Good opportunity!

Looking forward to reading this one.

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange. #vastearlyamerica #arthistory journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Harvard Radcliffe Institute) offers grants of $3,000 in 3 categories: Dissertation Support, Research, & Teacher Support (secondary school). Deadline Jan 25.

On Thursday, November 20th at noon, I'll be talking to Melissa Kiewiet, the director of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance, about Manhattan's last Dutch farmhouse and her efforts to learn more about the enslaved who lived and labored there. To register, visit www.nyhistory.org/programs/man...

For reasons, I looked up "scholar" in the Rijksmuseum's Collection (with a 1600-1700 filter) and the only woman's image that came up is this one of Ida Block (unknown to me until this moment). I'm excited to learn more about her when time allows.

Only a couple of days to register for NNI's annual conference in NYC on Saturday. We have a great slate of speakers for Tolerance and Tension: New York and Amsterdam in the 17th Century: www.nyhistory.org/programs/new.... Happy to comp entry for grad students/contingently employed folks.

Does anyone know what publishers/series are actively acquiring in either early modern (European) urban history or early modern European jewish history? (Looking into this for a friend).

Abraham Cohen is in the house! (And, by house, I mean research on Nieuw Amstel).

A lot of times you don't know what happened to the person you've been researching. And then every once in awhile you find something extremely final. The WIC soldier I've been following from Brazil to New Netherland was executed in 1672 for mutiny in the Dutch army.

Came across this request from Abraham and Isaac de Pereira "Portuguese merchants of the Jewish nation" in the records Amsterdam's vroedschap to build a sugar refinery. It is allowed so long as they sell in large measures so that they don't violate the old rules against Jews in the retail trade.

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

So excited!!!

We hebben plaats voor een nieuwe collega ~Stadsarchief Amsterdam! Je moet uiteraard van archieven houden ❤️, technische skills hebben maar vooral ook de drive hebben om deze zo goed mogelijk digitaal toegankelijk te maken. Want we hebben nog genoeg moois liggen. werkenbij.amsterdam.nl/vacatures/d8...

Lots of people talk about making history podcasts - cool opportunity to actually learn what this might entail.

Register now for Tolerance and Tension: New York and Amsterdam in the 17th Century, NNI's Annual Conference on Sat., November 15. View the program here: www.nyhistory.org/programs/new.... If you are a graduate students or have graduate students, be in touch for a registration deal.

Metro North is going to start running trains between NYC and Albany! (for only $40!). Time for all of you to do that Dutch research at the New York State Library & Archives that you've been meaning to do.

Reminder! NNI Seminar meets tomorrow to discuss Nancy Um's paper "A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Networks of People, Money, Things, and Power in the Inventory of Margarita van Varick, ca. 1695" - this is a really magnificent paper, rereading Van Varick completely

A friend gave me these images of this married couple with English East India Company connections. I don't know too much about John Parson, other than that he was commander of an EIC ship, and Rebecca Chitty, but looking forward to learning more!

Applications for NNI's Fulbright Grant for Dutch PhD students are due on November 1: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/res.... Please share widely. We welcome applications from a variety of disciplines as long as they relate to the Dutch in New Netherland and Colonial New York.

Love the international cooperation here!

If anyone has any news, events, publications, etc. that you would like included in NNI's next newsletter, let me know!

Yes!

Wow. What a job.

A Revista @pesquisafapesp.bsky.social publicou uma nota a respeito dos estudos que fiz sobre a Assembleia dos Potiguara e da representação que escreveram para o governo neerlandês, em 1645: revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/protesto-ind... Os links para os artigos estão na nota.

How do people do those book launch party cakes where the cake has a reproduction of the book cover on the front? (For an NNI event, not for me...)

Albany County American Revolution History Grants: small grants available to individuals and non-profits to research Albany in the Revolution. NNI would be happy to sponsor scholars interested in working on the Dutch in the Revolution in Albany. For more info, visit: www.albany.org/albany-rev250/.

Correspondence, 1659-1660 (vol. 13 of our New Netherland Documents Series) is finally available for free on the New Netherland Institute's website. Lots of great material here. Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/research/onl... to check it out!

Team: Martha Howard @oieahc.bsky.social & I are pleased to say that the Omohundro Institute Digital Projects Coffee House Series is returning this fall. If you are a scholar of #vastearlyamerica with a digital project to share, we want to hear from you! Reply or DM. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Join me at the Albany Institute of History & Art on Sunday, 9/28 for a conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Funk about her new book The Dutch World of Washington Irving: Knickerbocker's History of New York and the Hudson Valley Folktales (Cornell, 2005). Details: www.albanyinstitute.org/event/the-du...

A Curatorial Roundtable on Collecting and Presenting Women Artists of the Low Countries, with Jacqueline Coutré, Katrin Dyballa, Virginia Treanor, Maureen Warren & Laurien van der Werff Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol 17.1 jhna.org/articles/jhn...

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

FYI, the New York State Museum is reconstructing a revolutionary era gunboat in public in one of the back galleries; it's fantastic.

If you need more incentive, Nancy describes her October Seminar paper! (It's fantastic.)

As promised, the NNI Seminar schedule is here! Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch... for all of the details. Please remember that we're happy to see you whenever it fits into your schedule to attend.

Took advantage of this great sale to stock up on some books on the Lenape, including Nicky Kay Michael and Camilla Townsend's new book, On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren!

Just put the finishing touches on the schedule for the NNI seminar for 2025-2026, and let me tell you: it is absolutely fantastic. I'll be emailing it out next week to all on our mailing list. (And if you aren't on the mailing list and would like to be, let me know!)

Check out the call for papers for the next WMQ/USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute workshop in Jan. 2026. Convened by Alison Games and focused on Early America and the World before 1700, it is going to be fantastic. (Dutch historians, ESMI pays for travel). oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

Big haul (documentary editors edition). (Thanks Southampton College).

I think some of Leo Herskowitz's library may have ended up at my local public library's book store. Herskowitz was a renowned historian of colonial New York. I wasn't in a position today to investigate everything that was there, but I'm going back tomorrow to take a look.

This dog is currently in my house. Her name is Lara, and she's adoptable through Lucky Dog Animal Rescue in DC/MD/VA. Her bio is here: toolkit.rescuegroups.org/javascript/v.... She loves dogs, kids, and is chill with cats.

Fostering my first *dog* this weekend. Best dog tips?

Spelling Bee isn't spending enough time in the early modern period. How is wenching not a word??

Today in unimportant news: I binge watched The Pitt over the weekend, and I was genuinely glad to see Noah Wyle on screen again.

Great opportunity!

Haven't had a foster cat in a while, so meet Frank, an absolutely adorable and extremely devoted work associate. As always, available through Lucky Dog Animal Rescue. Read Frank's bio here: toolkit.rescuegroups.org/javascript/v... (and, yes, he does love people).

Lots of new stuff here from some of the best scholars around! (And the ter Borch album finally getting the attention it deserves!)

This is absolutely fantastic!

Everyone, @cornellupress.bsky.social is having a 50% sale, icnluding many titles about New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic world. Now's the time to get that book you've been wanting!

I'm working on the schedule for *both* next year's Live From New Amsterdam Series (NNI and New York Historical) and NNI's Scholars Seminar (www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...). If you'd like to suggest someone (including yourself!) for either program, let me know!