Bibliography New Amsterdam
Defragged History’s deep-dive series about the early history of New York City and tell the story of New Netherland, New Amsterdam, and Manhattan, is currently uploading on YouTube.
Here’s 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 until the end of the series in August 2025.
For the Eighty Years’ War data, I used my own series and the research I did for that series. Here is the link to that bibliography.
Books
Abbott, John S.C., Peter Stuyvesant, 1898, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company. e-book.
Brodhead, John Romeyn, Esq., Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, procured in Holland, England, and France, Volume 1, 1856, Albany, Weed, Parsons and Company. e-book
Bryant W.C. and Gay, Sidney Howard, A Popular History of the United States Volume II, 1876, London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. e-book.
Cook Myers, Albert, Narratives of early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware,1630-1707, ed. by Albert Cook Myers, 1912, New York, C. Scribner’s Sons. [PDF]
Darling, Charles W., New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York, 1889, Utica, NY, Privately Printed. e-book.
Davis, A., 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.
Davis, William T., 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
Dienke Hondius, Nancy Jouwe, Dineke Stam, Jennifer Tosch, Dutch New York Histories, Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage, 2017, Volendam, LM Publishers. print.
Donck, Adriaen, van der, A Description of New Netherland, Â 2008, Lincoln/London, University of Nebraska Press. print.
Drake, Samuel G., The Book of the Indians of North America, 1833, Boston, Josiah Drake. e-book.
Drake, Samuel, G., The Aboriginal Races of North America, 1860, Philadelphia, Charles Desilver. e-book.
Gill, Jonathan, Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America, 2011, Grove Press. excerpt
Gosselink, Martine, New York – Nieuw Amsterdam, De Nederlandse Oorsprong van Manhattan, 2009, Amsterdam, Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. print.
Heijer, Henk, den, Geschiedenis van de WIC, Opkomst, Bloei en Ondergang, 2020, Zupthen, Walburgpers Algemeen. e-book.
Jacobs, Jaap, The Colony of New Netherland, A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century American, 2009, Ithaca/London, Cornell University Press. print.
Jameson, J. Franklin, Narratives of New Netherland 1609-1664,
Jones, Maldwyn A., The Limits of Liberty, American History 1607 – 1980, 1983, New York, Oxford University Press
Kernkamp, G.W., Prins Willem II, het onvoltooide leven van de kleinzoon van Willem van Oranje, 2021, Omniboek.
Ligtenberg, Lucas, De Nieuwe Wereld van Peter Stuyvesant, Nederlandse Voetsporen in de Verenigde Staten, 2013, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Fosfor. e-book.
Merwick, Donna, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland, 2013, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, e-book.
Milton, Gilles, Nathanial’s Nutmeg, or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History, 2000, New York, NY, Farrar, Straud and Girouz.
New York Historical Society, Commemoration Conquest Of New Netherland, Two Hundredth Anniversary, 1764, New York Historical Society.
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, The Founding Of New Amsterdam In 1626
Paulding, J., Affairs and Men of New Amsterdam in the time of Governor Peter Stuyvesant, 1843, New York, Casper C. Childs. e-book.
Phelps-Stokes, I.N., The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, 1915, New York, Robert H. Dodd.
Pruijs, Martin, Amsterdam – Nieuw Amsterdam 1609-2009, 2009, Oud Bussum, Strengholt United Media. print.
Shorto, Russell, Nieuw Amsterdam, De Oorsprong van New York, 2004, Amsterdam, Forum Amsterdam. print.
Shorto, Russell, 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.
Tuckerman, Bayard, Peter Stuyvesant, director-general for the West India Company in New Netherland, 1893, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company. e-book
Vries, David Pietersz, de, Korte historiael ende journaels aenteyckeninge van verscheyden voyagiens in de vier deelen des wereldtsronde, als Europa, Africa, Asia, ende Amerika gedaen, 1911.
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.
The Strange Case of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert.