In that great piece of statesmanship our little colony had a very deep interest. Among the results of the Navigation Act was the making over of New Netherland into New York.

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.

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 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.

Discover the 13 American colonies, their establishment by Great Britain, diverse characteristics, and their journey to unity ...

click image for close-up American illustrator Howard Pyle, illustrator of many historical and adventure stories for periodicals, created this depiction of a slave auction in New Amsterdam (later ...

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 ...

A circa 1656 window from the Dutch church in Albany's forerunner, the settlement of Beverwyck, at the New-York Historical Society exhibit, "New York Before New York." ...

An unmatched expert in the language of New Netherland, Gehring is retiring after 50 years interpreting colonial Dutch to explain the lives of early New Yorkers.

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 and so ...

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.