Historian Joyce Goodfriend chats with NNI's Steve McErleane about Goodfriend's career as a leading historian of New Netherland and early New York. Topics include the origins of Goodfriend's interest in Dutch New York, the evolution of New Nethe

013 Peter Van Cleave, Van der Kemp’s Notorious Attempt to Translate the Records of New Netherland

Aug 22nd, 2018 54m 6s

Historian Peter Van Cleave chats with NNI's Steve McErleane and Russell Shorto about nineteenth-century scholar Francis Adrian van der Kemp and Van der Kemp's much-maligned attempt to translate the records of New Netherland ca. 1820, with Van C

012 Steve Jaffe, New York at its Core

Jul 8th, 2018 53m 5s

Author and museum curator Steve Jaffe chats with Steve McErleane and Russell Shorto about Jaffe's work on the "New York at its Core" exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, a new installation that attempts to answer the question "What ma

011 Russell Shorto, Revolution Song

Jan 23rd, 2018 50m 44s

Best-selling author, and usual host of this podcast, Russell Shorto sits down with "Praatjes" producer Steve McErleane to discuss Shorto's latest book, Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom. The conversation also covers Shorto's insights

010 Mark Schaming, New Netherland and the New York State Museum

Nov 9th, 2017 50m 58s

New York State's Deputy Commissioner for Cultural Education and Director of the State Museum Mark Schaming chats with Russell Shorto about Schaming's three decades of work at the State Museum and his new position overseeing the Office of Cultur

009 Dennis Maika, The Economy of Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam/Manhattan

Aug 6th, 2016 1h 1m

NNI’s Senior Historian and Education Director Dennis Maika chats with Russell Shorto about Maika’s work on 17th-century New Amsterdam/Manhattan merchants and his work promoting the importance of the seventeenth-century Dutch colony to the New Y

008 Heidi Hill, Crailo State Historic Site

May 31st, 2016 46m 10s

Crailo State Historic Site Director Heidi Hill chats with Russell Shorto about the history surrounding the settlement of the 17th-century Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, the history of the building itself, and the evolution of the site a

007 Janny Venema, The Scholarship of Albany's Origins

Apr 19th, 2016 59m 38s

Historian and New Netherland Research Center Associate Director Janny Venema chats with Russell Shorto about her more than thirty years of experience working with the documents of New Netherland, her life growing up in the Netherlands, her disc

006 Paul Huey, New Netherland Archaeology

Mar 25th, 2016 1h 3m

Archaeologist Paul Huey, who has more than four decades of experience excavating sites across New York State, chats with Russell Shorto about Huey’s long and rewarding career. Huey explains the process behind archaeological excavations and the

005 Jeroen Dewulf, Slavery in New Netherland

Jan 20th, 2016 1h 1m

Versatile scholar Jeroen Dewulf chats with Russell Shorto about Dewulf's article "Emulating a Portuguese Model: The Slave Policy of the West India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654) and New Netherland (1614-1664)

004 Susanah Romney, Intimate Networks and the 17th-century Atlantic

Oct 13th, 2015 58m

Historian Susanah Romney, author of the award-winning book New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America, chats with Russell Shorto about Romney's research on intimate networks in the 17th-centur

003 Len Tantillo, The Nature of Historical Painting

Aug 10th, 2015 56m

Len Tantillo, historical and marine artist, and Russell Shorto discuss Tantillo's distinguished career as a painter and storyteller of the early history of New York State.

002 James Bradley, Natives in New Netherland

Jun 12th, 2015 58m

James Bradley, archaeologist and scholar of the American Indian, and Russell Shorto discuss a broad range of topics related to the Indians who once inhabited and some who still inhabit the American northeast.

001 Charles Gehring, The Historical Significance of New Netherland

Apr 24th, 2015 54m

Charles Gehring, Director of the New Netherland Research Center, and Russell Shorto discuss various topics, including Dr. Gehring's forty-year career as a translator of the archives of New Netherland and the historical significance of the 17th-

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