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. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

May 17, 2024 Lauren Comiteau Art from Patricia Kaersenhout and Leonard Harmon's "A Phantasmagorical Manhatta Island." Photo: Lauren Comiteau While for many, 400 years of connection between Old ...

Johnstown native and author Russell Shorto will hold a reading for his latest nonfiction book, “Taking Manhattan: The ...

on a busy Amsterdam street. The popular pioneering journalist died nine days later of his injuries, aged 64. The suspect, who has been incarcerated in Curacao, a former Dutch colony, since 2014, was ...