Michael J Douma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Douma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Douma |
| SIGNATURE | DOUMA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6745-3085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics, Michael J. Douma shows that slavery in eighteenth-century New York was mostly rural, heavily Dutch, and generally profitable through the cultivation of wheat. Slavery in Dutch New York ultimately died a political death in the …
Icelandic Heritage in North America
The editors of this work of collected essays note that because Iceland is a small country, Icelanders often prefer to judge themselves by per capita figures, rather than gross figures. On a per capita basis, there may be more written on Icelandic immigrants in North America than any other North American ethnic group. Only fifteen to sixteen thousand people migrated from Iceland in the period 1870 to 1914, but that comprised 20 percent of the isla…
Reconstruction in a Globalizing World
Taking Control of Slavery in Dutch New York
Estimating the Size of the Dutch-Speaking Slave Population of New York in the eighteenth Century
Historians of American slavery are well-aware that there were slaves in New Netherland before the Dutch colony’s surrender to the English in 1664. It is seldom recognized, however, that the Dutch-speaking slave population in New York grew during the next century. This article establishes for the first time a reasonable estimate of the total number of Dutch-speaking slaves who lived in New York during the eighteenth century. To estimate the cumula…
How Americans kept warm in the 19th century
In the eighteenth century, Americans burned a lot of wood to keep their homes warm. Everything from a log cabin to a brick house had an open fireplace with a chimney made of brick or stone. These o
New Light on the Old Colony
Translation Approaches in Constitutional Hermeneutics
In this article, we suggest an alternate approach to interpreting the US Constitution, using founding-era translations. We demonstrate how both symmetries and asymmetries in structure and vocabulary of the languages involved can help in deciding nowadays’ problems of constitutional interpretation. We select seven controversial passages of the US constitution to illustrate our approach: Art. I, § 8, cl. 3 (“to regulate commerce”); Art. II, § 1, cl…
Alex Rosenberg, How History Gets Things Wrong
Two Early Dutch Translations of the United States Constitution
In 1788, a Dutch-born minister in upstate New York named Lambertus De Ronde translated the U.S. Constitution into Dutch. Five years later, a legal scholar in the Netherlands, Gerhard Dumbar, produced another Dutch translation of the U.S. Constitution. De Ronde's translation was printed on at least two separate occasions in 1788, and scores of editorial changes between the two printings demonstrate that De Ronde was working to make the text appeal…
The Impressment of Foreign-Born Soldiers in the Union Army
In 1862–1863 well over one thousand foreign-born men living in the United States argued that they had been illegally drafted into Union military service. Fearing a diplomatic row, the Lincoln administration sought to clarify the rules of draft eligibility and its relation to citizenship. William Seward, secretary of state, determined to include in the pool of potential draftees men who had filed their declaration of intent to become American citi…
Creative Historical Thinking
Creative Historical Thinking offers innovative approaches to thinking and writing about history. Author Michael J. Douma makes the case that history should be recognized as a subject intimately related to individual experience and positions its practice as an inherently creative endeavor. Douma describes the nature of creativity in historical thought, illustrates his points with case studies and examples. He asserts history’s position as a collec…
Slave Maroon Communities in the Atlantic World
A Totem Pole History
Research Article| January 01 2016 A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire. By Pauline Hillaire. Ed. Gregory P. Fields. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Pp. lxi + 256, appendix, bibliography, list of contributors, index, 75 illustrations, 4 maps.) Michael J. Douma Michael J. Douma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Americ…
Sorting the Past
As centers of material culture and storytelling, antique stores are useful sources for writing local history. Through interviews with store owners in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, this article attempts to understand the purpose and function of antique stores, and to serve as a guide for how local and regional historians might consider using antique stores to aid their own research. It argues that material objects, buildings, places and stories ar…
The Accordion in the Americas
Book Review| October 01 2015 The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More! The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!, Ed. Helena Simonett. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Pp 330 + glossary, list of contributors, index, 39 images.). Michael J. Douma Michael J. Douma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 485–486. …
The Danish St Croix Project
Working from previously unknown sources in Danish archives, this article establishes for the first time the important role that the island of St Croix played in the Lincoln administration's considerations on colonizing African Americans abroad. This article argues that U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, commonly viewed as an anti-colonizationist, was at least a mild proponent of colonization in its earliest stages. The article demonstrate…
Tennessee Log Buildings
The author could have done more, for example, to place the tennessee log building tradition within a larger national context. it remains un- clear from this reading what elements of ten- nessee log buildings were peculiar to the state. but, as a case study, this book is an important addition to the folklorist's shelf. it could also serve as a fieldwork instruction manual for classes in historic preservation as well as a ref- erence source
Texas Furniture
Geographical isolation kept the lo- cal texas furniture-making industry alive lon- ger than in most other places in the united States. only in the 1880s, when railroads finally crossed the state, did factory-produced furni- ture from Grand rapids, michigan, and other midwestern towns, finally push the traditional makers out of business. the second volume tells of the arrival of texas furniture in the catalog of American art history. before 1975, …
Ethnic Identities in a Transnational Context
Dutch Americans viewed the Afrikaner struggle for independence against the British as parallel to their own struggles to maintain a Dutch Calvinist identity in the face of Americanisation pressures. The war's international impact went beyond politics and economics, and included a significant cultural component, as it contributed to a transnational rejuvenation of ethnic consciousness. Dutch Americans drew on the pro-Boer movement in the Netherlan…
A Black Dutchman and the Racial Discourse of the Dutch in America, 1850–1920
Following the American Civil War, a Dutch-American immigrant soldier returned to his home in Holland, Michigan, with a freed slave whom he had adopted. The adopted child, named Siras, was then raised in a Dutch immigrant household where he learned the Dutch language and the tenets of Dutch Calvinism. Although Siras was clearly well regarded by locals, he could not escape the racial stereotypes and prejudices of the Midwest and spent his entire ad…
Technology and the Making of the Netherlands
Imagining a new identity
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
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Imagining a new identity
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Technology and the Making of the Netherlands
A Black Dutchman and the Racial Discourse of the Dutch in America, 1850–1920
Following the American Civil War, a Dutch-American immigrant soldier returned to his home in Holland, Michigan, with a freed slave whom he had adopted. The adopted child, named Siras, was then raised in a Dutch immigrant household where he learned the Dutch language and the tenets of Dutch Calvinism. Although Siras was clearly well regarded by locals, he could not escape the racial stereotypes and prejudices of the Midwest and spent his entire ad…
Ethnic Identities in a Transnational Context
Dutch Americans viewed the Afrikaner struggle for independence against the British as parallel to their own struggles to maintain a Dutch Calvinist identity in the face of Americanisation pressures. The war's international impact went beyond politics and economics, and included a significant cultural component, as it contributed to a transnational rejuvenation of ethnic consciousness. Dutch Americans drew on the pro-Boer movement in the Netherlan…
The Danish St Croix Project
Working from previously unknown sources in Danish archives, this article establishes for the first time the important role that the island of St Croix played in the Lincoln administration's considerations on colonizing African Americans abroad. This article argues that U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, commonly viewed as an anti-colonizationist, was at least a mild proponent of colonization in its earliest stages. The article demonstrate…
Tennessee Log Buildings
The author could have done more, for example, to place the tennessee log building tradition within a larger national context. it remains un- clear from this reading what elements of ten- nessee log buildings were peculiar to the state. but, as a case study, this book is an important addition to the folklorist's shelf. it could also serve as a fieldwork instruction manual for classes in historic preservation as well as a ref- erence source
Texas Furniture
Geographical isolation kept the lo- cal texas furniture-making industry alive lon- ger than in most other places in the united States. only in the 1880s, when railroads finally crossed the state, did factory-produced furni- ture from Grand rapids, michigan, and other midwestern towns, finally push the traditional makers out of business. the second volume tells of the arrival of texas furniture in the catalog of American art history. before 1975, …
Sorting the Past
As centers of material culture and storytelling, antique stores are useful sources for writing local history. Through interviews with store owners in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, this article attempts to understand the purpose and function of antique stores, and to serve as a guide for how local and regional historians might consider using antique stores to aid their own research. It argues that material objects, buildings, places and stories ar…
The Accordion in the Americas
Book Review| October 01 2015 The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More! The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!, Ed. Helena Simonett. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Pp 330 + glossary, list of contributors, index, 39 images.). Michael J. Douma Michael J. Douma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (510): 485–486. …
Slave Maroon Communities in the Atlantic World
A Totem Pole History
Research Article| January 01 2016 A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire. By Pauline Hillaire. Ed. Gregory P. Fields. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Pp. lxi + 256, appendix, bibliography, list of contributors, index, 75 illustrations, 4 maps.) Michael J. Douma Michael J. Douma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Americ…
Creative Historical Thinking
Creative Historical Thinking offers innovative approaches to thinking and writing about history. Author Michael J. Douma makes the case that history should be recognized as a subject intimately related to individual experience and positions its practice as an inherently creative endeavor. Douma describes the nature of creativity in historical thought, illustrates his points with case studies and examples. He asserts history’s position as a collec…
Alex Rosenberg, How History Gets Things Wrong
Two Early Dutch Translations of the United States Constitution
In 1788, a Dutch-born minister in upstate New York named Lambertus De Ronde translated the U.S. Constitution into Dutch. Five years later, a legal scholar in the Netherlands, Gerhard Dumbar, produced another Dutch translation of the U.S. Constitution. De Ronde's translation was printed on at least two separate occasions in 1788, and scores of editorial changes between the two printings demonstrate that De Ronde was working to make the text appeal…
The Impressment of Foreign-Born Soldiers in the Union Army
In 1862–1863 well over one thousand foreign-born men living in the United States argued that they had been illegally drafted into Union military service. Fearing a diplomatic row, the Lincoln administration sought to clarify the rules of draft eligibility and its relation to citizenship. William Seward, secretary of state, determined to include in the pool of potential draftees men who had filed their declaration of intent to become American citi…
New Light on the Old Colony
Translation Approaches in Constitutional Hermeneutics
In this article, we suggest an alternate approach to interpreting the US Constitution, using founding-era translations. We demonstrate how both symmetries and asymmetries in structure and vocabulary of the languages involved can help in deciding nowadays’ problems of constitutional interpretation. We select seven controversial passages of the US constitution to illustrate our approach: Art. I, § 8, cl. 3 (“to regulate commerce”); Art. II, § 1, cl…
How Americans kept warm in the 19th century
In the eighteenth century, Americans burned a lot of wood to keep their homes warm. Everything from a log cabin to a brick house had an open fireplace with a chimney made of brick or stone. These o
Taking Control of Slavery in Dutch New York
Estimating the Size of the Dutch-Speaking Slave Population of New York in the eighteenth Century
Historians of American slavery are well-aware that there were slaves in New Netherland before the Dutch colony’s surrender to the English in 1664. It is seldom recognized, however, that the Dutch-speaking slave population in New York grew during the next century. This article establishes for the first time a reasonable estimate of the total number of Dutch-speaking slaves who lived in New York during the eighteenth century. To estimate the cumula…
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics, Michael J. Douma shows that slavery in eighteenth-century New York was mostly rural, heavily Dutch, and generally profitable through the cultivation of wheat. Slavery in Dutch New York ultimately died a political death in the …
Icelandic Heritage in North America
The editors of this work of collected essays note that because Iceland is a small country, Icelanders often prefer to judge themselves by per capita figures, rather than gross figures. On a per capita basis, there may be more written on Icelandic immigrants in North America than any other North American ethnic group. Only fifteen to sixteen thousand people migrated from Iceland in the period 1870 to 1914, but that comprised 20 percent of the isla…
Reconstruction in a Globalizing World
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