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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

British soldiers stormed New Amsterdam; after its Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, surrendered the multicultural colony a month later, it was renamed New York. In the meantime, the Dutch and ...

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 ...

The Dutch first set foot on modern-day New York 400 years ago with a mandate from the Dutch West India Company to establish the colony of New Netherlands at the mouth of the Hudson River, with New ...