Volume V – Council Minutes, 1652–1654 PDF – Volume 5 – Council Minutes, 1652-1654 translation (scanned book images) The council minutes document civil and criminal...
Gus Van Sant (born 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, photographer, and author known for influential independent films. He received Academy Award nominations for directing Good Will Hunting and Milk, and won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Elephant.
Translation from Van Laer, Register of the Provincial Secretary, Volume II, 1642-1647, doc. 111b, pgs. 223-224 This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of...
John Van Ryn (1905–1999) was an American tennis player best known for his success in doubles during the 1930s. Partnering primarily with Wilmer Allison, he won multiple U.S. and Wimbledon doubles titles and was later inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
This collection comprises a great variety of papers, including journals of voyages, deeds, leases, contracts, accounts and inventories of cattle; but the most important item...
Henry Rutgers (1745–1830) was an American Revolutionary War officer, philanthropist, and civic leader whose support helped preserve Queen’s College in New Jersey. In 1825 the college was renamed Rutgers College in his honor, later becoming Rutgers University.
Translation from Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, pp. 137-153
Image: Title page of the “Freedoms and Exemptions,” published in 1630.
Peter Roskam (born 1961) is an American attorney and Republican politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 6th congressional district from 2007 to 2019. Before entering Congress, he served in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate.
Unlike the plantation systems of the southern and Caribbean colonies, New Netherland's economy did not rely on a cash crop cultivated by unfree laborers. Nevertheless, the enslaved population proved very valuable to the colony's growth and development.
Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (1831–1878) was an American businessman and philanthropist and the father of President Theodore Roosevelt. A leader in charitable reform in New York City, he helped establish major institutions including the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
