Lecture:Hudson Valley Food Riots & the American Revolution, by Thomas S. WermuthDate/Time:Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 6PMLocation:Hudson Area Library, 51 N 5th Street, Hudson, NY 12534 On Thursday, April 23, 6pm, in-person at the Hudson Area Library, the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, in collaboration with the Hudson Area Library, hosts this year’s second of four Leisler Lectures. Dr. Thomas Wermuth speaks on food riots during the Revolutionary War, …
Lecture – “Waterways, Footpaths & Wagon Ways: Hudson River Trade Prior to the Founding of Hudson” October 2, 2025 at 6PM
Lecture:Waterways, Footpaths & Wagon Ways: Hudson River Trade Prior to the Founding of Hudson, by Justin Wexler and David William VoorheesDate/Time:Thursday, October 2, at 6PMLocation:Hudson Area Library The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, in collaboration with the Hudson Area Library, hosts this in-person presentation with Justin Wexler, a local researcher on indigenous peoples, and David William Voorhees, director of the Leisler Institute. They …
Lecture – “The Enduring Impact of the Palatine Migration on Columbia County”, May 29, 2025 at 6PM
Join us on May 29th at 6 PM at the Hudson Area Library for the next lecture in the series. Lecture: The Enduring Impact of the Palatine Migration on Columbia County, by Thomas ShannonDate/Time: Thursday, October 10th, 6PMLocation: Hudson Area Library Program Description: All across Columbia and surrounding counties are traces of the 1709 Palatine Migration to New York. A variety of reasons contributed to a public memory murk that caused one writer to claim "that to study their history …
A Layered Landscape: Indigenous Land and Colonial Property in the Hudson Valley (Thursday, January 23)
The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, in collaboration with the Hudson Area Library, hosts a presentation by BJ Lillis about changing land rights in the colonial Hudson Valley including Indigenous and tenant resistance to a manorial system. This talk traces Indigenous survival and resistance to colonialism on Hudson Valley manors from the early 18th century to the 1760s, when an unlikely alliance between tenant farmers and Native people organized tenant …
Lecture- “When Independence Led to Chaos: Authority in the Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Reformed Church,” October 10th, 2024 at 6PM
Lecture: When Independence Led to Chaos: Authority in the Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Reformed Church, by Dr. Kenneth P. ShefsiekDate/Time: Thursday, October 10th, 6PMLocation: Hudson Area Library Join us on October 10th at 6 PM at the Hudson Area Library for the next lecture in the series by Dr. Kenneth P. Shefsiek, associate professor of Early American and Public History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, tells how authority in the North American Dutch Reformed church …
Exhibit Opening Night & Details on Open Hours
On August 17, 2024 the Jacob Leisler Institute had an opening night for its first exhibition, "Becoming a New People: New Netherland Under British Rule, 1664-1773," host by the Circle 46 Gallery located in Hudson, New York. The exhibit features a curated selection of the Jacob Leisler Institute's collection of original documents, manuscripts, transcriptions, prints, and assorted artifacts. We would like to thank everyone who came to the opening night and all of the generous support from our …
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