Russell Shorto, curator of "New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam," and Deborah Hamer, Director of the New Netherland Institute, take a closer look at life in New Amsterdam through the Castello Plan.
Christian Koot, author of "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herman’s Chesapeake "(2017), and Deborah Hamer discuss how maps were made, what was distinct about the Dutch tradition of mapping, and how maps were much more than neutral depictions of borders and terrain.
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!
Deborah Hamer, Director of the New Netherland Institute, and Josephine Bloodgood, Director of Curatorial and Preservation Affairs at HHS, explore some of the exciting discoveries made through digitization of the community’s earliest documents.
Scholar Jaap Jacobs, currently working on a Society of Daughters of Holland Dames funded translation project, joins Russell Shorto to talk about the work of translating these documents, new information yet to be uncovered, as well as Petrus Stuyvesant, who Jacobs is researching for his upcoming biography.
Deborah Hamer, Director of the New Netherland Institute, speaks with historian and historical translator Dirk Mouw on his research, the early congregations and religious life in New Amsterdam, and the continuing legacy of the church, now known as the Reformed Church in America.
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.
Deborah Hamer, the director of the New Netherland Institute in Albany, New York, talks to Sarah Mallory, the Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, about Mallory’s new edited volume, a collection of essays titled "Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures."
Russell Shorto, author and Director of the New Amsterdam Project, and Allyson Schettino, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, explore how we share New Amsterdam's legacy with the public through education, primary sources, and stories.
NNI director Deborah Hamer talks to Russell Shorto, director of the New Amsterdam Project at The New York Historical and senior scholar at the NNI, about his book "Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events Created New York and Shaped America."
