New-York Historical Society

Presented on May 3, 2023 The eighth annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History continues by bringing together scholars and contemporary practitioners to discuss how women’s faith has galvanized their efforts to care for their communities, particularly when the very practice of their faith has been on the line. Featuring Hasia Diner, Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Karma Lekshe Tsomo and Brenda J. Child. *** For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYHistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #history

Recorded June 29, 2023 After journalist Debra Bruno discovered that her Dutch ancestors were enslavers, she contacted the descendants of the people her family enslaved. Would connecting with the descendants bring anyone healing? She described the details of her journey for the Washington Post Magazine in 2020. Bruno joins writer Russell Shorto to talk about her archival research and record finding, what it meant to publish her family history, and how she’s turning it all into a book. Debra Bruno is a freelance writer and has published her work in outlets such as the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Washingtonian. Russell Shorto is the bestselling author of The Island at the Center of the World, Amsterdam, and Revolution Song. He is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at New-York Historical Society. Live From New Amsterdam is an ongoing series hosted by the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. Through vibrant conversations with scholars and historians, each program will investigate new and exciting research related to New Amsterdam, New Netherland, and the lasting legacies of Dutch rule in New York. Live From New Amsterdam is presented in partnership with the New Netherland Institute. *** For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYHistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #history

Recorded: May 25, 2023 What did people in New Amsterdam eat? Africans, Native Americans, and a range of Europeans relied on many of the same ingredients but used them in different ways. Watch this conversation with culinary historian Lavada Nahon and writer Russell Shorto about the history of these foodways in New Amsterdam and the legacies they left behind. Lavada Nahon is a culinary historian of 17th- through 19th-century New Netherlands and New York with a focus on the work of enslaved cooks in the homes of the elite class. She is also the interpreter of African American history for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation Bureau of Historic Sites. Russell Shorto is the bestselling author of The Island at the Center of the World, Amsterdam, and Revolution Song. He is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at New-York Historical Society. Live From New Amsterdam is an ongoing series hosted by the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. Through vibrant conversations with scholars and historians, each program will investigate new and exciting research related to New Amsterdam, New Netherland, and the lasting legacies of Dutch rule in New York. Live From New Amsterdam is presented in partnership with the New Netherland Institute. *** For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYHistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #history

Recorded: April 28, 2023 Marked by periods of regional cooling in the North Atlantic extending from the 16th to 18th centuries, the Little Ice Age presented challenges to Dutch colonists living in New Netherland. Research shows weather during the Little Ice Age was irregular with sometimes harsh winters, dry growing seasons, floods, and failed harvests. But there were also many years without a noteworthy climate event. Chelsea Teale, in conversation with Deborah Hamer, offers a short climate history of New Netherland and explains how the people who lived there understood and adjusted to climate. Live From New Amsterdam is an ongoing series hosted by the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. Through vibrant conversations with scholars and historians, each program will investigate new and exciting research related to New Amsterdam, New Netherland, and the lasting legacies of Dutch rule in New York. Chelsea Teale is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her research emphasizes the integration of proxy records (primarily plant fossils and tree rings) with written sources to reconstruct past environments. Deborah Hamer is Director of the New Netherland Institute, where she is responsible for initiatives aimed at identifying, preserving, digitizing, and translating Dutch language documents in repositories around the world. She is a historian of the Dutch Atlantic world and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Thumb image: Hendrick Avercamp, Ice Scene, 1610. The Mauritshuis. https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/785-ice-scene/ *** For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYHistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #history

Recorded: March 23, 2023 Watch this conversation about the 17th-century connections between two different Dutch colonies: New Netherland and the Guianas in South America. The Dutch West India Company established colonies in these distant and distinct regions, yet their plans for them were surprisingly similar. Melissa Morris and Deborah Hamer will discuss how Dutch colonialism in the Guianas shaped expectations, attitudes, and activities in New Netherland. Live From New Amsterdam is an ongoing series hosted by the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. Through vibrant conversations with scholars and historians, each program will investigate new and exciting research related to New Amsterdam, New Netherland, and the lasting legacies of Dutch rule in New York. Melissa Morris is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She specializes in the history of early America and the seventeenth-century Atlantic World, especially the role of plants in driving European expansion, the dissemination of geographic and agricultural knowledge, and colonial failures in the Americas. Deborah Hamer is Director of the New Netherland Institute, where she is responsible for initiatives aimed at identifying, preserving, digitizing, and translating Dutch language documents in repositories around the world. She is a historian of the Dutch Atlantic world and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Live From New Amsterdam is presented with the support of the New Netherland Institute. Thumb image: Dutch West India Company book, New-York Historical Society. *** For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYHistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #history

Recorded: February 23, 2023 Watch this conversation about the experiences of the Native American peoples who, in the 17th century, lived in the area that would become New York City. For centuries before European colonists landed in North America, Native Americans farmed, fished, and hunted on Mannahatta and traded with other people along the waterways. In 1624, the Dutch West India Company joined that trade, seeking animal furs for European markets, and brought diverse groups of Europeans to build an outpost and later colony there. Duane Blue Spruce and Russell Shorto will discuss the complex aspects of Native life in New Amsterdam, relationships governed by the Dutch West India Company, and the legacies of 17th-century Native Americans in New York City today. Live From New Amsterdam is an ongoing series hosted by the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at the New-York Historical Society. Through vibrant conversations with scholars and historians, each program will investigate new and exciting research related to New Amsterdam, New Netherland, and the lasting legacies of Dutch rule in New York. Duane Blue Spruce (Laguna and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) is Public Spaces Planning Coordinator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in New York City. He is an architect, editor, and writer and has guided numerous NMAI projects including the development of the Diker Pavilion, the museum store and cafe, the Infinity of Nations permanent exhibition and, most recently, the Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field exhibition. Russell Shorto is the bestselling author of The Island at the Center of the World, Amsterdam, and Revolution Song. He is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at New-York Historical Society. Image thumb: From the New York Public Library https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-2bbe-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 *** For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYHistory #newyorkhistoricalsociety #history