Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley by Firth Fabend

The New Amsterdam History Center Lecture Series Presents Dr. Firth Fabend Speaking on Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the 17th & 18th Century Wednesday April 15, 2015 6:30 to 8:30 PM Columbia University Deutsches Haus 420 West 116 th Street New York Reception - Q & A SPONSORED BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, AND THE DUTCH PROGRAM (DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES) AND DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WITH SUPPORT OF THE DUTCH LANGUAGE UNION IN CONNECTION WITH THE QUEEN WILHELMINA PROFESSORSHIP Firth Haring Fabend is an independent historian with a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. She is the author of the prize-winning works A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 and Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals, both published by Rutgers University Press. She has also published many essays on the Dutch Colonial experience, as well as a historical novel, Land So Fair, set in the lower Hudson Valley in the eighteenth century. Most recently she is the author of New Netherland in a Nutshell: A Concise History of the Dutch Colony in North America. She is a Charter Fellow of the New Netherland Institute, and a Fellow of The Holland Society of New York and the New York Academy of History. Click here to cancel reply.