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 ...
Dr. Janny Venema, associate director of the New Netherland Project, will present the address "The Legacy of the New Netherland Colony for the United States" on Thursday, April 10, at 11 a.m. at Hope ...
Starting in the 15th century, Portugal began exploring the African coast searching for a shorter route for trade with Asia. Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered ...
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 ...
The 1630 deed that Laurie Thomas found late last year answers many questions among historians about what is believed to be the first recorded deed in the state. But one question the deed doesn’t ...
The Shagen letter that describes the sale of the island of Manhattan from the Dutch by the Lenape people in 1626 for 60 guilders, about $24, which today's Lenape leaders dispute. Robert Caro's Smith ...
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 ...
New Amsterdam’s earliest years remain shrouded in mystery. The infamous Peter Schagen letter from Nov. 7, 1626, reported that the Dutch West India Company had purchased Manhattan for the value of 60 ...
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