Lou Tellegen was a Dutch-born stage and film actor who worked in Europe and the United States during the early twentieth century. A former leading man for Sarah Bernhardt, he appeared in numerous silent films.
This issue’s opening piece grows out of a talk by historical artist Len Tantillo and author Russell Shorto for the 2019 Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck Lecture Series. In “In Search of Stuyvesant’s Bowery,” they guide the reader through the unexpected complications and contradictions they encountered while trying to pinpoint the exact location of Petrus Stuyvesant’s seventeenth-century farmhouse.
This social network graph shows how ship owners or charterers (red) connect with skippers (blue). Larger dots indicate more voyages. Use the zoom control in...
Peter Douglas explores several fanciful depictions by artists who have let their imaginations run wild within the context of the myths that befog the retelling of the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians in 1626.
Robert P. Swierenga is an American historian known for his extensive research on Dutch-American immigration and culture. A longtime professor at Kent State University, he authored numerous books documenting the Dutch experience in the Midwest.
About the Project Between 1609 and 1664, more than 150 ships undertook roughly 250 voyages between the Dutch Republic and the colony of New Netherland....
Glendon Swarthout was an American novelist whose books inspired several films, including The Shootist and Where the Boys Are. A Michigan State professor turned full-time writer, he became known for western and historical fiction.
