Publications 1994–2022

Recent publications range from the biographies of Harvey and Margaret Doorenbos, Edwin and Ruth Luidens, and Paul Fried to a three-volume history of Holland to a fully annotated commentary on the minutes of Classis Holland from 1848 to 1876.

Following is a comprehensive list of books and lectures published by and forthcoming from fellows and associates of the Van Raalte Institute.

• Aay, Henk, Janny Venema, Dennis Voskuil, eds. Sharing Pasts: Dutch Americans through Four Centuries, Van Raalte Press, 2017
• Baer, Marc and Allison Utting, Making Music: Hope College's Music Department, A History, Van Raalte Press, 2020
• Bruins, Elton J.,  Karen G. Schakel, Sara Fredrickson Simmons, and Marie N. Zingle, Albertus and Christina: The Van Raalte Family, Home and Roots, Eerdmans, 2004
• Bruins, Elton J., The Americanization of a Congregation, 2nd ed., Eerdmans, 1995
• Bruins, Elton J. and Karen G. Schakel, eds., Envisioning Hope College: Letters Written by Albertus C. Van Raalte to Philip Phelps Jr., 1857 to 1875, Van Raalte Press; Eerdmans, 2011
• Cox, John D., The City in Its Heart: The First 100 Years of Maple Avenue Ministries, Holland, Michigan, 1913-2013, Van Raalte Press, 2014
• Dickason, David G., Faith, Hope, and Love: The Hakeem's Journey, Van Raalte Press, forthcoming, 2021
• Ester, Peter, Nella Kennedy, and Earl Wm. Kennedy, eds., The American Diary of Jacob Van Hinte, Author of the Classic Immigrant Study Nederlanders in Amerika, Van Raalte Press; Eerdmans, 2010
• Ester, Peter, Faith, Family, and Fortune: Reformed Upbringing and Calvinist Values of Highly Successful Dutch American Entrepreneurs, Van Raalte Press, 2012
• Fessler, Paul, Hubert R. Krygsman, and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., Dutch Immigrants on the Plains, The Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, 2005
• Harinck, George and Hans Krabbendam, Sharing the Reformed Tradition: The Dutch-North American Exchange, 1846-1996, VU Uitgererij, 1996
• Harinck, George, ‘We Live Presently Under a Waning Moon,’ Nicolaus Martin Steffens as Leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in Years of Transition (1878-1895), Van Raalte Press, 2013
• Heideman, Eugene P., The Practice of Piety: The Theology of the Midwestern Reformed Church in America, 1866-1966, Eerdmans, 2009
• Hemenway, Stephen, Hope Beyond Borders: The Life and Letters of Paul Fried, Holland, MI: Van Raalte Press, 2014
• Heusinkveld, Paul, with Margaret Doorenbos, Margaret's Mission to Arabia, Africa, and India 1965-2010, Van Raalte Press, 2021
• Jacobson, Jeanne M., Elton J. Bruins, and Larry J. Wagenaar, Albertus C. Van Raalte: Dutch Leader and American Patriot, Hope College, 1996
• Japinga, Lynn, Loyalty and Loss: The Reformed Church in America, 1945-1994, Eerdmans, 2013
• Kennedy, James C. and Caroline J. Simon, Can Hope Endure:  An Historical Case Study in Christian Higher Education, Eerdmans, 2005
• Kennedy, Nella, Mary Risseeuw, and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., Diverse Destinies: Dutch Kolonies in Wisconsin and the East, Van Raalte Press, 2012
• Krabbendam, Hans, Freedom on the Horizon: Dutch Immigration to America, 1840-1940, Eerdmans, 2009
• Luidens, Donald, A., Seeds of Hope, Hate, and Change: Missionary Witnesses to the Middle East in Transition, vol. 1, 1942-48; vol. 2, 1949-57, Van Raalte Press, 2020
• Luidens, Donald A., Donald J. Bruggink, Herman J. De Vries Jr., Dutch Reformed Education: Immigrant Legacies in North America, Van Raalte Press, 2020
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E. et alii. Hope at 150: Anchored in Faith, Educating for Leadership and Service in a Global Society, Van Raalte Press, 2019
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E., Suzanne M. Sinke, and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., Across Borders: Dutch Migration to North America and Australia, Van Raalte Press, 2010
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E., Robert P. Swierenga, and Lauren M. Berka, eds., Aunt Tena: Called to Serve, Journals and Letters of Tena A. Huizenga, Missionary Nurse to Nigeria, Eerdmans, 2009
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E., Centennial History of the Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan, 1902-2002, Van Raalte Press, 2012 
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E. and Jeanne M. Jacobson, A Dream Fulfilled: The Van Raalte Sculpture in Centennial Park, Hope College, 1997
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E. and George Harinck, The Enduring Legacy of Albertus C. Van Raalte as Leader and Liaison, Van Raalte Press; Eerdmans, 2014
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E., A Goodly Heritage: Essays in Honor of the Reverend Dr. Elton J. Bruins at Eighty, Eerdmans, 2007
• Nyenhuis, Jacob E., Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker, Wayne State University Press, 2003
• Parr, Judy. Hope Church: Holland, Michigan. The First 150 Years, 1862 -2012, Van Raalte Press, 2012
• Renner, Thomas L., In Pursuit of Excellence. Be Strong – Be True: A History of Intercollegite Athletics at Hope College, 1970–2020, Van Raalte Press, 2022
• Sheeres, Janet Sjaarda, The Not-So-Promised Land: The Dutch in Amelia County, Virginia, 1868-1880, Eerdmans, 2013
• Sheeres, Janet Sjaarda, Son of Secession: Douwe J. Vander Werp, Eerdmans, 2006
• Stellingwerff, Johan, Robert P. Swierenga, and Walter Lagerwey, trans., Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier, Eerdmans, 2003
• Swierenga, Robert P., Nella Kennedy, and Lisa Zylstra, Dutch Americans and War:  United States and Abroad, Van Raalte Press, 2014
• Swierenga, Robert P., Jacob E. Nyenhuis, and Nella Kennedy, Dutch American Arts and Letters in Historical Perspective, Van Raalte Press, 2008
• Swierenga, Robert P., Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City, Eerdmans, 2002
• Swierenga, Robert P., Donald Sinnema, and Hans Krabbendam, eds., The Dutch in Urban America, The Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, 2004
• Swierenga, Robert P., Elim: A Chicago Christian School and Life Training Center for the Disabled, Eerdmans, 2005
• Swierenga, Robert P., Faith and Family: Dutch Immigration and Settlement in the United States, 1820-1920, Homes & Meier, 2000
• Swierenga, Robert P., His Faithfulness Continues: A History of Timothy Christian Schools of Chicagoland, Van Raalte Press, 2020
• Swierenga, Robert P. and Elton J. Bruins, Family Quarrels in the Dutch Reformed Churches in the Nineteenth Century, Eerdmans, 1999
• Swierenga, Robert P. and Joel Lefever, eds., For Food and Faith, Dutch Immigration to Western Michigan, 1846-1960, Van Raalte Institute; Holland Museum, 2000
• Swierenga, Robert P., Holland, Michigan: From Dutch Colony to Dynamic City, 3 vols., Van Raalte Press; Eerdmans, 2014
• Swierenga, Robert P., Adriaan de Wit and Gordon De Young, eds., Netherlanders in America: A Study of Emigration and Settlement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in the United States of America, by Jacob Van Hinte. The Historical Committee of the Christian Reformed Church, 2003
• Swierenga, Robert P. and William Van Appledorn, eds., Old Wing Mission: Cultural Interchange as Chronicled by George and Arvilla Smith in their Work with Chief Wakazoo’s Ottawa Band on the West Michigan Frontier, Eerdmans, 2008

VRI Visiting Research Fellows Lecture Series

• Dutch American Identity Politics: The Use of History by Dutch Immigrants (2003) 
  Hans Krabbendam, Roosevelt Study Center, the Netherlands
• The Rain of God: Reformed Church in America Growth and Decline in Historical Perspective (2004)
  Lynn M. Japinga, Hope College
• Reassessing 1857: Overlooked Considerations Concerning the Birth of the Christian Reformed Church (2006)
  James A. De Jong, Calvin Theological Seminary
• Disease and Death among the Early Settlers in Holland, Michigan (2006)
  J. P. Verhave, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• Growing Up Dutch American: Cultural Identity and the Formative Years of Older Dutch Americans (2007)
  Peter Ester, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
• The Dutch Equation in the RCA Freemasonry Controversy, 1865-1885 (2008)
  Harry Boonstra, Calvin College and Seminary
• “We live presently under a waning moon”: Nicholas Martin Steffens as leader of the Reformed Church in America in the West in years of transition (1878-1895) (2008/published 2013)
  George Harinck, VU University Amsterdam
• Preachers, Pews, and Pupils: Commemorating the Past in Twentieth-Century Dutch America (2008)
  David Zwart, Dordt College
• “Pope of the Classis”? The Leadership of Albertus C. Van Raalte in Dutch and American Classes (2009)
  Leon van den Broeke, VU University Amsterdam
• Dutch Americans and the Rise of Heritage Studies (2010)
  Michael Douma, Florida State University
• Hope: The Legacy of Van Raalte (2011)
  Rein Nauta, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
• Documentary Films of the Netherlands Shown in the United States, 1942-1973: Viewership, Representativeness, and Visual Rhetoric (publication forthcoming)
  Henk Aay, Calvin College
• Hendrik P. Scholte: His Legacy in the Netherlands and in America (2015)
  Eugene Heideman, RCA staff member, retired
• Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Hate: A Love Story (Begins) (2016)
  Don Luidens, Hope College
• “We made the Wilderness to Blossom”: Nineteenth Century Dutch Immigrants and the Natural World
  Henk Aay, Calvin College, and Jan Boersema, Leiden University, the Netherlands
• A Japanese and a Dutchman in Science: Stories of a Dramatic Disaster (2017)
  Jan Peter Verhave, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL
• Plugging in the Electric Church: Robert Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral and Entrepreneurial Evangelicalism (2018)
  Mark Mulder, Calvin College
• Eleanor Calverley, First Doctor to Kuwait: Celebrating 100 Years of Kuwait-American Friendship (2018)
  Paul Heusinkveld, Honorary Research Fellow
• Paterson, New Jersey: Dutch Immigration’s Largest Afterthought (1846–1950) (2019)
  Robert Schoone-Jongen, Calvin University
• The Pull at Hope College: Then and Now, 1898–2018 (2019)
  Bruce Geelhoed, Ball State University
• Patriots and Internationalists: Dutch American Religion and Global Consciousness in the Late 19th Century (2019)
  Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University
• The History of Divorce in the Reformed Church in America (2022)
  Lynn M. Japinga, Hope College
• Robert H. Schuller and Church Growth Christianity (2022)
  Mark T. Mulder, Calvin University
• Edward D. Dimnent: A Man of Letters (2022)
  Judy Tanis Parr, Honorary Research Fellow
• The Origins of the Hope-Calvin Men's Basketball Rivalry (2023)
  Chad Carlson, Hope College