A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

A study by Dr. Joosje van Bennekom and her colleagues aimed to determine the provenance of the famed silver basin supposedly made of Spanish treasure fleet silver captured by the Dutch West India ...

While the West India Company’s records of the colony of New Netherland are relatively plentiful after 1638, the unique, ...

Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans-Atlantic slave trader, said Karwan Fatah-Black, an expert in Dutch colonial history and an assistant professor at Leiden University.

1621. Before Saks, hours before Europe’s Arnault vacuumed up 57th and Fifth’s three corners — Tiffany, Vuitton, Bulgari — and slavering to inhale Bergdorf’s — the Dutch West India ...

The Dutch were at one point — through a state-sanctioned private enterprise called the Dutch West India Company — the most prolific trans-Atlantic slave traders of all the European powers.

The Dutch East India Company faded from India after 1825 but became a successful colonial power in the Indonesian ... An patta from 1819 in Bengali and Dutch. Credit: West Bengal State Archives.

Founded in the 17th century as a trading outpost of the Dutch West India Company, Willemstad draws travelers with its unique architecture that fuses traditional Dutch and colorful Caribbean styles.

Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans-Atlantic slave trader, according to Karwan Fatah-Black, an expert in Dutch colonial history and an assistant professor at Leiden ...

Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans-Atlantic slave trader, said Karwan Fatah-Black, an expert in Dutch colonial history and an assistant professor at Leiden University.