New Amsterdam Stories

Blog overview

‘New Amsterdam Stories’ is a project and weblog. Guided by scholars from the New Netherlands Institute (Albany, NY), it makes original documents found in both the New York Municipal Archives and the Stadsarchief Amsterdam(the Amsterdam City Archives) available to the general public for the first time. It highlights the individual stories of the people of New Amsterdam, by combining information that has been found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

New Amsterdam Stories: Part Three

By Veronica Baas

December 19, 2016

For this final installment of a three part blog series, The John Adams Institute talked with Ellen Fleurbaay, head of Presentation and Participation at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam, to hear about the Amsterdam side of this project.  New Amsterdam Stories is a project carried out by three different partners: the New York City Municipal Archives, the New Netherland …...

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New Amsterdam Stories: Part Two

By Veronica Baas

December 12, 2016

For this second installment of a three part blog series, The John Adams Institute talked with Dennis J. Maika, Senior Historian with the New Netherland Institute, who is one of the scholars who guides the project. ‘New Amsterdam Stories’ is a collaboration between the New Netherland Institute, the New York City Municipal Archives and the …...

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New Amsterdam Stories: Part One

By Russell Shorto

December 5, 2016

In this first installment of a three part blog series, Russell Shorto writes about his experience with the New Netherland archives. Since the Dutch founded one of the original European colonies in America, and since its capital was none other than a little island called Manhattan, it might be reasonable to suppose that Americans would …...

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