As Defragged History prepares to dive deep into the early history of New York City and tell the story of New Netherland, New Amsterdam, and Manhattan, and check out the list of all the sources I’m using in my research.
New material is added frequently, and this list may not be up to date.
Books
A. Davis, History of New Amsterdam, or, New York as it Was in the Days of the Dutch Governors, 1854, New York, R.T. Young, Publisher. e-book.
Adriaen van der Donck, A Description of New Netherland, Â 2008, Lincoln/London, University of Nebraska Press. print.
Bayard Tuckerman, Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General for the West India Company in New Netherland, 1893, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company. e-book
Charles W. Darling, New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York, 1889, Utica, NY, Privately Printed. e-book.
Dienke Hondius, Nancy Jouwe, Dineke Stam, Jennifer Tosch, Dutch New York Histories, Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage, 2017, Volendam, LM Publishers. print.
G.W. Kernkamp, Prins Willem II, het onvoltooide leven van de kleinzoon van Willem van Oranje, 2021, Omniboek.
Henk den Heijer, Geschiedenis van de WIC, Opkomst, Bloei en Ondergang, 2020, Zupthen, Walburgpers Algemeen. e-book.
I.N. Phelps-Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, 1915, New York, Robert H. Dodd.
Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland, A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century American, 2009, Ithaca/London, Cornell University Press. print.
John S.C. Abbott, Peter Stuyvesant, 1898, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company. e-book.
J. Paulding, Affairs and Men of New Amsterdam in the time of Governor Peter Stuyvesant, 1843, New York, Casper C. Childs. e-book.
Lucas Ligtenberg, De Nieuwe Wereld van Peter Stuyvesant, Nederlandse Voetsporen in de Verenigde Staten, 2013, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Fosfor. e-book.
Maldwyn A. Jones, The Limits of Liberty, American History 1607 – 1980, 1983, New York, Oxford University Press, print
Martin Pruijs, Amsterdam – Nieuw Amsterdam 1609-2009, 2009, Oud Bussum, Strengholt United Media. print.
Martine Gosselink, New York – Nieuw Amsterdam, De Nederlandse Oorsprong van Manhattan, 2009, Amsterdam, Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. print.
Russell Shorto, Nieuw Amsterdam, De Oorsprong van New York, 2004, Amsterdam, Forum Amsterdam. print. (2009 edition)
Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World, The Episode Story of Duch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America, 2004, London, Abacus. print.
William T. Davis, J. Franklin Jameson, Ph.D., Ll.D, Original Narratives Of Early American History, Bradford’s History Of Plymouth Plantation 1606-1646, 1908, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons. Reproduced Under The Auspices Of The American Historical Association Director Of The Department Of Historical Research In The Carnegie Institution Of Washington, e-book
Victor Hugo Paltsits, The Founding of New Amsterdam in 1626, p. 39 – 65, 1925, ‎the American Antiquarian Society.
Articles
Rewriting History, A Keynote by Russell Shorto, Presented at Amsterdam Museum, 11 June 2022
New World-New Netherland-New York, Classroom Materials, developer, Leslie Hayes, Associate Director for Professional Learning, writer, Allyson Schettino, Associate Director of School Programs
Dr. A. Eekhof, De ,,Memorie” van Isaack De Rasière Voor Samuel Blommaert, Het Oudste Hollandsche Bericht Betreffende Nieuw-Nederland En New Plymouth, De Kolonie Der ,,Pilgrim Fathers”, 1922, Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis/Dutch Review of Church History.
The New York Times 1926-05-09 Vol 75, Iss 24942
Willem Frijhoff, Woerdens wonderkind: Evert Willemsz Bogaert alias dominee Bogardus (1607-1647) Een vergeten held? Heemtijdinghen – 04-2010 p. 105-119.
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