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Video Presentations by New Netherland Research Scholars
In addition to talks and papers presented at scholarly seminars, NNRC scholars have lent their expertise to audiences through visual media.
Uncovering America’s Forgotten Colony
A documentary production about the New Netherland Project, this thirty-minute video provides some historical background about New Netherland and its documentary legacy; it explains the importance of using documentary evidence and dispels some of the misinterpretations of the Dutch in various works of literature.
Dr. Charles Gehring Discusses the New York State Museum’s “1609” exhbit
In celebration of Albany’s quadricentennial in 2009, the New York State Museum exhibited numerous artifacts, images, and cultural objects from the region’s early history. In this video, Dr. Gehring speaks about some of the exhibit’s historical background.
