Robert P. Swierenga -- Curriculum Vita
Robert P. Swierenga Vita
rev. 6/15 Current
Position: A.C. Van Raalte
Research Professor of History A.C. Van Raalte
Institute, Hope College 900 East 10th
Street P.O. Box
9000 Holland, MI 49422
Personal
Data: Birth date and
Place: June 10, 1935,
Chicago, Illinois Marital
Status:
Married Training and Fields of Preparation: B.A. History, Calvin College,
1957 M.A. History, Northwestern University,
1958
Master's Essay: Arthur
S. Link (Director), "The American
Punitive Expedition to Mexico, 1916-1917." Ph.D. History,
University of Iowa, 1965 Major Fields: American/Agricultural and Economic
History, U.S. 19th
Century
Minor Fields: Reformation, Latin
America
Dissertation: Allan G. Bogue (Director),
"Pioneers
and Profits:
Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier." Teaching
Positions: A.C. Van Raalte
Research Professor, Hope College, 1996- Professor, Kent
State University, 1968-1996, Emeritus, 1996- Visiting
Professor, Calvin College, Spring 1980 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Summer 1966, Summer
1967 Assistant
Professor, Calvin College, 1965-68
Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, 1962-65
Instructor in
History, Calvin College, 1961-62 Head, Social
Studies Department, Pella Christian High Courses:
American Economic
and Business History Early National
Period, 1790-1840 Civil War and
Reconstruction, 1840-1880 Research Seminar
in American History Quantitative
Historical Methods History of the
Westward Movement American Land
History
American
Religious History
Dissertations directed to completion, 1968-1999:
24 Masters theses
directed to completion, 1968-1996: 18 Post Doctoral Honors
and Awards: Knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in the Order of
the Netherlands Lion, June 9, 2000 Fulbright Research Scholarship, University of Leiden,
The Netherlands, 1976, 1985 American Council
of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1981 Council on
Research in Economic History, Grant, 1968 American Council
of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1967 Kent State
University Academic Year Fellowships, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1981,
1984, 1988, 1991, 1994 Teaching
Development Award, Summer, 1970, 1984 Distinguished
Alumnus, Calvin College, 2003 Societies: Agricultural
History Society Business
History Society Conference on
Faith and History Economic History Association Immigration and
Ethnic History Society Organization of
American Historians Organization Social Science History Association
Professional
Biographical Listings: Who's Who in
America, 110th ed., 2009 The Writers
Directory, 1992-94 ed. International
Authors and Writers Who's Who, 10th ed., 1989 International Directory of Distinguished Leadership Hall of
Fame, 10th edition, 2001 Professional
Positions: Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies,
President, 1999-2001 Agricultural History Society, Vice-President and President
1996-1998; Executive
Committee, 1972-1974, 1992-1995 Managing Co-editor, Social Science History (The Journal of the Social Science History Association), 1976-1991;
Editorial Board,
1991-1994 Social Science History Assoc., Executive Committee, 1974-91 Immigration History Society, Executive Board, 1985-1988;
Nominating Committee,
1994-1996 Conference on Faith and History, President, 1986-1988; Executive
Committee, 1972-1974; Program Chair, 1974 Contributing
Editor, Origins, 1999- Editorial Board,
Historical Methods Newsletter, 1973-1979 Editorial Board,
Agricultural History, 1977-1979 Editorial Board,
Explorations in Economic History 1971-1974 Editorial Board,
Fides et Historia, 1980-1983 Referee, Civil
War History, 1969-1996 Chair, Ohio Data Archives Advisory Committee, Ohio Historical Society,
1971-1976 Trustee, Business
History Society, 1974-1977 Trustee, Calvin
College, 1977-1982
Festschrift:
THE DUTCH-AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ROBERT P. SWIERENGA, eds. Hans Krabbendam
and Larry J. Wagenaar [Vrije Universiteit Studies on Protestant
History](Amsterdam: VU Press, 2000) PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Park Township Centennial History, Ottawa County, Michigan, 1915-2015: Holland’s Water Playground (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2015)
Faithful Witness: A Sesquicentennial History of Central Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan, 1865-2015 (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2015)
Holland Michigan: From Dutch Colony to Dynamic City, 3 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, and Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2014)
Elim: A Chicago Christian School and Life Training Center for the Disabled (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005)
Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002)
Faith and Family: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United States, 1820-1920 (New York: Holmes & Meier, 2000)
Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the Nineteenth Century (with Elton Bruins) (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999, reprinted 2014)
The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994)
Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976)
Pioneers and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1968)
Edited Books:
Dutch Americans and War: United States and Abroad. Co-editors Nell Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2014)
Diverse Destinies: Dutch Koloneies in Wisconsin and the East. Co-editor with Nell Kennedy and Mary Risseeuw (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2012)
Across Borders: Dutch Migration to North America and Australia. Co-editor with Jacob E. Nyenhuis and Suzanne Sinke (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2010)
Aunt Tena, Called to Serve: Journals and Letters of Tena A. Huizenga, Missionary Nurse to Nigeria. Co-editor with Jacob E. Nyenhuis and Lauren M. Berka (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009)
Old Wing Mission: Cultural Interchange as Chronicled by George and Arvilla Smith in their Work with Chief Wakazoo's Ottawa Band on the West Michigan Frontier (with William Van Appledorn) (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2008)
Dutch American Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective (Co-editor with Jacob Nyenhuis and Nella Kennedy) (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2008)
Dutch Immigrants on the Plains (C-editor with Paul Fessler and Hubert R. Krygsman)(Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 2006)
Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier (expanded edition of J. Stellingwerff,
Amsterdam Emigranten; onbekende brieven van de prairie van Iowa,
1846-1873 [Amsterdam, 1976], Walter Lagerwey translator)(Grand Rapids,
MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005) The Dutch in Urban America (Co-editor with Donald Sinnema and Hans Krabbendam) (Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 2004)
Dutch Enterprise: Alive and Well in North America (with Larry Wagenaar) (Holland, MI: Joint
Archives of Holland, 2000)
For Food and Faith: Dutch Immigration to Western Michigan. The Holland Museum
Sesquicentennial Lectures (Holland, MI: Holland Museum, 2000) The Sesquicentennial of Dutch Immigration: 150 Years of Ethnic Heritage (with Larry Wagenaar)
(Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 1998) Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History (with Philip R. VanderMeer) (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991) The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change (New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1985)
Netherlanders in America: A Study of Emigration and Settlement in the 19th and 20th Centuries in the United States of America, Volumes 1 and 2, by Jacob Van
Hinte. Translated from the Dutch by Adriaan de Wit (Grand Rapids, Baker
Book House, 1985)
History and Ecology: James C. Malin's Studies of the Grassland (Lincoln, University of Nebraska
Press, 1984)
Ethnic History
(Special Issue of Ethnic Forum), 4 (Spring
1984)
A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782-1982 (New York,
Octagon Books, 1982)
BEYOND THE CIVIL WAR
SYNTHESIS: POLITICAL ESSAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA (Westport, Conn.,
Greenwood Press, 1975) Quantification in American History: Theory and Research (New York, Atheneum,
1970)
Compilations:
Dutch Households in U.S. Population Censuses: 1850, 1860, 1870: An Alphabetical Listing by Family Heads and Singles (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources,
1987)
Dutch Immigrants in U.S. Ship Passenger Manifests, 1820-1880: An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent Persons in (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly
Resources, 1983)
Dutch Emigrants to the United States, South Africa, and Southeast Asia, 1835-1880:
An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent Persons
(Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1983) Immigration Records: Dutch in America, 1800s, Family Tree Maker's Family Archives, CD # 269,
Broderbund, 2000
Articles Published:
"Off the Pulpit: Van Raalte as Community Leader" 125-50, in The Enduring Legacy of Albertus C. Van Raalte as Leader and Liaison, eds. Jacob E. Nyenhuis and George Harinck (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2014).
"Home Front: Holland, Michigan and the World Wars" 137-58, in Dutch Americans and War: United States and Abroad, eds. Nella Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2014).
"The Theodore Roosevelt Chair" (with Kenneth Bos) Origins, 31 (No. 2, 2013): 40-45.
"Dutch Catholics and Protestants in Wisconsin: A Study in Contrasts and Similarities" (with Hans Krabbendam), 39-64, in Diverse Destinies: Dutch Kolonies in Wisconsin and the East, eds. Nella Kennedy, Mary Risseeuw, Robert P. Swierenga (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2012).
"Immigration Journey Under Sail" (with Eugene Westra), Origins, 30 (No. 1 2012): 38-44.
"James Koning Memoir (1906)", ed. (with Nella Kennedy translator), Origins, 30 (No. 1 2012): 25-30.
"'Bless the Lord, O My Soul': The Bible's Influence on the Dutch Immigrants," Origins, 29 (No. 1 2011): 30-34.
"Dutch Immigrant Murders Go to the Gallows," 163-78, in Jacob E. Nyenhuis, Robert P. Swierenga, Suzanne Sinke, eds. Across Borders: Dutch Migration to North America and Australia. (Holland, Mich.: Van Raalte Press, 2010).
"Murdered by the Mob: The Fate of Chicago Teamster Sipke Hoekstra," Origins, (No. 1, 2010): 17-27.
"A Paradise That Never Was: The Dutch Immigrant Presence in Argentina," Windmill Herald, New Year 2010 Supplement, C3-C10.
"The New Immigration, 1840-1920," 295-306, in Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, eds., Hans Krabbendam, Cornelius A. Van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Boom, and Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2009).
"Building the Reformed Church in Early Wisconsin," Origins, 27 (No. 2, 2009): 35-44.
"Religion and American Voting Behavior, 1830s to 1930s," 68-94, in Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics, eds., Corwin E. Schmidt, Lyman A. Kerlstedt, and James L. Guth (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
"Press Censorship: Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte and Hermanus Doesburg of De Hollander," pp. 171-82, in Dutch American Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective, eds., Jack Nyenhuis, Robert P. Swierenga, and Nella Kennedy (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2008).
"Disloyal Dutch? Herman Hoeksema and the Flag in Church Controversy during World War I," Origins, 25 (No. 2, 2007): 28-35. Reprinted with additional photos under title “Herman Hoeksema and the ‘Flag in Church’ Controversy,” in Leben: A Journal of Reformation Life, 10, issue 3 (2014): 5-6, 18, 21.
"Ethnocultural Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures," 145-68, in Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present, 2nd ed., eds. Mark A. Noll and Luke E. Harlow (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
"Albertus C. Van Raalte as a Businessman," 281-317, in A Goodly Heritage: Essays in Honor of the Reverend Dr. Elton J. Bruins at Eighty, ed. Jacob E. Nyenhuis (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2007).
"Jacob Maasdam's Memoir, 1831-1840," 281-317, Robert P. Swierenga and Muriel Kooi, eds., Michael Douma trans., Origins, 24 (No 2, 2006): 22-30.
"Peoples of the Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg)," pp. 211-212, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).
"Unholy Mess: The IRM California Real Estate Debacle in the Christian Reformed Church in North America in the 1990s," 213-27, in George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Morsels in the Melting Pot: The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 2006).
"Walls or Bridges: The Differing Acculturation Process in the Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches in North America," 33-42, in George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Morsels in the Melting Pot: The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 2006).
"Masselink Challenges the Cicero Mob," Origins, 24 (No. 1, 2006), 36-41.
"Iowa Letters, A Review Essay," with Douglas Firth Anderson and Robert Schoone-Jongen, in Dutch Immigrants on the Plains, eds. Robert P. Swierenga, Paul Fessler, and Hubert R. Krygsman (Holland, MI 2006), 22-36.
"A Tale of Two Cities: Acculturation and Its Long-term Impact on Chicago's West Side Reformed Churches," Origins, 23 (No. 1, 2005): 12-21. Also in 2003 Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Reformed Communities (ISSRC), eds. Corwin Schmidt, et al., ISSRC web site.
"The Dutch Imprint on West Michigan," The Historical Society of Michigan Origins, 23 (No. 1, 2005): 12-21. Also in Chronicle and Newsletter, 27 (Winter 2005): 18-22.
"Dutch Protestants in America," vol. 2, in
Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 4 vols., ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand (London: Routledge, 2004).
"Ethnic Glue and a Three-legged Stool: The Chicage Experience." In The Outlook 54
(March 2004): 5-10.
"Dutch Protestants in
America." In Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. Hans J.;
Hillerband, 4 vols. Florence, Ky.: Routledge, 2003. "Chicago's Dutch
Garbios," DHS Magazine (Dutch Heritage Society Nederland) 6
(December 2002): 26-33. "A Bit of Family
History: A Short Account of John Henry Schreurs and Jana Oonk Schreurs and
Their Descendants ... at Clymer, New York," in AADAS News
(newsletter of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American
Studies), 3 (Fall 2002): 2, 5-6. "Ohio's Calvin
College," AADAS Newsletter 2 (Spring 2002):
2,5-6. "The Dutch in West
Michigan: The Impact of a Contractual Community," Grand River Valley
History, 18 (2002): 18-27. "The Third Generation
and Dutch American Studies" pp. 76-81, in The Dutch Adapting in North
America, 13th Biennial Conference of the Association for the
Advancement of Dutch American Studies, ed. Richard Harms (Grand Rapids,
MI: Calvin College, 2001. "Burn the Wooden
Shoes:" Modernity and Division in the Christian Reformed Church in North
America," pp.94-102, in H. Jurgen Hendriks, Don A. Luidens, Roger J.
Nemeth, Corwin E. Smidt, and Hijme Stoffels, eds. Reformed Encounters
with Modernity: Perspectives from Three Continents (Stellenbosch, South Africa:
International Society for the Study of Reformed Communities, 2001). "God's Hand in
History," in My Heart I Offer: Daily Devotions on the Journey of
Faith (Grand Rapids: Calvin Alumni Association, 2000),
58. "True Brothers: The
Netherlandic Origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America,
1857-1880," pp. 61-83, in Breaches and Bridges: Reformed Subcultures in
the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, eds. George Harinck
and Hans Krabbendam [VU Studies on Protestant History 4](Amsterdam: VU
University Press, 2000). "The Church and Dutch
Reformed Colonization in Argentina: A Worst Case Scenario,"
Documentatieblad voor de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Zending en
Overzeese Kerken 6, No. 2 (1999): 58-75. "By the Sweat of our
Brow:" Economic Aspects of the Dutch Immigration to Michigan," pp. 1-29 in
For Food and Faith: Dutch Immigration to America, The Holland
Museum Sesquicentennial Lectures, ed. Robert P. Swierenga (Holland, MI:
Holland Museum, 2000). "Stellingwerff's
Amsterdamse Emigranten and Pella History," pp. 17-21, in Dutch
Enterprise: Alive and Well in North America, eds. Larry Wagenaar and
Robert P. Swierenga (Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland,
2000). "Jan Van Mekelenberg,"
in D.G. Hart and Mark Noll, eds., Dictionary of the Presbyterian &
Reformed Tradition in America (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press,
1999), 159.
"Van Raalte and
Scholte: A Soured Relationships and Personal Rivalry," Origins
XVII, No. 1 (1999): 21-35. Also in The Sesquicentennial of Dutch
Immigration: 150 Years of Ethnic Heritage (Holland, MI: Joint Archives
of Holland and A.C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, 1997):
29-45. "H. P. Scholte,"
American National Biography, 24 vols. (Cary, NC: Oxford University
Press, 1999), 19: 420-21 "A. C. Van Raalte,"
American National Biography, 24 vols. (Cary, NC: Oxford University
Press, 1999), 22: 234-36. "'Better Prospects for
Work:' Van Raalte's Holland Colony and its Connections to Grand Rapids,"
Grand River Valley History 15 (1998): 14-22. "From Colony to City:
Holland's First Twenty-Five Years," Origins 16, No. 2 (1998):
11-16. "The Little White
Church: Historiographical Revisions on Religion in Rural America," in
History and the Christian Historian Ronald Wells, ed. (Grand Rapids
MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998), 159-177. "Decisions, Decisions:
Turning Points in the Founding of Holland," Michigan Historical
Review 24 (Spring 1998): 48-72. "'God's Building:'
Holland Colony of Van Raalte Celebrates 150 Years," DIS Magazine
[Dutch International Society Nederland] 1 (1997):
36-39. "The Little White
Church: Religion in Rural America," Agricultural History 71 (Fall
1997): 415-41.
"Going to America:
Travel Routes of Zeeland Emigrants," Nehalennia: Bulletin van de
Werkgroep Historie en Archeologie, 114, theme number 11, 1997,
"Zeeuwse emigratie naar Amerika, 1840-1920," 19-30. "Dutch in America: The
Settlement of People from the Netherlands in the United States," in
Encyclopedia USA, v. 24 (1997): 139-47 (Reprint of "The Dutch," in
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups,
1980). "Cruzamiento
Internacional de Registros de Inmigrantes Holandeses en Los Estados Unidos
en el Siglo XIX" [International Record Linkage of Dutch Immigrants in the
United States in the Nineteenth Century], Estudios Migratorios
Latinoamercanos 33 (Agost 1996): 357-83.
"Calvinists in the
Second City: The Dutch Reformed of Chicago's West Side," in Rethinking
Secularization: Reformed Reactions to Modernity, eds. Gerard Dekker,
Donald A. Luidens, and Rodger R. Rice (Washington, DC: University Press of
America, 1997), 45-61.
"'Pioneers for Jesus
Christ': Dutch Protestant Colonization in North America as an Act of
Faith," in Sharing the Reformed Tradition: The Dutch-North American
Exchange, 1846-1996 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996),
35-55. "Promoting Ethnic
Pride: The Dutch-American Social Clubs of Chicago," Origins 14
no. 2 (1996): 30-37. "The Low Countries,"
in Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience, 2 vols., ed. Robert W.
Taylor (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996),
1:102-23. "Religious Diversity
and Cultural Localism: The Dutch in Cleveland, 1840-1990," Northwest
Ohio Quarterly, 67 (Summer 1995): 1-29. "Netherlanders in
Chicago," in The Dutch in Chicago, 1870-1995 (Chicago:
Consulate-General of the Netherland in Chicago, 1995), 5-16. (Reprinted in
abridged form in De Nieuwe Amsterdammer 5 (Nov. 1995):
11. "Dutch in
Indianapolis," in Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. Robert G.
Barrow (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1994),
516-17. "'Odyssey of Woe': The
Voyage of the Immigrant Ship April from Amsterdam to New Castle,
1817-1818," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 118
(Oct.1994):303-23.
"Agrarian Capitalism
in the Countryside: The North American Debates," in Het
Platteland in Een Veranderende Wereld eds. Herman Diederiks, J. Thomas
Lindblad, and Boudien de Vries (Hilversum: Verloren, 1994),
79-86.
"The Journey Across:
Dutch Transatlantic Emigrant Passage to the United States, 1820-1880," in
Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic
Exchange, eds. Rosemarijn Hoefte and Johanna C. Kardux (European
Contributions to American Studies, ed. Rob Kroes (Amsterdam, Free
University Press, 1994), 101-34.
"Thomas Corwin
Donalson (1843-1898)," in Encyclopedia of the American West, eds.
Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod (New York: Macmillan, 1995),
"Samuel Myer Isaacs:
The Dutch Rabbi of New York City," American Jewish Archives 44
(Fall/Winter 1992): 604-21. (Expanded version of Origins article of
1992.) "The Delayed
Transition from Folk to Labor Migration: The Netherlands, 1880-1920,"
International Migration Review 27 (Summer 1993):
406-424. "Identifying and Using
Historical Materials: View
from the Classroom" (with Jane A. Rosenberg) in Teaching Bibliographic
Skills in History: A
Sourcebook for Historians and Librarians, ed. Charles D'Aniello
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), 51-68. "Captain De Groot's
Account of the Tragic Voyage of the April, Amsterdam to New Castle,
1817-1818," The Palatine Emigrant 18 (March 1993):
82-91. "A Partial Passenger
List of the Dutch ship April, to New Castle, Delaware, June, 1817,"
The Palatine Emigrant 18 (March 1993): 76-81. "Samuel Myer Isaacs:
The Dutch Rabbi of New York City," Origins 10 No. 1 (1992) 16-21
(condensed version). Reprinted in The Windmill, U.S. Edition, 35
(April 23, 1993), p. 13; 36 (May 7, 1993), p. 13; 36 (May 24, 1993), p.
13. Reprinted in JWB
Magazine, New Year Number, Sept. 9, 1993, Second Section, 1-7.
"A Dutch Carpenter's
'America Letter' from New York, New York History 72 (October 1991):
421-438. The Dutch
Transplanting in the Upper Middle West, Inaugural Address,
Society for the Study of Regional and Local History, (Marshall, MN:
Southwest State University, 1991), 20 pp. "Jews First, Dutch
Second, Americans Third: Dutch Jewish Settlement and Life in the United
States in the Nineteenth Century," in The Dutch in North America: Their
Immigration and Cultural Continuity, eds. Rob Kroes and Henk-Otto
Neuschaeffer (Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1991),
391-409. "List Upon List: The
Ship Passenger Records and Immigration Research," Journal of American
Ethnic History 10 (Spring 1991): 42-53. "Religion and
Immigration Behavior: The Dutch Experience" in Belief & Behavior:
Essays in the New Religious History, eds. Philip R. VanderMeer and
Robert P. Swierenga (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991),
pp. 164-188. Reprinted in revised form under the title, "The Religious
Factor in Immigration: The Dutch Experience," in Immigrant America:
European Ethnicity in the United States, ed. Timothy Walch (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1994), 119-40. "Local Patterns of
Dutch Migration to the United States in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," in
A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930, eds. Rudolph J. Vecoli
and Suzanne M. Sinke (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991)
134-57. "Protestant
Immigration and Ethnicity in America," in The Dictionary of
Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. Reid (Downers Grove, IL:
Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 569-71. "Jan Van Mekelenberg,"
in The Dictionary of Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. Reid
(Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 722-23. Reprinted in D.G.
Hart and Mark Noll, eds., Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed
Tradition in America (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999),
159. "Peter Stuyvesant," in
The Dictionary of Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. Reid
(Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 1143-44.
"Dutch Jewish
Immigration and Religious Life in the Nineteenth Century," American
Jewish History 79 (Autumn 1990): 56-73. Reprinted in American
Jewish History: The Colonial and Early National Periods, 1654-1840,
ed. Jeffrey S. Gurock (New York: Routledge, 1998),
56-73. "Historians and the
Census: The Historiography of
Census Research," Annals of Iowa 50 (Fall 1990):
650-73. "Religion and
Political Behavior in the Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures,"
in Religion and American Politics, ed. Mark A. Noll (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1989), 146-71. "The Settlement of the
Old Northwest: Ethnic Pluralism in a Featureless Plain," Journal of the
Early Republic 9 (Spring 1989): 73-105. "Samuel Pfrimmer
Hays," in Dictionary of Historians, ed. John Cannon (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1988), 180-81. "Under-Reporting of
Dutch Immigration Statistics: A Recalculation," International Migration
Review 21 (Winter 1988): 1596-99. "James C. Malin," in
Historians of the_American Frontier. ed. John R. Wunder (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), 384-407. "The Dutch in
Cleveland," in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, eds. John J.
Grabowski and David Van Tassel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1987), 351-52. "Overseas Migration: A
Mirror of Dutch Culture," De Gids, Special 150th Anniversary Issue,
February 1987, 152-55. "News from the Dutch
Colony of Pella in North America, June 1854, Annals of Iowa 48
(Winter/Spring 1986): 155-58. "The Dutch
Transplanting in Michigan and the Midwest," The Clarence M. Burton
Memorial Lecture (Ann Arbor: Historical Society of Michigan), 1986,
1-13.
"Dutch International
Migration and Occupational Change: A Structural Analysis of Multinational
Linked Files," in Migration Across Time and Nations: Population
Mobility in Historical Contexts, eds. Ira A. Glazier and Luigi De Rosa
(New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986), 95-124. "Religion and
Immigration Patterns: A Comparative Analysis of Dutch Protestants and
Catholics, 1835-1880," Journal of American Ethnic History 5 (Spring
1986): 23-45. Reprinted in The Immigrant Religious Experience, Vol.
19, American Immigration and Ethnicity Series, ed. George E. Pozzetta (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1991). "The Malin Thesis of
Grassland Adaptation and the New Rural History," Canadian Papers
in Rural History, ed. D. H. Akenson, V (1986):
11-22. "Archival Materials
and Manuscripts in the Netherlands on Immigration to the United States,"
in Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the U.S.,
1945-1980, ed. Lewis Hanke (6 vols. Washington: American Historical
Association, and Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1985), 3:195-215.
"Dutch Immigration
Patterns in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in The Dutch in
America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change, ed. Robert P.
Swierenga (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1985),
15-42. "Historians and
Computers: Has the Love Affair Gone Sour?" OAH Newsletter 12 (Nov.
1984), Special Supplement, 2-3.
"Studying Dutch
Immigration to the United States: New Methods and Concepts," Ethnic
Forum: Journal of Ethnic Studies and Ethnic Bibliography 4 (Spring
1984): 8-20. "Social Science
History: An Appreciative
Critique" in History and Historical Understanding, eds. C. Thomas
McIntire and Ronald A. Wells (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans,
1984), 93-102. Selected for abstracting in The Philosopher's Index,
1987. "Bibliographic
Instruction in Historical Methods Courses: Kent State University," The
History Teacher 15 (May
1984): 391-96, 431-42. "Dutch International
Labor Migration to North America in the Nineteenth Century," in Dutch
Immigration to North America, eds. Mark Boekelman and Herman
Ganzevoort (Toronto, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1983),
1-34. "Catholic and
Protestant Emigration from the Netherlands in the 19th Century: A
Comparative Social Structural Analysis," Tijdschrift voor Economische
en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) 74
(Spring 1983): 25-49 (with Yda Schreuder). "Can History Survive
Computers and Remain a Humanistic Discipline?," Scope (Scholarly
Communication: Online Publishing and Education) 1 (Nov./Dec. 1983):
39-40. "History Online,"
Network News Exchange 9 (Fall 1983): 4-5. "Rural Life and
Agriculture: The New Rural History," in Ordinary People and Everyday
Life: Perspectives in the New Social History, ed. James B. Gardner
(Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1983),
91-113. "Quantitative Methods
in Rural Landholding," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XIII
(Spring 1983): 787-808. Also published as "Quantitative Methods in Rural
Land Holding and Tenancy Studies," in Quantitative Methods in Soviet
and American Historiography, eds. Ivan D. Kovalchenko and Valery H.
Tishkov (Moscow: "Nauka" Publishing House, 1983),
82-108. "Exodus Netherlands,
Promised Land America: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United
States," in A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American
Relations, 1782-1982, eds. J. W. Schulte Nordholt and Robert P.
Swierenga (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff International; New York: Octagon Books,
1982), 127-47. "Catholic Emigration
from the Southern Provinces in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century,"
Working Paper No. 27, Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute,
1982 (with Yda Saueressig-Schreuder). "Theoretical
Perspectives on the New Rural History: From Environmentalism to
Modernization" Agricultural History 56 (July 1982):
495-502. "Het Bestuderen van de
Nederlandse Emigratie naar de Verenigde Staten," Jaarboek van het
Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Volume 36 (The Hague, Centraal Bureau
voor Genealogie, 1982), 252-68. "A Denominational
Schism from a Behavioral Perspective: The 1857 Dutch Reformed Separation,"
The Reformed Review 34 (Spring 1981): 172-85. Reprinted in
Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 3(Fall 1981/Spring
1982),49-57. "The New Rural
History: Defining the Parameters," Great Plains Quarterly 1 (Fall
1981): 211-23.
"Social Science
History: A Critique and Appreciation," Fides et Historia 14 (Fall
1981): 42-51. Selected for abstracting in Religion Index One:
Periodicals, 1987. "Teaching Quantitative
Methods in History: At a Crossroads," Network News Exchange (The
Society for History Education) 6 (Fall 1981):
8-9. "Dutch International
Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational
Nominal Files," International Migration Review 15 (Fall 1981):
445-70. "The Anatomy of
Migration: From Europe to the U.S. in the Nineteenth Century," in
Preserving our Heritage: Proceedings of the World Conference on
Records, eds. Val Greenwood and Frank Smith (12 vols., Salt Lake City
UT: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980), IV, Series 357,
1-15. "Dutch Immigrant
Demography, 1820-1880," Journal of Family History 5 (Winter 1980):
390-405. Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for summary in
Sociology Abstracts. "The Dutch" in
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, ed. Stephen
Thernstrom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980),
284-95. "Immigrant Data Files
and Computer Mapping" in International Federation of
Information Processing, Proceedings of the Dartmouth Conference on_Data
Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, eds. J. Raben and G.
Marks (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980),
119-23. "Local-Cosmopolitan
Theory and Immigrant Religion:
The Social Basis of the Antebellum Dutch Reformed Schism,"
Journal of Social History 14 (Fall 1980): 113-35. Selected by
Council of Abstracting Services for summary in Sociology
Abstracts. "Ethnicity and
American Agriculture," Ohio History 89 (Summer 1980): 323-44.
Reprinted in Immigrants on the Land: Agriculture, Rural Life, and Small
Towns, Vol. 4, American Immigration and Ethnicity, ed. George Pozzetta
(New York: Garland Publishing, 1991). "Dutch Immigration
Historiography," Immigration History Newsletter 11, No. 2 (Nov.
1979): 1-5. "The Dutch in America:
An Overview," in Linda Pegman Doezema Dutch Americans: A Guide to
Manuscript Sources, (Detroit: Gale Publications, 1979),
xi-xix. "Physicians and
Abortion Reform in the Nineteenth Century: Social Control as the New
Orthodoxy," Fides et Historia 11 (Spring 1979):
51-59. "The Causes of Dutch
Emigration to America: An 1866 Account," Michigana 24 (May 1979):
56-61; (Summer 1979), 92-97. "The New Rural Social
History," MISHAP (Minnesota Social History Project Newsletter) 1
(Jan. 1979), 1-20. "Behavioralism in
Historical Research," in Conspectus of History: Focus on
Interpretations of History, Number V, eds. Dwight W. Hoover and John
Koumoulides (Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1978),
75-88. "Social Statistics and
Historical Research: A Symbiosis," The Ukrainian Historian, 1-3
(57-59), (1978): 90-101. "The Open University:
Historical Data and the Social Sciences," Urban History Yearbook,
1978 (Leicester, England, Leicester University Press, 1978),
64-67. "Land Speculation and
its Impact on American Economic Growth and Welfare: An Historical Review,"
Western Historical Quarterly 8 (July 1977):
283-302. "Netherlanders in
America: A Bicentennial Lecture," D.I.S. (Dutch Immigrant Society)
Magazine 7 (March 1977): 18-21. "Ethnicity in
Historical Perspective," Social Science 52 (Winter 1977): 31-44.
Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for Summary in Sociological
Abstracts. "Netherlanders in
America," in The Americans and the Dutch (United States Information
Agency, The Hague, the Netherlands, 1976), 24-29. "Socio-Economic
Patterns of Migration from the Netherlands to the U.S. in the Nineteenth
Century," in Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of
Research, ed. Paul Uselding (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1976) (with
Harry Stout), 298-333. "Dutch Immigration in
the Nineteenth Century, 1820-1877: A Quantitative Overview," Indiana
Social Studies Quarterly 28 (Autumn 1975): 7-34 (with Harry
Stout). "Christian
Perspectives for History," International Scholarly Review, I (May
1975): 11-21. "Absentee Ownership,"
Dictionary of American History (2nd ed. 1975).
"The Equity Effects of
Public Land Speculation: Large vs. Small Speculators," Journal of
Economic History 34 (Dec. 1974): 1008-20. "Computers and
Comparative History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 5 (Fall
1974): 257-86. Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for Summary in
Sociological Abstracts. "Acres for Cents:
Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa," Agricultural History 48
(April 1974): 247-66. "Computers and
American History: The Impact of the 'New' Generation," Journal of
American History 40 (March 1974): 1045-70, reprinted in Current
Trends in American History, ed. D. Balasubramanian (Hyderabad, India:
American Studies Research Center, 1977), 63-89. "Tenant Farming in
Iowa: A Comment," Agricultural History 48 (April 1974):
151-54. "Quantitative
Historical Data and the Archivist," Ohio Archivist 4 (Fall 1973):
12-13. "Towards the New Rural
History: A Review Essay," Historical Methods Newsletter 6 (June
1973): 111-12. "Computerized
Historical Research in the U.S.A.: A Survey and Evaluation,"
Information Processing 71, North-Holland Publishing Company (1972),
1435-42. "Computerized
Historical Research: Problems and Prospects," ACM 70 Conference
Proceedings (New York, 1971). "The Christian
Historian, The University, and Student Unrest," Fides et Historia 3
(Spring 1971): 4-19. "The 'Odious Tax
Title' A Study in Nineteenth Century Legal History," American Journal
of Legal History 15 (April 1971): 124-39. "Ethnocultural
Political Analysis: A New Approach in American Ethnic Studies," Journal
of American Studies 5 (April 1971): 59-79. "Clio with Numbers,"
The Chronicle (of the Historical Society of Michigan) 6 (Oct.
1970): 13-19. "The Iowa Land Records
Collection: Periscope to the Past," Books at Iowa 13 (Nov. 1970):
25-30. "Clio and Computers: A
Survey of Computerized Research in History," Computers and the
Humanities 5 (Sept. 1970): 1-21. "Land Speculation and
Frontier Tax Assessments," Agricultural History 44 (July 1970):
253-66. "The Tax Buyer as a
Frontier Investor Type," Explorations in Economic History 12
(Spring 1970): 257-92. "The Fort Dodge (Iowa)
Claim Club," 1855-1856," Annals of Iowa 39 (Winter 1969):
511-18. "Place of Refuge
(Pella, Iowa)," Annals of Iowa 39 (Summer 1968):
321-57. "The Western Land
Business: Easley and Willingham, Speculators," Business History
Review 41 (Spring 1967): 1-20. "Calvin and the
Council of Trent: A Reappraisal," Reformed Journal 16
(1966). "Land Speculator
'Profits' Reconsidered: The Case of Central Iowa" Journal of Economic
History 26 (March 1966):1-28. "A Dutch Immigrant's
View of Central Iowa," Annals of Iowa 38 (Fall 1965): 81-118, and
reprinted in Patterns and Perspectives in Iowa History, ed. Dorothy
Schwieder (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1973). "The Ethnic Voter and
the First Lincoln Election," Civil War History 11 (March 1965):
27-43; reprinted in Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln, ed.
Frederick Luebke (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971),
229-50. Book reviews in scholarly journals:
Agricultural
History American Historical
Review Annals of
Iowa Arizona and the
West Business History
Review Calvin Theological
Journal Canadian Historical
Review Civil War
History Computers and the
Humanities Fides et
Historia Historical
Methods Historical New
Hampshire History: Review of New
Books International
Migration Review Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion Journal of American
Immigration and Ethnic History Journal of American
History Journal of Economic
History Journal of Social
History Journal of the
West Journal of the Early
Republic Mid-America Minnesota
History New York
History Ohio
History Origins: Historical Magazine of the Archives [Calvin College] Pacific Historical
Review Reviews in American
History Technology and
Culture The
Historian Western Historical
Quarterly Wisconsin Magazine of
History Scholarly Presentations:
"Home Front: Holland, Michigan in the World Wars,” paper presented to the Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Central College, Pella, IA, 7 June 2013.
"What Made Holland, Holland: An Historical Overview,” Holland Historical Society, Jan. 8, 2013.
"Why Timothy?” Talk for Centennial Celebration of Timothy Christian Schools, Field Museum, Chicago, Apr. 21, 2012.
"West Michigan as a Dutch Immigration Hub,” lecture for students of Gomarus College, Groningen, The Netherlands, at Haenicke Institute for International Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mi, Apr. 18, 2012.
"Origins of Historic Pillar Church,” lecture for Hope Academy of Senior Professionals, Feb. 19, 2012.
"The Dutch in America,” Lecture for the Women’s Club of Grand Rapids, Jan. 31, 2012.
"Off the Pulpit: Van Raalte as Community Leader,” paper for the international conference, Albertus C. Van Raalte: Leader and Liaison, Hope College, Holland MI 24 Oct., and Langoed Het Laar, Ommen, The Netherlands, Nov. 3, 2011.
"Holland Michigan as an Ethnic Colony,” lecture for Meiji Gakuin University students in American Studies Seminar, Hope College, Sept. 1, 2011.
"Dutch Catholics and Protestants in Wisconsin: A Study in Contrasts and Similarities,” with Hans Krabbendam, paper presented to the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Sheboygan, WI, June 9, 2011.
"Our Town: Ten Surprises in Holland’s History,” paper presented to the Century Club of Holland, Nov. 1, 2010.
"The Form of Subscription in Reformed Church History Since the Synod of Dort," lecture at Protestant Reformed Seminary, Wyoming, Mich., Oct. 2, 2009.
"Immigrant Murders Go to the Gallows," paper for the Seventeenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, June 4, 2009.
"Reformed Churches in the 19th Century." Docent's Tutorial, Holland Museum, Apr. 21, 2009.
"Old Wing Mission: Rev. George and Arvilla Smith, Chief Wakazoo's Ottawa Indian Band, and the Dutch." Lecture for the Zeeland Historical Society, Sept. 9, 2008. Similar lectures for Hope College History Department Colloquium Series, Sept. 18, 2008; Hope Academy for Senior Professionals, Dec. 4 and 11, 2008; Graafschap Christian Reformed Church Adult Education, Jan. 18, 2009; La Grave (Grand Rapids) Christian Reformed Church Senior Group, Feb. 12, 2009; XYZ Seniors, Christ Memorial Church, Holland, May 19, 2009; Summer Enrichment Series, Oak Crest Manor, Holland, June 15, 2009.
"The Dutch and the Ottawas: A Unique Cultural Interchange." Presentation for Dutch-American Heritage Day, The Pinnacle Center, Hudsonville, Michigan, Nov. 20, 2008.
"Building the Reformed Church in Early Wisconsin." Paper for the Dutch-American Experience in Wisconsin, 1840-Present" Conference at Sheboygan Falls, WI, Sept. 26, 2008.
"The Form of Subscription in Dutch Reformed History." Returning Church Meeting, Byron Center, MI, Apr. 17, 2008.
"The Uniqueness of the Chicago's Dutch Community in Roseland." Presentation for the Van Vlissingen School June 1949ers Mini-Reunion, Glenwood, Ill, 28 June 2007.
"Prior Censorship: Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte and Hermanus Doesburg of De Hollander." Paper presented to the Sixteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Hope College, Holland, Mich., 7 June 2007.
"150th Anniversary of the Christian Reformed Church in 2007." Published in serial form in twelve weekly bulletins of the Central Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan, March-June 2007.
"From the Secession of 1834 to a New Denomination in 1857." Colonial Heritage Lecture Series, Graafschap Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Mich., 22 Apr. 2007.
"History of Pillar Christian Reformed Church at 150 Years." Lecture for the Holland Historical Society, Pillar Church, 1Holland, Mich., 2 Dec. 2006.
"The Fruits of the Protestant Reformation in West Michigan." Lecture at Reformation Day Rally, Messiah's Independent Reformed Church, Overisel, Mich., 1 Nov. 2006.
"Hans Krabbendam and the Writing of Dutch Immigration History." Talk at ceremony upon publication of Hans Krabbendam's Vrijheid in het vershiet: Nederlandse emigratie naar Amerika, 1840-1940 (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2006), Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands, 27 Oct. 2006.
"The Formation of Holland's Religious Character in the Nineteenth Century." Lecture for Leadership Holland Council, Pillar Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Mich., 12 Oct. 2006.
"The Holland Colony and the Origins of the Reformed Churches in the Midwest." Lecture presented to new international students from Calvin Theological Seminary at Central Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Mich., 29 Aug. 2006.
Pillar Church Building at 150 Years: A Sesquicentennial History." Lecture for the Holland Museum docents, 20 June 2006.
"A Touch of Dutch." Paper for YMCA Senior Executives, Holland, MI, 2 May 2006.
"Being Political in Holland." Paper for Holland Historical Society, Holland, MI, 14 April 2006.
"Chicago in the 1890s: The White City and Grey City." Paper for Holland Association for Senior Professionals (HASP), Hope College, Holland, MI, 5 Jan. 2006.
"Pioneer Holland." Paper for Seniors Dinner, Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Zeeland, MI, 9 Nov. 2005.
Elim Christian Services Lecture Tour (Calvin Academy Lifelong Learning). Palos Park, IL, 19 Oct. 2005.
"Old Wing Mission of Holland, Michigan and the Dutch." Paper for Holland Historical Society, Holland, MI, 14 June 2005; also for Seniors Group, Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church, Holland, MI, 23 Oct. 2005.
Book Panel: "Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier," with Douglas Anderson and Robert Schoone-Jongen. 15th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, 3 June 2005.
"'Garbios': Chicago's Dutch Scavengers." Lecture for the Calvin College Heritage Alumni Chapter of Grand Rapids, 11 September 2003. Repeated for the Calvin College Heritage Alumni Chapter of Arizona, Phoenix, 11 Mar. 2004, and for the Calvin College Alumni Chapter of Southwest Florida, Naples, 15 February 2005.
"The Dutch Imprint on West Michigan." Paper for the Century Club of Holland, Holland, MI, 3 January 2005.
"The West Michigan Dutch." Paper for the Genealogical Society of Holland annual luncheon, Holland, MI, 11 December 2004.
"The Dutch in Urban America." Lecture for the Netherlands-America Foundation, New York City, 19 October 2004.
"Dutch Immigrants in West Michigan." Paper presented to the West Michigan Genealogical Society Regional Conference, Grand Rapids, 2 October 2004.
"Walls or Bridges: A Comparative History of Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches in North America." Paper for the "Morsels in the Melting Pot" Conference, Free University of Amsterdam, 29 September 2004.
"Elim: Reflections on the History of Elim Christian Services of Chicago." Lecture for Elim's Founders' Day Celebration, Palos Heights, IL, 26 August 2004.
"The Book Dutch Chicago as a Teaching Moment." Lecture for the Men's Society dinner meeting, United Reformed Church, Wyoming, MI, 27 April 2004.
"Ethnic Glue and a Three-legged Stool: The Chicago Experience." Lecture for the Annual Meeting of the Reformed Fellowship, Grand Rapids, MI, 25 September 2003.
"First Reformed
Church's Storied Past: 150 Years of Faithful Service." Talk for the dinner
celebration of the 150th anniversary of the First Reformed Church of
Chicago, 4 October 2003. "Chicago Dutch
Scavengers." Leendert de Vreis/Meinder van der Kooy Lecture at the
University of Michigan, 29 October 2003. "Old Wing Mission and
the Coming of the Dutch to Holland." Lecture for the Zeeland Historical
Society, Zeeland, Michigan, 13 November 2003. "A Tale of Two
Congregations: Acculturalion and Its Long-Term Impact on Chicago's West
Side Reformed Churches." Paper presented to the Fourth Triennial
Conference, International Society for the Study of Reformed Communities
(ISSRC), University of Edinburgh, July 1, 2003 "The Urban Experience
in Dutch Immigrant History." Paper presented to the 14th Biennial
Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American
Studies (AADAS), Trinity Christian College, June 6, 2003. "'Bless the Lord, O My
Soul:' The Bible's Influence on the Dutch Immigrants." Paper presented for
the Holland Museum exhibit, "Promised Land, Chosen People: The Bible's
Influnece in Holland, 1550-1900," April 10, 2003. "'Garbios:' Chicago's
Dutch Scavengers." Paper presented at Winter Happening 2003, Hope College,
Holland, MI, January 25, 2003. "Walking in Wooden
Shoes: History, Culture, and Impact of the Dutch in Holland, Michigan."
Paper presented to the Alliance for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony (ACEH),
Holland, MI, November 8, 2002 "Before the Dutch: The
Ottawa and Old Wing Mission." Paper presented at the Holland Museum,
Holland, MI, October 24, 2002. "Worship and Work: The
Dutch of Chicago." Paper presented to the Holland Historical Society,
Holland, MI, January 8, 2002.
"The Dutch in West
Michigan: The Impact of a Contractual Community." Keynote address to the
Great Lakes History Association Conference, Grand Valley State University,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 10, 2001. "The Third Generation
and Dutch American Studies, 1960-2000." Paper presented to the 13th
Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch
American Studies, Calvin College, June 22, 2001. "The West Side Dutch
in Chicago." Paper presented to the "Holland Consultation on CRC History,"
Holland, MI, May 22, 2001 "Why Timothy?" Address
at Timothy Foundation Heritage Dinner, October 12,
2000. "'Unholy Mess:' The
IRM California Real Estate Investment Debacle in the Christian Reformed
Church in North America in the 1990s," Paper to be presented to the
conference "California Dreams," Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The
Netherlands, October 6, 2000. "The Dutch in
America," Elderhostel, Central College, Pella, Iowa. Lecture topics:
"Overview of Dutch Immigration in the USA;" "Religious Developments and
Relations of Hendrik P. Scholte and Albertus C. Van Raalte;" "Politics in
Pioneer Pella," July 11-13, 2000. "'Burn the Wooden
Shoes:' Modernity and Division in the Christian Reformed Church in North
America." Paper presented to the International Society for the Study of
Reformed Communities, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, June
2000. "The Third Generation
and Dutch American Studies, 1960-2000." Paper presented at "The Dutch
American Experience" conference," Maas Center, Hope College, June 9,
2000. "Defending Orthodoxy:
Religious Struggles in the Dutch Immigrant Churches of Western Michigan."
Holland Genealogical Society, Holland, MI, Oct. 16, 1999; and Western
Michigan Genealogical Society, Grand Rapids, MI, November 6,
1999. "The Groningen Hoek:
Chicago's West Side Dutch." Paper presented to the Senior Citizen
Fellowship, Faith Christian Reformed Church, Elmhurst, IL, October 26,
1999. "Computers and
Historical Research: Personal Reflections." Paper presented to the
Regional History Meeting, Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, MI,
September 24, 1999. "Holland's Unique
History." Dinner meeting address presented to the Van Andel Educators
Institute, Holland, MI, July 29, 1999. "Stellingwerff's
Amsterdamse Emigranten and Pella History." Paper presented to the
12th Biennial Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies
Conference, Central College, Pella, Iowa, June 4,
1999. "Place Mattered: The
Social Geography of Dutch Immigration in the Nineteenth Century." Paper
presented to the Geography Seminar at Calvin College, November 17, 1998,
and to the Geography Seminar at the University of Delaware, October 27,
2000. "True Brothers: The
Netherlandic Origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America,
1857-1880." Paper presented to the international conference "Breaches and
Bridges," at the Archief- en Documentiecentrum van de Gereformeerde Kerk,
Kampen, The Netherlands, November 6, 1998. "'A Paradise That
Never Was:' Dutch Immigration in Argentina." Paper presented to the
Twelfth International Economic History Conference, Madrid, Spain, August
28, 1998. "Van Raalte's Holland
Colony and Its Connections to Grand Rapids." Paper presented to the Grand
Rapids Historical Society Annual Dinner Meeting, May 14,
1998. What Makes the
Holland-Zeeland Region 'Tick' Economically: Dutch Religious and Cultural
Characteristics." Discussion of 2-Vandaag Video, Netherlands TV
Program, aired November 1997. "Jannes Van de Luyster
and the Founding of Zeeland. Michigan." Sesquicentennial Lecture, Zeeland
Historical Society, Zeeland, Michigan, October 21,
1997. From Colony to City:
Holland's First 25 Years." Paper presented to the Historical Society of
Michigan Annual Conference, Hope College, September 19, 1997. "Going to America:
Travel Routes of Zeeland Emigrants." Paper presented to the conference,
"Zeeland to America," at the Roosevelt Studies Center, Middelburg, The
Netherlands, September 5, 1997. "Van Raalte and
Scholte: Soured Relationships and Personal Rivalry." Paper presented to
the conference, "The Sesquicentennial of Dutch Immigration: 150 Years of
Ethnic Heritage," Association for the Advancement of Dutch American
Studies (AADAS), Hope College, June 13, 1997. "The Little White
Church: Religion in Rural America." Presidential Address, Agricultural
History Society meeting, San Francisco, April, 1997. "1834--Netherlands
Church Secession and the Dutch Emigration," and "1857--Secession Again:
Origins of the Christian Reformed Church." Pillar Christian Reformed
Church, Holland, Michigan, March 5, 19, 1997, lectures on the theme
"Church Struggles and the Founding of Holland" as part of the church's
sesquicentennial celebration. "'By the Sweat of our
Brow:'" Economic Aspects of the Dutch Immigration to Michigan." Paper
presented to the Holland Museum, Holland, Michigan, March 13,
1997. "Decisions, Decisions:
Turning Points in the Founding of Holland." Paper presented to the Holland
Historical Society, Holland, Michigan, February 18,
1997. "From Zeeland to
Zeeland in 1847." Paper presented to the Zeeland Historical Society,
Zeeland, Michigan, February 6, 1997. "Why Michigan? The
Founding of 'de Kolonie' of Holland in 1847." Paper presented to the Holland
Genealogical Society, Holland, Michigan, October 19,
1996. "Preserving Dutch
Pride: Dutch Social Clubs in the Midwest." Public lecture, Dutch American
Heritage Day, Holland MI, November 16, 1995. "Dutch Social Clubs in
Chicago." Paper presented to Association for the Advancement of Dutch
American Studies 10th Biennial Conference, Northwestern College, Orange
City IA, October 1995. "Samuel Myer Isaacs:
Founder of Temple Shaaray Tefila." Paper presented to Temple Shaaray
Tefila, New York City, on the occasion of the Temple's sesquicentennial
celebration, October 20, 1995. "Calvinists in the
Second City: The Dutch Reformed of Chicago's West Side." Paper presented
to the international conference Reformed Reactions to Modernity, Grand
Rapids MI, May 1994. "The Dutch on
Chicago's West Side." Paper presented to 9th Biennial Conference of the
Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Calvin College,
Grand Rapids MI, October, 1993. "Historians and the
Census: The Historiography of Census Research." Keynote address,
International Conference "The Use of Census Manuscripts for Historical
Research," University of Guelph, Ontario, March,
1993. "Overview of Dutch
Migration" and "Researching Dutch Records." Paper presented to the
Western Michigan Genealogical Society Seminar, "The Great Crossing to the
New World," Grand Rapids MI, October, 1992. "The Journey Across:
Migration from the Netherlands to the United States, 1820-1880." Paper
presented to International Conference "By Sea and By Air: Five Centuries
of Interaction Between the Low Countries and the Americas, 1492-1992,"
University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June, 1992. "Religious Diversity
and Cultural Localism: The Dutch in Cleveland, 1840-1990." Paper presented
to the Ohio Academy of History, Wright State University, April, 1992, and
to the Duquesne Forum, University of Duquesne, Pittsburgh, October,
1992. "Samuel Myer Isaacs:
The Dutch Rabbi of New York City." Paper presented to Association for the
Advancement of Dutch American Studies 8th Biennial Conference, Hope
College, Holland MI, September 1991. "Dutch Immigration to
the United States." Paper presented at the Catholic University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 1991. "Religion and
Immigration Behavior." Paper presented at Catholic University of Leuven,
Kortrijk Campus, Belgium, April 1991. "Graduate Studies in
the United States Without Financial Problems." Lecture presented at the
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, April 1991. "The Dutch
Transplanting in the Upper Midwest." Inaugural lecture of the Society for
the Study of Local and Regional History, Southwest State University,
Marshall MN, December 1990. "The Delayed
Transition from Folk to Labor Migration: The Netherlands, 1880-1920." Paper
presented to the Tenth International Economic History Congress,
Leuven, Belgium, August 1990. "Dutch Transatlantic
Migration to the United States, 1800-1880: The Economic, Social, and
Religious Dimensions." Paper presented to the International Congress of
Historical Sciences, Madrid, Spain, August 1990. "Religion and American
Political Behavior in the Nineteenth Century." Paper presented at the
Seventh US-USSR History Colloquium, Moscow, October
1989. "Jews First, Dutch
Second, Americans Third: Dutch Jewish Immigration and Religious Life in
the United States in the Nineteenth Century." Paper presented to the
conference "The Dutch in North-America: Immigration and Cultural
Continuity," Roosevelt Center, Middelburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands, June
1989. Also presented to the Organization of American Historians,
Washington DC, March 1990. "Quantitative Methods
in Immigration History Research: The Dutch Example." Seminar paper
presented to the Faculty of Economic and Social History, University of
Groningen, the Netherlands, June 1989. "The Groninger
Emigration and Settlement in Chicago in the Nineteenth Century." Paper
presented at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, June
1989. "Dutch Jewish
Immigration and Religious Life in the United States." Seminar paper
presented to the Migration Project Workshop, University of Bremen, West
Germany, June 1989. "Dutch Immigration
into Iowa and the Midwest." Lecture presented at the Institute for
Regional Research and Information, Flensburg, West Germany, June
1989. "Ethnicity in American
History: Melting Pot or Mosaic?" Paper presented to Institute for
Pedagogics, University of Hannover, and also to "English Workshop,"
University of Goettingen, West Germany, May 1989. "Dutch Immigration to
Michigan and the Middle West." Dedication lecture, Joint Archives of
Holland, Hope College, Holland MI, November 1988. "Regional and Local
Migration Links between Holland and America." Paper presented to the
Holland Genealogical Society, Holland MI, November
1988. "The Dutch
Transplanting in the United States." Paper presented at Central Michigan
University, Mt. Pleasant MI, April 1988. "Religion and
Political Behavior in the Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures."
Paper presented to the conference on "Religion and American Politics," The
Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College, Wheaton
IL, March 17-19, 1988. "Thistlethwaitean
Concepts in Migration Research." Paper presented to the Western History
Association Conference, Los Angeles, October 1987. "Chicago's 'Groninger
Hoek:' The Origin and Development of the Dutch Colony on the Old West Side
in the Nineteenth Century." Paper presented to the Association for the
Advancement of Dutch American Studies 7th Biennial Conference, Trinity
Christian College, Palos Heights IL, 1987. "The Settlement of the
Old Northwest: Ethnic Pluralism in a Featureless Plain." Paper presented
to the conference, "The Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance and the U.
S. Constitution," University of Illinois, Urbana, March
1987. "Dutch Patterns of
Migration to the United States in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Paper
presented to the conference, "A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930:
Comparative Perspectives," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN,
November 1986. Critique of In My
Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South
Carolina (Vernon Burton), presented at the Social Science History
Association conference, St. Louis MO, October 1986. "The Dutch
Transplanting in Michigan and the Midwest." The Clarence M. Burton
Memorial Lecture, 111th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of
Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, October 1985. "Dutch Immigration and
Settlement in the United States." Paper presented at the John F. Kennedy
Institute for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin, June
1985. "Immigration and
Ethnicity in American History." Paper presented at the University of
Hamburg, West Germany, June 1985. "Dutch Immigration
Patterns in the Nineteenth Century." Paper presented at the "Conference on
Immigration," Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute,
University of Utrecht, May 1985. "International
Migration Research: Methods and Sources." Seminar presented to Department
of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, April
1985. "The Rural Dimensions
of Urban History: The Dutch American Example." Paper presented to the American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December
1984. "Catholic and
Protestant Immigrants from the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: A
Comparative Analysis." Paper presented to Canadian Association for the
Advancement of Netherlandic Studies Conference, Calvin College, Grand
Rapids MI, Oct.1984. "Ethnicity in
Historical Perspective," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Iowa
University and College Teachers of History, Central College, Pella IA,
October 1984. "The Comparative Use
of Nominal Records in Dutch Immigration History." Bentley Historical
Library Seminar Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, August
1984. "Recent Trends in
American Rural Social History," presented to the Conference on Canadian
Rural History, University of Victoria, B.C., February
1984. "Immigration and
Ethnic Identity: The Dutch American Example." Paper presented to the
Christian Educators Association Midwest Conference, Chicago, November
1983. "The Malin Thesis of
Grassland Acculturation and the New Rural History." Paper presented to the
Social Science History Association, Washington DC, October 28,
1983. "Occupational Change
Among Netherlanders Overseas Emigrants to the United States in the
Nineteenth Century." Paper presented to the CUKANZUS Oxford '83
Conference, "Mirrors of the Old World: Europe and Its Reproduction
Overseas," Oriel College, University of Oxford, England, July 19,
1983. "Bibliographic
Instruction in Historical Methods Courses." Paper presented to the
Organization of American Historians, Cincinnati OH, April
1983. "Catholic and
Protestant Emigration from the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: A
Comparative Social Structural and Family Linkage Analysis" (with Yda
Saueressig-Schreuder). Paper presented to conference Perspectives on
American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN, November
1982. "Dutch International
Migration and Occupational Change: A Structural Analysis of Multinational
Linked Files." Paper presented to the Social Science History Association
meetings, University of Indiana, Bloomington, November
1982. "Dutch Immigration
Patterns in the 19th and 20th Centuries: An Overview." Paper presented to
the Conference on Dutch Immigration to America, 1782-1982, Balch Institute
for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, September 1982. "Exodus Netherlands,
Promised Land America: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United
States." Paper presented to the Conference "A Bilateral Bicentennial, Two
Hundred Years of Dutch American Relations," Amsterdam, June
1982. "New Deal Agricultural
Policies." Lecture presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder CO,
April 1982. "The Integration of
Bibliographic Instruction in Historical Methodology." Paper presented to
the American Historical Association and meeting jointly with the
Association for Bibliography of History, Los Angeles, December
1981. "Social Science
History: The Past, Present, and Future of the Journal." Paper
presented to the Social Science History Association, Nashville TN, October
1981. "Theoretical
Perspectives on the New Rural History: From Environmentalism to
Modernization." Paper presented to the Social Science History Association,
Nashville TN, Oct. 1981. "Jacob Van Hinte:
Sociographer and Historian of Dutch American Immigration and Settlement."
Paper presented to 5th Biennial Conference of the Association for the
Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Central College, Pella IA, October
1981. "Quantitative Methods
in Rural Land Holding and Tenancy Studies." Paper presented to the US-USSR
Colloquium in Quantitative Methods in History, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR,
June 1981. "A Quantitative Study
of Dutch Immigration to the United States." Paper presented to the
Graduate Seminar in Economic History, University of Leiden, The
Netherlands, May 1981. "Dutch Immigration to
the U.S.: A Computer Approach." Lecture to the Holland Genealogical
Society, Holland MI, April 1981. "The Anatomy of
Migration to North America in the Nineteenth Century." Public lecture
presented at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, January
1981. "The New Rural
History." Public lecture presented at Iowa State University, Ames IA,
December 1980. "Agriculture, Rural
Life, and the New Rural History." Paper presented to the American
Association for State and Local History Northeastern Regional Seminar on
"Reexamining America's Past: The New Social History and Interpretive
Problems," New Haven CT, November 1980. "Social Science
History: A Critique and
Appreciation." Paper presented to the Conference on Faith and History,
North Park College, Chicago IL, September 1980. "The Anatomy of
Migration: From Europe to the U. S. In the Nineteenth Century." Paper
presented to the World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City UT, August
1980. "Behaviorism and
Quantification in the Social Sciences." Paper presented at Idaho State
University, Pocatello ID, July 1980. "Historians'
Presuppositions and the American Anti-Slavery Crusade." Jubilee 1980
Conference, Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel, Pittsburgh PA, March
1980. "Ethnicity in
Historical Perspective." Seventh Annual Western Michigan History Teachers
Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI, February
1980. "Behavioralism in
Historical Perspective: A Critique." Lecture for Institute for Christian
Studies, Toronto, February 1980. "Dutch International
Labor Migration to the United States 1835-1880." American Historical
Association, New York, December, 1979. Revised version presented to the
Netherlandic Studies Conference on the History of Dutch Immigration to
North America, University of Toronto, February 1980. "The Meaning of the
Midwest From an Historian's Perspective." Opening address to the 11th
Annual Midwest Writers' Conference, Malone College, Canton OH,
October 1979. "Immigration Data
Files and Computer Mapping." Paper presented to the Conference on Data
Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover
NH, August 1979. "Social Statistics and
Community Studies." Lecture presented to the Minnesota Social History
Project, Winona MN, June 1979. Panelist: "Collecting
and Interpreting Ethnic History." American Association of Museums meeting,
Western Historical Association, June 1979. "The Social Bases of
the Dutch Reformed Schism: Americanization and the Dutch Church in
America." Paper presented to the Great Lakes History Conference, Grand
Rapids MI, May 1979. "The Quantitative
Contribution to American Historical Research." Public Lecture, Bradley
University, Peoria IL, April 1979. "Dutch Immigration
Patterns in the Nineteenth Century." Paper presented in Dordt College
Lecture Series, Sioux Center IA, March 1979. "Local-Cosmopolitan
Theory and Immigrant Religion: The Social Bases of the Antebellum Dutch
Reformed Schism." Paper presented to the Missouri Valley History
Conference, March 1979, Omaha NE, and in revised form presented in the
Dordt College Lecture Series, March 1979, Sioux Center, IA. In further revised and expanded
form, presented to the Social Science History Association meetings,
M.I.T., Cambridge MA, November 1979. "Dutch Emigration and
Immigration Records: A Source Critique." Paper presented to the National
Genealogical Society, National Archives, Washington DC, November 1978; and
somewhat revised, presented to the Portage County Genealogical Society,
Kent State University, October 1978; and further revised, presented to the
Western Michigan Genealogical Society, Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand
Rapids MI, December 1978; and to the Geauga County Genealogical Society,
Burton OH, Nov. 1979. "Dutch Immigrant
Demography, 1820-1880." Paper presented to Southern Historical Society
meetings, St. Louis MO, Nov. 1978. "International Labor
Migration in the Nineteenth Century: The Dutch Example." Paper presented
to the Seventh International Economic History Congress, Edinburgh,
Scotland, August 1978. "Behavioralism in
Historical Research: Power to the Computer?" Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, Western
Pennsylvania Regional Conference 1978, Westminster College, PA, April
1978. "Behavioralism in
Historical Research." Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, Ball State University,
History Department Lecture Series, 1977-78, April 1978, Muncie
IN. "Dutch-American
Historical Research: A Behavioral Perspective." Paper presented to the
Dutch American Historical Workshop, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI,
November 1977. "Dutch Immigration to
the United States: Sources, Theories, and Findings." Paper presented to
London School of Economics, May 1976, and the University of Uppsala,
Sweden, May 1976. "Land Speculation and
Its Impact on American Growth and Welfare: An Historiographical Review." Paper
presented to London School of Economics, May 1976, and University of
Uppsala, Sweden, May 1976. "Social Science
History: Past, Present, and Future." Lecture delivered at the University
of Leiden, the Netherlands, March 1976, and the University of Paris
(Sorbonne), April 1976. "Ethnicity in
Historical Perspective." Paper presented to the Humanities Symposium of
the Iowa Board for Public Programs in the Humanities, Luther College,
Decorah IA, August 1975; and somewhat revised, presented in the Faculty
Lecture Series, the College of Arts and Sciences, Kent State University,
Kent OH, November 1975. "The Impact of
Reformed Dutch Immigrants on the American Reformed Churches in the
Nineteenth Century." Paper presented to the American Society of Church
History, Toronto, April 1975. "Immigrant Mobility
Patterns: The Dutch as a Case Study." Paper presented to the National
Archives Symposium, "Community-Building on the Frontier," University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, November 1974. "The Quantitative
Approach and Ethnic Studies." Paper presented to National Ethnic Studies
Assembly, Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH, June
1974. "Rural America: A
Counterpart to Urban History." Paper presented and seminar leader in the
Workroom session on new approaches to American Social History,
Organization of American Historians, Denver CO, April
1974. "The New Urban
History." Panelist, at the Ohio Academy of History, April
1974. "Quantification in
American History: Lessons of the Past." Paper read to the Ohio Academy of
History, April 1974. "Perspectives on
History." Lecture delivered at the Malone College Conference on Faith and
History, Canton OH, February 1974. "Quantitative
Historical Data and the Archivist." Paper read to the Ohio Society of
Archivists, Kent State University, May 1973. "Clio and Numbers." Paper
read for the History Department Lecture Series, Indiana State
University, Terre Haute IN, February 1972; Geneva College, Beaver Falls
PA, October 1972; Pembroke State College, Pembroke NC, November 1972; St.
Andrews College NC, November 1972; Case-Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, October 1973; Grove City College, Grove City PA, October 1973;
Taylor University, Upland IN, March 1974. "Computers and
Comparative History." Paper read to the Comparative Civilizations
Conference, sponsored by the International Society for the Comparative
Study of Civilizations and the Social Science Department of Eastern
Kentucky University, Richmond KY, October 1972. "Acres for Cents:
Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa." Paper read to the Agricultural
History Society in joint session with the American Historical Association,
New York, December 1971. "Computerized Research
in History." Paper read to the Southern Historical Association Meetings,
Houston TX, November 1971. "Speculation in Tax
Titles: The Profitability of Delinquent Tax Lien Investments in 19th
Century Iowa." Paper read to the Northern Great
Plains History Conference, Moorehead State College, Moorehead MN, November
1971. "Computerized
Historical Research in the U.S.A.: A Survey and Evaluation." Paper read to
the Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology, Jerusalem,
Israel, August 1971, and to the Fifth International Conference (Congress
71) of the International Federation of Information Processing,
Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, August 1971. "Computer-Assisted
Research in History." Paper read to Computers in the Humanities Summer
Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, July
1971. "The Historian, the
University, and Student Unrest." Paper read to the Conference on Faith and
History, American Historical Association meetings, Boston MA, December
1970. "Computerized
Historical Research: Problems and Prospects." Paper read to the 25th
National Conference of the Association of Computing Machinery, New York
City, September 1970. Discussant at
Conference on Quantitative Methods in American History, sponsored by the
Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.), Graduate
Center of the City University of New York, May 1970. "The Tax-Buyer as a
Frontier Investor Type." Paper read at the Business History Society
Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, April
1970. "Quantification in
American Historical Research." Paper read for the History Department
Lecture Series, Ball State University, Muncie IN, 1969, 1972, and Indiana
State University, Terre Haute IN, 1971. Discussant at
Conference on Applications of Quantitative Methods to Political, Social,
and Economic History, sponsored by the Mathematics and Social Science
Board (MSSB), University of Chicago, June 1969. "Profits and Frontier
Land Speculation." Paper read to the Economic History Workshop, Department
of Economics and Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago,
1966. Commentator or Presider at Professional Conference Sessions
Presider: "The Dutch
Reformed Tradition and Historical Understanding: Groen van Prinsterer and
Abraham Kuyper," papers by George Harinck, Herman Paul, and James Kennedy,
Conference of faith and History, Huntington College, Huntington, IN,
October, 2002. Presider and
Commentator: "Politics and the Construction of Rural Social Order," papers
by Donald DeBats, Kathleen Niels Conzen, and Nils Jacobson, Social Science
History Association, Atlanta GA, October, 1994. Presider: "Reading for
Moral Progress: 19th Century Institutions Promoting Social Change," papers
by Donald G. Davis, David M. Hoode, Mark Tucker, and Nancy G. Garner,
Conference on Faith and History, Messiah College, Grantham PA, October,
1994. Presider and
Commentator: "Perspectives on Migration and Commercial
Agriculture" paper by Donald and JoAnn Parkerson, David Kertzer, Dennis
Hogan, James Oberly, Social Science History Association, Washington DC,
November 1989. Presider: Roundtable
Discussion of To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum
North, with Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman (authors), and Hal S.
Barron, Allan G. Bogue, Fred Carstensen, and Donald Winters, Social
Science History Association, Chicago, November
1988. Presider and
Commentator: "Land Speculation on the Northern and Southern Antebellum
Frontiers," papers by David Weiman, Susan E. Gray, James Oberly, Social
Science History Association, Chicago, November 1988. Presider: "Sermonology
and Popular Religion in the Early Republic," papers by Harry S. Stout,
Nathan O. Hatch, and George M. Marsden, American Historical Association,
Washington DC, December 1987. Presider and
Commentator: "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Rural History," papers by
Carville Earle, Donald Worster, Frederick H. Buttel, and Philip McMichael,
Social Science History Association, New Orleans LA, October
1987. Comment: "The
Constitution in Modern American," papers by Kathy Pully and Ronald A.
Wells, The Conference on Faith and History, Gordon College, Wenham MA,
October 1986. Panel Discussant:
In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in
Edgefield, South Carolina, by Orville Vernon Burton, Social Science
History Association, St. Louis MO, October 1986. Comment: "American
Demographic History," papers by Walter Nugent and Daniel Scott Smith,
Organization of American Historians, New York City, April
1986. Comment: "A Critique
of Christian Feminism,"lecture by Nancy Hardesty, Malone College
Conference on Faith and Learning, Canton OH, March
1986. Presider: "Historical
Sociology and Social History: A Dialogue," papers by Theda Skocpol,
Olivier Zunz, Laurel Cornell, and William G. Roy, Social Science History
Association, Chicago, November 1985. Presider:"Emigration
and the Decline of Traditional Industries in Mid- Nineteenth Century
Europe," papers by Yda Saueressig, Dierdre Mageean, and Brenda Collins,
Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, October
1984. Presider: "The Dutch
in Grand Rapids and Holland, Michigan," papers by David G. Vanderstel and
Richard Doyle, Fourth Biennial Conference of the Association for the
Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Hope College, Holland MI, September
1983. Presider:
"Christianity Amid Depression and War," papers by Dennis Voskuil, Joel
Carpenter, and Jan Shipps, at the Conference on Evangelical Christianity
and Modern America, 1930-1980, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College,
Wheaton IL, April 1983. Comment: "Moral
Aspects of American Diplomacy: Values and the Assignment of Foreign Aid,"
paper by Marvin H. Zahniser at the Faith and Culture Lecture Series,
Malone College, Canton OH, April 1981. Comment: Film Showing
of "Prairie Fires," Social Science History Association meeting, Rochester
NY, November 1980. Comment: "The Role of
Religious Colleges." Chair: Robert J. Donia, papers by Erving E.
Beauregard and Peter P. De Boer at the Great Lakes History Conference,
Grand Rapids MI, April 1980. Presider: "Post-World
War II Immigration to Ontario from the Netherlands," paper by Mark
Boekelman, Society of Ontario), Dutch American Historical Conference,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI, November 1979. Panelist: "Melvin J.
Feinberg Memorial Colloquium on Teaching," Kent State University, Kent OH,
September 1979. Participant: First
U.S.-U.S.S.R. Colloquium in Quantitative History, American Historical
Association, Belmont Conference Center, Elkridge MD, September
1979. Comment: "The Virginia
Military Tract" Chair: Richard Kern, papers by David B. Eller and Ellen W.
Denney at the Ohio Academy of History, Columbus OH, April
1979. Presider:
"Manipulating the Press," papers by Jerry Hopkins and Paul Kubricht, at
the Conference on Faith and History, Geneva College, Beaver Falls PA,
November 1978. Presider: "Toward the
New Rural History," papers by Hal Seth Barron, Robert C. Ostergren,
William Harris, commentators Michael Conzen, Glen V. Fuguitt, at the
Social Science History Association meetings, Columbus OH, November
1978. Presider: "Evangelical
Religion: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives," papers by George M.
Marsden and Ira Harkavy, at the Social Science History Association
meetings, Ann Arbor MI, November 1977. Comment: "Social
Analysis and Characteristics of a Western Elite: The Mormon Hierarchy,"
paper by D. Michael Quinn at the Western Historical Association, Portland
OR, October 1977. Comment: "Missionaries
and Converts: A Look From Both Sides," Chair: Richard Poll, papers by Gene
Sessions and Malcolm Thorpe at the Mormon History Association, Kirkland
OH, April 1977. Comment: "Town vs.
Countryside in Georgia Politics and Public Policy," Chair: Monroe Lee
Billington, papers by Robert McMath, Jr., Jane Walker Herndon, Peter
Wallenstein at the Organization American Historians, Atlanta GA, April
1977. Comment: "Community
Studies in the Nineteenth Century South," Chair: Sheldon Hackney, papers
by Peter Wallenstein, Samuel Kipp, and Vernon Burton, American Historical
Association, Washington DC, December 1976. Comment: "Great Plains
Agriculture," Chair: Gilbert C. Fite, papers by James L. Forsythe and
James B. Beddow, Western Historical Association, Fort Worth TX, October
1973. Comment: "Tenant
Farming in Iowa, 1860-1900: A Study of the Terms of Rental Leases," paper
by Donald L. Winters at the Agricultural History Symposium on Midwestern
Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames IA, May
1973.
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