Firth Haring Fabend

Shorter Works (Essays, Chapters in Books)


"Cornmeal Mush and Other Myths: Four Misperceptions of the Dutch Experience in New Netherland," de Halve Maen, 82 (Fall 2009), 3:47-50.

"The Dutch-American Political Elite in New York State, 1783-1840s," Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, ed. Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. Van Minnen, and Giles Scott-Smith (Albany: SUNY Press/​Middelburg: Roosevelt Study Center, 2009), 250-259.

"A Novel Is Born in New York's Archives," New York Archives, 8 (Spring 2009), 4:32-35.

"Pro-Leislerian Farmers in Early New York: A 'Mad Rabble' or 'Gentlemen Standing Up for Their Rights'"? American's First River, coll. Tbomas S. Wermuth, James M. Johnson, and Christopher Pryslopski (Poughkeepsie: Hudson River Valley Institute/​Albany: SUNY, 2009), 41-48.

"The Reformed Dutch Church and the Persistence of Dutchness in New York and New Jersey," Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, ed. Roger Panetta (New York: Hudson River Museum/​Fordham University Press, 2009), 137-158.

"The Reverend Gerrit Lydekker: From Coetus to Conferentie, An Explanation of What Happened," Revolutionary Bergen County: The Road to Revolution, ed. Barbara Z. Marchant (Charleston: History Press, 2009). Expanded and annotated version in New World Clergy: Continuities and Changes Among Dutch Colonial Clergy, ed. Leon van den Broeke, Hans Krabbendam, and Dirk Mouw. The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).

"The Reverend Gideon Schaats: 'A Voetian in Hermeneutics'," New World Clergy: Continuities and Changes Among Dutch Colonial Clergy, ed. Leon van den Broeke, Hans Krabbendam, and Dirk Mouw. The Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).

Historical Fiction
Land So Fair
A family saga set in eighteenth-century New York and New Jersey
Fiction
The Best of Intentions
A story of the developing passion between unlikely opposites.
A Perfect Stranger
Dilemma of modern woman
The Woman Who Went Away
“An effective horror tale, psychologically well grounded, with a Deliverance undertone.”
--Kirkus Reviews
American History
Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals
A study of how one mainstream Protestant denomination dealt with the transformative events of the evangelical era.
A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800
A study of a large colonial American family over five generations.


Poetry
A Catch of Grandmothers
Vignettes of Firth's nine Haring grandmothers going back to the first, born in New Amsterdam in 1641.
Memoir
Only a Paper Life, A Memoir
Memoir of Junior Year Abroad, England, 1957-1958