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Book sheds new light on how New Amsterdam became New York
The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.
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When New Amsterdam Became New York: September 8, 1664
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 ...
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What’s left of New York’s Dutch past?
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 ...
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A glimpse into New York City's Dutch heritage 400 years later
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 ...
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Happy 400th Birthday to New Amsterdam, the Dutch Settlement That Became New York
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 ...
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The Streets of Pre–New York
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 ...
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‘Old’ Amsterdam Looks Back at New Amsterdam Through Indigenous Eyes
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 ...