Peter Stuyvesant wanted to fight. But the old soldier, the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, limping on his wooden leg from a war wound, feared in that late summer of 1664 that his cause was ...

The 1665 painting ‘View at New Amsterdam,’ by Johannes Vingboons, is seen in this image released by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. The Netherlands’ national museum put some of the most important documents ...

It was enough to make old Peter Stuyvesant stomp around on his stump. From Brazil, 23 Jews had arrived in Governor Stuyvesant’s New Amsterdam in 1654. Peter sent off a letter to his superiors in the ...

When you step into St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, you might not know that you’re standing on what was once the farm of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch director-general. Or that the balcony in the church ...

The Cultural Affairs Committee held a public hearing Tuesday on a proposal to remove statues dedicated to historical figures such as George Washington, Peter Stuyvesant and Christopher Columbus. Getty ...