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THE NAHC BOOK TALK SERIES

The New Amsterdam History Center is pleased to announce the launch of the NAHC BOOK TALK SERIES. Several times a year, the series will feature authors speaking about their recently published books on a wide variety of topics related to the New Netherland colony and its center in New Amsterdam. These exciting events, which will be presented either online or in person, will introduce audiences to the latest and most interesting books about this important period in our nation’s history.

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Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
April 16, 2026
3D Model – Shipwreck and Salvation: The Wreck of the Prince Maurice 1657 debuts in the Netherlands
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
April 25, 2026
Old Masters, New Amsterdam at The New York Historical featuring NAHC’s 3-D Model of New Amsterdam
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
May 1, 2026
Newcomers -The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
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6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
May 13, 2026

PAST EVENTS

March 25
The Dutch World of Washington Irving: Knickerbocker’s History of New York and the Hudson Valley Folktales
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
December 01 February 25
New Visions of Old New York – Jan 23 through Dec 19, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
November 20
Debra Bruno, author of A Hudson Valley Reckoning in conversation with Eleanor Mire
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
November 11
Russell Shorto Talks About His New Book, ‘Taking Manhattan’
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
November 05
Munsee Lenape Sovereignty And Survival From The 17th Century To The Present
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
July 03
July 3rd for It Happened Here
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
April 08
NYS Archives Partnership Trust: Conflict, Commerce & Cooperation: John Bowne, Petrus Stuyvesant and the Question of Tolerance in 1660s New Amsterdam
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
March 26
African, Indigenous, and Dutch Foodways in 17th-century New Amsterdam
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
February 04
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
December 11
A Talk with Adam Eaker on his new book on Gesina ter Borch
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
October 24
Catalyntje Trico: A Life in New Amsterdam a conversation with author, Lana Waite Holden
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
October 09
Promises and Perils
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
July 17
Shipwreck and Salvation – The Wreck of The Prince Maurice 1657
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
May 18
Shipwreck and Salvation – The Wreck of The Prince Maurice 1657
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
May 18
Shipwreck and Salvation  – The Wreck of the Prince Maurice 1657
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
May 17
Shipwreck and Salvation: The Wreck of the Prince Maurice
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
May 16
Shipwreck and Salvation  – The Wreck of the Prince Maurice 1657
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Shelter Island Historical Society, 16 South Ferry Road, Shelter Island, NY
May 14
Park Avenue Tulips
6:00 pm - 6:00 pm
April 25
NAHC & NYBG: Peaches, Pears, and Purslane
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
March 15 July 14
New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
November 15
New Netherland’s Slave Trade: Origins, Evolution, Impact, Significance
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
October 11
Camerata Trajectina Concert
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue, New York,NY
June 13
The Prize Papers Collection – The Vrooman Letters
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Deutsches House at Columbia University, 420 West 116th Street, New York, NY
June 06
Central Park’s Dutch Harlem
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Charles A. Dana Center, 110th Street, New York, NY
May 16
The Rediscovery of Jan Lievens’ 1653 Portrait of Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue, New York,NY
March 28
Debating the Role of Women in the Dutch Golden Age
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
January 24
The Ice Age in the Dutch North Atlantic
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
October 11
Were There 18 Languages Spoken in New Amsterdam
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
June 01
Mapping Early New York Project
6:00 pm - 5:30 pm
May 22 August 16
Music of Many Worlds
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Congregation Shearith Israel, 2 West 70th Street, at Central Park West New York City
May 18
Before Central Park a talk by Sara Cedar Miller
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Charles A. Dana Center, 110th Street, New York, NY
January 27
Mapping Early New York:  A Demonstration
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
November 14
Dutch American Heritage Day and Networking
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
November 09
Diversity, Strife, and Toleration in 17th-Century Breukelen
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
October 23 November 23
The Black Experience in Dutch New York A Virtual Event
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
June 08
The Diary of Asher Levy- First Jewish Citizen of New York
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
May 11
New York Loves Vermeer
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
March 09
The Story of an Evolving House Style in America with Jeroen van den Hurk and Len Tantillo
6:00 pm - 5:30 pm
January 01 - 30
The Five Seasons – The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
12:00 pm - 12:00 pm
December 20 - 12
Fighting the Flood: Innovative Approaches to New York’s Climate Change Challenges
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
October 06
New York is a Dutch City: The Enduring Legacy of the 40-year Dutch Rule of New York City
6:00 pm - 5:30 pm
February 05
“A Dangerous Liberty” Mohawk-Dutch Relations and the Colonial Gunpowder Trade, 1639-1665
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
October 03
The Lawyer and the Fox: A Tale of Tricks and Treachery in New Amsterdam
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
June 07
Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills; The Old Dutch Church; The Old Dutch Burial Ground, 6/7/2019
10:30 am - 2:30 pm
April 09
Cartographic Visions of New Netherland & New Amsterdam: Depictions of Resources and Peoples
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
January 28
In Praise of Painting Dutch Masterpieces at The MET
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
November 08
Was New Amsterdam’s Reputation for Religious Tolerance Earned? An Atlantic Perspective
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
May 10
The Vander-Ende – Onderdonk House
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
November 06
New Amsterdam in the Dutch Atlantic
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
October 03
The Bowne House Historical Society
11:00 am - 1:30 am
June 09
The Archeology of New Amsterdam and Its Environs
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
March 09 August 25
The Dutch Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
November 03
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
March 31
Dutch Day at the New York Botanical Garden
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
October 26 April 26
New York City and Water: A Historical Perspective
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
April 21 February 11
New Netherland Through History and Art
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
April 15
Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley by Firth Fabend
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm