Excerpted from Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. Copyright (c) 2025 by Russell Shorto. Used with permission of the ...
Were you Seen at The Gala Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Fort Orange and the Settlement of New Netherland 1624-2024 on June 7, 2024, at The Fort Orange Club in Albany? Were you Seen at The Gala ...
Stephen Blauweiss’ new presentation, The Dutch & Their New York Legacy, accompanied by 100 historical images, will be shown on Wednesday, May 13 at 7 p.m.at the Hudson River Maritime Museum om the ...
Dutch settlers "bought" the island of Manahatta from the Lenape in 1626. Rijksmuseum via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 DEED Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam: a Dutch settlement ...
From 1624 to 1664, much of New York State, plus parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware, was the Dutch colony of New Netherland. While New Netherland only lasted 40 years before Britain sent ...
In “Taking Manhattan,” author Russell Shorto writes about the deal that New Netherland Director General Peter Stuyvesant made with English military officer Richard Nicolls to transfer the Dutch colony ...
The violent history of the Dutch colony that is now New York is not well known in the Netherlands. The curators of a new exhibition want to change that. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam In the ...
This article is written in English, not Dutch, because of what happened this month 360 years ago. In June 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law as New York, and it has remained that ...
"Goods, Wares, and Merchandise": Amsterdam's Intimate Atlantic -- "She Is Now Already at Sea": Extending Ties, Creating Empire -- "Not Altogether Brotherly": Elusive ...
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