Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout
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Monday, March 29, 2021
A Familiar Dutchman and Sweden’s Claim to an American Colony
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Peter Minuit, Former Governor of New Amsterdam, famous for purchasing Manhattan Island from the natives, led the Swedish colonization proje...
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Standing Night Watch in Nieuw-Amsterdam Earned the First Jew in the Colonies a Home
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A Dutch view of New Amsterdam nine years after it was conquored by the English and renamed New York> note the militia drilling. On ...
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Ex-Dutch Governor Leads Sweden’s Bid for an American Colony
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The European colonizers on the Eastern seaboard of heavily forested North America—French, English, Dutch—and Native tribes all built ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
First Jew in New Amsterdam Had to Fight to Stand Guard
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A modern illustration imagines Jacob Barsimson taking his turn at guard on the walls of New Amsterdam. On August 22, 1654 Jacob Barsim...
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