Centuries of unwanted and lost items – from medieval shoes to modern cellphones – are helping to tell the story of Amsterdam’s urban history from a fresh perspective. Some 700,000 artifacts were ...

History remains in motion aboard this classic Amsterdam tram, where restored woodwork and traditional details accompany a journey through the city center. Passing landmarks, canal houses, and cobbled ...

Explore the rich history of Amsterdam in this video. Covering significant eras from the city's beginnings to the end of the ...

Russell Shorto's The Island at the Centre of the World (2004) must always be near the top of the list of great books about New York. Revelling in the heaps of recently translated records from the 17th ...

An interactive timeline details about 20,000 of the archaeologists’ finds, complete with images and descriptions of the wide array of objects Wikimedia Commons The objects featured in Below the ...

A pair of developers and Upper West Side community activists have been raging a paper crusade against each other over a 670-foot-tall tower that might, as collateral damage, count Department of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto, Little, Brown RRP£25 / Doubleday RRP$28.95, ...