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By Kip Odell, 2001; Ed Gerritsen, 2013
Collection Overview
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:
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Series 1: Correspondence],
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Series 2: Research Correspondence],
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Series 3: Emigration & Immigration Records],
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Series 4: Passenger Lists],
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Series 5: Recordings, Conference, Scrapbook, 1968-1981],
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Series 6: Dutch Material],
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Series 7: Books],
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Series 8: Research Articles and Papers],
[Series 9: Papers],
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Series 10: Jewish Material],
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Series 11: Books and Reviews],
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Series 12: Lecture Notes],
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Series 13: Conferences],
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Series 14: Course Material],
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Series 15: Newsletters],
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Series 16: Miscellaneous],
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Series 17: Photographs],
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Series 18: Video Tapes],
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Series 19: Dutch-American Population Census Lists],
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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]
