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Lecture at the Pelgrimvaderskerk (Pilgrim Father’s Church) Dec 9, 2025
On December 9th, I’ll be speaking (in Dutch) about slavery in New York at the Pelgrimvaderskerk (Pilgrim Father’s Church) in Rotterdam/ Delfshaven, the Netherlands. This is the church where the Pilgrims last held service before leaving the Netherlands and voyaging to what became Massachusetts.
Mail stamp with date and time (and other neat archival finds)
From the archival papers of Willard Wichers (a.k.a. “Mr. Holland), at Hope College. This stamp used for outgoing correspondence of the Netherlands Information Service reminds me of an old library stamp, but instead of just adjusting the date, it also could be adjusted to note the time of date. And this stamp, from the same […]
A New Netherlander, or the First New Yorker (?) in Japan
I’ve always been interested in the explorers on the fringe (pun intended) of history. There is Pytheas the Greek, for example, who may have circumnavigated the British Isles in 325 B.C., and then there might have been a Minorite Friar from England who visited Norse Vinland in the 14th century. Had the records of these […]
Tracking the 66 Fulbrighters who Studied History in the Netherlands
The Fulbright program preserves a list of all previous recipients of its grant, and this data is searchable on its website here. So, I selected for all Americans who received Fulbright grants to study history in the Netherlands during their doctoral program of study. I did not include persons whose grants were awarded specifically for […]
Foreign Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War (Dutch, German, Danish, English, etc)
Last year, I and my two co-authors Anders Rasmussen and Robert Faith published an article (in the well-regarded Journal of American Ethnic History) about foreign-born men who were forced against their will into the Union army during the American Civil War. In 1862-1863, at the peak of “impressment” claims, over one thousand men complained that […]
Michael J Douma 