@deborahhamer.bsky.social
Director of the New Netherland Institute, Albany, New York, archives rat, #VastNewNetherland
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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
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
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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.
Deadline Jan 25.
Schlesinger Library Grant Programs
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites applicants for a variety of research grants that require use of its resources. Applications will be evaluated…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
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...
Live from New Amsterdam: Manhattan’s Last Farmhouse | The New York Historical
Explore the history of the Dyckman Farmhouse, built in 1784
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November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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).
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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).
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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.
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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.
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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...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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!!!
Hah! My article with Chris Ebert (CUNY) got accepted at the AHR. Research started in January 2020. I presented the first draft in 2023, we did a lot more archival research and submitted it in May 2024, got a R&R in January, and resubmitted in July. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way!
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So excited!!!
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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...
Projectcoördinator
Een uitdagende functie als projectcoördinator duurzame toegankelijkheid bij het Stadsarchief Amsterdam, waarbij met gebruikmaking van innovatieve methodes en instrumenten informatie uit het verleden …
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October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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.
Do you have a history podcast idea? We want to hear it for the #AHA2026 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. Submit an application before November 15th!
Applications are open for the #AHA26 Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting. This session, limited to 10 attendees following an application, will focus on the development process for producing historical podcast. Apply at the link by November 15. 🗃️
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
If you are a graduate students or have graduate students, be in touch for a registration deal.
Tolerance and Tension: New York and Amsterdam in the 17th Century | The New York Historical
A day-long conference brings together leading scholars, thinkers, and artists for a day of discovery and debate.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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!
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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.
Fulbright-NNRC Student Scholar Research Grant :: New Netherland Institute
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October 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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!
Dear hivemind, can anyone help me locate a memorial by Joseph Israel da Costa (Joao Peres da Cunha), cited decades ago as HaNA, Loketkas 6, Staten General West Indische Co? I looked at openarchieven.nl and dekok.xyz/htrsearch/wic/ and did not get any hits. It has only been partially published, alas.
October 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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!
October 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If anyone has any news, events, publications, etc. that you would like included in NNI's next newsletter, let me know!
Yes!
Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...
Freedoms Lost in Translation
In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yes!
Wow. What a job.
Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort!
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September 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Wow. What a job.
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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.
Os links para os artigos estão na nota.
Protesto indígena no século XVII
Uma representação escrita enviada em 1645 por indígenas Potiguara ao governo holandês sediado em Recife demonstra a visão política do povo originário ante a ocupação que durou de 1630 a 1654: eles est...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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.
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...)
August 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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/.
Rev250 in Albany
Explore the history of the American Revolution in Albany County, New York
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August 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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/.