Alexander A. Vandegrift was a U.S. Marine Corps general and Medal of Honor recipient who commanded Marines at Guadalcanal in World War II and later served as the eighteenth Commandant of the Marine Corps.
“Trading places: men, women and the negotiation of gendered roles in the port of Nieuw Amsterdam.” Virginie Adane, EHESS, (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Paris
THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NEW NETHERLAND - Charles Gehring, Director of the New Netherland Research Center, and Russell Shorto discuss various topics, including Dr. Gehring's forty-year career as a translator of the archives of New Netherland and the historical significance of the 17th-century Dutch colony.
John Vanbiesbrouck is a former American NHL goaltender who played from 1981 to 2002, most notably with the New York Rangers and Florida Panthers, and won the Vezina Trophy in 1986.
A talk in which New Netherland Research Center director Dr. Charles Gehring discussed the Center's promotion of scholarship and dissemination of knowledge of the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland, presented by the Friends of the New York State Library on November 28, 2012.
CULTURAL AUTHORITY AND THE ANGLICIZATION MYTH IN EARLY NEW YORK - Historian Joyce Goodfriend joins Steve McErleane to discuss her career, the evolution of New Netherland studies, enduring Dutch cultural identity, and future directions in interpreting early New York history.
Fort Orange by Len Tantillo The gateway into the fort is on your right. You look up and stare at the fort’s walls. They aren’t...
Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh was an American lawyer, Civil War officer, and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as U.S. Minister to Japan before becoming a justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
In a talk from NNI's 2012 summer institute for elementary and middle school teachers, artist, writer, and re-enactor Arthur Kirmss explains the history of wampum and demonstrates how the shell beads were made, using reproduction tools and 17th-century techniques.
