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Explore where New York began and see what is left of Dutch New Amsterdam, New York’s first European colony, in today’s lower Manhattan! In this virtual experience, you will hear about New York ...

The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.

The original Castello Plan of Dutch New Amsterdam drafted in 1600 was found ... think it in their best interest to properly protect the colony. He also testified that the people of New Amsterdam ...

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

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 Castello Plan of New Amsterdam” is small in scope, but powerful in its insights into everyday life in the Dutch colony at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan. I was struck by two ...

"These ordinances show how New Amsterdam officials tried to maintain ... ordinances alone give a skewed picture of life in the Dutch colony. Over the next year, a more well-rounded portrait ...

Many of the earliest laws in New York City—back when it was New Amsterdam, in the Dutch colony of New Netherlands—were an attempt to control the unruly citizens of a backwater outpost.

Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant. The first organized Jewish migration to North America, which arrived in the New Amsterdam colony founded by the Dutch West India Company in September 1654 ...