Selected papers from the Rensselaerswijck Seminar, now the New Netherland Seminar, are presented online in "A Beautiful and Fruitful Place."
Foster M. Voorhees (1856–1927) was a Republican lawyer and politician who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey from 1899 to 1902 after earlier service in the New Jersey Senate.
The initial settlement of New Netherland was created for reasons that were very different from those that motivated the English and French. In many ways,...
David William Voorhees (b. 1947) is an American historian and documentary editor whose scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch America includes leadership roles with the Jacob Leisler Institute and the Holland Society’s journal De Halve Maen.
Daniel W. Voorhees (1827–1897) was an Indiana lawyer and Democratic statesman who served in both the U.S. House and Senate, representing Indiana in Congress for thirty-six years and becoming one of the state’s best-known nineteenth-century political figures.
Our most recent conference, the 44th, in October 2022, was Alida Livingston's World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York, held in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society.
Charles Stewart Voorhees was an Indiana-born lawyer and Democratic politician who represented Washington Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889 before returning to private legal practice.
Jeroen van den Hurk uses historic documents to analyze the architecture of New Netherland.
John Monroe Van Vleck was an American astronomer and mathematician who taught at Wesleyan University for decades and began the Van Vleck academic dynasty that later included Nobel Prize–winning physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.
The Feast of Saint Nicholas, by Dutch painter Jan Steen, 1665Dutch children celebrate a visit from Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas).. Although the children of New Netherland...
