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.

I have shown how the Dutch colony of New Netherland had its beginning in the finding of our harbor in the year 1609 by Hudson, but to make clear how New Netherland passed to the English, ...

The Dutch purchased Manhattan Island and founded New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony of New Netherland. Their claim extended up the Hudson River and into Connecticut.

The Dutch were still active participants in the slave trade when they lost control of Brazil in 1654. Now they directed their attention to the colony of New Netherland.

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Gehring, 86, retired last week after 50 years spent translating 17th-century Dutch documents about life in Albany and the colony of New Netherland.

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 ...

Leading the antisemitic discrimination against the Jews in New Amsterdam was Stuyvesant, who was strongly committed to the supremacy of the Dutch Reformed Church, determined to promote morality ...

New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655.