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Present at the Creation: Making the Case for the Dutch Founders of America
- Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2009
- pp. 259-269
- 10.1353/eam.0.0022
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This essay traces the efforts of nineteenth-and early twentieth century New Yorkers to challenge the Pilgrim myth and gain recognition for the New Netherland Dutch as legitimate founders of the American nation.