Early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not interested in religious freedom. They created a theocracy—a society led and bound by the rules of one religious sect.

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

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

Far from the subways and yellow cabs of the Big Apple, a wild, serene state stretches north into forest and mountain ...

2016: A gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State opens fire at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and injuring 53 – the worst mass shooting in the US. On the same day, the Broadway show ...

Welcome to my 171st weekly routes article! It includes seven mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off ...

If we mention the one in which he speaks double Dutch to a real double duchess ... many fans will immediately know that we’re remembering “New Amsterdam.” This third single from Get Happy!!

The facility stands in front of the former site of the Holland-America Line shipping company, which brought millions of emigrants to the United States and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Author Russell Shorto often visited St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery’s cemetery when he lived in New York City’s East Village neighborhood a quarter- century ago. It was home to the ...

This vivid history chronicles England’s “taking” of New Amsterdam from the Dutch ... the last leader of the Dutch colony, and his adversary Richard Nicolls, the commander of the English ...

Some time passed in the newly founded colony, and the tiny island soon started to become too small for the new inhabitants. One year later, the Dutch established the colony of New Amsterdam on the ...

In 1664, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Royal Navy sailed to the region, and Governor Peter Stuyvesant had no choice but to surrender the colony to the British. Its capital, New Amsterdam, was ...