are three seventeenth century Dutch admirals with this name, and they are all related. Our interest lies in Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest (1642–1706).
For over four decades, the Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute (previously known as the Rensselaerswyck Seminar and subsequently the New Netherland Seminar) has brought the best research on New Netherland to a venue in the northeast in the fall.
Foster M. Voorhees (1856–1927) was a Republican lawyer and politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey from 1899 to 1902 after earlier service in the New Jersey Senate.
NNI director Deborah Hamer talks to Tom Ruller, the former New York State Archivist, about the archives of New Netherland, how the State Archive has preserved these records, and what they have done and continue to do to make these records accessible to the public.
Jacob Steendam was one of the first poets of Colonial America. Join Deborah Hamer as she talks to Dr. Danny Noorlander about Steendam's poetry, his experiences in Africa before he arrived in New Netherland, and how studying music, poetry, and sound can add to our knowledge of the Dutch Atlantic World.
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.
Daniel W. Voorhees (1827–1897) was an Indiana lawyer and Democratic statesman who served in both the U.S. House and Senate, representing Indiana in Congress for thirty-six years and becoming one of the state’s best-known nineteenth-century political figures.
Charles Stewart Voorhees was an Indiana-born lawyer and Democratic politician who represented Washington Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889 before returning to private legal practice.
Ian Stewart, owner of New Netherland Timber Framing and Preservation, and Russell Shorto, director of the New Amsterdam Project, discuss Ian's 20+ year career working on historic buildings and heritage sites. From Dutch barns to 17th-century homes, discover how we are still preserving New Netherland's architecture all across the country—even in Texas!
John Monroe Van Vleck was an American astronomer and mathematician who taught at Wesleyan University for decades and began the Van Vleck academic dynasty that later included Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.
