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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 15h

Love the international cooperation here!

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 15h

Please let us know when it is digitized and available!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 3d

I'll put a plug for it somewhere else - the newsletter goes out to a lot of non-academics and you might be inundated with random folks!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 3d

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

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe I mean New Englanders??

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 5d

While he was in London getting the book printed, his wife had an affair, and they divorced upon his return to the colony! Can never trust those slippery Long Island English.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 5d

It's a pleasure to hear that they are both brilliant and lovely!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 6d

It's so good!!!! And the rest of the project is amazing too. (I don't know them either)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 8d

Acceptable.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 21d

Yes!

History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 21d

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.

www.hnn.us

deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 26d

Wow. What a job.

Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 26d

Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort!

vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

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Bruno Miranda @brfmiranda.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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...

revistapesquisa.fapesp.br

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Sep 4

He's always there!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Jealous.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

www.albany.org

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 27

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!

Volumes XI–XV, Correspondence, 1646–1664 :: New Netherland Institute

www.newnetherlandinstitute.org

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Aug 26

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...

Omohundro Institute Digital Projects Coffee House Series - YouTube

www.youtube.com

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 26

[email protected] and @carrieanderson.bsky.social have their fantastic textiles project!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 26

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...

Albany Institute of History & Art

The Albany Institute of History & Art connects diverse audiences to the art, history, and culture of the Upper Hudson Valley through its collections, exhibitions, and programs.

www.albanyinstitute.org

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 24

Refuse to co-sign!

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · Aug 23

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...

A Curatorial Roundtable on Collecting and Presenting Women Artists of the Low Countries - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

Participants in the roundtable, April 2025 Jacquelyn N. Coutré (moderator and associate editor, JHNA), Eleanor Wood Prince Curator, Art Institute of This is the transcript of a conversation among four...

jhna.org

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Aug 20

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 💙📚📜

Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Looking forward to presenting in the NNI Seminar in October - my paper explores the legacy of Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695 in New York), Red Sea piracy, the trafficking of enslaved captives from Madagascar, and the flow of Islamic coins to colonial North America (all in one essay!)

deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

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