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, ...

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 ...

There is a close relationship between highly successful Dutch American entrepreneurs and their Calvinist values and upbringing, and their success in business has led to major works of philanthropy.

“Here is a heart-warming and soul-touching story of personal calling and mission endeavor, world travel and geography, history and politics, human frailty and profound resilience, and clashing empires ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Albertus C. Van Raalte in October 2011 provided a distinct opportunity to evaluate the enduring legacy of one of the best-known Dutch immigrants of ...

Margaret Doorenbos begins her story in 1965 when her family arrived on the little desert island of Bahrain. I remember well the moment the Doorenbos family joined the Arabian Mission, in what we ...

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 ...