However, over the course of the century, a new race-based slavery system developed ... as rebellion and fear of rebellion spread. 1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers ...

An endangered sea turtle has been released into the Gulf of Mexico after being found off the coast of the Netherlands, 5,000 ...

Courtesy of the Historical Society of the Nyacks 1776 map of Upper Nyack’s six farms ... Lambert Ariaensen Smith arrived in ...

The world’s first multinational company was also the first to be listed on a stock exchange. Of course, there’s a bit of a ...

Some of the world’s borders are just . . . weird. You know this very well if you’re a traveler, a student of history, or ...

The ‘glowing’ bag is actually multiple animals living in a colony, Ms Nijs said, and they aren’t common in the Netherlands. ‘But fortunately they do not harm the environment here,’ she ...

The U.S. map leaves us with tons of questions. Some of the borders are so completely WEIRD you have to wonder what the ...

This class closely examines the colonies of Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, New Netherland/New York, Rhode Island and the Carolinas from the early seventeenth century through the ...

The European settlement of what would become New York was led by the Dutch, settling along the Hudson River in 1624. They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan.

Bajo El Sol, the gallery and art bar in Cruz Bay, is hosting a book launch on Saturday, Nov. 2, from 4 to 7 p.m. to introduce ...

By Emma G. FitzsimmonsGrace Ashford and Winnie Hu The fire, in Inwood Hill Park at the northern tip of Manhattan, followed brush fires that burned in Brooklyn, the Bronx and New Jersey over the ...