The John Adams Institute
Welcoming the best and brightest of American thinking
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Russell Shorto: Taking Manhattan (SOLD OUT)
The extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Curtis Chin: For Here or To Go?
Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant
The New Anthology
The New Anthology is a community-led, multi-year project that gives new voice to aspects of our shared Dutch-American history by connecting stories and perspectives that have often been overlooked or purposefully ignored. Visit the online collection to find out more!
Get acquainted with the John Adams by watching recordings of our lectures or listening to our podcast ‘Bright Minds’.
About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.
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American culture in the Netherlands
Book launch: 'Welcome to Amsterdam'
Welcome Home Amsterdam by Talia Stone is a brand-new collection of short stories based in and around the Dutch capital. From the Golden Age to current times, these twelve fictional tales give a vivid glimpse of the real Amsterdam and shine an unexpected light on the city’s inhabitants: we experience how a remembrance service silences a rowdy student fraternity, how the Anne Frank House affects a woman born to fascist parents and how a young Turkish girl empowers the women in her neighbourhood. Click here for more info, and here to sign up for the book launch on April 13th at American Book Center.
The story of the 'stroopwafel' in the New York Times
Dutch-based illustrator, artist, and writer Rachelle Meyer from Texas published a comic in the New York Times that tells the story of the ‘stroopwafel’, the Dutch sweet that has found a global audience of loyal fans. In 2019, she created Faces on the Ferry, a blog series for the John Adams Institute that sketched her fellow commuters on the Amsterdam ferry.