Nnp.org
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New Netherland Project
Description
For over twenty years the New Netherland Project has been translating the remains of the archives of New Netherland (ca. 12,000 pages). Our primary objective is to place the documentary evidence for a balanced analysis and assessment of the Dutch colony in the hands of American scholars who are unable to read seventeenth-century Dutch. However, experience has shown us that it is equally important to make this source material accessible to the general public in order to tell the story of the impact of the Dutch in American colonial history. The Project does this in several ways: through a newsletter, De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius, which is distributed by our support organization The Friends of New Netherland (ca. 400 members world wide); through an annual conference (open to the general public) called the Rensselaerswijck Seminar, which invites five speakers to the Cultural Education Center in Albany to present their latest research on a specific aspect of the Dutch experience in North America; through the development and distribution of curricula concerning New Netherland for use in secondary schools (4th and 7th grades). The Project's latest initiative is an affiliation with the University at Albany, which will establish a program to offer courses on Dutch history and the history of New Netherland. The Project will play a central role in the development and management of this program. Thus the NNP is attempting to reach the widest audience possible, from secondary schools to higher education, from the interested general public to research scholars.
Please send in ideas and suggestions for additional features you would like to see. The NNP would like to make this page as interactive as possible. The NNP can be contacted via email: cgehring@mail.nysed.gov
Contact
- H.L. Funk Consulting
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- Katonah NY
- United States 10536
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- +1.9142323530
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