From the earliest years, Hope College students have gained valuable lessons and attained goals beyond the classroom through athletics. And in so doing, they have added a stimulating dimension to ...

Edited by Earl Wm. Kennedy, Donald A. Luidens, and David Zwart This collection of papers from the Twenty-First Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, ...

The story of the Ottawa Indians is told primarily through the diaries and memoirs of missionaries George and Arvilla Smith. “This book is a welcome addition to the documentary history of western ...

The celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Albertus C. Van Raalte in October 2011 provided a distinct opportunity to evaluate the enduring legacy of one of the best-known Dutch immigrants of ...

Edited by Donald A. Luidens, Donald J. Bruggink, and Herman J. De Vries Jr. Sola scriptura, decreed the Reformers, and thereby launched a literacy frenzy. The newly christened “priesthood of all ...

A fully illustrated biography of A.C. Van Raalte (1811–1876), founder of a major settlement of Dutch immigrants to America. It discusses the causes for emigration, the hardships of travel to and ...

From Groningen and Overijssel they came — Hollanders, Bentheimers and Friesians joined the trek. Whether they were fleeing religious restrictions or seeking economic opportunity, intrepid and ...

“Janet Sheeres has produced a remarkable account of Dutch-born midwives who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries... [She] has worked valiantly to uncover the ...

There has always been music at Hope College. Indeed, making music has been so pervasive, it is a wonder that Hope students have had time to do anything else. But if, as in the words of the student ...

Edited by Robert P. Swierenga, Nella Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra Since the mid-nineteenth century, the successful prosecution of American wars involved the entire population. Wars had become total, ...

Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years “below the radar screens” of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch ...

This book is a collection of 12 essays in honor of Donald J. Bruggink to celebrate the occasion of his 80th birthday and to mark the publication of the 60th volume of the Historical Series of the ...