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New Amsterdam

Defragged History’s new YouTube series “New Amsterdam,” tells a captivating and compelling story of ambition, adventure, and identity in the birthplace of America.

The series follows the lives of the Dutch settlers who founded the colony of New Netherland in the 17th century. It explores their challenges and conflicts with the native tribes, the British, and the French, the problems in the homeland, and their internal rivalries, ultimately leading to New Amsterdam’s fall and New York City’s rise.

How it started, how it ended, and everything in between.

Sources here.

Music here.

Episodes:

Episode 1 – The Perfect Island

Episode 2 – Open for Business

Episode 3 – This Means War

Episode 4 – The Stuyvesant Effect

Episode 5 – Line in the Sand

Episode 6 – Bricks in the Wall

Episode 7 – From Above to Below

Episode 8 – Mad for a Dutch War

Episode 9 – ‘Tis Now Called New York

 

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Nick Siefert

I’m super psyched for episode 9. (My least favorite of the Star Wars movies, but I have a good feeling that… great will be your 9th Episode.)
I first saw this New Amsterdam series on YouTube, and now, I’m going back to the Eighty Years War series to learn more about the Vader de Vaderland. I wish that Princeton had taught us more about the history of the figures behind the Orange colors and Nassau Street. In four hundred years, will students not know why there’s an Einstein street on campus???
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mehmet

what next? I wish for either cod and hook wars or the continuation of the eighty years war series to the war of spanish succession.
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