Peter Douglas explores several fanciful depictions by artists who have let their imaginations run wild within the context of the myths that befog the retelling of the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians in 1626.

Whatever the explanation for the confusion regarding the use of "England" and "Britain," it’s important to understand and to make the distinction.

Peter Douglas on the linguistic war between the English & the Dutch: “In the English language, when something goes wrong, they put the word Dutch in front of it.”

Recipes in Handwritten Cookbooks from Historic Dutch Houses

This issue’s opening piece grows out of a talk by historical artist Len Tantillo and author Russell Shorto for the 2019 Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck Lecture Series. In “In Search of Stuyvesant’s Bowery,” they guide the reader through the unexpected complications and contradictions they encountered while trying to pinpoint the exact location of Petrus Stuyvesant’s seventeenth-century farmhouse.