CONVERSATION WITH THE HOLLAND SOCIETY’S 133rd DINNER DANCE HONOREE, PEG BREEN

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Peg Breen, President of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, will be the recipient of the 2023 Gold Medal for Distinguished Contributions to the City of New York at the Holland Society of New York’s 133rd Dinner Dance. Executive Director, Sarah Bogart Cooney interviewed Peg Breen.Continue reading CONVERSATION WITH THE HOLLAND SOCIETY’S 133rd DINNER DANCE HONOREE, PEG BREEN

Columbia University’s Queen Wilhelmina Lecture Gives New Exposure to Holland Society’s Grotius Collection 

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On April 3rd, 2023, Columbia University, in collaboration with The Holland Society of New York, hosted the lecture “Humanism at the University of Leiden: Pedagogy, Philology, and Printing”, presented by Anthony Grafton (Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton) and moderated by Pamela Smith (Columbia University Seth Low Professor of History, Director of the Center for Science and Society, and chair of the Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World.)Continue reading Columbia University’s Queen Wilhelmina Lecture Gives New Exposure to Holland Society’s Grotius Collection 

Dutch-American Stories: Sojourner Truth – How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement

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Excerpt: This article is published as part of the project ‘Stories from the Shared Dutch-American History,’ led by the International Heritage Cooperation Program of the Dutch National Archives.Continue reading Dutch-American Stories: Sojourner Truth – How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement