In 1634, Harmen van den Bogaert led a Dutch West India Company expedition into Iroquois territory, documenting New York’s interior and its native peoples in the earliest known surviving account.
Len Tantillo brings 17th-century Delaware River rivalry to life with vivid illustrations, exploring Dutch-Swedish conflict, the fur trade, and a reconstructed fort—featuring historical insight by Dr. Charles Gehring.
A romp through the history of New Netherland that would surely have Petrus Stuyvesant complaining about the riot transpiring between its pages ... Readers are guaranteed a genuine adventure that will evoke the full range of human emotions.
A romp through the history of New Netherland that would surely have Petrus Stuyvesant complaining about the riot transpiring between its pages ... Readers are guaranteed a genuine adventure that will evoke the full range of human emotions.
A biography from the Associate Director of the New Netherland Research Center about the visionary Amsterdam merchant. Van Rensselaer was a driving force behind the patroonship system and founded the only successful example, Rensselaerswijck.
The story of Adriaen Block – either the third or fourth European to explore what became New Netherland – who played a vital role in its eventual settlement.
Peter Douglas’s Dutch Renaissance traces the unlikely survival of New Netherland’s records through shipwreck, war, and fire—culminating in Dr. Charles Gehring’s decades-long effort to translate the 17th-century Dutch texts and revive the colony’s forgotten voice and legacy.
It is difficult to imagine what the first glimpse of New Netherland was like for the seventeenth-century European...
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
The Geuzen medal--shown here in one of its various forms--is a Dutch symbol reflecting a long history of resistance.
