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Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up know...

Russell Shortos work has been praised as first-rate intellectual history (Wall Street Journal), literary alchemy (Chicago Tribune) and simply aston...

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about a...

Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced th...