Eric Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and longtime NHL center, best known for his career with the Carolina Hurricanes and for helping the team win the Stanley Cup in 2006.
Slavery in New York State officially came to an end in 1827, roughly 200 years after the first enslaved men arrived in the region. Although slavery outlasted Dutch rule, its legacy remained strong.
The title is an acronym for the Australian Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks. It was established in 1972 to maintain the sites and artifacts from the wrecks of 17th- and 18th-century Dutch ships off the coast of Western Australia.
Published in 2009, this collection of essays pulls from diverse perspectives–social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and political–to weave together the dynamic and diverse history of the...
Bruce Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter known as “The Boss.” Rising to fame with the E Street Band, his music captures working-class life in songs such as Born to Run, Born in the U.S.A., and The Rising.
Govert Lookcermans’ house which, through marriage and inheritances, became the home of Sarah Oort Kidd, the wife of Captain Willilam Kidd. This is a translation of the...
Translation from Van Laer, Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer, doc. 67, pgs. 353-354 Manuscript Images As to our appearance here at the Manhatans, at the Gemene Lantdagh, and...
Watson Spoelstra was an American sportswriter for the Detroit News who covered the Detroit Tigers for decades. A Hope College athlete and writer, he later founded Baseball Chapel and became patriarch of the Spoelstra sports family.
In 2004, archaeologists Paul Huey and Jim Bradley led Len Tantillo across a recently turned field along a creek on the east side of the Hudson...
Over the centuries the seas surrounding Great Britain have helped to halt or deter many invading forces. The most significant of these were the Spanish Armada in 1588, Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803–05, and Nazi Germany’s Operation “Seelöwe” in 1940.
