A popular podcast in the Netherlands is showing the Dutch how to face their country's colonial and slave-trading past as lawmakers push for a national apology and reparations. People once called it ...

IN 1881 SOMEONE donated an antique brass circlet to the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum of art and history. The object (pictured) is a bit of a stumper. Engraved with a heraldic shield and the ...

AMSTERDAM— The 17th century has gone down in Dutch history as the Golden Age, when unprecedented trading wealth helped fund the likes of artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer. But the grim ...

Last week while on holiday I read a book called The Silk Roads. Its title hints at the still underappreciated importance of supply chain as a discipline. The lessons it offers about how trade, ...

While the tulips may be the main event of Tulip Time, events celebrating Dutch culture come in at a very close second. Visitors to Tulip Time can completely immerse themselves in Dutch heritage during ...

57 B.C.: Caesar invades the country inhabited by tribes of Gallo-Celtic stock and tribes of Germanic origin. 500 A.D.: Clovis, king of the Franks, becomes the first Christian ruler. 9th Century: With ...

Dutch settlers "bought" the island of Manahatta from the Lenape in 1626. Rijksmuseum via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 DEED Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam: a Dutch settlement ...

Dr. Robert Swierenga of the A.C. Van Raalte Institute at Hope College explores a topic especially close to home in his latest book, a history of the Dutch in greater Chicagoland. Swierenga has spent ...

The 2017 Dutch election has taken on a significance for the international media that we haven’t seen for a long time here in the Netherlands. Placed in the context of other European elections in ...