Yes, I was wondering about that, too. @lhaasis.bsky.social can you elaborate?

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

That Alanis karaoke scene!

My birthday came early this year! I was gifted a full, 15 volume set of Brodhead's Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York. (Squeal of excitement)

I need a new laser pointer...anyone got any recs?

Yes, we "soft launched" a new website on April 1. If you need something that isn't there, just drop me a note. And know that we are working to fix everything!

A great place to work with fantastic people.

I trust your opinions. Tell me more.

New Favorite tote, from Fort Orange General Store in Albany: fort-orange-general-store.square.site/product/nys-...

Just a week left to get your proposals in for NNI's November Conference "New Netherland and the World"! CFP here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/eve.... Dutch folks, we do have travel funding to get you to Albany if you need it.

This was literally my reaction as well.

Are you a PhD student working on slavery and/or emancipation?

There is only one week left to submit your abstract to participate in the PhD/Graduate Seminar on 22 October 2026 at KITLV, Leiden.

Deadline for abstracts (1 page): 30 March 2026, please send to: negron@kitlv.nl 👇

Studia Rosenthaliana is a treasure.

I love following your list every year. Always introducing me to new things.

Young black woman in turquoise silk gown, with lace sleeves, lace cap, and fichu, double strands of pearls around her neck and her wrists. She is holding a white flower. in one hand, and a ribbon in the other. A tropical looking tree is behind her. She looks right at the viewer with an assessing look.

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

For anyone who has ever looked into buying one of these volumes, they retail for more than $100, so this is a big deal!

Interested in owning one of the most recent volumes in the New Netherland Document Translation series? When you donate $25, you can choose either Charles Gehring, Council Minutes, 1656-1658 or Janny Venema, Correspondence, 1659-1660. For more info,
crm.newnetherlandinstitute.org/civicrm/cont...

I am here for it!!

Absolutely loved @morganmccullough.bsky.social's "Periodical Habits": Native American Women, Movement, and
Menstruation in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast in the Journal of Women's History. So much attention to the fine-grained bodily details of women's experiences.

adding to the reading list.

Join us for this month's NNI Scholars' Seminar on March 11 at noon! Paul Feller-Simmons (Univ. of Oklahoma) will be discussing his paper "Cantors in New York and the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Sephardic Atlantic."

Drop me a line if you'd like the link and paper!

The only possible reason for me to take a new photo is so that in ten years the photo isn't twenty years old.

Can't wait to read!

Frankly, I watched only the pilot and I'm already all in...

I like the Pitt so much that I've decided to go watch ER (watched random episodes here and there before, especially in later seasons)

consider me wound!

There are great resources in the Moravian Archives for Suriname and other parts of the Dutch Caribbean!

Events & Programs « Moravian Archives

Dutch Atlanticists, the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, PA, is offering a two-week reading course on German handwriting (June 1 – 12, 2026) Participants will learn to read German manuscripts dating from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries. More info: www.moravianchurcharchives.org/events/#tabs-3

Potential medievalists, Sara is fantastic and this is a great opportunity!

Starting to plan next year's New Netherland Institute Seminar Series (previous, wonderful guests here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...). If you would be interested in presenting scholarly work of article or chapter length related to New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic, let me know!