Introduction /J.W. Schulte Nordholt and Robert P. Swierenga -- Part one : Diplomatic and economic relations -- Two Americans in two Dutch republics : the Adamses, father and son / R.R. Palmer -- John Adams and the birth of Dutch-American friendship, 1780-82 / James H. Hutson -- The founding fathers and the two confederations : the United States of America and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, 1783-89 / Lawrence S. Kaplan -- Financial and economic ties : the first century / James C. Riley -- An act without peer : the Marshall Plan in American-Dutch relations / E.H. van der Beugel -- American-Dutch political relations since 1945 : what has changed and why? / Alfred van Staden -- Part two : Dutch immigration and settlement in the United States -- The Dutch in New Netherland / Henri and Barbara van der Zee -- The American Dutch, their church, and the Revolution / James Tanis -- Exodus Netherlands, promised land America : Dutch immigration and settlement in the United States / Robert P. Swierenga -- The Dutchness of the Roosevelts / Frank Freidel -- Part three : bilateral perception -- John Lothrop Motley and the Netherlands / D.D. Edwards -- "This, here, and soon" : Johan Huizinga's esquisse of American culture / Michael Kammen -- American travelers in Holland through two centuries / Herbert H. Rowen -- Dutch travelers in the United States : a tale of energy and ambivalence / J.W. Schulte Nordholt.