Guest Post: The Dutch Revolt and New Netherland: 36th Annual New Netherland Seminar

October 17, 2013 By Michael D. Hattem in Conferences, Guest Posts Tags: colonial New York, conferences, Dutch Revolt, guest post, New Netherland Institute 1 Comment

Elizabeth M. Covart (PhD, UC-Davis, 2011) is an independent historian located in Boston, Massachusetts, who specializes in early American history. She also blogs at Uncommonplace Book: An Independent Historian’s Blog and is a Contributing Editor for the Journal of the Early Americas and contributor to the Journal of the American Revolution.

Union of Utrecht (1579)

As my book project explores the cultural legacy of New Netherlanders who lived in Albany, NY, I attended the 36th Annual New Netherland Seminar on Saturday, October 5 at the New-York Historical Society. I admit that I attended the conference as an interloper; I study the revolutionary and early republic periods.

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Review of “New Netherland in a Nutshell”

February 28, 2013 By Michael D. Hattem in Book Review Tags: colonial America, colonial New York, Firth Haring Fabend, New Netherland Institute, Public History, Review 6 Comments

Public history can take many forms. We, here at The Junto, are committed to engaging with and covering public history regarding early America. The New Netherland Institute is an excellent example of an organization dedicated to bringing early American history to the public. I want to use this space to talk about its most recent publication, Firth Haring Fabend’s New Netherland in A Nutshell: A Concise History of the Dutch Colony in North America.

Fabend is an independent historian (though she holds a PhD in American Studies from NYU) and is the author of numerous books of fiction as well as two award-winning works of history also dealing with New Amsterdam, both of which were published by Rutgers University Press. Continue reading →