Excerpted from Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. Copyright (c) 2025 by Russell Shorto. Used with permission of the ...
In “Taking Manhattan,” author Russell Shorto writes about the deal that New Netherland Director General Peter Stuyvesant made with English military officer Richard Nicolls to transfer the Dutch colony ...
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The growth of New York City every year
Explore the growth of New York City from its origins as the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to the sprawling metropolis of ...
This article is written in English, not Dutch, because of what happened this month 360 years ago. In June 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law as New York, and it has remained that ...
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