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For more than three decades, NNI, an independent, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, has helped cast light on America’s long-neglected Dutch roots.
Albany, New York
Joined July 2012
The Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art is out. Edited by Stephanie Porras Aaron Hyman, the theme is art history in the Dutch Americas. It includes two articles specifically on New Netherland's churches The issue is available for free at
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The latest issue of City & State New York has an excellent feature on New Amsterdam, including an interview with Russell Shorto about Taking Manhattan and an excerpt from Mr. Shorto's book . The magazine is open access and you can find it here:
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Cornell University Press is having a 50% off sale on all books in print (for delivery in the US only) including our Hendricks Award winning titles! Visit and use the code 095000 to get the discount.
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For those in Southern California, check out the Holland Society's June 25th event at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles. Meet Holland Society Executive Director, Sarah Bogart Cooney and chat with other folks interested in New Netherland. Visit for more.
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Debra Bruno, former Wendell Fellow, is featured in the New York Times this week talking about how her book "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (2024) came to be. Check it out:
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If you're looking for something to do over the weekend of June 28-29, check out Historic Huguenot Street's New Netherland Marketplace: Living History 2025. For more information and to register, visit
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Join Lavada Nahon, Interpreter for African American History, in New York City on Wednesday, June 11, at 10am for a presentation that focuses on two upcoming anniversaries of the history of slavery in New York. For more information, visit
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For our members, who are interested in historical fiction related to New Netherland, today is the publication day for Fawn Brokaw Doyle's new book Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje. For more information, visit Congrats to Fawn.
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Reminder: Join us on Thursday (May 29th) for Live from New Amsterdam. NNI director, Deborah Hamer, speaks to Sarah Mallory, curator at the Morgan Library about Dutch art museums and transatlantic slavery. For more information and to register, visit
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Join us on Thursday, May 29th at noon, for our next Live from New Amsterdam. NNI director, Deborah Hamer, will speak to Sarah Mallory, curator at the Morgan Library about art museums and transatlantic slavery. For more information and to register, visit
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For those in Las Vegas, join American Heritage Partners for a special breakfast on Saturday May 24. Russell Shorto will join via zoom to talk about his new book, "Taking Manhattan." For more information and to register visit
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Join our colleagues at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society on Friday, May 2 for a one day webinar on researching your New Netherland Ancestors. For more information, visit
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Join us for the next Live From New Amsterdam on Thursday, April 17 at noon. New Amsterdam Project at The New York Historical director Russell Shorto will speak with Allyson Schettino, Director of Curriculum and Instruction. ,To register, visit
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On April 2, Charly Gehring officially retired from fifty years spent translating New Netherland's Dutch documents. Paul Grondahl celebrates Gehring, who he dubs the "ultramarathon man" of translation in an article in yesterday's Times Union:.
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Our friends at Cornell University Press are having a spring cleaning sale! All books that are 10 or more years old are 60% off. This includes titles by Jaap Jacobs, David Narrett, and Donna Merwick. Use code 09CLEAN on the Cornell University Press website to get the discount.
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Only 5 days left to submit your articles for the New Netherland Institute's Van Slyke Article Prize. Generously funded by Sandra Lazo, the prize honors articles on New Netherland published in the preceding two years. More Information here:
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Reminder: Join NNI director Deborah Hamer as she talks to former New York State Archivist Tom Ruller on the next Live from New Amsterdam (Thursday, March 27th). For more information and to register, visit:
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Many thanks to all who joined us on Saturday for "Becoming New York." Russell Shorto gave a fantastic talk on his new book "Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America," and it was a pleasure to mingle with friends, new and old.
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NNI's March newsletter is in your inboxes now! For those who aren't subscribed, visit for news about the latest books, articles, exhibitions, and goings on at NNI.
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Join NNI director Deborah Hamer for the Next Live from New Amsterdam (3/27) as she talks to former New York State Archivist Tom Ruller about the archives of New Netherland and the New York State Archives role in preserving these records. To register:
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