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In addition to talks and papers presented at scholarly seminars, NNRC scholars have lent their expertise to audiences through visual media. Uncovering America’s Forgotten Colony...

Jeroen van den Hurk uses historic documents to analyze the architecture of New Netherland.

Governors Island, carries both historic and cultural importance for the descendants of three continents—Europeans, Africans, and American Indians.

Seventeenth-century Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius defined property as “ours,” including houses, land, and immovable things. Ownership passed by gift, inheritance, or sale, but only formal transfer, not mere agreement, secured legitimate title in New Netherland.

A series by NNRC Director Charles Gehring funded by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York that lays before the public instructive but...

A series by NNRC Director Charles Gehring funded by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York that lays before the public instructive but...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Most of New Netherland's enslaved people were brought to the colony either through the inter-colonial or transatlantic slave trade. The first enslaved laborers arrived in New Netherland as early as 1625.