“Present, but Not Counted: Dutch-Immigrant and Second Generation Midwives Working in Dutch Colonies in the United States, 1840-1940″ is published by Van Raalte Press of the A. C. Van Raalte ...

Dutch-Immigrant and Second Generation Midwives Working in Dutch Colonies in the United States, 1840-1940,” spotlights a group of women that author Janet Sjaarda Sheeres discovered were rendered all ...

New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

Author Russell Shorto often visited St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery’s cemetery when he lived in New York City’s East Village neighborhood a quarter-century ago. It was home to the remains of Peter ...