The history of New York City tells a complex story of competing identities and ambitions among the Indigenous tribes that long populated the area and European powers who sought to colonize the new world. Historian and author Russell Shorto will talk about how the Dutch created the colony of New Netherland, why the English wanted it, and how the clash between these two cultures and the local inhabitants resulted in the unique entity that became New York. Mr. Shorto is the director of the New Amsterdam Project at the New York Historical Society and a senior scholar at the New Netherland Institute.