Taking Manhattan with Russell Shorto

Russell Shorto, author and director of the New Amsterdam Project at The New York Historical, talks about his latest book "Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America." The book explores the pivotal period when the English took over the Dutch colony New Amsterdam and turned it into today's New York, while also placing these momentous circumstances in the wider context of English conflicts of religion and science and Dutch philosophies of tolerance and free trade. *** For more about The New York Historical, visit our website: https://www.nyhistory.org/ *** Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory?sub_confirmation=1 Check out our full video catalog: https://www.youtube.com/c/nyhistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyhistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyhistory TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nyhistory Twitter/X: https://x.com/NYHistory