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 ...

Some people travel with a particular objective in mind: to find the past in the present. It's an impossibility, of course — you never truly succeed, because the present is so very present. But ...

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 ...

The Museum of the City of New York is launching a new investigation into the remains of a vessel found beneath lower ...

Their colony was a theocracy, not a democracy. The English had settled in New England. From 1624 to 1664, the Dutch controlled parts of New York City, ...

Ahead of next year’s 400th anniversary of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, the historian and author of “The Island at the Center of the World” offers a walking tour of often-overlooked ...

The New York-Historical Society exhibit was curated by Russell Shorto, author of “The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & The Forgotten Colony That Shaped ...

New Amsterdam was renamed centuries ago, and the hills and copses once known as New Netherland – the short-lived, 17th-Century Dutch colony in North America – now lope gently through a stretch ...

This spring is the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York — or, to be precise, of the Dutch colony that became New York once the English took it over. It’s a noteworthy milestone.

New York City is constantly being rebuilt, paved over and reinvented, so it’s not easy to find remnants of the colony of New Amsterdam 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears ...