A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the English.

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 ...

Dutch traders had visited the area of North America that is now New York in the early 17th century, but it was not until 1624 that colonists arrived for permanent settlement. By 1660, the colony ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1840s, historian Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan began uncovering documents from New York’s Dutch past, ... and in 1667 the Dutch invaded the English colony of Surinam in South America.

The European settlement of what would become New York was led by the Dutch, settling along the Hudson River in 1624. They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When ...

Over time, of course, things did change, but slowly, incrementally. The remarkable thing about this transfer-­of-­power document, about the English takeover of Manhattan and the Dutch colony of New ...

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.

The New-York Historical Society will present "New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam," to mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch colony's founding.