Robert P. Swierenga Vita                                         1/07

 

Current Position:

A.C. Van Raalte Research Professor of History

A.C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College

100 East 8th Street

P.O. Box 9000

Holland, MI 49422

 

Personal Data:

     Birth date and Place:  June 10, 1935, Chicago, Illinois

     Marital Status:  Married

 

Training and Fields of Preparation:

     B.A.  History, Calvin College, 1957

     M.A.  History, Northwestern University, 1958

           Master's Essay: Arthur S. Link (Director), "The

             American Punitive Expedition to Mexico, 1916-1917."

     Ph.D. History, University of Iowa, 1965

           Major Fields:  American/Agricultural and Economic

             History, U.S. 19th Century

           Minor Fields:  Reformation, Latin America

           Dissertation:  Allan G. Bogue (Director), "Pioneers

             and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier."

 

Teaching Positions:

     A.C. Van Raalte Research Professor, Hope College, 1996-

     Professor, Kent State University, 1968-1996, Emeritus, 1996-

     Visiting Professor, Calvin College, Spring 1980

     Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Summer

       1966, Summer 1967

     Assistant Professor, Calvin College, 1965-68

       Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa, 1962-65    

     Instructor in History, Calvin College, 1961-62

     Head, Social Studies Department, Pella Christian High                     School, Pella, Iowa, 1958-61

 

Courses:

     American Economic and Business History

     Early National Period, 1790-1840

     Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840-1880

     Research Seminar in American History

     Quantitative Historical Methods

     History of the Westward Movement

     American Land History           

     American Religious History

                                                                  Dissertations directed to completion, 1968-1999: 24

Masters theses directed to completion, 1968-1996: 18

 

Post Doctoral Honors and Awards:

     Knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in the Order of

       the Netherlands Lion, June 9, 2000

     Fulbright Research Scholarship, University of Leiden,

       The Netherlands, 1976, 1985

     American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1981

     Council on Research in Economic History, Grant, 1968

     American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1967

     Kent State University Academic Year Fellowships,

       1969, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1994

     Teaching Development Award, Summer, 1970, 1984

     Distinguished Alumnus, Calvin College, 2003

 

Societies:

     Organization of American Historians

     Agricultural History Society

     Conference on Faith and History

     Immigration and Ethnic History Society

    

Professional Biographical Listings:

     Who's Who in America, 58th ed., 2003

     The Writers Directory, 1992-94 ed.

     International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 10th ed., 1989

     International Directory of Distinguished Leadership Hall of

       Fame, 10th edition, 2001 

 

Professional Positions:

     Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies,

       President, 1999-2001

     Agricultural History Society, Vice-President and President

       1996-1998; Executive Committee, 1972-1974, 1992-1995

     Managing Co-editor, Social Science History (The Journal of

       the Social Science History Association), 1976-1991;

       Editorial Board, 1991-1994

     Social Science History Assoc., Executive Committee, 1974-91

       Immigration History Society, Executive Board, 1985-1988;

       Nominating Committee, 1994-1996

     Conference on Faith and History, President, 1986-1988;  

       Executive Committee, 1972-1974; Program Chair, 1974

     Contributing Editor, Origins, 1999-

     Editorial Board, Historical Methods Newsletter, 1973-1979

     Editorial Board, Agricultural History, 1977-1979

     Editorial Board, Explorations in Economic History 1971-1974

     Editorial Board, Fides et Historia, 1980-1983

     Referee, Civil War History, 1969-1996

     Chair, Ohio Data Archives Advisory Committee, Ohio Historical Society,

       1971-1976

     Trustee, Business History Society, 1974-1977

     Trustee, Calvin College, 1977-1982

 

 

Festschrift:

 

THE DUTCH-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ROBERT P. SWIERENGA, eds. Hans Krabbendam and Larry J. Wagenaar [Vrije Universiteit Studies on Protestant History](Amsterdam: VU Press, 2000)

 

PUBLICATIONS: 

 

Books:

 

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, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 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 CHURCHES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY  

  (with Elton Bruins) (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999)

    

THE FORERUNNERS: DUTCH JEWRY IN THE NORTH AMERICAN DIASPORA

  (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994)

 

ACRES FOR CENTS: DELINQUENT TAX AUCTIONS IN FRONTIER IOWA           

  (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1976)

 

PIONEERS AND PROFITS: LAND SPECULATION ON THE IOWA FRONTIER (Ames: Iowa

  State University Press, 1968)

 

 

Edited Books:

 

DUTCH IMMIGRANTS ON THE PLAINS (Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, Fifteenth Biennial Conference Papers), eds. Robert P. Swierenga, Paul Fessler, and Hubert R. Krygsman. Holland, Mich.: Joint Archives of Holland, 2006.

 

THE DUTCH IN URBAN AMERICA, eds. Robert P. Swierenga, Donald Sinnema, and Hans Krabbendam. Holland, Mich.: Joint Archives of Holland, 2004.

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 Publishing Co., 2003)

 

DUTCH ENTERPRISE: ALIVE AND WELL IN NORTH AMERICA (with Larry Wagenaar)(Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 2000)

    

FOR FOOD AND FAITH: DUTCH IMMIGRATION TO WESTERN MICHIGAN

The Holland Museum Sesquicentennial Lectures (Holland, MI: Holland Museum, 2000)

 

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF DUTCH IMMIGRATION: 150 YEARS OF ETHNIC HERITAGE (with Larry Wagenaar) (Holland, MI: Joint Archives of Holland, 1998)

 

BELIEF AND BEHAVIOR: ESSAYS IN THE NEW RELIGIOUS HISTORY (with Philip R. VanderMeer) New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991)

 

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)

         

HISTORY AND ECOLOGY: JAMES C. MALIN'S STUDIES OF THE GRASSLAND (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1984)

         

ETHNIC HISTORY (Special Issue of Ethnic Forum), 4 (Spring 1984)

         

A BILATERAL BICENTENNIAL: A HISTORY OF DUTCH-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1782-1982 (New York, Octagon Books, 1982)

         

BEYOND THE CIVIL WAR SYNTHESIS: POLITICAL ESSAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1975)

 

QUANTIFICATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: THEORY AND RESEARCH (New York, Atheneum, 1970)

 

 

Compilations:

 

DUTCH HOUSEHOLDS IN U.S. POPULATION CENSUSES: 1850, 1860, 1870: AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY FAMILY HEADS AND SINGLES (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1987)

             

DUTCH IMMIGRANTS IN U.S. SHIP PASSENGER MANIFESTS, 1820-1880: AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY HOUSEHOLD HEADS AND INDEPENDENT PERSONS (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1983)

         

DUTCH EMIGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1835-1880: AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY HOUSEHOLD HEADS AND INDEPENDENT PERSONS (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1983)

 

IMMIGRATION RECORDS: DUTCH IN AMERICA, 1800s, Family Tree Maker's Family Archives, CD # 269, Broderbund, 2000

 

 

Articles Forthcoming:

 

"The Low Counties," Encyclopedia of the Midwest, forthcoming 2003

 

 

Articles Published:

 

"Unholy Mess: The IRM California Real Estate Debacle in the Christian Reformed Church in North America in the 1990s," 213-27, in George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Morsels in the Melting Pot: The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America (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 George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Morsels in the Melting Pot: The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America (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.

 

"The Dutch Urban Experience." In The Dutch in Urban America, eds. Robert P. Swierenga, Donald Sinnema, and Hans Krabbendam, 1-12. Holland, Mich.: Joint Archives of Holland, 2004.

 

"Ethnic Glue and a Three-legged Stool: The Chicage Experience." In The Outlook 54 (March 2004): 5-10.

 

Review of "Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920". In Journal of American Ethnic History 22 (summer 2003): 92-94.

 

"Dutch Protestants in America." In Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. Hans J.; Hillerband, 4 vols. Florence, Ky.: Routledge, 2003.

 

"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 Descendants ... 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). 

 

"God's Hand in History," in My Heart I Offer: Daily Devotions on the Journey of Faith (Grand Rapids: Calvin Alumni Association, 2000), 58.

 

"True Brothers: The Netherlandic Origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, 1857-1880," pp. 61-83, in Breaches and Bridges: Reformed Subcultures in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, eds. George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam [VU Studies on Protestant History 4](Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2000).

 

"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. 

 

"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).

 

"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).

 

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

    

"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.

 

"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.

 

"'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.

 

"The Little White Church: Historiographical Revisions on Religion in Rural America," in History and the Christian Historian Ronald Wells, ed. (Grand Rapids MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998), 159-177.

 

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

 

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

 

"The Little White Church: Religion in Rural America," Agricultural History 71 (Fall 1997): 415-41.

    

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

 

"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).

 

"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.     

 

"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.

    

"'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.

 

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

 

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

 

"Religious Diversity and Cultural Localism: The Dutch in Cleveland, 1840-1990," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, 67 (Summer 1995): 1-29.

 

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

 

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

 

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

    

"Agrarian Capitalism in the Countryside: The North American   Debates," in Het Platteland in Een Veranderende Wereld eds. Herman Diederiks, J. Thomas Lindblad, and Boudien de Vries (Hilversum: Verloren, 1994), 79-86.

    

"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.

    

"Thomas Corwin Donalson (1843-1898)," in Encyclopedia of the American West, eds. Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod (New York: Macmillan, 1995),

    

"Samuel Myer Isaacs: The Dutch Rabbi of New York City," American Jewish Archives 44 (Fall/Winter 1992): 604-21. (Expanded version of Origins article of 1992.)

 

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

 

"Identifying and Using Historical Materials:  View from the Classroom" (with Jane A. Rosenberg) in Teaching Bibliographic Skills in History:  A Sourcebook for Historians and Librarians, ed. Charles D'Aniello (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), 51-68.

 

"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.

 

"Samuel Myer Isaacs: The Dutch Rabbi of New York City," Origins 10 No. 1 (1992) 16-21 (condensed version). Reprinted in The Windmill, U.S. Edition, 35 (April 23, 1993), p. 13; 36 (May 7, 1993), p. 13; 36 (May 24, 1993), p. 13. Reprinted in JWB  Magazine, New Year Number, Sept. 9, 1993, Second Section, 1-7.

 

"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, (Marshall, MN: Southwest State University, 1991), 20 pp.

 

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

 

"List Upon List: The Ship Passenger Records and Immigration Research," Journal of American Ethnic History 10 (Spring 1991): 42-53.

 

"Religion and Immigration Behavior: The Dutch Experience" in Belief & Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History, eds. Philip R. VanderMeer and Robert P. Swierenga (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991), pp. 164-188. Reprinted in revised form under the title, "The Religious Factor in Immigration: The Dutch Experience," in Immigrant America: European Ethnicity in the United States, ed. Timothy Walch (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994), 119-40.

 

"Local Patterns of Dutch Migration to the United States in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," in A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930, eds. Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzanne M. Sinke (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991) 134-57.

 

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

 

"Jan Van Mekelenberg," in The Dictionary of Christianity in America, ed. Daniel G. Reid (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1990), 722-23. Reprinted in D.G. Hart and Mark Noll, eds., Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed Tradition in America (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 159.

 

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

 

"Dutch Jewish Immigration and Religious Life in the Nineteenth Century," American Jewish History 79 (Autumn 1990): 56-73. Reprinted in American Jewish History: The Colonial and Early National Periods, 1654-1840, ed. Jeffrey S. Gurock (New York: Routledge, 1998), 56-73.

 

"Historians and the Census:  The Historiography of Census Research," Annals of Iowa 50 (Fall 1990): 650-73.

 

"Religion and Political Behavior in the Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures," in Religion and American Politics, ed. Mark A. Noll (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 146-71.

 

"The Settlement of the Old Northwest: Ethnic Pluralism in a Featureless Plain," Journal of the Early Republic 9 (Spring 1989): 73-105.

 

"Samuel Pfrimmer Hays," in Dictionary of Historians, ed. John Cannon (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988), 180-81.

 

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

 

"James C. Malin," in Historians of the_American Frontier. ed. John R. Wunder (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), 384-407.

 

"The Dutch in Cleveland," in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, eds. John J. Grabowski and David Van Tassel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), 351-52.

 

"Overseas Migration: A Mirror of Dutch Culture," De Gids, Special 150th Anniversary Issue, February 1987, 152-55.

 

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

 

"Religion and Immigration Patterns: A Comparative Analysis of Dutch Protestants and Catholics, 1835-1880," Journal of American Ethnic History 5 (Spring 1986): 23-45. Reprinted in The Immigrant Religious Experience, Vol. 19, American Immigration and Ethnicity Series, ed. George E. Pozzetta (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).

 

"The Malin Thesis of Grassland Adaptation and the New Rural   History," Canadian Papers in Rural History, ed. D. H. Akenson, V (1986): 11-22.

 

"Archival Materials and Manuscripts in the Netherlands on Immigration to the United States," in Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the U.S., 1945-1980, ed. Lewis Hanke (6 vols. Washington: American Historical Association, and Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1985), 3:195-215.

 

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

 

"Historians and Computers: Has the Love Affair Gone Sour?" OAH Newsletter 12 (Nov. 1984), Special Supplement, 2-3.

    

"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.

 

"Social Science History:  An Appreciative Critique" in History and Historical Understanding, eds. C. Thomas McIntire and Ronald A. Wells (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1984), 93-102. Selected for abstracting in The Philosopher's Index, 1987.

 

"Bibliographic Instruction in Historical Methods Courses: Kent State University," The History Teacher 15 (May  1984): 391-96, 431-42.

 

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

 

"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 Schreuder).

 

"Can History Survive Computers and Remain a Humanistic Discipline?," Scope (Scholarly Communication: Online Publishing and Education) 1 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 39-40.

 

"History Online," Network News Exchange 9 (Fall 1983): 4-5.

 

"Rural Life and Agriculture: The New Rural History," in Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives in the New Social History, ed. James B. Gardner (Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1983), 91-113.

 

"Quantitative Methods in Rural Landholding," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XIII (Spring 1983): 787-808. Also published as "Quantitative Methods in Rural Land Holding and Tenancy Studies," in Quantitative Methods in Soviet and American Historiography, eds. Ivan D. Kovalchenko and Valery H. Tishkov (Moscow: "Nauka" Publishing House, 1983), 82-108.

 

"Exodus Netherlands, Promised Land America: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United States," in A Bilateral Bicentennial: A History of Dutch-American Relations, 1782-1982, eds. J. W. Schulte Nordholt and Robert P. Swierenga (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff International; New York: Octagon Books, 1982), 127-47.

 

"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).

 

"Theoretical Perspectives on the New Rural History: From Environmentalism to Modernization" Agricultural History 56 (July 1982): 495-502.

 

"Het Bestuderen van de Nederlandse Emigratie naar de Verenigde Staten," Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, Volume 36 (The Hague, Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, 1982), 252-68.

 

"A Denominational Schism from a Behavioral Perspective: The 1857 Dutch Reformed Separation," The Reformed Review 34 (Spring 1981): 172-85. Reprinted in Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies 3(Fall 1981/Spring 1982),49-57.

 

"The New Rural History: Defining the Parameters," Great Plains Quarterly 1 (Fall 1981): 211-23.   

 

"Social Science History: A Critique and Appreciation," Fides et Historia 14 (Fall 1981): 42-51. Selected for abstracting in Religion Index One: Periodicals, 1987.

 

"Teaching Quantitative Methods in History: At a Crossroads," Network News Exchange (The Society for History Educa­tion) 6 (Fall 1981): 8-9.

 

"Dutch International Migration Statistics, 1820-1880: An Analysis of Linked Multinational Nominal Files," Inter­national Migration Review 15 (Fall 1981): 445-70.

 

"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.

 

"The Dutch" in Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, ed. Stephen Thernstrom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), 284-95.

 

"Immigrant Data Files and Computer Mapping" in International Federation of Information_Processing, Proceedings of the Dartmouth Conference on_Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, eds. J. Raben and G. Marks (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980), 119-23.

 

"Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Immigrant Religion:  The Social Basis of the Antebellum Dutch Reformed Schism," Journal of Social History 14 (Fall 1980): 113-35. Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for summary in Sociology Abstracts.

 

"Ethnicity and American Agriculture," Ohio History 89 (Summer 1980): 323-44. Reprinted in Immigrants on the Land:Agriculture, Rural Life, and Small Towns, Vol. 4, American Immigration and Ethnicity, ed. George Pozzetta (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).

 

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

 

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

 

"Physicians and Abortion Reform in the Nineteenth Century: Social Control as the New Orthodoxy," Fides et Historia 11 (Spring 1979): 51-59.

 

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

 

"The New Rural Social History," MISHAP (Minnesota Social History Project Newsletter) 1 (Jan. 1979), 1-20.

 

"Behavioralism in Historical Research," in Conspectus of History: Focus on Interpretations of History, Number V, eds. Dwight W. Hoover and John Koumoulides (Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1978), 75-88.

 

"Social Statistics and Historical Research: A Symbiosis," The Ukrainian Historian, 1-3 (57-59), (1978): 90-101.

 

"The Open University: Historical Data and the Social Sciences," Urban History Yearbook, 1978 (Leicester, England, Leicester University Press, 1978), 64-67.

 

"Land Speculation and its Impact on American Economic Growth and Welfare: An Historical Review," Western Historical Quarterly 8 (July 1977): 283-302.

 

"Netherlanders in America: A Bicentennial Lecture," D.I.S. (Dutch Immigrant Society) Magazine 7 (March 1977): 18-21.

 

"Ethnicity in Historical Perspective," Social Science 52 (Winter 1977): 31-44. Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for Summary in Sociological Abstracts.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

"Christian Perspectives for History," International Scholarly Review, I (May 1975): 11-21.

 

"Absentee Ownership," Dictionary of American History (2nd ed. 1975).

 

"The Equity Effects of Public Land Speculation: Large vs. Small Speculators," Journal of Economic History 34 (Dec. 1974): 1008-20.

 

"Computers and Comparative History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 5 (Fall 1974): 257-86. Selected by Council of Abstracting Services for Summary in Sociological Abstracts.

 

"Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa," Agricultural History 48 (April 1974): 247-66.

 

"Computers and American History: The Impact of the 'New' Generation," Journal of American History 40 (March 1974): 1045-70, reprinted in Current Trends in American History, ed. D. Balasubramanian (Hyderabad, India: American Studies Research Center, 1977), 63-89.

 

"Tenant Farming in Iowa: A Comment," Agricultural History 48 (April 1974): 151-54.

 

"Quantitative Historical Data and the Archivist," Ohio Archivist 4 (Fall 1973): 12-13.

 

"Towards the New Rural History: A Review Essay," Historical Methods Newsletter 6 (June 1973): 111-12.

 

"Computerized Historical Research in the U.S.A.: A Survey and Evaluation," Information Processing 71, North-Holland Publishing Company (1972), 1435-42.

 

"Computerized Historical Research: Problems and Prospects," ACM 70 Conference Proceedings (New York, 1971).

 

"The Christian Historian, The University, and Student Unrest," Fides et Historia 3 (Spring 1971): 4-19.

 

"The 'Odious Tax Title' A Study in Nineteenth Century Legal History," American Journal of Legal History 15 (April 1971): 124-39.

 

"Ethnocultural Political Analysis: A New Approach in American Ethnic Studies," Journal of American Studies 5 (April 1971): 59-79.

 

"Clio with Numbers," The Chronicle (of the Historical Society of Michigan) 6 (Oct. 1970): 13-19.

 

"The Iowa Land Records Collection: Periscope to the Past," Books at Iowa 13 (Nov. 1970): 25-30.

 

"Clio and Computers: A Survey of Computerized Research in History," Computers and the Humanities 5 (Sept. 1970): 1-21.

 

"Land Speculation and Frontier Tax Assessments," Agricultural History 44 (July 1970): 253-66.

 

"The Tax Buyer as a Frontier Investor Type," Explorations in Economic History 12 (Spring 1970): 257-92.

 

"The Fort Dodge (Iowa) Claim Club," 1855-1856," Annals of Iowa 39 (Winter 1969): 511-18.

 

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

 

"The Western Land Business: Easley and Willingham, Speculators," Business History Review 41 (Spring 1967): 1-20.

 

"Calvin and the Council of Trent: A Reappraisal," Reformed Journal 16 (1966).

 

"Land Speculator 'Profits' Reconsidered: The Case of Central Iowa" Journal of Economic History 26 (March 1966):1-28.

 

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

 

Book reviews in scholarly journals:

 

Agricultural History

American Historical Review

Annals of Iowa

Arizona and the West

Business History Review

Calvin Theological Journal

Canadian Historical Review

Civil War History

Computers and the Humanities

Fides et Historia

Historical Methods

Historical New Hampshire

History: Review of New Books

International Migration Review

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Journal of American Immigration and Ethnic History

Journal of American History

Journal of Economic History

Journal of Social History

Journal of the West

Journal of the Early Republic</