The New Netherland Institute (formerly Friends of the New Netherland Project) is a non-profit organization created to support the translation and publication of 17th-century Dutch documents from the period of the Dutch colonization of
New Netherland
New Netherland ( nl, Nieuw Nederland; la, Novum Belgium or ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva P ...
.
This effort began when the New Netherland Project was established in 1974 by the
New York State Library and the
Holland Society of New York.
[ As of 2013, it has translated over 7,000 pages of documents.][ The institute also supports the New Netherland Research Center, which opened in 2010 at the New York State Library.][
One of the primary goals of the Project is to make documentary evidence from the Dutch colony available to American scholars who are unable to read seventeenth-century Dutch, and the documents translated so far have already been used by researchers in a wide variety of disciplines. Among the better-known examples is ]Russell Shorto
Russell Anthony Shorto (born February 8, 1959) is an American author, historian, and journalist who is best known for his book on the Dutch origins of New York City, '' The Island at the Center of the World''. Shorto's research for the book rel ...
's book ''The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America'' (2004).
See also
* Holland Society of New York
* The Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
References
External links
New Netherland InstituteNew Netherland Research Center
New Netherland
History organizations based in the United States
1974 establishments in New York (state)
Organizations established in 1974
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