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Robert P. Swierenga Collection

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Correspondence

Research Correspondence

Emigration & Immigration Records

Passenger Lists

Recordings, Conference, Scrapbook

Dutch Material

Books

Research Articles and Papers

Papers

Jewish Material

Books and Reviews

Lecture Notes

Conferences

Course Material

Newsletters

Miscellaneous

Photographs

Video Tapes

Dutch-American Population Census Lists



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Robert P. Swierenga Collection, 1830-2013 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Kip Odell, 2001; Ed Gerritsen, 2013

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Collection Overview

Title: Robert P. Swierenga Collection, 1830-2013

ID: COLL/404

Primary Creator: Swierenga, Robert P. (1935-)

Extent: 46.75 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Albertus Christiaan Van Raalte Research Professor at the A. C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1996-present; professor of history emeritus, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1968-1996; assistant professor at Calvin College, 1965-1968; and a writer and editor of books and articles in the field of Dutch-American studies. The collection includes correspondence; research materials detailing ship passenger lists; Dutch immigrant and emigration statistical records; published materials detailing Canadian emigration and Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora; lecture notes; conference materials; recordings; photographs; and personal records. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

As of 2013, this material is still being actively collected.

Administrative Information

Repository: Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

Accruals: Further accruals expected

Alternate Extent Statement: 120 Boxes

Acquisition Source: Robert P. Swierenga

Other Note: Acc. No.  00.39, 03.45, 04.54, 05.34, 06.49, 07.51, 07.59, 08.03, 08.60, 10.18, 10.30, 11.17, 12.05, 13.10, 13.20


Box and Folder Listing


Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Research Correspondence],
[Series 3: Emigration & Immigration Records],
[Series 4: Passenger Lists],
[Series 5: Recordings, Conference, Scrapbook, 1968-1981],
[Series 6: Dutch Material],
[Series 7: Books],
[Series 8: Research Articles and Papers],
[Series 9: Papers],
[Series 10: Jewish Material],
[Series 11: Books and Reviews],
[Series 12: Lecture Notes],
[Series 13: Conferences],
[Series 14: Course Material],
[Series 15: Newsletters],
[Series 16: Miscellaneous],
[Series 17: Photographs],
[Series 18: Video Tapes],
[Series 19: Dutch-American Population Census Lists],
[All]

Series 9: Papers
Box 77
Folder 4: "By the Sweat of our Brow: Economic Aspects of the Dutch Immigration of Michigan" --- 1997
Folder 5: "Calvinists in the Second City" --- 1994
Folder 6: "Catholic Emigration from the Southern Provinces of the Netherlands…" --- 1982
Folder 7: "Catholic and Protestant Emigration from the Netherlands…" --- 1984
Folder 8: "Chicago's Groninger Hoek: The Origins and Development of the Dutch Colony…" --- 1989
Folder 9: "Decisions, Decisions: Turning Points in the Founding of Holland" --- 1997
Folder 10: Calvin Theological Journal --- 1986-1988
Folder 11: "Dutch-American Historical Research: A Behavioral Perspective" --- 1977
Folder 12: "Dutch Immigration to Michigan and the Middle West" --- 1998
Folder 13: "Dutch International Labor Migration to the United States, 1835-1880" --- 1979
Folder 14: "Dutch Labor Migration to North American in the Nineteenth Century" --- 1980
Folder 15: "Dutch Patterns of Migration to the U.S. in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" --- 1986
Folder 16: "The Dutch Transplanting in the Upper Middle West" --- 1990
Folder 17: "Holland (Michigan) Consultation on CRC History" --- May 2001
Folder 18: "The Homestead Law in Iowa Politics and the Press, 1855-1862" --- 1961
Folder 19: "The Immigrant Impact on the American Church in the Nineteenth Century" --- 1978
Folder 20: "International Labor Migration in the 19th and 20th Centuries" --- 1978
Folder 21: Jews First, Dutch Second, Americans Third" --- 1989
Folder 22: "The Little White Church: Religion in Rural America" --- 1997
Folder 23-24: "Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Immigrant Religion" --- 1979
Box 78
Folder 1: "A Paradise that Never Was: Dutch Immigrants in Argentina" --- 1998
Folder 2: "Pieter Gayl: Crusader Against the Abuse of History" --- 1961
Folder 3: "Public Support for Non-Public Schools: A Study of Opinion…" --- 1961
Folder 4: "A Sketch of Robert and Grace Swierenga's Life in Chicago" --- 1987
Folder 5: "1834-Netherlands Church Secession and the Dutch Experience" --- 1997
Folder 6: "1857-Secession Again: Origins of the Christian Reformed Church" --- 1997
Box 95
Folder 1: "The Dutch" Encyclopedia of Cleveland History --- 1985
Folder 8: "Religious Diversity and Cultural Localism: The Dutch in Cleveland, 1840-1990" --- undated
Box 115
Folder 1: "Agrarian Capitalism in the Countryside: The North American Debates" --- 1994
Folder 2: "The American Revolution: Right or Wrong?" --- 1975
Folder 3: "Building the Reformed Church in Early Wisconsin" --- 2009
Folder 4: "Burn the Wooden Shoes: Modernity and Division in the CRC" (Paper for U of Stellenbosch, So. Africa) --- 2000
Folder 5: "A Christian Perspective for History" --- undated
Folder 6: Church-State Conflicts During WWI --- undated
Folder 7: "Clio and Computers: A Survey of Computerized Research in History" --- 1970
Folder 8: "Computers and Historical Research: Personal Reflections" --- 1999
Folder 9: "Dutch Catholics and Protestants in Wisconsin: A Study in Contrasts and Similarities" --- undated
Folder 10: "Dutch Immigration Patterns in the 19th and 20th Centuries: An Overview" --- 1982
Folder 11: "The DUtch Imprint in West Michigan" (Paper-Century Club) --- 2005
Folder 12: "The Dutch in Chicago" (125th Anniversary Occasion of the Chicago Consulate) --- 1995
Folder 13: "Dutch in Indianapolis" --- undated
Folder 14: "Dutch Protestants in America" (Encyclopedia of Protestantism) --- 2003
Folder 15: "Ethnicity in Historical Perspective" --- undated
Folder 16: "Ethno-Religion and American Voting Behavior" --- 1830s-1930s
Folder 17: "First Chicago Reformed's Storied Past: 150 Years of Faithful Service" --- undated
Folder 18: "For God and Country: Michigan's Dutch Reformed Christian Schools" (Michigan History Magazine) --- 2016
Box 116
Folder 1: "Getting Political in Holland" --- 2006
Folder 2: "Going to America: Travel Routes of Zeeland Emigrants" --- undated
Folder 3: "God's Hand in History" --- 2000
Folder 4: "Het Bestuderen Van de Nederlandse Emigratie Naar de Verenigde Staten" --- 1982
Folder 5: "Historians & Computers: Has the Love Affair Gone Sour?" OAH Newsletter --- November 1984
Folder 6: "Historians and the Census: The Historiography of Census Research" --- undated
Folder 7: "Immigration and Ethnicity, Protestant" (Dictionary of Christianity in America) --- undated
Folder 8: "The Impact of Reformed Dutch Immigrants on the American Reformed CHurches in the Nineteenth Century" --- 1975
Folder 9: Indiana Low Countries --- undated
Folder 10: "Jubilee: The Trumpet of the Lord" --- undated
Folder 11: "Land Speculation and Frontier Tax Assessments" --- 1970
Folder 12: "List Upon List: The Ship Passenger Records and Immigration Research" --- 1991
Folder 13: "Low Countries" (Article for Encyclopedia of the Midwest) --- undated
Folder 14: Jacob Maasdam's Memoir --- 1831-1840
Folder 15: "Masselink Challenges the Cicero Mob" (Origins) --- 2005
Folder 16: "The New Immigration, 1840-1920" --- undated
Folder 17: "The New Rural Social History" --- 1973
Folder 18: "The New Rural History: Defining the Parameters" --- 1981
Folder 19: "The New Rural History: An Apologetic" --- 1981
Folder 20: "Migratie Overzee: een spiegel van de Netherlandse cultuur" --- 1987
Folder 21: "Occupational Change Among Netherlands Overseas Emigrants to the US in the Nineteenth Century" --- 1983
Folder 22: "Physicians and Abortion Reform in the Nineteenth Century: Social Control As the New Orthodoxy" --- 1979
Folder 23: "'Pioneers for Jesus Christ:' Dutch Colonization as an Act of Faith" --- 1996
Folder 24: "Place Mattered: The Social Geography of Dutch-American Immigration in the Nineteenth Century" --- 2000
Box 117
Folder 1: "Worship and Work: The Dutch in Chicago" --- 2002
Folder 2: Translation of Chapter 18 - "Rondom de oude St. Helenakerk" --- undated
Folder 3: "Promoting Ethnic Pride: The Dutch-American Social Clubs of Chicago" --- undated
Folder 4: "Quantitative Methods in Rural Landholding" --- 1983
Folder 5: "Religion and American Political Behavior in the Nineteenth Century" --- undated
Folder 6: "The Religion Factor in Immigration --The Dutch Experience" --- undated
Folder 7: Schruers Booklet (Introduction by Swierenga) --- undated
Folder 8: Stellingwerff's Amsterdamse Emigranten and Pella History" --- 1999
Folder 9: "Studying Dutch Emigration to the USA: New Methods and Concepts" --- undated
Folder 10: "A Tale of Two Congregations: Acculturation and It's Long-Term Impact on Chicago's West Side Reformed Churches" --- undated
Folder 11: "Theoretical Perspectives on the New Rural History: From Enviornmentalism to Modernization" --- undated
Folder 12: "The Third Generation and Dutch-American Studies, 1996-2000" --- undated
Folder 13: "True Brothers: The Netherlandic Origins of the CRC in North America 1857-1880" --- undated
Folder 14: "The Urban Experience in DUtch Immigrant History" --- 2013
Folder 15: "Van Raalte and Scholte: A Soured Relationship and Personal Rivalry" --- 1997
Folder 16: "Walls or Bridges: The Differing Acculturation Process in the Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches in North America" --- undated
Folder 17: "The West Side Dutch in Chicago" --- 2001
Folder 18: "The Westen Michigan Dutch" --- 2004
Folder 19: "Samuel Myer Isaacs: The First Rabbi of Congregation Shaaray Tefila" --- 1995
Folder 20: "The Dutch Rabbi of NYC" JWB Magazine --- 1993
Folder 21: "Dutch Jewish Immigration and Religious Life in the Nineteenth Century" --- undated
Box 118
Folder 1: "American Civil Religion and Faith or Idolatry and Patriatism" --- undated
Folder 3: "A Christian Critique of the Moral Majority" --- undated
Folder 4: Christian Feminism --- undated
Folder 7: "Dutch Protestant Emigration to USA" --- undated
Folder 8: "Dutch Transatlantic Migration to the US:1800-1880; The Economic, Social, and Religious Dimensions: 1800-1880" --- 1990
Folder 9: "Ethnic Glue and a Tree-Legged Stool: The Chicago Experience" --- 2003
Folder 10: "Dutch in America" (Elderhostel 2000 Central College) --- undated
Folder 11: "From Zeeland to Zeeland in 1847" --- 1997
Folder 12: "Fruits of the Reformation in West Michigan" --- 2006
Folder 13: "Garbios: Chicago's Dutch Scavengers" --- 2005
Folder 14: "Grand Haven and Holland: A Symbolic Relationship" (The Tri Cities Seniors) --- 2015
Folder 16: "Helping Hands: Old Dutch Aid Young Dutch" --- 2015
Folder 18: "Netherlands in America" --- undated
Folder 19: "New History vs Old History" (Jubilee) --- 1982
Folder 20: "On the Paper Trail of Dutch Immigrants" --- 1995
Box 119
Folder 4: "The Rural Dimensions of Urban History" --- 1984
Folder 5: "Van Raalte's Holland Colony and Its Connections to Grand Rapids" --- 1998

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Research Correspondence],
[Series 3: Emigration & Immigration Records],
[Series 4: Passenger Lists],
[Series 5: Recordings, Conference, Scrapbook, 1968-1981],
[Series 6: Dutch Material],
[Series 7: Books],
[Series 8: Research Articles and Papers],
[Series 9: Papers],
[Series 10: Jewish Material],
[Series 11: Books and Reviews],
[Series 12: Lecture Notes],
[Series 13: Conferences],
[Series 14: Course Material],
[Series 15: Newsletters],
[Series 16: Miscellaneous],
[Series 17: Photographs],
[Series 18: Video Tapes],
[Series 19: Dutch-American Population Census Lists],
[All]


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