Peter Van Cleave is Clinical Assistant Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. His teaching areas include early American history, the American Revolution, the Early American Republic, Immigration and Ethnicity. Along with those, his more specific research areas include the Atlantic World, the Dutch-American Atlantic, the Age of Revolutions and the American Revolution, the political and religious history of the Early American Republic, and religious tolerance and intolerance in the Revolutionary Era.
He has published several articles on the connections between the Netherlands and the United States during the Age of Revolutions, and has presented on topics ranging from John Adams and Atlantic politics, Thomas Jefferson and the "Notes on the State of Virginia," religious tolerance and religious freedom in the Second Great Awakening, the relationship between the Dutch Patriot Revolt and the American Revolution, as well as the legacy of New Netherland and the Dutch in American history.
He is currently the Director of Online Programs as well as the Co-Director for the Online History MA Program in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
Dutch-American Atlantic World, Age of Revolutions, American Revolution, Dutch Patriot Revolt, Early American Republic, Political History, Religious History, Religious Tolerance and Intolerance, Religious Freedom, Dutch in America
"The Dutch Origins of the Quasi War: John Adams, the Netherlands, and Atlantic Politics in the 1790s," Journal of Early American History, forthcoming January 2018
"Remembering the Knickerbockers: A Lifetime of Scholarship on the Dutch American Atlantic," in Sharing Pasts: Dutch Americans through Four Centuries, ed. Henk Aay, Janny Venema, and Dennis Voskuil (Holland, MI: Van Raatle Press, 2017)
"A Successful Failure: A History of the Albany Records," New York Archives 16, No. 1 (Summer 2016): 36-37
"Rescuing the Albany Records from the Fire: Francis Adrian van der Kemp's Notorious Attempt to Translate the Records of New Netherland," New York History: Special Issue on New Netherland 96, No. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 2015): 354-373
Currently working on a manuscript about the Dutch-American Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions and a project about John Adams in the Netherlands.
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 580 | Practicum |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 597 | Capstone |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 597 | Capstone |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 597 | Capstone |
HST 641 | North American History |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
HST 641 | North American History |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 641 | North American History |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 641 | North American History |