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Author: Taking Manhattan; The Island at the Center of the World; Amsterdam; Smalltime. Director of the New Amsterdam Project at The New York Historical.
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The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

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By Russell Shorto
| Strategy Page Verified
by Russell Shorto New York: W. W. Norton, 2025. Pp. xvi, 390. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN:0393881164 The Remarkable Story of How the English Captured Nieuw-Amsterdam Russell Shorto is the author of The Island at the Center of the World (2005), a history of the Dutch colony of Nieuw-Amsterdam and its importance in global commerce during the mid-Seventeenth Century.
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New York State Archives Partnership Trust

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By Russell Shorto
| nysarchivestrust.org
F E A T U R E D   A R T I C L E : We are pleased to share with you highlights from New York Archives magazine, including at least one feature article in its entirety. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! The Sheriff of Albany County by Russell Shorto Featured Article in PDF With a lively resentment toward authority, Abraham Yates Jr. was Colonial Albany’s everyman. I am writing a book about the American Revolution that I hope will offer fresh perspective on that very well-documented period.
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To Understand the American Revolution, I Went to Barbados

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By Russell Shorto
| The Virgin Islands Daily News Verified
Is there a better place from which to appreciate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution than an industrial park on the island of Barbados? Well, maybe. Independence Hall, you might say. Or Bunker Hill. Or Valley Forge, Yorktown or Saratoga. But I’m sticking to my guns (so to speak) because a complex of abstract nouns — freedom, colonialism, slavery, power — links the events of 1776 to today, and Barbados evokes them all.
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