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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNStolen Historic Documents Surface in Attic—Ten Years After an Employee Used Them as Collateral to Borrow MoneyA decade ago, an employee stole 25 priceless documents from the Netherlands’ National Archives in the Hague. The trove ...
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Agence France-Presse on MSNDutch art sleuth recovers stolen trove of UNESCO-listed documentsA Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several ...
A Dutch art sleuth has recovered a priceless trove of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several ...
Historians say the instance of “corporate genocide” was over nutmeg, without which there would be no Pumpkin Spice Latte.
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.
One of the remarkable and unexpected results of specie resumption is the recent opening of an agency of this historic company in New-York, or what is in effect the transference of a considerable ...
Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Saturday apologized for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.
The Netherlands' House of Orange profited by around 3 million guilders, or $600 million in modern terms, from Dutch colonies in the 1675-1770 period, a study commissioned by the government has found.
The development of financial markets and creation of shares in companies also came about gradually and preceded the creation of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company.
The Dutch ambassador to the United States, Birgitta Tazelaar, was in Atlanta Wednesday to address the Netherlands’ role in slavery and engage with local Black businesses as her country works to ...
Illegal trade and the zamindari of three villages turned the Dutch into local elites until the British East India Company ended their reign in 1825.
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