These ninety-four letters of Albertus C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan, to Philip Phelps Jr., who became the first president of Hope College, are significant for two reasons in particular.

“Dickason fleshes out this… biography with background material on the complex interactions among Arab society, Omani tribal and religious politics, missionary ...

Edited by Donald A. Luidens, Donald J. Bruggink, and Herman J. De Vries Jr. Sola scriptura, decreed the Reformers, and thereby launched a literacy frenzy. The newly christened “priesthood of all ...

“This story is a beautiful testimony of generations of a community committed to educating children to love and serve God by loving their neighbor and doing the right thing. There are hard financial ...

Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years “below the radar screens” of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch ...

From the earliest years, Hope College students have gained valuable lessons and attained goals beyond the classroom through athletics. And in so doing, they have added a stimulating dimension to ...

Edwin and Ruth Stegenga Luidens, still in their early twenties, set sail in October 1944 from Philadelphia for mission work in the Middle East. While World War II raged in Europe, they hopscotched ...

The fifteen essays in this festschrift pay homage to a colleague, mentor and friend, whose professional career has spanned more than fifty years. After retiring in 1992 as the Blekkink Professor ...

“By any measure, Tena Huizenga lived a remarkable life, a life of service to humankind in the name of her Lord. Herein is her story of 17 adventurous years as a missionary nurse in the hinterlands of ...

The story of the Ottawa Indians is told primarily through the diaries and memoirs of missionaries George and Arvilla Smith. “This book is a welcome addition to the documentary history of western ...

Edited by Earl Wm. Kennedy, Donald A. Luidens, and David Zwart This collection of papers from the Twenty-First Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, ...

Edited by Robert P. Swierenga, Nella Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra Since the mid-nineteenth century, the successful prosecution of American wars involved the entire population. Wars had become total, ...