Nicholas Wolterstorff (born 1932) is an American philosopher known for work in epistemology, philosophy of religion, justice, and aesthetics. A longtime Calvin College professor, he later taught philosophical theology at Yale Divinity School.

From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of immigrants.

The Lily among Thorns is one of the early symbols of the Dutch Reformed Church. It originated in the mid-16th century as the rebellion of the Low Countries against Spain.

Historian James Axtell noted Europeans met Native defenders. Dutch ambitions in the fur trade led to uneasy partnerships with Native peoples—marked by compromise, conflict, and survival as colonial life took root.

James DeWolf (1764–1837) was a Rhode Island merchant, slave trader, and politician who served as a U.S. senator and state legislator. He amassed great wealth through maritime trade and slavery while also investing in early American cotton manufacturing.k.

Andrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians.

E B. O'Callaghan was keeper of historical manuscripts for the State of New York in 1848. In that role he completed the original translation of the Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1638-1642.

Employing a frontier framework, this book traces intercultural relations in the lower Hudson River valley of early seventeenth-century New Netherland. I

Simeon De Witt (1756–1834) was New York State’s long-serving Surveyor General, a Revolutionary War army geographer, planner of New York City’s grid street system, Erie Canal commissioner, and an early founder and land developer of Ithaca, New York.

The rapid economic growth of cities in the Netherlands during the late Middle Ages attracted an enormous number of immigrants. As a result, ethnically diverse commercial interests dominated these cities and their overseas enterprises.