Colonial Echoes. When Americans Spoke Dutch
Historian Philip Dröge cycled along American roads in search of what remains of the Dutch-speaking past of the United States.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Historian Philip Dröge cycled along American roads in search of what remains of the Dutch-speaking past of the United States.
On 25 February 1643, two massacres on and around Manhattan Island ignited a war between Dutch settlers and Native Americans that would last for years.
Few people know that the first African-American woman to be honoured with a bust in the US Capitol was a native speaker of Dutch.