Lectures & History

If you’ve not been to one of our events or lectures, discover articles written by experts and scholars who have enriched the New Amsterdam History Center
‘Contested Continent’ Review: Strategies for the New World – Wall Street Journal
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‘Contested Continent’ Review: Strategies for the New World – Wall Street Journal
September 21, 2026 by in in the News

Read the review in the Wall Street Journal on the book, CONTESTED CONTINENT by Peter Mancall, who is one a featured speaker in our upcoming programs in October.

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The NAHC Book Talk Series
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The NAHC Book Talk Series
February 4, 2026 by in Book Talk Series

The New Amsterdam History Center launches the NAHC Book Talk Series, featuring authors discussing recent books on New Netherland and New Amsterdam. Offered online and in person, the series highlights new scholarship and engaging perspectives on this formative period.

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One Dutch Family’s Experience of the English, Or Historians Are Never Done with History
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One Dutch Family’s Experience of the English, Or Historians Are Never Done with History
December 2, 2024 by in Lectures & History

The 17th-18th century Hudson Valley was dominated by great landowners: Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Robert Livingston, the Van Cortlandts, and Frederick Philipse, each controlling vast estates.

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The First Families
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The First Families
August 29, 2023 by in Lectures & History

One of the First Colonists, Catalina Trico Pieter Schaghen writes in his letter to the States General with news from New Netherland in 1626: “our people there are doing well and living in peace.

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The Animal Fleet to New Amsterdam
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The Animal Fleet to New Amsterdam
August 29, 2023 by in Lectures & History

In1625 an “animal fleet"was sent to the colony in a convoy of three vessels. About were103 head of stallions and mares, bulls and cows, sheep and pigs.

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The Schaghen Letter – The Land Agreement between the Native Americans and the Dutch Settlers
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The Schaghen Letter – The Land Agreement between the Native Americans and the Dutch Settlers
August 30, 2023 by in Lectures & History

This famous letter stating that the settlers were able to successfully grow crops and had negotiated a peaceful relations with principally the Indians, but also the English, who were rivals with the Dutch for control of territory in North America.

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The Story of New Amsterdam
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The Story of New Amsterdam
June 5, 2018 by in Lectures & History

To understand the origins of early New York, we must understand the culture that it created from the 17th-century Dutch colonization.

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The “Little Ice Age”
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The “Little Ice Age”
April 15, 2023 by in Lectures & History

Read this fascinating interview with Dr. Chelsea Teale and Dr. Dagomar Degroot on "The Little Ice Age" in the Dutch North Atlantic.

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An Interview with colonist, Catalina Trico
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An Interview with colonist, Catalina Trico
August 29, 2017 by in Lectures & History

An “Interview” with One of the First Colonists, Catalina Trico in New Amsterdam in 1664 on live in the colony.

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