Lest we forget how Harlem got its name, this collection of 12 articles describes the considerable influence of the Dutch in North America before they ceded their territory to the English in 1674, pass
From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusuallydiverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English,Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as we
In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664 to 1776 were far from invincibl
Goodfriend (history, University of Denver), Schmidt (history, University of Washington) and Stott (art history, University of Denver) have edited this compilation of essays on the history of the Dutch
