Gloria Vanderbilt was an American artist, author, and fashion designer who built a major lifestyle brand with her designer jeans and products, while remaining a prominent member of the famous Vanderbilt family.
“The View from the Dutch Republic: Protestant Conceptualizations of Indians.” Stephen T. Staggs, Western Michigan University
THE ECONOMY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW AMSTERDAM/MANHATTAN - Dennis Maika joins Russell Shorto to discuss 17th-century New Amsterdam merchants, the Dutch West India Company's economic role, colonial regulation, and Maika’s efforts to promote New Netherland in state education.
Arent van Curler’s Farm by Len Tantillo Archaeologist James Bradley explains: “At the Flatts, the most important building was a combination house and barn. This...
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a nineteenth-century American shipping magnate and railroad tycoon who built the New York Central Railroad empire and became the richest man in the United States upon his death.
“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
NEW NETHERLAND AND THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM - NNI’s Dennis Maika joins Russell Shorto to discuss 17th-century New Amsterdam merchants, the Dutch West India Company, colonial economic structure, and efforts to elevate New Netherland in New York education.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force and earlier directed U.S. military intelligence, playing a key role in Allied air operations during World War II.
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.
