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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (2017) excerpt; Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), book version of 17-hour Burns PBS documentary, "NEW YORK: A Documentary Film" Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press.
In his review for The Atlantic, Timothy J. Gilfoyle called the book "the most comprehensive examination to date of the city's history prior to 1900," saying that "Gotham may rank in importance with the multi-volume works on Thomas Jefferson by Dumas Malone and on the Civil War by Allan Nevins," [3] while Clyde Haberman in The New York Times wrote that "Burrows and Wallace offer a large-canvas ...
New York hosted significant transportation advancements in the 19th century, including the first steamboat line in 1807, the Erie Canal in 1825, and America's first regularly scheduled rail service in 1831. These advancements led to the expanded settlement of western New York and trade ties to the Midwest settlements around the Great Lakes.
The first Dutch fur trading posts and settlements were in 1614 near present-day Albany, New York, the same year that New Netherland first appeared on maps. Only in May 1624 did the Dutch West India Company land a number of families at Noten Eylant (today's Governors Island ) off the southern tip of Manhattan at the mouth of the North River ...
Settled areas of New Netherland are now constitute the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, and parts of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. [1] [2] The provincial capital New Amsterdam was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan at Upper New York Bay. [3]
The Civil War and New York City (Syracuse University Press, 1990) Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (Hill and Wang, 2004) excerpt; Scherzer. Kenneth A. The unbounded community: Neighborhood life and social structure in New York City, 1830-1875 (Duke University Press, 1992)
New York: United States: Oldest European settlement in New York State, founded as Fort Nassau and renamed Fort Orange in 1623. First Dutch settlement in North America 1615: Taos: New Mexico: United States 1620: Plymouth: Massachusetts: United States: Oldest town in New England and Massachusetts. Settled by Pilgrims from the Mayflower. 1622 ...
The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen (English: "Half Moon"), commanded by Henry Hudson [7] in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and stadholder of Holland. Hudson named the river the ...