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(let’s look at the data)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2022/02/02/the-super-bowl-is-later-every-year/", "published_at": "2022-02-02T23:25:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba9-b5d5-71c6-a0fe-c55ac2c038bf", "title": "My article on the history of the word “inflation” at the American Institute for Economic Research", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2022/01/26/my-article-on-the-history-of-the-word-inflation-at-the-american-institute-for-economic-research/", "published_at": "2022-01-26T02:14:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba9-b5d5-71c6-a0fe-c55ac2d2aa36", "title": "Presentation for the Holland (Michigan) Museum", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2022/01/24/presentation-for-the-holland-michigan-museum/", "published_at": "2022-01-24T16:19:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba9-b5d5-71c6-a0fe-c55ac3bbe01f", "title": "Graphing wait times for the DMV", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2022/01/19/graphing-wait-times-for-the-dmv/", "published_at": "2022-01-19T00:37:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba9-b5d5-71c6-a0fe-c55ac3c1a387", "title": "A Brief History of the Origins of Croquet in America", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2022/01/03/a-brief-history-of-the-origins-of-croquet-in-america/", "published_at": "2022-01-03T23:20:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba9-b5d5-71c6-a0fe-c55ac3fc14d2", "title": "Who Invented the “Wet Burrito”?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2022/01/01/who-invented-the-wet-burrito/", "published_at": "2022-01-01T18:47:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba9-b5d5-71c6-a0fe-c55ac484bc0a", "title": "JP Morgan", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/11/19/jp-morgan/", "published_at": "2021-11-19T15:34:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3404493bd7", "title": "My article on Dutch-speaking runaway slaves in Geschiedenis Magazine", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/10/10/my-article-on-dutch-speaking-runaway-slaves-in-geschiedenis-magazine/", "published_at": "2021-10-10T23:49:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b34052c2401", "title": "History and Botany", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/10/03/history-and-botany/", "published_at": "2021-10-03T18:36:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3405667eaf", "title": "The “Teach to mastery approach” for history class", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/05/15/the-teach-to-mastery-approach-for-history-class/", "published_at": "2021-05-15T17:40:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3405f50d8d", "title": "“I bought a Veneklasen brick house; now how do I repair the bricks”?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/05/07/i-bought-a-veneklasen-brick-house-now-how-do-i-repair-the-bricks/", "published_at": "2021-05-07T23:33:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b34065d150b", "title": "Dutch Letters of Marque and the Arrival of the First Enslaved Africans in Virginia", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/04/21/dutch-letters-of-marque-and-the-arrival-of-the-first-enslaved-africans-in-virginia/", "published_at": "2021-04-21T17:40:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3407202b74", "title": "Some early maps of Hampshire County, W.V.", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/03/20/some-early-maps-of-hampshire-county-w-v/", "published_at": "2021-03-20T01:41:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3407e3f9cb", "title": "Teach-to-mastery approach in history classes", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/03/16/teach-to-mastery-approach-in-history-classes/", "published_at": "2021-03-16T19:31:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3408b0fec2", "title": "I’m the new book review editor for the Journal of Markets & Morality", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/02/10/im-the-new-book-review-editor-for-the-journal-of-markets-morality/", "published_at": "2021-02-10T04:45:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b34099993eb", "title": "My interview on the Dangerously Good podcast", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/02/04/my-interview-on-the-dangerous-good-podcast/", "published_at": "2021-02-04T05:15:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbae-b0d3-7329-a85a-0b3409ff0a91", "title": "How many “reads” does a typical academic article get?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/01/12/how-many-reads-does-a-typical-academic-article-get/", "published_at": "2021-01-12T00:58:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-2905743bf44c", "title": "Should an academic agree to write an article for an encyclopedia?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2021/01/02/should-an-academic-agree-to-write-an-article-for-an-encyclopedia/", "published_at": "2021-01-02T20:38:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-29057474f0dc", "title": "Ghost Tallies in the Census", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/12/30/ghost-tallies-in-the-census/", "published_at": "2020-12-30T19:15:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-290575521681", "title": "Complications in the New York slave count after 1827 (census of 1830)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/12/30/complications-in-the-new-york-slave-count-after-1827-census-of-1830/", "published_at": "2020-12-30T06:40:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-290576193900", "title": "The case of the really old slave", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/11/26/the-case-of-the-really-old-slave/", "published_at": "2020-11-26T05:52:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-290576ecfd0a", "title": "Schenectady Hatmaker, 1763", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/11/19/schenectady-hatmaker-1763/", "published_at": "2020-11-19T17:53:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-29057738c021", "title": "The JFK Hat Thesis Lives on", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/10/19/the-jfk-hat-thesis-lives-on/", "published_at": "2020-10-19T17:22:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-29057741e3bd", "title": "Croquet History", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/09/09/croquet-history/", "published_at": "2020-09-09T02:54:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-290577fa9707", "title": "A 19th Century Waldo", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/09/08/a-19th-century-waldo/", "published_at": "2020-09-08T19:52:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-290578b0b53a", "title": "Foreign Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War (Dutch, German, Danish, English, etc)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/08/06/foreign-soldiers-in-the-u-s-civil-war-dutch-german-danish-english-etc/", "published_at": "2020-08-06T01:58:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb3-a50a-73bf-a704-29057929ac3d", "title": "Advertisements for new Suriname history book", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/07/15/advertisements-for-new-suriname-history-book/", "published_at": "2020-07-15T17:29:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-140986163c88", "title": "The best answer", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/07/09/the-best-answer/", "published_at": "2020-07-09T04:25:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-14098677e45f", "title": "What is “Dad History”? Giving a Label to a Popular Genre of History Writing", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/07/05/what-is-dad-history-giving-a-label-to-a-popular-genre-of-history-writing/", "published_at": "2020-07-05T02:37:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-140986d549ca", "title": "Book Review: Marcus Collins and Peter N. Stearns, Why Study History? (London Publishing Partnership)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/06/30/book-review-marcus-collins-and-peter-n-stearns-why-study-history-london-publishing-partnership-2/", "published_at": "2020-06-30T03:37:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-140987393203", "title": "Book Review: David Kaiser, A Life in History (Mount Greylock Books, 2019)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/06/19/book-review-david-kaiser-a-life-in-history-mount-greylock-books-2018/", "published_at": "2020-06-19T18:04:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-140987f5a974", "title": "Book Review: William Caferro, Teaching History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/05/12/review-of-william-caferro-teaching-history-wiley-blackwell-2020/", "published_at": "2020-05-12T02:43:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-14098855cc9c", "title": "Runaway Slaves and “Country Marks”", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/05/09/runaway-slaves-and-country-marks/", "published_at": "2020-05-09T02:15:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-1409892eb1cb", "title": "Review of Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Simon & Schuster, 2019)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/05/05/review-of-richard-bell-stolen-five-free-boys-kidnapped-into-slavery-and-their-astonishing-odyssey-home-simon-schuster-2019/", "published_at": "2020-05-05T19:15:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-140989b37380", "title": "Metal detecting and material culture", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/04/24/metal-detecting-and-material-culture/", "published_at": "2020-04-24T01:18:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-14098a77251b", "title": "A Self-Lynching Slave or a lesson in textual criticism?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/04/06/a-self-lynching-slave-or-a-lesson-in-textual-criticism/", "published_at": "2020-04-06T02:37:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-2bf2-73e5-9313-14098b472792", "title": "A Forgotten Genre of Photography: The Family in Front of the House in late 19th century U.S.", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/04/04/a-forgotten-genre-of-photography-the-family-in-front-of-the-house-in-late-19th-century-u-s/", "published_at": "2020-04-04T07:37:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d2033aa0ed", "title": "An Almanac from Dutch New York", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/02/19/an-almanac-from-dutch-new-york/", "published_at": "2020-02-19T03:55:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d2042ad9c5", "title": "Dutch Bibles and Beaver Hats in 18th century NY Wills", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/02/14/dutch-bibles-and-beaver-hats-in-18th-century-ny-wills/", "published_at": "2020-02-14T03:08:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d204dab7fa", "title": "Why its OK that you don’t remember anything you were supposed to have learned in History Class", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/02/06/why-its-ok-that-you-dont-remember-anything-you-were-supposed-to-have-learned-in-history-class/", "published_at": "2020-02-06T01:02:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d2053f2831", "title": "Book Review: Karin Sitalsing, Boeroes: Een Familiegeschiedens van Witte Surinamers (2016)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/01/13/book-review-karin-sitalsing-boeroes-een-familiegeschiedens-van-witte-surinamers-2016/", "published_at": "2020-01-13T02:43:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d205c6835e", "title": "An extensive list of books on history methods/ philosophy of history", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2020/01/05/an-extensive-list-of-books-on-history-methods-philosophy-of-history/", "published_at": "2020-01-05T22:20:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d206091398", "title": "Environmental History of Dutch America", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/12/05/environmental-history-of-dutch-america/", "published_at": "2019-12-05T16:45:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d2063ee62b", "title": "The Longest Possible Dutch Name: Dutch Jokes in 19th Century Vermont", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/11/16/the-longest-possible-dutch-name-dutch-jokes-in-19th-century-vermont/", "published_at": "2019-11-16T16:43:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d206ad5e86", "title": "A Schepel of Wheat as Currency in Dutch New York", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/10/24/a-schepel-of-wheat-as-currency-in-dutch-new-york/", "published_at": "2019-10-24T15:14:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d207710856", "title": "Was it really JKF? Why did Men Stop Wearing Hats?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/09/12/was-it-really-jkf-why-did-men-stop-wearing-hats/", "published_at": "2019-09-12T14:27:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-8d38-739c-956c-d9d2078545ce", "title": "Book review: Robert Tracy McKenzie, A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History (InterVarsity Press, 2019).", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/08/01/book-review-robert-tracy-mckenzie-a-little-book-for-new-historians-why-and-how-to-study-history-intervarsity-press-2019/", "published_at": "2019-08-01T00:34:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a4760298", "title": "Application to be a Peer-Reviewer for the Journal of Delays and Excuses", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/07/21/application-to-be-a-peer-reviewer-for-the-journal-of-delays-and-excuses/", "published_at": "2019-07-21T22:06:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a507bf16", "title": "De Onbekende Geschiedenis van Nederlanders in Grandville, MI: 1847-1900", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/07/21/de-onbekende-geschiedenis-van-de-nederlanders-in-grandville-mi-1847-1900/", "published_at": "2019-07-21T21:47:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a6005c7d", "title": "A Brief History of the Phrase “If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t Much”", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/07/07/a-brief-history-of-the-phrase-if-you-aint-dutch-you-aint-much/", "published_at": "2019-07-07T01:56:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a6a99198", "title": "Interview on the Historically Thinking Podcast", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/06/05/interview-on-the-historically-thinking-podcast/", "published_at": "2019-06-05T20:13:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a74c39e6", "title": "Dutch Americans in Alienated America", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/05/19/dutch-americans-in-alienated-america/", "published_at": "2019-05-19T16:47:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a754b3dd", "title": "An African American Migration Mystery (part 3)", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/05/09/an-african-american-migration-mystery-part-3/", "published_at": "2019-05-09T21:46:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a776f430", "title": "Where did 2,500 missing African Americans go? Or were they never there in the first place?", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/05/04/where-did-2500-missing-african-americans-go-or-were-they-never-there-in-the-first-place/", "published_at": "2019-05-04T21:02:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a7fe5f49", "title": "1827 was a vertical year", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/04/28/1827-was-a-vertical-year/", "published_at": "2019-04-28T15:47:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a88f60d1", "title": "Historians “Show Your Work”", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/04/24/historians-show-your-work/", "published_at": "2019-04-24T16:39:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-153d-71ab-a96f-94e4a908f0b4", "title": "Virginia Tech Presentation", "url": "https://michaeljdouma.com/2019/04/23/virginia-tech-presentation/", "published_at": "2019-04-23T15:31:33+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Is Written History finite or infinite?original ↗
19 Apr 2026

2025

For students who are waiting for their professors to grade their papersoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
Robert Frost on Grading Student Essaysoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
Lecture at the Pelgrimvaderskerk (Pilgrim Father’s Church) Dec 9, 2025original ↗
2 Nov 2025
Memes attacking historians who study wheat price fluctuations shall not be tolerated!original ↗
13 Oct 2025
Book Review: Jim E. Brown, Brown on Brown: The Autobiography of Jim E. Brown; Vol 1: The Early Years (2021)original ↗
12 Oct 2025
Presentation at the African American Archive, Kinderhook, NY on Oct. 5, 2025original ↗
21 Sept 2025
Do more Meteorites fall in the morning than at night?original ↗
13 May 2025
When Daniel Boone “Cilled” a “Bar”original ↗
5 May 2025
The Four Stages of Writer’s Blockoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2025
Book Presentation: Netherlands-America Foundation (April 25, 2025)original ↗
13 Apr 2025
Mail stamp with date and time (and other neat archival finds)original ↗
13 Apr 2025
Presentation at Hope College/ Holland Museum (April 3, 2025)original ↗
26 Mar 2025
Interview in “De Telegraaf” (in Dutch)original ↗
26 Mar 2025

2024

“Word Maps” or “Maps without lines”original ↗
23 Dec 2024
An interview at the Author’s Corneroriginal ↗
19 Aug 2024
A White Solomon Northrup? The Barnhart Case in Cattaraugus, NYoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2024
A New Netherlander, or the First New Yorker (?) in Japanoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2024
An interview with NewBooksNetworkoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2024
Interview with EconRoots (intro in Danish, then its in English)original ↗
11 Jul 2024
An interview with the Jack Miller Centeroriginal ↗
30 Apr 2024
A Dutch letter to Abraham Lincoln, 12 October 1864original ↗
17 Feb 2024
New York slavery in De Groene Amsterdammeroriginal ↗
4 Feb 2024
Review of Philip Dröge, De Tawl: Hoe de Nederlandse taal (bijna) Amerika veroverde, Spectrum, Amsterdam, 2023.original ↗
4 Feb 2024

2023

Slavery, Capitalism, and the New Moralismoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2023
Half way to Winning my Betoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2023
The Rogue Reverend: A Tale of Deception and Fraud (part 3 of 3).original ↗
14 Aug 2023
The Rogue Reverend: A Tale of Deception and Fraud (part 2 of 3)original ↗
3 Aug 2023
The Rogue Reverend: A Tale of Deception and Fraud (part 1 of 3)original ↗
1 Aug 2023
History’s Footnote Problemoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2023
Tracking the 66 Fulbrighters who Studied History in the Netherlandsoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2023
No, there is no “s” at the end of “New Netherland”original ↗
22 Mar 2023
“Where did all the Slaves go?”original ↗
8 Mar 2023

2022

Review Article on Slavery in Dutch New Yorkoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2022
Attendance Humororiginal ↗
18 Oct 2022
Sietze Buning’s “War and Peace”original ↗
9 Oct 2022
Venture Capitalists and Venture Academicsoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2022
My new contribution to the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservationoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2022
How old? Claims for Superannutated, Centenarian, and Super-Centenarian Ex-Slavesoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2022
Students’ impression of their attendance recordoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
On the Success of the Teach-to-Mastery Approachoriginal ↗
7 May 2022
Jakub Rozalski and the past meeting the presentoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2022
An article in the Dutch newspaper “NRC” about my research on Dutch-speaking runaway slavesoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2022
Does the Super Bowl Come Later Every Year? (let’s look at the data)original ↗
2 Feb 2022
My article on the history of the word “inflation” at the American Institute for Economic Researchoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2022
Presentation for the Holland (Michigan) Museumoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2022
Graphing wait times for the DMVoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2022
A Brief History of the Origins of Croquet in Americaoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2022
Who Invented the “Wet Burrito”?original ↗
1 Jan 2022

2021

JP Morganoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2021
My article on Dutch-speaking runaway slaves in Geschiedenis Magazineoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2021
History and Botanyoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2021
The “Teach to mastery approach” for history classoriginal ↗
15 May 2021
“I bought a Veneklasen brick house; now how do I repair the bricks”?original ↗
7 May 2021
Dutch Letters of Marque and the Arrival of the First Enslaved Africans in Virginiaoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2021
Some early maps of Hampshire County, W.V.original ↗
20 Mar 2021
Teach-to-mastery approach in history classesoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2021
I’m the new book review editor for the Journal of Markets & Moralityoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2021
My interview on the Dangerously Good podcastoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2021
How many “reads” does a typical academic article get?original ↗
12 Jan 2021
Should an academic agree to write an article for an encyclopedia?original ↗
2 Jan 2021

2020

Ghost Tallies in the Censusoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2020
Complications in the New York slave count after 1827 (census of 1830)original ↗
30 Dec 2020
The case of the really old slaveoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2020
Schenectady Hatmaker, 1763original ↗
19 Nov 2020
The JFK Hat Thesis Lives onoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2020
Croquet Historyoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2020
A 19th Century Waldooriginal ↗
8 Sept 2020
Foreign Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War (Dutch, German, Danish, English, etc)original ↗
6 Aug 2020
Advertisements for new Suriname history bookoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2020
The best answeroriginal ↗
9 Jul 2020
What is “Dad History”? Giving a Label to a Popular Genre of History Writingoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2020
Book Review: Marcus Collins and Peter N. Stearns, Why Study History? (London Publishing Partnership)original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Book Review: David Kaiser, A Life in History (Mount Greylock Books, 2019)original ↗
19 Jun 2020
Book Review: William Caferro, Teaching History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)original ↗
12 May 2020
Runaway Slaves and “Country Marks”original ↗
9 May 2020
Review of Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Simon & Schuster, 2019)original ↗
5 May 2020
Metal detecting and material cultureoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2020
A Self-Lynching Slave or a lesson in textual criticism?original ↗
6 Apr 2020
A Forgotten Genre of Photography: The Family in Front of the House in late 19th century U.S.original ↗
4 Apr 2020
An Almanac from Dutch New Yorkoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2020
Dutch Bibles and Beaver Hats in 18th century NY Willsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2020
Why its OK that you don’t remember anything you were supposed to have learned in History Classoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2020
Book Review: Karin Sitalsing, Boeroes: Een Familiegeschiedens van Witte Surinamers (2016)original ↗
13 Jan 2020
An extensive list of books on history methods/ philosophy of historyoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2020

2019

Environmental History of Dutch Americaoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2019
The Longest Possible Dutch Name: Dutch Jokes in 19th Century Vermontoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2019
A Schepel of Wheat as Currency in Dutch New Yorkoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2019
Was it really JKF? Why did Men Stop Wearing Hats?original ↗
12 Sept 2019
Book review: Robert Tracy McKenzie, A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History (InterVarsity Press, 2019).original ↗
1 Aug 2019
Application to be a Peer-Reviewer for the Journal of Delays and Excusesoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2019
De Onbekende Geschiedenis van Nederlanders in Grandville, MI: 1847-1900original ↗
21 Jul 2019
A Brief History of the Phrase “If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t Much”original ↗
7 Jul 2019
Interview on the Historically Thinking Podcastoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2019
Dutch Americans in Alienated Americaoriginal ↗
19 May 2019
An African American Migration Mystery (part 3)original ↗
9 May 2019
Where did 2,500 missing African Americans go? Or were they never there in the first place?original ↗
4 May 2019
1827 was a vertical yearoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2019
Historians “Show Your Work”original ↗
24 Apr 2019
Virginia Tech Presentationoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2019
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