Book Breaks with Russell Shorto on Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

 

Date & Time: March 23, 2025, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

In 1664, England invaded the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. The ensuing rise of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism coincided with the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and the roots of American slavery. 

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