On this day in 1664, the bustling Dutch colonial outpost known as 'New Amsterdam' was seized by the British and given a new name - New York. This wasn't just a local squabble; it helped change the ...

It is Landing Day, the 370th anniversary of the arrival of 23 Jews at New Amsterdam, which would become New York City, which ...

In a recent article titled How the Dutch Ate Their Prime Minister in 1672, we recounted a military event carried out by the ...

On Sept. 8, 1974, one month after taking office, President Gerald R. Ford granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon” to ...

As NYC turns 400, one of the best ways of understanding what propelled the city's astronomical growth is by paddling the ...

With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...

Since our first visit to Amsterdam in 2019, my husband and I have returned every year, and sometimes several times a year.

In 1664, the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York. In 1900, Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed an estimated 8,000 people; it remains the ...

Today in History for Sept. 8: ...

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