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US - Netherlands common history.

Part 1 of New Amsterdam - New York Tour Part 1 of New Amsterdam Tour :
why do Americans have this gap in their history about the fact that large parts of the origins of the United States used to be Dutch ? A tour through what used to be New Amsterdam, what we now call New York.

Part 2 of New Amsterdam - New York Tour Part 2 of New Amsterdam Tour by best-selling author Russell Shorto, who wrote The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America.
What's left of New Amsterdam in Lower Manhattan ?

Part 3 of New Amsterdam - New York Tour Part 3 of New Amsterdam Tour :
meet a forgotten American visionary. Adriaan van der Donck, who foresaw what New Amsterdam, could one day become.
Part of the United States can be traced to the revolutionary, free and open Dutch Republic of the 17th century.

Part 4 of New Amsterdam - New York Tour Part 4 of New Amsterdam Tour : the small colony of New Amsterdam had a much larger impact on America than previously thought.

More material on www.newnetherlandnow.org.

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