It is to see Manhattan not as the steel-and-concrete center of the financial world, but a forested island with a tiny, rough-and-ready European settlement clinging to its southern tip.
It is to imagine what is now the northeastern United States as a virgin wilderness, inhabited by native Americans and small groups of European settlers, who navigated not by roads or even forest paths but by the watery highways of the region: the Hudson, Delaware, and Connecticut Rivers.
But place names only scratch the surface of New Netherland's legacy. From Santa Claus to log cabins, pancakes to cole slaw, multiculturalism to upward mobility, New Netherland influenced American culture in surprising ways.
Exhibit Credits: Text and research by Russell Shorto, an author and journalist. Original site design by Howard L. New Netherland was the first Dutch colony in North America. The Dutch claim to this territory derived from their sponsorship of Henry Hudson's voyages of exploration. Upon his return to the Netherlands, Hudson described what he had found: a magnificent harbor, wide navigable rivers, and a land rich in natural resources.
The commercial possibilities of New Netherland attracted considerable interest during the era known as the Dutch Golden Age, when the newly independent United Provinces of the Netherlands became Europe's leading commercial power and Amsterdam its preeminent trading city.
Soon after Hudson's report was made public, merchants and investors started sponsoring speculative voyages to the new colony.
New Amsterdam became the seat of New Netherland government. In the fifty-five years that followed, the Dutch colony drew immigrants from all over Europe as it developed socially, and politically, and economically, offering a strategic point for trade. As over 2, Filipino-American farm workers refused to go to work picking grapes in the valley north of Bakersfield, California, they set into motion a chain of events that would Carved from a single block of white Italian Carrara marble that had been The German armies were later joined by Finnish forces that advanced against Leningrad down the Karelian Isthmus.
The siege of Leningrad, also known as In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. On September 8, , Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
With Mussolini deposed from power and the earlier collapse of the fascist government in July, Gen.
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