Excerpt from a review of the exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York in
the New York Times Art Section of 9 May, 2009
Exhibition Review "Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson"
"Voyaging Up the Hudson to Rediscover the Dutch"
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: May 8, 2009
New scholarly information about the period has also been emerging, as Charles T. Gehring,
the director of the New Netherland Project (nnp.org), has been translating 12,000 pages
of Dutch colonial records stored in Albany. A new collection of scholarly essays,
Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland, edited by
Martha Dickinson Shattuck, draws on that work and shares the exhibition’s perspective.
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