Dutch-American Stories

Two hundred and forty years ago, on 19 April 1782, the Dutch States General decided to recognize John Adams as the envoy of the United States of America ...

In December 28, 1662, a black African woman named Mayken van Angola pursued freedom in New Amsterdam. She did not stand alone...

Read how colonial New Amsterdam became New York City and how the name evolved has many twists and turns and is, in fact, a tale of war and peace.

Settler colonialism is not a story of friendly relations throughout. The confrontation with an unfamiliar other creates wariness and suspicion and often leads to violent outbursts ...

Over the centuries, numerous American visitors to the Netherlands produced travel accounts, filled with their fresh insights.

American historian Dennis Maika outlines how family and business connections shaped the development of a slave-trading center in Manhattan.

When John Adams arrived in the Dutch Republic as the American envoy, he was accompanied by his two sons. They were both expected to attend school so as to further their education, but ...

There are a few topics that guarantee a historian an audience. Write a decent biography of Abraham Lincoln or James Madison, for example, and you are bound to have readers.

The Holland Land Company is known for its role in settling the western part of upstate New York

The work that historians do influences their lives, especially if they spend a considerable time in a foreign land

Pella, Iowa was the destination for hundreds of Dutch families after the Afscheiding (Secession) of 1834 split the Dutch Reformed Church.

On 31 March 1817 the New York legislature decided that enslavement within its borders had to come to an end. Final emancipation would occur on 4 July 1827.

Social activism and the struggle for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century brought together women from countries around the world

During a late evening walk, journalist Joske Meerdink decided to turn right and go across the local graveyard. It led to an unexpected find.

The early history of the Dutch in America is not confined to the Hudson River and the surrounding areas...

During the Second World War, the English secret service did not trust the German-born Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.