“The seventeenth-century Van Rensselaer family may have seen ‘The Case of the Colonie of Rensselaerswijck’ as a compendium of their victimization, but I now see it as a record of colonialism’s paradoxes.” Erin Kramer writes about the story behind her Oct. 2022 #WMQ essay on Albany, diplomacy, and the Haudenosaunee. #VastEarlyAmerica https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/a-record-of-colonialisms-paradoxes/