Live From New Amsterdam

Geerten Waling’s new Dutch book Amerika, dat zijn wij  argues that many of the ideas that shaped America’s founding were developed in the Dutch Republic of the 1600s, and reached the American founders both directly—through New Netherland and Dutch political practice—and indirectly, through John Locke's years in the Netherlands. Join Russell Shorto, Director of the New Amsterdam Project, and Geerten Waling as they discuss the Dutch influence on American beginnings. 

Join New Netherland Institute director Deborah Hamer for a discussion with Dr. Erin Kramer about her new book The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands (UNC Press, 2026), which explores how Albany was established as a center of cooperation between the Dutch and the Haudenosaunee.