Explore the rich history of Amsterdam in this video. Covering significant eras from the city's beginnings to the end of the ...

The world is very familiar with Wall Street, but what about the actual wall that was there first? It was a fence made of horizontal planks built in the 17th century, mainly to protect Dutch settlers ...

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 ...

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 ...