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Old Melbourne on the Hudson.(The Island at the Centre of the World)(Book Review)
The Island at the Centre of the World, by Russell Shorto; Transworld, 2005, $24.95.
WHAT CAN YOU give the history--American--that has everything? The early story of its biggest city, it seems. Amazingly, given the ant-heap activity in combing through the US past and nearly a century of attention from Hollywood, little has been known in detail until recently of the pioneering days of New Amsterdam, as it was until the British renamed it after the King's brother and heir, the Duke of York.
Thousands of pages of mouldering, partly damaged, records lay around for 300 years, mainly in the New York State Archives in Albany, the state capital, until 1973. The ...
- NEW NETHERLAND STYLE TRANSLATION OF EARLY DUTCH RECORDS PROMPTS AUTHENTIC MEAL...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 1, 1990 700+ words
...research on the history of New Netherland, the 17th- century Dutch colony that included New York. The dinner is an event of the Friends of the New Netherland Project, a group supporting...records. Leisler, a New York City merchant, briefly...
- A Description of New Netherland.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Geographical Review Rose-Redwood, Reuben July 1, 2009 700+ words
...distinguished scholars and archivists at the New Netherland Institute in Albany, New York, have been working for several decades...and publish the colonial documents of New Netherland to ensure that New York's Dutch heritage amounts to more than...
- Clashes in the colonies: Director-General Peter Minuit's rule over New...
- Magazine article from: Cobblestone Kowalski, Kathiann M. October 1, 2007 700+ words
...of Minuit's actions, New Netherland's director-general...leaders of New Sweden and New Netherland cooperated to stop them...rule ended. But although New Netherland became the English colony of New York, the terms of surrender...
- New Netherland Museum.
- Magazine article from: Cobblestone October 1, 2007 700+ words
New Netherland Museum, Albany, New York, www.newnetherland.org/. The museum organizes trips...The Web site offers virtual tours of the ship and the New Netherland settlement. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
- New Netherland's range.(Mapping It)
- Magazine article from: Cobblestone October 1, 2007 700+ words
...their settlement in the New World as "New Netherland" as early as 1614. They considered...the [and that today includes parts of New York, western Connecticut, western Massachusetts...city of New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) was founded in 1626 and became...
- New Netherland
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 New Netherland Dutch colony (1613-64) on Manhattan Island & along the Hudson River: taken by England & divided into the colonies of New York & New Jersey Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- 'NEW NETHERLAND' SEMINAR SET SEPT. 19.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 26, 1987 700+ words
The New Netherland Project of the State Library will...Rensselaerswyck Seminar, titled "A New Netherland Hutspot" - a stew or mixture of...include papers on various aspects of New Netherland and its people. Introductory remarks...
- BENEFIT FOR NEW NETHERLAND PROJECT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 12, 1996 700+ words
...present at a dinner to benefit the New Netherland Project at the Terrace Gallery of the...beverages, as well as a donation to the New Netherland Project. Reservation deadline is Friday...Dutch West India Co.'s colony of New Netherland from 1621 through 1674. SCHENECTADY...