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Arthur Brand, nicknamed the "Indiana Jones of the Art World," said the latest discovery was among his most significant.
A Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several ...
MONTVILLE, NJ - Among the earliest settlers of Morris County were the Davenports, an influential family whose roots trace ...
In this video I talk about the history of the island of Taiwan, from its early days with Native & initial Chinese settling, ...
A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the English.
Fly over Galle, a beautifully preserved Dutch colonial fort city on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, where red-tiled rooftops, stone ramparts, and crashing waves create stunning aerial vistas ...
A.J.F. van Laer, a Dutch-born state researcher and archivist, had completed translations of hundreds of pages of the documents when his final manuscript was destroyed in the 1911 Capitol fire.
It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly denounces the violence of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia, but one can always ...
Subsequent Dutch incursions in 1622 and 1624, though met by Ming resistance, led to Dutch colonization of Taiwan until 1662 with the center in Tainan in southern Taiwan.