Provides six historical illustrations of the colony of New York.

Provides six historical images of colonial New York.

Take a tour of this exhibit on the history of slavery in New York City.

Provides six historical illustrations of the New Amsterdam colony on Manhattan Island.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Read this intriguing article about the newly unearthed insurance policies that were sold to plantation owners to insure their slaves. This is a superb example of how the U.S. viewed slaves as a...

A timeline with key important political and military events primarily in New York in the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783.

The New York Times Learning Network presents a variety of interactive and printable crossword puzzles. This one is about The Pilgrims.

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...

Provides information about life in the colonial village of Albany. Includes many resources about important structures, happenings, and people. A great resource for information on colonial America as a whole.

Essay on the fight between Dutch and British colonial powers over New Amsterdam which eventually resulted in British dominance and the renaming of New Netherland to New York.

This website contains a general description of the time and reason for the first large slave auction held in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Click on Teacher's Guide for teaching resources.

A Dutch map from 1661 showing New Amsterdam. Part of a map collection from the British Library.

A fascinating article that examines the discovery in 1991 of a large Negro burial ground in lower Manhatten. The African American cemetery was used during the 18th century. Archived.

Every English colony practiced slavery, building an empire-wide system of white racial dominance and African oppression.

This website gives just a brief run-down of the founding of the 13 original colonies.

This site provides links to a variety of coins used in the colonies and in the confederation. Extremely detailed.

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 map of the New Jersey Colony between the establishment of the Dutch settlement at Bergen (1620) and the unification of East and West Jersey in 1702. The map shows the 'North River’ (Hudson River) and 'South River’ (Delaware River), the...

A map of the eastern portion of North America showing the British, Spanish, and Indian territories after the French and Indian War (1754-1763), with the proclamation line as established by the Treaty of Paris (1763). "The newly acquired...

A map of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. The map shows the territorial claims west of the Allegheny Mountains, and includes inset maps detailing the vicinity of Philadelphia, the vicinity of Boston, and the vicinity...

A map of eastern North America showing the land claims of the thirteen original states in 1783, from the Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River. The map notes that New York claimed all the lands west of the Alleghany mountains....

A map of the New Jersey Colony between the establishment of the Dutch settlement at Bergen (1617), the acquisition, between the lower Hudson and Delaware Rivers, subdivided by the Duke of York to form East Jersey and West Jersey, and the...

Three seventeenth-century homes in Pennsylvania and New York and three accounts from those English colonies of the factors leading to prosperity and permanence.

A series of maps showing the development and colonial claims of the northern Atlantic Coast between 1650 and 1695. The maps are color-coded to show charter colonies, proprietary colonies, and the royal colonies. The map from 1650 shows...