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The New Amsterdam History Center Lecture Series Presents “Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the 17th & 18th Century” a talk by Dr. Firth Fabend

April 15, 2015
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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*The New Amsterdam History Center Lecture Series Presents “Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the 17th & 18th Century” a talk by Dr. Firth Fabend * 
April 15, 2015
6:30-8:30PM
Deutsches Haus
Columbia University
420 West 116th Street

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.

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