One day in early 1975, New York City aged nearly 50 years. Then-Mayor Abe Beame signed a City Council bill backdating the founding year on the city flag to 1625, when the first Dutch colonial settlers ...

AMSTERDAM, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Dutch King Willem-Alexander has commissioned an independent research into the role of the royal family in the colonial past of the Netherlands, the Dutch government's ...

Property size: 2,472 square-foot home has four bedrooms, two full bathrooms and two half bathrooms and a detached, one-car garage on .23 acres. Unique Features: This Dutch Colonial is unusually large ...

Gresham was a young city and mostly farmland in the early 1900s when two Honey brothers bought side-by-side residences in the Easthill neighborhood. Both estates have survived more than a century of ...

AMSTERDAM, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A cannon that once saluted a Sinhalese king and a diamond looted from an Indonesian sultan are among thousands of objects seized during the colonial era whose rightful ...

The tronco, meaning “tree trunk” serves as the centerpiece for Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery at the United Nations in New York (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) In 1646, João ...

The Dallas Builders Association’s Home of the Week is from Conic LLC, which has over 30 years of experience delivering the details demanded by the most discerning customers with a taste for classic ...

Aleksandar Furtula / AP Hundreds of priceless, cultural artifacts looted during the Dutch colonization of Indonesia and Sri Lanka are finally on their way home. In a ceremony Monday at the Museum ...

In “Taking Manhattan,” author Russell Shorto writes about the deal that New Netherland Director General Peter Stuyvesant made with English military officer Richard Nicolls to transfer the Dutch colony ...

A major exhibition that explores the history of slavery during the Dutch colonial period will travel to the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York this month for a four-week display.

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