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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

he noted the abundance of beavers and friendly natives to his Dutch employers. In response, they established a trading colony, New Amsterdam, at the southern tip of Manhattan island in 1625.