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-century Dutch colony.

001 Charles Gehring, The Historical Significance of New Netherland

New Netherland Praatjes is a series of chats with historians, archaeologists, and other experts on New Netherland and the world of the 17th-century Dutch. New Netherland extended from present-day Albany, New York in the north to Delaware in the south, and encompassed parts of what are now the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware.

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001 Charles Gehring, The Historical Significance of New Netherland

001 Charles Gehring, The Historical Significance of New Netherland