Product Description: Old Wing Mission is a historical treasure of rare documents giving the account of Reverend George N. and Arvilla Smith in their work and social interactions with Native Americans at a Christian mission colony.  

Product Description: Founded in 1948 by the Dutch Reformed community of Chicago, Elim Christian School (recently renamed Elim Christian Services) was the first Reformed school to serve those with developmental and physical limitations. Since its inception, this unique institution has been an oasis in the desert of disability for more than 5,000 persons, ages three to sixty-five...read more

Product Description: Stellingwerff (Free U. of Amsterdam) and Swierenga (history, Hope College, Holland) present an expanded edition of the original Dutch text published under the title Amsterdamse Emigranten (Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1976). The text features some 215 immigrant letters relating to the midwestern frontier, from archives and private holdings on both sid...read more

Product Description: Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Indeed, with their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak, they have flourished in modern American society while managing to maintain much of their distinctive heritage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Volume 29 records the story of the RCA's first fifty years of mission in sub-Saharan Africa, told through the eyes of a missionary who has worked for half a century in this difficult region of the world. A fascinating account of the church's work in a foreign land, this volume also includes twenty-seven illustrations and six maps of the sub-Sahara...read more

Product Description: The Forerunners offers the first detailed history of the immigration of Dutch Jews to the United States and to the whole American diaspora. Robert Swierenga describes the life of Jews in Holland during the Napoleonic era and examines the factors that caused them to emigrate, first to the major eastern seaboard cities of the United States, then to the frontier cities of the Midwest, and finally to San Francisco...read more

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Product Description: Book by Swierenga, Robert

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Product Description: This collection brings together eighteen outstanding essays originally published in Civil War History. All of the contributions are recent. They reflect the latest scholarship on the nonmilitary aspects of the Civil War--revisionist viewpoints that are often derived from new social statistical methodologies...read more