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The first episode of the series begins with the founding of New Amsterdam, a Dutch trading post. The city starts to take shape as New Amsterdam becomes British New York. By the Revolutionary War, the city...

Dr. Eric Sanderson of the Mannahatta Project uses Geographic Information Systems to bring to life a detailed map of the city from 1782.

Learn more about the Centennial Celebration of 120 Broadway, located at the former location of Pieter Stoutenburgh's tulip garden.

A comparison between old and present day New York City. The new photos were taken during April 12th 2014 - April 26th 2014.

Professor Joyce Goodfriend of the University of Denver describes how and why the British took over Dutch New Netherland.

As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage to America, historian Barry Lewis takes us back in time to rediscover the first European settlers in New York — the Dutch.

Janny Venema of the New Netherland Project narrates the passage from Henry Hudson’s travels through the development of Rensselaerswyck to the establishment of Beverwyck, a trading community located in t...

Did you know that New York City’s Supreme Court is built to float? Host Brian Unger reveals the hidden history of Foley Square.

Did you know that Wall Street was named after an actual wall that once stretched across Manhattan? Host Brian Unger reveals the hidden history of Wall Street.

At the beginning of the 17th century, Dutch explorers bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians and founded the settlement of New Amsterdam. A quarter of a century later, the English conquered the...

Landscape ecologist Dr. Eric Sanderson describes the Mannahatta Project and the original ecology of Manhattan.

See the Castello Plan, an early city map of Lower Manhattan (New York City) from 1660, created by Jacques Cortel like you've never seen it before.

Take a walk down Manhattan’s Stone street in 1660, look inside homes, gardens, taverns, and meet people on the street in this preview of NAHC‘s Virtual New Amsterdam Project (VNAP), a 3D recreation of ...

Dr. Charles Gehring, director of the New Netherland Project, describes the diversity and sense of opportunity that characterized New Amsterdam.

The Dutch colonized "New Netherland," the area now known as New York, in order to make money from the fur trade and agricultural pursuits. The Dutch colonies thrived until the English invaded the colony...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. A neglected pile of documents in early Dutch are left intact while the more recently archived British history documents...

New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands...

A documentary video about the New Netherland Project, where more than 18 volumes of the official archives of New Netherland have been transcribed, translated, and published to date, this thirty-minute...

If you think the United States was just the result of group of conservative pilgrims fleeing persecution, you're wrong. Part of the United States can be traced to the revolutionary, free and open Dutch...

If you think the United States was just the result of group of conservative pilgrims fleeing persecution, you're wrong. Part of the United States can be traced to the revolutionary, relatively free and...

A few highlights of what's left of New Amsterdam. This is part 2 of a 4-part series, in which best-selling author Russell Shorto gives a tour through what used to be New Amsterdam, and what we now call...

Why do Americans have this gap in their history about the fact that large parts of the origins of the United States used to be Dutch? In four parts, best-selling author Russell Shorto gives a tour through...

Produced for the 2009 Hudson River Quadricentennial, this video by GVP associate producer, Richard Manack, owner of a historic dutch coal barge, takes us for a journey along the river to revisit Northeastern...

New York Skyline then and now.

"Remember that Old New York Was Once New Amsterdam: The Dutch Roots of American Pluralism" by David Dzurec, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, The University of Scranton. It has been argued that contemporary...

The 'Fireside Chat' lecture series is presented at the historic St James' Chapel in Hyde Park, New York. In New York, the Hyde Park Post Office features seventeen painted panels of a historical mural project,...

This educational film explains the historic and economic causes for the emergence of New York as one of the world's largest cities, and its vital relationship to rest of America. Archival footage shows...

Professor Joyce Goodfriend reviews Peter Stuyvesant's New Amsterdam legacy.

This is a fast-paced 23-minute documentary history of New York City, narrated at rapid speed by renowned New York newscaster Bill Beutel and produced by the Museum of the City of New York.

Janny Venema of the New Netherland Project discusses how the Dutch West India Company decided to colonize the area of New Amsterdam and encourage non-company patroon ships to realize Dutch presence in...

This time-lapse, panoramic animation will be seen on walls in elevators that service One World Trade Center s observatory. It simulates how New York City looked from the year 1500 to today.

A history of the Suckley family and Margaret (Daisy) Suckley.

Early America expert Professor Joyce Goodfriend describes the role women played in preserving Dutch culture in America.