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 ...
An exhibition at the New York Historical focuses on the city’s 17th-century roots as a Dutch settlement. By Megan McCrea This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are ...
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 ...
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