This week in September was a big one for New York back in 1664, since on September 8, 1664 New Amsterdam became New York in name. In character, New York was forged earlier with the help of its ...

The English first captured New Amsterdam in 1664 and permanently annexed ... vocabulary even in the 1940s as he was growing up in upstate New York. “We played games with marbles,” he ...

By 1660, the colony of New Amsterdam had reached what would be its peak before the 1664 English takeover ... and its farm growing crops such as pigeon peas that are common in Caribbean food ...

New Amsterdam was a Dutch settlement until it was conquered by the British and renamed New York in 1664. Laurens Block, public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Future 400 events will feature “a ...

The Castello Plan of 1660, now visiting New York. Photo ... and the people on the ground. In New Amsterdam, they knew they had to grow food.” The result was a hybrid place with the polyglot ...

Early manuscripts newly posted online depict New Amsterdam as an intoxicated Dutch settlement and show its leader, Peter Stuyvesant, struggling to bring order. "WHEREAS we have experienced the ...

The violent history of the Dutch colony that is now New York is not well known in the Netherlands. The curators of a new exhibition want to change that. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam In ...