Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

Please join the New Amsterdam History Center and the Netherland Club of New York for another event in the "NAHC BOOK TALK SERIES" With author Alan Mikhail Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University. in conversation with historian Susanah Romney Associate Professor of History at New York University about his new book Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York. The exceptional tale of an unorthodox, seventeenth–century married couple whose rags-to-riches story fundamentally rewrites our knowledge of American history at its very beginnings.