Few names are as synonymous with the Hudson Valley as Washington Irving, but few know that he grew up steeped in Dutch history. Join Russell Shorto as he speaks with Dr. Elisabeth Paling Funk about her new book The Dutch World of Washington Irving.
Don Van Vliet (1941–2010), known as Captain Beefheart, was an American experimental rock musician and visual artist who led The Magic Band. After a prolific recording career from 1965–1982, he retired from music to pursue painting.
When the Dyckman Farmhouse was built in 1784, the area around it was farmland. Now, it sits at the bustling corner of Broadway and 204th Street in Inwood. Join Deborah Hamer as she talks to Melissa Kiewiet, the executive director of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance about the history of the house, the new work being done to reveal more about the enslaved people who labored in the house, and how the house has become an important contemporary exhibition space.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate whose pioneering work in quantum magnetism and electron behavior in solids helped establish the modern theory of magnetism.
In 1689, New York merchant Jacob Leisler led a rebellion against King James in New Amsterdam. Leisler’s remarkable, ill-fated administration, from 1689 to 1691, is central to understanding New York’s pre-Revolutionary political, economic, and cultural life. Join Russell Shorto as he chats with David William Voorhees, director of the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, about the rebellion, and how developments from that era are still felt today.
“The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: the First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun,” by Lisa Jardine (Harper Collins, 2006, 176pp, $21.95, pbk $12.95).
Novelists have long found the Dutch Golden Age a setting and source of inspiration. Join Russell Shorto as he talks to Victoria Redel about her new novel I Am You. The book follows the intertwined lives of Maria van Oosterwijck, renowned today for her gorgeous still life paintings, and her servant, Gerta Pieters. Find out what drew Redel to the period and how she makes us see it in a new way.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate whose pioneering work in quantum magnetism and electron behavior in solids helped establish the modern theory of magnetism.
We often talk about New Netherland's records at the New York State Archives in Albany. But did you know that the New York State Library also has an extremely large collection of Dutch documents? Join New Netherland Institute Director Deborah Hamer as she talks to Lauren Moore, the New York State Librarian, and Elizabeth Jakubowski, Associate Librarian of NYS Library’s Special Collections.
January 31, 2009, was the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Amsterdamsche Wisselbank (Exchange Bank of Amsterdam), and with it the idea of a national bank, modeled on such a bank in Venice, reached northern Europe.
