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.

Surviving records produced within the colony of New Netherland begin in 1638, slightly more than a decade after the purchase and first European settlement. Much of the archive of the Dutch West India ...

If one New Jersey senator has his way, New Jersey will call Delaware Bay something else and will get some land from Delaware.

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

Imagine a world where the Dutch, instead of the English, had colonized the Northeast of what would become the United States. What would America look like today if cities like New York, Boston, and ...

Despite the opioid crisis’ deadly toll, U.S police treat drug use as a criminal issue. But in the Netherlands, a public ...

State Sen. Michael Testa recently introduced a pair of bills in Trenton. The second would address the ownership of land ...

If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out ...

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was a game-changer for the 13 American colonies. This bold move cut ...

Good morning. Donald Trump is reportedly considering naming a shadow chair of the Federal Reserve, in a bid to undermine Jay ...

Bumblebees are considered tireless pollinators in tomato cultivation–but behind the scenes, a darker picture emerges: mass ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...