Learn More about New Netherland

Interactive

• A Virtual Tour of New Netherland. This interactive tour introduces students to the many settlements that comprised New Netherland (now parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware).

Fun Facts

• Famous Dutch-Americans. Learn which famous Americans share Dutch ancestry.

Publications

• Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto. This New York Times bestseller by Russell Shorto is based on the work of the New Netherland Research Center. It tells the story of New York City's beginnings.
• The Edge of New Netherland by Len Tantillo. Through words and images, historical artist Len Tantillo reconstructs a Dutch fort on the southern edge of New Netherland. In the process, he explores seventeenth-century design conventions, surveyor's instruments, building practices, and tools.
• "The Importance of Flushing" - This article by Russell Shorto on the Flushing Remonstrance appeared in the Wniter 2008 issue of the New York Archives magazine. It includes a transcript of the Remonstrance.

Exhibit

• The Van Rensselaer Manor Papers. This NYS Library exhibit explores daily life on patroon Killiaen van Rensselaer's vast estate, Rensselaerswijck, now part of Albany and Rensselaer counties in New York.