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 ...
A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and badly ...
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