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 ...

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 ...

An exhibition at the New York Historical focuses on the city’s 17th-century roots as a Dutch settlement. By Megan McCrea This ...

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 ...

BAY RIDGE — WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BERGEN STREET IN BROOKLYN and the town of Bergen, Norway, birthplace of the composer Edvard Grieg? Early settlers like Han Hansen Bergen — the namesake of ...

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 ...

Introduction : "a blessèd country, where milk and honey flow" -- Reconnaissance and exploration -- Population and immigration -- Authority, government, and justice -- Trade, agriculture, and artisans ...