I don’t pretend to know much about Dutch Calvinism in America or the differences between Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd. (There are good books on the subject, I would start with the work of James D. Bratt). But I know...
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The Author’s Corner with D.L. Noorlander
D.L. Noorlander is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oneonta. This interview is based on his new book, Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World (Cornell University...
Are Dutch-Americans “The Most Conservative Americans?”
As some of you know, I have been making regular visits to Grand Rapids, Michigan these days. (If you don’t know why you haven’t been reading this blog regularly enough. Shame on you! :-)) I have thus had an opportunity...
Calvin College in *The Atlantic*
Calvin College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been getting a lot of attention lately since one of its alums, Betsy DeVos, became Secretary of Education. (I should add that DeVos is not the only Christian...
New Netherland Institute Comes to New Jersey
New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, NJ is hosting the 39th Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute. The topic is “From Pavonia to the Garden State: New Jersey”s Dutch Past.” Speakers include Elizabeth Bradley, Willem Klooster, Evan Haefeli,...
The Colonial History of My Home Town
Growing up in Montville, New Jersey I never knew (and probably didn’t care) that there were so many 18th-century Dutch houses in town. A recent article on the subject at the Alternative Press includes a few quotes from my freshman lacrosse...
Donna Merwick, Peter Stuyvesant, and the Past is a Foreign Country
James Blackburn has written an excellent review of Donna Merwick’s new book Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time. Â What most captivated me about this review (and by extension Merwick’s book, which I now want to read) is the...
New Issue of Early American Studies is Here
The new issue of Early American Studies is focused on “Anglo-Dutch Revolutions” in early America. Here is the Table of Contents: Anglo-Dutch RevolutionsEdited by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Evan Haefeli Introduction: Transnational ConnectionsNathan Perl-Rosenthal and Evan Haefeli ‘‘That Abominable Nest of […]