Historian and New Netherland Research Center Associate Director Janny Venema chats with Russell Shorto about her more than thirty years of experience working with the documents of New Netherland, her life growing up in the Netherlands, her discovery of the early Dutch history of New York, and her books on early Albany and Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the founder of the patroonship of Rensselaerswijck.

007 Janny Venema, The Scholarship of Albany's Origins

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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007 Janny Venema, The Scholarship of Albany's Origins

007 Janny Venema, The Scholarship of Albany's Origins