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  • Fort Orange Gala Dinner

    Fort Orange Gala Dinner

    Commemorating the Four Hundredth Anniversary Of The Settlement of New Netherland and The Establishment of Fort Orange And The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Charly Gehring’s Work...

  • NNI Annual Meeting November 15th, 2025

    Save the Date: join us at the New York Historical for our annual conference on Saturday November 15. More details to come.

  • The Van Rensselaer Manor Papers

    A conversation with Lauren Moore and Elizabeth Jakubowski of the NYS Library On Thursday, March 26th, I’ll be speaking with Lauren Moore, the New York State...

  • Beyond Blue and White – The History of Delftware

    A conversation with decorative arts specialist Genevieve Wheeler Brown about her new book Beyond Blue and White: The Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the Iconic Ceramic

  • Live From New Amsterdam: Johannes Vermeer

    In his new biography, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found (Norton, 2026), Andrew Graham-Dixon offers a startling new perspective on one of history’s most beloved artists. Join Russell Shorto as he talks to Graham-Dixon about Vermeer's unique milieu and recounts the detective work that led him to unravel these mysterious paintings.

  • Old Masters, New Amsterdam

    This first-of-its-kind exhibition uses the paintings of Rembrandt and his contemporaries to help us envision life in the little Dutch settlement that would become New York.

  • Live From New Amsterdam: Revolutionary Women

    Histories of the Revolutionary War usually focus on men, but women played an important part in the war, too. Join New Netherland Institute director Deborah Hamer as she talks to Dr. Anna Danziger Halperin, Director of the Center for Women's History at New York Historical, about the new exhibition Revolutionary Women (opening May 29) Learn more about what women did during the American Revolution and how New York's women coped with the British occupation.

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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.

  • 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.