[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Ulrich whose Jewish friend Anne did not show up to school in Nazi occupied Amsterdam. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

The online home of the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery houses an impressive collection of masterpieces from the golden age of Dutch painting, among them Rembrandt's dramatic group portrait of Amsterdam surgeons. View "The Anatomy...

In this poem, Linda Pastan analyzes the experience of tourists visiting two iconic buildings in the city of Amsterdam: the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are provided. This...

In a recent exhibition on Ottoman culture held in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk was an unimpressive-looking little 18th-century book, a printed version of a manuscript produced 150 years earlier. Usually a manuscript is more rare than a...

From Olga Korbut's famous flip to Kerri Strug's vault landing to Simone Biles' multiple golds, see the feats that wowed the world. Women's gymnastics has been an official sport in the Summer Olympics since 1928, when the first female...

Read about the Dutch colonization of the Hudson River Valley in this comprehensive essay about the Dutch in America. Pages 3-7 deal with the Dutch colonies.

Find out about Dutch exploration and settlement in the area explored by Henry Hudson. Scrolling through will take you to information about New Netherland and the settling of New Sweden which later became Maryland.

Information about Dutch colonization in America. There is mention of Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant.

Essay on the growth and development of towns settled by the Dutch in and around present day New York City. The author provides interesting details about leaders and landmarks.

Despite the title of this article, it discusses the settlement of New Netherland by the Dutch and explains the reasons for the settlement, and why settlers were not attracted to the area.

Ironically, Henry Hudson, English explorer, was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company when he explored what is now the New York area. Read about the colony the Dutch established at the mouth of the Hudson River and see how the...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on John Marin in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.

Great destination guide and country profile of the Netherlands featuring a background overview, and numerous links to comprehensive information on the country's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population, news,...

Site provides a history of courtship and marriage customs in the Dutch colonies of New York, beginning in the early to mid-1600s.

More than thirty live webcams from around The Netherlands. The webcams cover everyday aspects of life in the Netherlands, from animals at the zoo, to a chicken farm, to people sitting at a sidewalk cafe. Remember when you watch, that The...

Chronicles the begining of company farming in the United States and what led to its faliure. Click on "next" at the bottom of each page to get more of this essay. In-depth information.

Depiction of the painting "Italian Landscape" by Karel Dujardin. The page loads in Dutch, but there is an option to view the page in English.

An article on the Dutch Republic and the establishment and settlement of a Dutch colony in what later became the English colony of New Jersey.

Overview and biographical facts on the life of Peter Minuit, the Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans.

An eminent painter and etcher, born in Leyden, Holland, July 15, 1607; died in Amsterdam, Oct. 8, 1669. He was the son of a miller of the Rhine, near Leyden, studied in the Latin school of his native city, but in 1630 removed to...

A map of the Middle Colonies of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, with portions of New York, Maryland and Delaware, showing the early European settlements in the area from 1609 to 1702. The map shows the boundary between West New...

A facsimile of an early map from the Arcano del Mare (Robert Dudley, 1642) of the Nova Belgia (New Amsterdam) and New England coastline from Long Island to east of the St. Croix River.

A map of the area from the Delaware Bay to the Connecticut River showing the territory claimed by the Dutch as New Netherlands (1614-1664) and the territory around the Delaware Bay and Delaware River claimed by Sweden as New Sweden...

A map of New Netherlands in the 1600's showing New Amsterdam and Dutch Fort (Albany) established in 1623, the English Settlements on the Connecticut River (Hartford) and the New Haven Colony, and the southern Dutch and Swedish...