SUGGESTED RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
- Costabel, Eva Deutsch. 1988. The Jews of New Amsterdam. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-31351-9. New York, 1650's. This simplified text gives an overview of the Jews' effect on the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
- Lobel, Arnold. 1971. On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town. New York: Harper. ISBN 0-06-443144-4. New York, 1647. This text follows the development of New Amsterdam during Stuyvesant's efforts to organize the town.
- Locker, Thomas. 1990. The Land of Gray Wolf. New York: Dial. ISBN 0-8037-0936-6. The destruction of the wilderness viewed through the eyes of a Native American child.
- Shepard, Aaron. 1995. The Baker's Dozen A Saint Nicholas Tale. Illustrated by Wendy Edelson. New York: Antheneum. ISBN 0-689-80298-6. The custom of the baker's dozen is shown here to have started in a town in colonial Albany.
- Spier, Peter. 1979. The Legend of New Amsterdam. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 0-3851-3180-1. Describes life in the bustling 17th-century settlement of New Amsterdam.
WEBSITES:
The following Web sites were consulted in the creation of the sample picture book, A Time of Change:
Albany Institute of History & Art
www.albanyinstitute.org
Fordham University Libraries
www.library.fordham.edu
Get NY!
http://www.adsny.com/nyindian/resume.html
Governors Island Preservation & Education Corporation
http://www.govisland.com
Library of Congress
http://international.loc.gov
Museum of Ontario Archaeology
http://www.uwo.ca/museum/terminalWoodland.html
New Netherland Project
http://www.nnp.org
The New-York Historical Society
http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org
New York State Archives
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
New York State Library
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov
New York State Museum
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov
PBS
- First Jewish immigration to New Amsterdam/Stuyvesant/ discrimination – click on first video resource, “The First Jews in the New World” (approx. 2 mins.)
- Video clip on the Old Quaker Meeting House – click on “Flushing”
- Lesson on the Hudson River from NTTI (National Teachers Training Institute – WNET/Thirteen, NYC), including suggested activities and web resources. The video clip from Bill Moyers below can be used with this lesson.
- Video clip from Bill Moyers, “America’s First River” (approx. 90 seconds)
- Scroll down to “Erie Canal” and click on online tour for a virtual tour of the Erie Canal
PBS Kids
This resource has a section entitled Big Apple History. It provides students with documents and videos which maybe used to trace the development of New York City from its pre-Columbian origins to modern times. http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/early/index-flash.html
- Henry Hudson – photo, short video clip and historical documents
- Stuyvesant - photo, short video clip and historical documents
- New Amsterdam - photo, short video clip and historical documents
- Dutch West India Company
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Manhattan
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13842/13842-h/13842-h.htm
Ryker-Riker Historical Society, Inc.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ryker2/
Warburg Electronic Library
http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/projects/WEL/0911/images/New%20Amsterdam.jpg
Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org
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