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Presented November 21, 2024

Scholar Jaap Jacobs, currently working on a Society of Daughters of Holland Dames funded translation project, joins Russell Shorto to talk about the work of translating these documents, new information yet to be uncovered, as well as Petrus Stuyvesant, who Jacobs is researching for his upcoming biography.

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