Discover New Netherland
The following resources offer a comprehensive look at the history and legacy of New Netherland. Through articles, lesson plans and interactive tools, these materials provide educators, students, and history enthusiasts with the means to explore the rich heritage of Dutch influence in America. Whether you’re delving into early colonial life, trade, or cultural exchanges, these resources are designed to deepen understanding and spark curiosity.
New Amsterdam History Center
New Amsterdam History Center offers curriculm for 4th, 7th, and 11th grades and other learning resources focused on New Netherland.
The New Amsterdam History Center’s Mapping New Amsterdam Project offers an interactive exploration of the 17th-century Dutch colony. Through digital maps, reconstructions, and stories, visitors can immerse themselves in the colony’s streets, landmarks, and diverse community, gaining insight into its legacy as the foundation of New York City. The project integrates expert research and resources, including the Encyclopaedia of New Netherland, to provide a comprehensive view of New Amsterdam’s history.
View this interactive map that will visually guide you down the streets of early New Amsterdam.
Where we explore the early history of New Amsterdam and New York City, its diverse people, landscapes, institutions and global legacy today.
The 11th grade curriculum addresses how a New Amsterdam colony’s successful commercial society developed.
Developed in conjunction with the demonstration 11th-grade curriculum, produced by Greg Varley and Mirla Morrison, under contract to American History Workshop.
New Netherland Institute
In NNI’s Digital Exhibitions you can meet the people who made New Netherland home, wander the places they roamed, open a window into their lives through artifacts they left behind, and learn more about their world through the letters they wrote, the maps they drew, and more
NNI offers the following pages of resources related to genealogical research in the Netherlands.
Since the earliest cave drawings, maps have informed, recorded, and inspired. This exhibit features maps from Europe’s Age of Discovery, tracing the shift from speculation to knowledge of New Netherland and Northeast America.
Welcome to New Netherland—a lost world you may find surprisingly familiar. This exhibit journeys from the House of Hope in present-day Connecticut to Fort Casimir on the Delaware River.
This exhibit showcases three centuries of maps donated to Fordham University by Dutch immigrant Mr. Twaalfhoven, who built a business career after earning a scholarship there during World War II.
This exhibit blends history, archaeology, and art to explore the life of Arent van Curler and the farm he built in the upper Hudson Valley.
This exhibit examines the evolving history of slavery in New York, highlighting the distinct experiences of New Netherland’s enslaved population and the institution’s origins.
A database and digital exhibit of ship voyages to New Netherland.
