dutch americans

A simple introduction to the history of New Amsterdam, from its establishment by the Dutch until its conquest by the English in 1664.

This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth century to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordly Dutch patrons, and yeomen.

The history of the Dutch in the New World from 1664 to the present describing their contributions to their adopted homeland and culture as farmers, traders, fighters, and artists.

Bram and his family leave their small brick house in Holland and travel to a new life in New York City.

Lucas Turner and his sister, Sally, arrive in New York in 1661 hoping to make a fresh start in the rough Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam, but they find it is harder to adjust to their new life than they thought it would be.