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.

New Netherland: New Netherland was colony of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of America. It was founded by a Dutch West India Company ship known as the Halve Maen in 1609.

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 ...

In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam and found the colony in shambles. ... Though the region of New Netherlands would change hands five times over the next 27 years, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dutch controlled the Hudson Valley for a little more than 50 years, but their influence can still be seen today. ... New York Post. Search ...