Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 154.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on June 15th, 2024 in Austin, Texas.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States

from the beginning without intentional presentism. We're back in New Netherland. Longstanding and

attentive listeners may notice that in this episode I pronounce various of the Dutch names

a bit differently than I did in the past.

Not that my new pronunciations are very good, but I do hope they are recognizable as an attempt,

however poorly executed, to pronounce them as the Dutch would.

For this, I sincerely thank Professor Danny Norlander of the State University of New York

at Oneonta, who graciously donated some time on the phone this morning to straighten me out.

For Dutch speakers who would say I'm still doing it wrong, all blame rests with me.

Finally, I'm still going to pronounce famous names known by

most Americans, Renzalier and Stuyvesant, as we Americans typically do, since it would

sound pretentious, like Diane Keaton going on about the correct pronunciation of Van Gogh.

You guys remember that, right?

I'm afraid that I've given the Dutch short shrift in this podcast, at least compared to New

England and the Chesapeake.

We've tended to do as is usually done in surveys of American history.

Looked at the 55-year period of Dutch settlement, mostly in New York

and New Jersey, as a reflection of or an obstacle to the English, or even the Swedish. Only

occasionally have we looked at New Netherland as its own thing. We will do that in this episode,

which looks at extended fighting between the

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