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 With the influx of the earliest settlers to New Netherland, these Walloon Pilgrims set up primarily at Ft. Orange (today's Albany) per their instructions, while a small Council of delegates huddled precariously with the newly appointed Provisional...

In these three minutes we give you the long and the short of the program. Come aboard. History is cool.

The expiration of the Twelve Years Truce creates new interest in the concept of the Dutch West India Company and a certain faction of Walloons living, working and worshiping in Leiden provide the perfect final ingredient to make this new colony a reality.

Professor Paul Otto, an expert in the history of relations between the Dutch colonists and their Native American hosts, joins us for a fascinating examination of this earliest "New Netherland" era and the remarkable ripple-effect that this emerging market would have upon the world.

On OCTOBER 11, 1614, as a direct result of the remarkable alliances established by this one man over the past four years, the States General grants exclusive charter to the newly formed "New Netherland Company" for the express purpose of cultivating the...

the podcast ISLAND - the incredible story of the first 300 years of the colonization of Manhattan.

Henry Hudson disobeys the instructions of his Dutch employers and sails over 3,000 miles off-course to inadvertently discover the river that would come to bear his name and the greatest city in the modern age.