The John Adams Institute
Welcoming the best and brightest of American thinking
Upcoming events
Russell Shorto: Taking Manhattan (SOLD OUT)
The extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Curtis Chin: For Here or To Go?
Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant
The New Anthology
The New Anthology is a community-led, multi-year project that gives new voice to aspects of our shared Dutch-American history by connecting stories and perspectives that have often been overlooked or purposefully ignored. Visit the online collection to find out more!
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About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.
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Movies That Matter shows new film by Errol Morris
Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. He merges explosive interviews with whistleblowing officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Movies that Matter festival (21-29 March, The Hague) will screen Separated on 25 March, followed by a Q&A with John Adams director Tracy Metz. Click here for more info and tickets.
The festival will show several American or America-related films, like The Damned, Flophouse American and Front Row (amongst others). Click here for the full program.