Dr. Robert P. Swierenga, Research Professor, A.C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan

A Selected Bibliography on the Dutch in America (2011)

Holland Michigan: From Dutch Colony to Dynamic City 3 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2014).

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 Co-author William Van Appledorn) (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2008).

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: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 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 Church in the Nineteenth Century (with Elton Bruins) (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999)

The Forerunners:  Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994)

Edited Books:

Dutch Americans and War: United States and Abroad. Co-editor with Nella Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2014).

Diverse Destinies: Dutch Kolonies in Wisconsin and the East. Co-editor with Nella 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 with with Jacob E. Nyenhuis and Lauren M. Berka (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 209).

Dutch-American Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective (Co-editor with Jack Nyenhuis and Nella Kennedy) (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2008).

Dutch Immigrants on the Plains (Co-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, 2005).

The Dutch in Urban America (with Donald Sinnema and Hans Krabbendam) (Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 2004).

For Food and Faith: Dutch Immigration to Western Michigan, 1840-1960 [The Holland Museum Sesquicentennial Lectures] (Holland, MI: Holland Museum, 2000).

Dutch Enterprise: Alive and Well in North America (with Larry Wagenaar) (Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 2000).

The Sesquicentennial of Dutch Immigration: 150 Years of Ethnic Heritage (with Larry Wagenaar) (Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 1998).

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).

A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782-1982 (New York: Octagon Books, 1982).

Articles:

"Off the Pulpit: Van Raalte as Community Leader," 125-50, in The Enduring Legacy of Albertus C. Van Raalte as Leader and Liason, 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. Robert P. Swierenga, Nella Kennedy, 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. (Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2010)

"Murdered by the Mob: The Fate of Chicago Teamster Sipke Hoekstra," Origins, 28 (No 1, 2010): 30-34.

"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, Cornelis 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

"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," 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 Morsels in the Melting Pot, eds. George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam (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 Morsels in the Melting Pot, eds. George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam (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 Chronicle and Newsletter, 27 (Winter 2005): 18-22.

"Ethnic Glue and a Three Legged Stool: The Chicago Experience," The Outlook (March 2004): 5-11.

"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 Descendents ... 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).

"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)

"True Brothers: The Netherlandic Origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, 1857-1880," 61-83, in Bridges and Bridges: A Comparison between the Reformed Subcultures in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, eds. George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam (2000). (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 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)

"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.

"Jan Van Mekelenberg," in D.G. Hart and Mark Noll, eds., Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed Tradition in America (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1999), 159.

"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.   

"'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.

"Decisions, Decisions: Turning Points in the Founding of Holland," Michigan Historical Review 24 (Spring 1998): 48-72.

"Going to America: Travel Routes of Zeeland Emigrants," Nehalennia: Bulletin van de Werkgroep Historie en Archeologie, 114, 1997, theme number 11, "Zeeuwse emigratie naar Amerika, 1840-1920," 19-30.

"'God's Building:' Holland Colony of Van Raalte Celebrates       150 Years," DIS-Magazine [Dutch International Society Nederland] 1 (1997): 36-39.

"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.

"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.

"The Low Countries," in Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience, 2 vols., ed. Robert W. Taylor (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996), 1:102-23.

"Promoting Ethnic Pride: The Dutch-American Social Clubs of Chicago," Origins 14 no. 2 (1996): 30-37.

"'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.

"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.        

"Netherlanders in Chicago," in The Dutch in Chicago, 1870-1995 (Chicago: Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Chicago, 1995), 5-16. (Reprinted in abridged form in De Nieuwe Amsterdammer 5 (Nov. 1995): 11.

"Religious Diversity and Cultural Localism: The Dutch in Cleveland, 1840-1990," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, 67

"Odyssey of Woe:  The Journey of the Immigrant Ship April from Amsterdam to New Castle, 1817-1818," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 118 (Oct. 1994): 303-23.

"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.

"Dutch in Indianapolis," in Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. Robert G. Barrow (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1994), 516-17.

"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.

"The Delayed Transition from Folk to Labor Migration: The Netherlands, 1880-1920," International Migration Review 27 (Summer 1993): 406-424.

"Samuel Myer Isaacs: The Dutch Rabbi of New York City," American Jewish Archives 44 (Fall/Winter 1992): 604-21. (Expanded version of Origins 10, No. 1 (1992): 16-21.)

"Religion and Immigration Behavior: The Dutch Experience," in Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History, Robert P. Swierenga and Philip R. VanderMeer, eds. (1991), 164-188.

"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), in the pamphlet Historical Essays on Rural Life (Marshall, MN: Southwest State University, 1991), 20 pages.

"List Upon List:  The Ship Passenger Records and Immigration

Research," Journal of American Ethnic History 10 (Spring 1991): 42-53.

"Jews First, Dutch Second, Americans Third:  Dutch Jewish Settlement and Life in the United States in the Nineteenth Century," in Rob Kroes and Henk-Otto Neuschaeffer, eds., The Dutch in North America:  Their Immigration and Cultural Continuity (Amsterdam: Vu University Press, 1991), 391-409.

"Local Patterns of Dutch Migration to the United States in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," in Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzanne M. Sinke, eds., A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 134-157.

"Dutch Jewish Immigration and Religious Life in the Nineteenth Century," American Jewish History 79 (Fall 1990): 56-73.

"Jan Van Mekelenberg," in The Dictionary of Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. Reid (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 722-23.

"Peter Stuyvesant," in The Dictionary of Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. Reid (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 1143-44.

"Protestant Immigration and Ethnicity in America," in The Dictionary of Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. R. (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 569-71.

"Under-Reporting of Dutch Immigration Statistics: Recalculation," International Migration Review 21 (Winter 1988): 1596-99.

"Religion and Immigration Patterns:  A Comparative Analysis of Dutch Protestants and Catholics, 1835-1880," Journal of American Ethnic History 5 (Spring 1986): 23-45.

"Dutch International Migration and Occupational Change: A Structural Analysis of Multinational Linked Files," in Ira A. Glazier and Luigi De Rosa, eds., Migration Across Time and Nations:  Population Mobility in Historical Contexts (NY: Holmes & Meier, 1986), 95-124.

"Overseas Migration:  A Mirror of Dutch Culture," De Gids, Special 150th Anniversary Issue, February 1987, 152-155.

"The Dutch in Cleveland," in John J. Grabowski and David Van Tassel, eds., Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987), 351-352.

"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 Immigration Patterns in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in Robert P. Swierenga, ed., The Dutch in America: Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1985), 15-42.

"Archival Materials and Manuscripts in the Netherlands on Immigration to the United States," in Lewis Hanke, ed., Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the U.S., 1945-1980 (6 vols., Washington: American Historical Association, and Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1985), III, 195-215.

"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.

"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 Saueressig-Schreuder).

"Dutch International Labor Migration to North America in the Nineteenth Century," in Mark Boekelman and Herman Ganzevoort, eds., Dutch Immigration to North America (Toronto, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1983), 1-34.

"Het Bestuderen van de Nederlandse Emigratie naar de Verenigde Staten," Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Geneologie, Volume 35, 1981 (The Hague, Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, 1982), 252-268.

"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).

"Exodus Netherlands, Promised Land America: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United States," in J. W. Schulte Nordholt and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., A Bilateral Bicentennial: >A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782-1982 (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff International; NY: Octagon Books, 1982), 127-147.

"A Denominational Schism from a Behavioral Perspective: The 1857 Dutch Reformed Separation," The Reformed Review 34 (Spring 1981): 172-185.  Reprinted in Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies III (Fall 1981-Spring 1982): 49-57.

"Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files," International Migration Review 15 (Fall 1981): 445-470.

"The Dutch," in Stephen Thernstrom, ed., Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), 284-295.

"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).

"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.

"Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Immigrant Religion: The Social Basis of the Antebellum Dutch Reformed Schism," Journal of Social History 14 (Fall 1980): 113-135. Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for summary in Sociology Abstracts.

"Immigrant Data Files and Computer Mapping," in J. Raben and G. Marks, eds., International Federation of Information Processing, Proceedings of the Dartmouth Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980), 119-123.

"The Dutch in America: An Overview," in Linda Pegman Doezema, Dutch Americans: A Guide to Manuscript Sources, (Detroit: Gale Publications, 1979), xi-xix.

"The Causes of Dutch Emigration to America: An 1866 Account," Michigana 24 (May 1979): 56-61; (Summer 1979), 92-97.

"Dutch Immigration Historiography," Immigration History Newsletter 11, No. 2 (Nov. 1979): 1-5.

"Socio-Economic Patterns of Migration from the Netherlands to the U.S. in the Nineteenth Century," in Paul Uselding, ed., Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1976) (with Harry Stout), 298-333.

"Netherlanders in America," in The Americans and the Dutch (United States Information Agency, The Hague, the Netherlands, 1976), 24-29.

"Dutch Immigration in the Nineteenth Century, 1820-1877: A Quantitative Overview," Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 28 (Autumn 1975): 7-34 (with Harry Stout).

"Place of Refuge (Pella, Iowa)," Annals of Iowa 39 (Summer 1968): 321-57.

"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 C. Luebke (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971), 229-50.