New Amsterdam History Center Events

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THE NAHC BOOK TALK SERIES

Announcing the NAHC Book Talk Series, which will feature leading authors discussing their recently published books about New Amsterdam and New Netherland.  Join us, several times a year, for lively conversations and fresh insights into this pivotal chapter of early American history.

 

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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
Join Us for the Debut of Mapping Early New York in Delfshaven, the Netherlands-October 8, 2026
Experience an exclusive three-day program, which will include a private cultural tour of The Hague and Leiden for participating guests in advance of the Exhibition Opening:
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
October 8, 2026
TimeLens x NAHC Cell Phone App Launch Event
Join us for a walking tour through lower Manhattan, starting from the Wall that gave Wall Street its name, as we launch TimeLens x NAHC with 18 reconstructions in 360 degrees that will immerse you in the Dutch settlement.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
October 22, 2026
Contested Continent The Struggle for North America 1000-1680
.Europeans who arrived in territory that would eventually become known as New Netherland and then New York entered Lenapehoking, an Indigenous-controlled area that included the modern New York region.
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
October 27, 2026
Cultivating New Amsterdam Gardens, Plants, and the Dutch Atlantic
The gardens of seventeenth-century New Amsterdam were more than places to grow food: they were spaces of medicine, memory, pleasure, experimentation, and cultural exchange.
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
February 9, 2027

PAST EVENTS

May 13
Newcomers -The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
April 16
Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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