Live From New Amsterdam
Events
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Live From New Amsterdam: Spinoza and God
Join the New Netherland Institute on Thursday, September 24th at noon for the first episode of Live From New Amsterdam of the season. Russell Shorto will speak with Steven Nadler about Baruch Spinoza and how his works were understood in the 17th century and the enduring fascination with them in the centuries that followed.
Live From New Amsterdam is a joint, zoom-only program of the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at New York Historical. -
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Live From New Amsterdam: “America is Us”
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.
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Live From New Amsterdam: The Ancient House
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.
