Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousi...

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, poly...

An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by...

Taking Manhattan

Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed...

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never th...

Ámsterdam : historia de la ciudad más liberal del mundo

'Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch New York: the roots of Hudson Valley culture,...

At a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto lo...

Russell Shorto's work has been praised as 'first-rate intellectual history' (Wall Street Journal)...

In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Du...

'Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch New York: the roots of Hudson Valley culture,...