New Netherland and New Sweden

GRADES 5 THROUGH 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"New Holland and New Sweden," pp. 42-57.
In New Jersey: A Mirror on America
John T. Cunningham. Andover, N.J.: Afton Publishing Co., 1976.

The New World Through Dutch Eyes: 4th Grade Curriculum Packet Using Primary Documents in Social Studies Teaching
Developed by Mary Capobianco and Gale Derosia, in consultation with Nancy McClure Zeller.
Albany, NY: New Netherland Project, New York State Library, CEC 8th Floor, Albany, NY.

Audio and Video

Fortunes in Furs
A 30-minute television documentary about relations between the Dutch, the Swedes, and the Lenape. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.

Maps

The Visscher Mao of Novi Belgii (1651-1655)

Internet Sites

New Netherland Museum
Includes a cross-section of Henry Hudson's ship, the Half Moon.

The Life and Times of Henry Hudson

New Netherland Project Virtual Tour

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Contact to 1664: Trade, War, and Disease," (New People in an Old World, Trade, Kieft's War, Lenape Relations with New Sweden, Disease) pp. 31-44.
In The Indians of New Jersey,
Gregory Evans Dowd. New Jersey History Series
Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.

"The First Foundations" (Arrival of the Dutch, the Land and the Natives, the Dutch Settle in New Jersey, the Swedes on the Delaware), pp. 1-13.
In New Jersey From Colony to State, 1609-1789
Richard P. McCormick. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1964.

"Black Families in New Netherland"
Joyce D. Goodfriend, New Netherland Project (online publication).

Teachers Guide: New Jersey Legacy
Program One, Fortunes in Furs,
Patricia Matuszewski, David S. Cohen, and Howard L. Green
Trenton: New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1993.

Audio and Video

Fortunes in Furs
A 30-minute television documentary about relations between the Dutch, the Swedes, and the Lenape. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.

Documents

Instructions for Willem Verhulst - 1625

Peter Schaghen Letter - 1626
Refers to the purchase of Manhattan Island

Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Instructions for the Director of New Netherland, 1625, pp. 7-9.

Internet Sites

New Sweden Farmstead Museum
http://www.co.cumberland.nj.us/tourism/new_sweden_farmstead_museum/default.html

New Netherland Project
http://www.nnp.org/

The Meadows Foundation
http://themeadowsfoundation.org/wyckoff-garretson.html

Philipsburgh Manor
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/philipsburg/index.htm

The Dutch in America, 1609-1664
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1.html

Demarest House Histroy
http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/demaresthse.html

Stuben House History
http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/steubenhsehistory.html