Welcome to the New Amsterdam History Center Workspace Site.
Materials on this site are made available for all participants in the process of helping to create a site that will present visitors with a Virtual Tour of New Amsterdam.

If you have questions about the material on the site, or wish to make suggestions for additions to the site, please contact:
ToyaDubin@HudsonMicroimaging.com




Websites We Admire

 

Websites we admire for their structure, design and the way they present material:

http://www.1654society.org/

http://themannahattaproject.org/

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/era_founding.php    The Gilder Lehrman Institute – This site may serve as a model for future aspects of the NAHC's educational components.

Bard College, Graduate Center for Arts and Design

Broadsides – a film about naval battle in the 17th Century

Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center

http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/shoreline/introduction.html - NYPL - Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/09/manhattan/miller-text - National Geographic's Online September 2009 Issue with Article "Before New York" and interactive "Beneath New York"

http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/home.html - Virtual world exploration

http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/fivepoints/ - Database exploration


Websites we admire for the way they present information to children:

http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/intro.html - Plimoth Plantation's Thanksgiving History Search for Children

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/dollhouse.htm - The National Gallery of Art's Dollhouse Game

Department of Education
Teachers Guide Half Moon and Henry Hudson.pdf
Teaching Guide OntheTrailofHenryHudsoninAmsterdam2.pdf


Websites we admire for their content as it relates to the NAHC mission:

http://www.nnp.org/vtour/index.html

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/grapharch.html

http://www.billsbrownstone.com/walks/index.asp   - Bill Greer, the author of a recent historical novel "The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan, A Novel of New Amsterdam" has written interesting descriptions of various residents, streets and sites of New Amsterdam including Stone Street, our prototype area.  He is treasurer of the New Netherland Institute

http://www.tug44.org/hudson.river/

http://www.hhr.highlands.com/default.html

Half Moon 2009 Voyage of Discovery

http://www.halfmoon.mus.ny.us/2008fallvod/2008vodlog.htm

The Onrust Project

Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost

http://www.planning.org/tuesdaysatapa/2009/mar.htm - American Planning Association - This website from a Chicago Museum is an interesting combination of audio with a link to a presentation document. It is possible that this method could be used for professional development in the future.

http://dutchbarnsurvey.org -A Survey of Dutch New World Cultural Resources