NNI in conjunction with the Fulbright Center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, offers a 3-month residency and a grant of $5,000 for research in the field of New Netherland history and the Dutch Atlantic world.
Cape Horn, the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, became notorious as a “sailors’ graveyard” because of its strong currents, gales, and frequent storms. It is named for the city of Hoorn in the distant Netherlands. How this came to be is a story that begins in the 16th century.
D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century.
Frans de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and author whose research on chimpanzees and other primates reshaped understanding of empathy, cooperation, and conflict in animal and human behavior.
New Netherland was a Dutch colony from 1614 to 1664, about 50 years. In 1664, the English took the colony from the Dutch by force--even though the two countries were not at war and few if any shots were fired.
Anthony or Antonius Van Diemen (1593–1645) would doubtless have faded into unremembered history were it not for his fateful decision in 1642 to send the seafarer and explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603–1659) in search of “The Great South Land.”
Dr. Andrew A. Hendricks Dr. Andrew A. Hendricks descended from the Colonial Dutch. A native of Orange, New Jersey, his fourth-grade assignment on the Dutch...
Leo Vroman (1915–2014) was a Dutch-born hematologist and poet who settled in the United States and became one of the most celebrated modern Dutch-language poets while maintaining a distinguished scientific career.
The Howard G. Hageman Citation honors Dr. Howard G. Hageman, a founder of the Friends of the New Netherland Project, later known as the Friends of New Netherland and currently the New Netherland Institute.
The year 1642 saw the death of Galileo and the birth of Sir Isaac Newton. In England, King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham to begin that country’s Civil War,
