The Long Island History Journal thanks the Long Island Council for the Social Studies (LICSS) for its continuous support. A special acknowledgment is due to Assemblyman Steve Englebright— a Stony Brook University colleague and staunch advocate of the University in general and strong friend and supporter of the Long Island History Journal in particular. The Center for Global & Local […]
Continue ReadingBill Bleyer is the author of George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide, published in May by The History Press. He is coauthor, with Harrison Hunt, of Long Island and the Civil War and author of Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt’s Summer White House; Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon, and Long […]
Continue ReadingJohn Strong Abstract: Local Long Island historians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contributed to the development of a popular and colorful folk myth that provided a background to their narratives celebrating the colonial history of their English ancestors. The fiction survived, for a time, even in the face of a growing body of […]
Continue ReadingErin Becker-Boris on Bill Bleyer, George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide Charleston: The History Press, 2021. 256 pp., ISBN 9781467143479, $ 23.99 In George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide (2021), Long Island author Bill Bleyer examines the American Revolution, the seven-year British occupation of the […]
Continue ReadingSuzanne Johnson on Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller. The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2022. 192p. 978-1-4671-5223-5. Paper, $23.99. A chance meeting in 2018 at Culper Spy Day, an event which celebrates the American Revolution in Stony Brook, Setauket, and St. James, led […]
Continue ReadingBill Bleyer Abstract: The Culper Spy Ring has fascinated historians and history buffs since the end of the American Revolution, particularly with the publication of two books by historian Morton Pennypacker in the 1930s and especially in the last seven years since the debut of the widely viewed but historically inaccurate AMC series “Turn: Washington’s […]
Continue ReadingArticles Bill Bleyer, Separating Fact from Fiction on George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring [HTML] John Strong, Wyandanch and the Dispossession of Indian Land on Long Island, New York: Grand Sachem, Puppet, or Culture Broker?[HTML] Reviews Erin Becker on Bill Bleyer, George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide [HTML] Suzanne […]
Continue ReadingArticles Nava Berger, Theodore Roosevelt’s Assassination Incident of 1903 [HTML] Stephen J. Sullivan, The Curious Case of the Solidarity Watch-Case Cooperative [HTML] Reviews Ann M. Becker on John Strong, America’s Early Whalemen: Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650 – 1750 [HTML] Amy Kasuga Folk on Kyle Marshall, Americana: Farmhouses and Manors of Long […]
Continue ReadingAnn M. Becker is Associate Professor of Historical Studies at Empire State College, State University of New York. Nava Berger is currently studying law at Northeastern University School of Law. She is an alumni of Stony Brook University with BA degrees in History, with Departmental Honors, and Political Science. She is a former volunteer tour guide […]
Continue ReadingChristopher Capozzola on Richard F. Welch. Long Island and World War I. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2018. 144pp. $21.99 paper. When the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, Long Island remained a semi-rural agricultural hinterland of New York City, with few signs of a future that included residential suburbs, shopping […]
Continue ReadingMarilyn E. Weigold on Bill Bleyer. Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019. 299 pp. ISBN: 1540238407. $21.99. Bill Bleyer’s book is a riveting journey through centuries of Long Island’s maritime history. Billy Joel’s foreword and Bleyer’s introduction set the stage for an unprecedented exploration of topics, both […]
Continue ReadingBeverly C. Tyler on Steven C. Drielak. Long Island’s Vanished Heiress: The Unsolved Alice Parsons Kidnapping. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 206 pp. ISBN: 146714679X. $21.99. The disappearance of Stony Brook’s Alice Parsons from her home Long Meadow Farm on the morning of June 9, 1937 begins a year-long investigation by local, county, state […]
Continue ReadingNatalie A. Naylor on Zachary Michael Jack. Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the Long March for Women’s Rights. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2020. 270 pp. ISBN 1476681163. $39.95. The Centennial of Women’s Suffrage—in 2017 for New York State and 2020 for the nation—resulted in many books, exhibitions, and programs. Virtually all, however, continued to ignore an important […]
Continue ReadingAmy Kasuga Folk on Kyle Marshall. Americana: Farmhouses and Manors of Long Island. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2019. 208 pp. ISBN: 0764357867. $39.99. The early history of Long Island is the history of two cultures: the Dutch and English. It is also the history of two very different styles of architecture. While the early […]
Continue ReadingAnn M. Becker on John A Strong. America’s Early Whalemen: Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650 – 1750. Native Peoples of the Americas. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 2018. 232 pp. ISBN:0816541515. $30. America’s Early Whalemen: Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650 – 1750 by John A. Strong is part of […]
Continue ReadingEditors Note, Dr. Nancy Tomes: This paper had its origins in my course HIS 401, “Presidential Assassinations in Historical Perspective,” which Nava took in Spring 2019. Taught seminar style, the course looked at the history of Presidential assassination attempts, both failed and successful, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan. For her 401 paper, Nava chose to follow up […]
Continue Reading“The president [D. E. McMurray] superintends the work, with his coat off, and his sleeves rolled up, just like any man inside the factory… Everyone is a workman in this factory from the president down – but there is no down in this concern. The only difference between the president and the others is that […]
Continue ReadingSuzanne Johnson on Tricia Foley, Mary L. Booth: The Story of an Extraordinary 19th-Century Woman (2018). 239 p. Illustrations. $44.99. Available from amazon.com. ISBN 9781986346245 In every town on Long Island, there’s at least one old house, set close to the road, maybe with overgrown vegetation, and looking a bit neglected. Some of these old […]
Continue ReadingSuzanne Johnson on Kristen J. Nyitray. Long Island Beaches (Postcard History Series). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2019. 127 p. Bibliography. ISBN:139781467103299, $21.99 At first glance, you might think, ‘why a book about Long Island’s beaches?’ This book is different. Not only a postcard history, it is nearly a guidebook to Long Island’s most attractive and […]
Continue ReadingArticles Kelly Marino, We “protest the unjust treatment of pickets”: Brooklyn Suffragist Lucy Burns, Militancy in the National Woman’s Party, and Prison Reform, 1917–1920 [HTML] Sandra Roff, A School of Their Own: Teacher Training in Brooklyn, New York [HTML] Ann Sandford, The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons (LWVH): An Interpretive […]
Continue ReadingJoshua Ruff on Christopher Verga, Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses: The Fight for a National Seashore (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2019), 126 pp., Notes, Bibliography, Soft Cover $21.99. Soon after Robert Caro’s The Power Broker was published in 1974, 86-year-old Robert Moses wrote an extraordinary 23-page rebuttal to the Pulitzer Prize winning biography […]
Continue ReadingDaniel Osborne on Richard Panchyk, Abandoned Long Island (Arcadia: America Through Time, 2019), 96 pp., $18.99 Abandoned Long Island, by Richard Panchyk concerns itself with eleven different locations in both Nassau and Suffolk County, exploring structures and transportation routes that are still present, in one way or another, but no longer in use. Some […]
Continue ReadingSarah Lucinda Grunder on Joseph M. Galante, Images of America: Long Island State Hospitals (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2019), 128 pp. $21.99 By the 1950s, Long Island was at the center of mental health care in the United States, with more than 32,000 patients residing in three state institutions separated by only 11 miles. How […]
Continue ReadingSarah Lucinda Grunder is an associate professor of history and assistant academic chair forSocial Sciences at the Ammerman campus of Suffolk County Community College. Suzanne Johnson is a librarian, recently retired as the director of the Longwood Public Library in Middle Island. She and David Clemens, her predecessor as director, have just compiled a book […]
Continue ReadingBy Ann Sandford Formed on November 19, 1919, the League of Women Voters of New York State predated the founding of the League of the United States and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that granted women the right to vote in 1920. As interest in the new organizations grew, local […]
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Roff Gazing out from the shores of Brooklyn Heights in the nineteenth century, a city expanding seemingly endlessly across the river encompasses the view. New York, separated from Brooklyn by a ferry ride, was the epitome of culture and the pursuit of learning. The more prominent residents of the city envisioned providing outlets […]
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Marino From 1917 to 1919, the National Woman’s Party (NWP), a militant suffrage organization that campaigned for women’s right to vote in the United States during the Progressive Era, started dramatic demonstrations to promote their cause in Washington, DC. NWP co-leaders, Alice Paul, a New Jersey native, and Lucy Burns, an upper-class New […]
Continue ReadingThe Long Island History Journal thanks the Long Island Council for the Social Studies (LICSS) for its continuous support. A special acknowledgment is due to Assemblyman Steve Englebright— a Stony Brook University colleague and staunch advocate of the University in general and strong friend and supporter of the Long Island History Journal in particular. The Center for […]
Continue ReadingMarian Mathison Desrosiers was an history educator of middle and high school students for thirty years and has been a professor at Salve Regina University for a dozen years. She was awarded Fulbright Fellowships to India and Russia. Her research for John Banister of Newport: The Life and Accounts of a Colonial Merchant (2017) […]
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Review of Books Charles G. Backfish on Suzanne Johnson and David Clemens, Camp Upton (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2018), 128 pp., Index, Bibliography. $15.99. The overall story of Camp Upton in Yaphank as a soldier training facility has been known to some Long Islanders and has appeared with frequency in articles connected with the centennial of […]
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Review of Books Tara Rider on Ann Sandford, Reluctant Reformer: Nathan Sanford in the Era of the Early Republic (Albany: SUNY Press, 2017), 216 pp., Index, Bibliography, Hardcover $29.95. President John Adams’ note to his son in which he says “I take it for granted that public Virtue is no longer to rule: but Ambition […]
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Verga An insurgence of hate and nationalist groups spurred by a growth in immigrant populations that practiced a foreign religion and spoke a foreign language; false news that targeted new immigrants as threats to American society and promoted political campaigns designed around a Protestant conservative social etiquette — these events are reminiscent of […]
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By Marian Desrosiers Mid-eighteenth-century colonial seaports generated a vibrant exchange of goods, services, and ideas. Newport, Rhode Island, for example, experienced a growth in population because the community provided jobs, schools, and religious toleration. However, Acts of the British Parliament during the 1760s interfered and restricted colonial trade. This changed the relationship between England and […]
Continue ReadingArticles Marian Desrosiers, “Friend of Government or Friend of Country: The Revolutionary War Journey of Thomas Banister from Rhode Island to Long Island” [HTML] John A. Strong and Mary Laura Lamont, The Richard Floyd Account Book, 1719-1732: Insights into Changing Times in Colonial Brookhaven [HTML] Christopher Verga, The Battle for Long Islanders’ Souls and Minds: […]
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By John A. Strong and Mary Laura Lamont Introduction In 1999, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California acquired two account books which were identified as having belonged to “a Long Island merchant named Richard Floyd” of Brookhaven, New York. With further research, these ledgers have proven to be of major significance to early Long […]
Continue ReadingThe Long Island History Journal thanks the Long Island Council for the Social Studies (LICSS) for its continuous support. A special acknowledgment is due to Assemblyman Steve Englebright— a Stony Brook University colleague and staunch advocate of the University in general and strong friend and supporter of the Long Island History Journal in particular. The Center […]
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By Jonathan Olly Long Island changed an awful lot When Prohibition came. Some fine old standards went to pot When Prohibition came. Fishermen sailed away at night, Knowing the weather wasn’t right For any sort of fish to bite, When Prohibition came…. Paul Bailey, Suffolk County historian, 1962[1] One minute after midnight on January 17, […]
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By Neil P. Buffett On November 1, 1962, Gerald Kutler, a real estate agent from Islip Terrace, had his realtor’s license revoked by the Department of State of New York.[1] After a series of public hearings were held in New York City, the Secretary of State’s Office found that, based upon witness testimony, Kutler’s practices […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to Volume 26-1, the eleventh issue of the online Long Island History Journal, featuring three articles and two book reviews. Two of our articles examine changes in American society stemming from the “Progressive era” of the early twentieth century: the success of the prohibition movement and the women’s suffrage movement, both reflected in the […]
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Review of Books Suzanne Johnson on Kevin C. Fitzpatrick,World War I New York: A Guide to the City’s Enduring Ties to the Great War (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2017), 189 pp., index, bibliography. $16.95. Also available as an ebook. As the nation commemorated the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I […]
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Tara Rider on R. Lawrence Swanson and Malcolm J. Bowman, Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides: The Natural History of a Long Island Pocket Bay (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2016). Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides, by R. Lawrence Swanson and Malcolm J. Bowman, investigates the historical and ecological significance this harbor […]
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By Catherine Tinker Annie Rensselaer Tinker, Philanthropist[1] Annie Rensselaer Tinker was an independent thinker, an advocate for women, an equestrian, and a self-described “spinster.” At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, a newspaper chronicled how “Miss Annie Tinker, daughter of Henry C. Tinker, former president of the Liberty National Bank, of New York, […]
Continue ReadingNeil Buffett is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Suffolk County Community College. He earned his PhD in History from Stony Brook University in December, 2011. His research interests focus upon urban and suburban history, social movements, and high school student/teenaged political activism in the twentieth century United States. Suzanne Johnson is a librarian, […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Note [HTML] Articles Jonathan Olly, “Long Island during Prohibition, 1920-1933” [HTML] Catherine Tinker, “Annie Rensselaer Tinker (1884-1924) of East Setauket and NYC: Philanthropist, Suffragist, WWI Volunteer in Europe” [HTML] Neil P. Buffett, “Blockbusting on Long Island: The Case of Gerald Kutler and the 1962 Legal Battle against Real Estate Bias in North Bellport, […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Note [HTML] or [PDF] Articles Nancy Robin Jaicks, “Race, Ethnicity and Class on Shelter Island, 1652-2013” [HTML] or [PDF] Derek Stadler, “The Modernization of the Long Island Rail Road” [HTML] or [PDF] Natalie Naylor, “Long Island Women Preserving Nature and the Environment” [HTML] or [PDF] Durahn Taylor, “Publicizing the Fight: Long Island’s Influence […]
Continue ReadingThe Long Island History Journal thanks the Long Island Council for the Social Studies (LICSS) for its continuous support. A special acknowledgment is due to Assemblyman Steve Englebright— a Stony Brook University colleague and staunch advocate of the University in general and strong friend and supporter of the Long Island History Journal in particular. The Center […]
Continue ReadingNeil Buffett is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Suffolk County Community College. He earned his PhD in History from Stony Brook University in December, 2011. His research interests focus upon urban and suburban history, social movements, and high school student/teenaged political activism in the twentieth century United States. Nancy Robin Jaicks was an […]
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Review of Books Robert F. Murphy, The Three Graces of Raymond Street: Murder, Madness, Sex, and Politics in 1870s Brooklyn. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2015. Pp. x, 243. $24.95. The three graces of the title are three women charged with murder who served time awaiting trial or verdict in the […]
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Long Island in the 1960s: A Visual Essay
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By Natalie Naylor The modern environmental movement of the last half century has its roots in conservation activities beginning in the late nineteenth century. Long Islander Theodore Roosevelt was a national leader in these efforts, creating national forests, bird reserves, and national parks.[1] Many of the early conservation efforts were in the West, but TR’s […]
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By Durahn Taylor No good children’s story is without a villain. In the comic books, the villains have ranged from the Joker and the Riddler to the Prankster and the Puzzler. But in the real-life early twentieth century, starting on Long Island and soon throughout the rest of the country, the children’s enemy was far […]
Continue ReadingWe are pleased to share with you Volume 25-2, the tenth issue of the online Long Island History Journal. Our masthead reveals an addition to our editorial staff. Richard Tomczak, who was very much involved in the preparation of our previous special issue on whaling on Long Island, formally joins us as Editorial Assistant. Rick […]
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By Nancy Robin Jaicks Less than 110 miles from Manhattan and roughly the same size, eight thousand acres, sits the place called Shelter Island. The island is nestled between the North and South Forks of Long Island. Bounded by tranquil bays rather than by oceans – Gardiner’s Bay to the north and the Peconic Bay […]
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By Derek Stadler Like other American railroads, the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) was at an impasse by the mid-twentieth century. Since rail was no longer the preferred method of transportation, many private railroads faltered and were forced into bankruptcy, unable to fund operating costs and essential improvements. Ultimately, public management set railroads on the […]
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Arfin, Paul M. Unfinished Business: Social Action in Suburbia, Long Island NY, 1945-2014. Self-published, 2015. $39.95 In the post-World War II era, Long Island rapidly began to evolve from a relatively rural landscape, to one which, by the latter decades of the twentieth century, came to typify the fully developed, modern American suburb. Due in […]
Continue ReadingJennifer Anderson is an Associate Professor of Atlantic History at Stony Brook University. She holds a PhD in History from New York University. Her recent book, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012) examines the complex history of the colonial tropical timber industry. Since curating an exhibition at NYU about […]
Continue ReadingThis special issue of the Long Island History Journal is underwritten by a grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The Editors wish to express our sincere gratitude for their generous support and special thanks to Executive Director Kathryn M. Curran. The Long Island History Journal thanks the Long Island Council for the […]
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Review of Books Nancy Shoemaker, Native American Whale Men and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015) ISBN: 978-1-4696-2257-6 Nancy Shoemaker, ed., Living with Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014) ISBN: 978-1-62534-081-8 Two new […]
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By Nomi Dayan The Whale-Hunt: A Tale in Images
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By David Bunn Martine My grandmother, Alice Osceola Bunn Martinez, born in 1901, was a keeper of many oral histories. She remembered whaling stories from our Shinnecock-Montauk family and community going back to the early 19th century. In fact, she was a granddaughter of David Waukus Bunn, who was a whaler on several ships. But […]
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By Georgette Grier-Key Introduction Archaeologist Steve Mrozowski, Ph.D. acknowledges that Long Island’s history, as in much of the North, seems largely to escape the slavery narrative. Stories about African Americans and enslaved Africans on Long Island are the less-told stories largely because of the lack of surviving or noted physical evidence.[1] Yet, Long Island had […]
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By Stephen N. Sanfilippo I have seen the Storm arise Like a giant in his wrath.[1] There was no regular mail service between the seaports of the northeastern United States and the ships that those ports sent to the Pacific during the mid-19th century peak of “Yankee” whaling. Letters were passed from ship to ship, […]
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By Francis Turano William Cooper (1785-1857) was a builder of whaleboats in Sag Harbor Long Island (Figure 1).[1] He was born in Southampton.[2] His father Caleb (1745-1834) was also a boat builder as well as a trustee of the Town of Southampton.[3] In 1806, William was in New York City.[4] In 1808, he married Phebe […]
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By Allison Manfra McGovern “March the 3 I arrived at Montauk in the year of our Lord 1798 on Sat. Night. I was gone Nine years and five months. I sailed out Nantucket.” “I Jeremiah Pharaoh the Bold mariner I sailed the world all over nine long years. When I Returned home I found my […]
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Wallace Coplin Located on the north shore of Long Island not 40 miles east of Manhattan, Cold Spring Harbor, at the beginning of the 19th century, was a small community that was home to a lesser-known whaling business run by John H. and Walter R. Jones. These brothers, along with a long list […]
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By John A. Strong Introduction The Long Island Algonquian communities along the south shore were closely attuned to their maritime environment. The coastal wetlands provided them with a reliable supply of shellfish, fish, migratory fowl, and sea mammals. They collected clams year round, trapped and netted fish, and hunted water fowl, seals, and whales. Little […]
Continue ReadingThis issue of the Long Island History Journal (LIHJ) is devoted to presenting new research on the history of whaling, an industry of singular importance to our region from the 17th to the 19th centuries. This focus is especially timely because in recent months, whales–from playful white belugas to massive barnacle-laden humpbacks–have been sighted increasingly […]
Continue ReadingBy Nancy Shoemaker The American whaling industry originated on Long Island in the mid-seventeenth century, and as the historian John Strong has demonstrated in numerous books and articles, including his essay in this collection, Native American men’s labor was fundamental to the enterprise’s growth and success.[1] The bounty of whales off Long Island and Cape […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Note [HTML] or [PDF] Articles John A. Strong, “Indian Whalers on Long Island, 1669-1746” [HTML] or [PDF] Jenna Wallace Coplin, “Family, Finance, and the Cold Spring Whaling Company, 1836-1862” [HTML] or [PDF] Allison Manfra McGovern, “The Materiality of a ‘Bold Mariner’: Jeremiah Pharaoh’s Home at Indian Fields” [HTML] or [PDF] Francis Turano, “The […]
Continue ReadingAnn M. Becker is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Empire State College. Dr. Becker served as the Assistant Editor for the Long Island Historical Journal through 2008. She is also the co-author of Stony Brook: State University of New York (2002), and author of Mount Sinai (2003). Lauren Brincat is the Assistant Curator of Decorative […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to Vol. 24-2, the eighth issue of the on-line Long Island History Journal. Our readers will find four articles and seven book reviews spanning Long Island history from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Two of the articles focus upon the role of the Loyalists in the American Revolution: Christopher Minty offers a […]
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After the Battle of Long Island in the fall of 1776, British forces re-gained control of New York from rebel forces. Until 1783, they commanded the southern portion of the colony-turned-state. A consequence of the British occupation was that New York — New York City, in particular — became a beacon for American Loyalists. Thousands […]
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In the spring of 1939 all the world converged on Flushing, Queens to cast a hopeful eye on the future. With George and Ira Gershwin’s Dawn of a New Day as its anthem, the 1939 World’s Fair promised a peek at the “World of Tomorrow.”[1] Flushing Meadows-Corona Park played host to the international exposition. The […]
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Marilyn E. Weigold Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island’s North and South Forks. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN: 9780815610458. Cloth, $24.95. Whether you are stranger to the East End or are intimately familiar with the area, Marilyn E. Weigold’s work describing “one of the last great places in the […]
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Ellen NicKenzie Lawson. Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. Pp. 151. ISBN: 9781438448169. Paper, $19.95 The Prohibition Era brings to mind the Mafia and the government G-men who sought their elimination. But there is also a maritime component to this story. Ellen NicKenzie Lawson examines the movement of […]
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Edward P. Kohn, editor. A Most Glorious Ride: The Diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 1877-1886. Albany: SUNY Press. 2014. Pp. 322. Photos, index, glossary. ISBN: 9781438455150. Hardcover, $29.95. On Saturday, April 1 1877, while at Newtonville, Massachusetts, Theodore Roosevelt entered into his diary: “Arvicola riparia. Hesperomys leucopus. Melospiza palustris. Loxia curvirostra. Salamandra. Rana damitans and palustris. […]
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Introduction The wartime experiences of Colonel Richard Floyd IV, a wealthy Brookhaven landowner and influential judge, provide an intimate lens through which to view the varied Loyalist perspectives on the Revolution. Richard IV, who was a steadfast Loyalist throughout the entire Revolutionary War, was one of only three Suffolk County Loyalists named in the 1779 […]
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Harrison Hunt and Bill Bleyer. Long Island and the Civil War: Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties During the War Between the States. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015. Pp. 170, photographs. ISBN: 9781626197718. Paper, $21.99. This book fills in an important gap in Long Island’s history. No major Civil War battle ever occurred on Long […]
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Robert B. MacKay, editor. Gardens of Eden: Long Island’s Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. Copyright by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. Pp. 303. Illustrations, index. ISBN: 9780393733211. Hardcover, $65.00. Oh, let us fly without delay Into the country far away, Where, free from all this […]
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The William Floyd Estate today comprises 613 acres of land bordering Moriches Bay and the original Old Mastic House on site was lived in by at least eight generations of family members from 1718 to 1976. It is run today by the National Park Service and is a separate operating unit of Fire Island National Seashore. […]
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Richard F. Welch. General Washington’s Commando: Benjamin Tallmadge in the Revolutionary War. North Carolina: McFarland, 2014. Pp. 204. Photos, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-7864-7963-4. Softcover, $35.00. Richard Welch offers a comprehensive biography of Setauket native Benjamin Tallmadge, an important, though little appreciated, figure in the history of Revolutionary War spy-craft and intelligence gathering. His book […]
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Natalie A. Naylor. Women in Long Island’s Past: A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives. Charleston: The History Press, 2012. Pp. 192. ISBN: 9781609494995. Paper, $19.99. Natalie Naylor has written an excellent account of the often overlooked role of women in Long Island’s history. As the title suggests, it includes both women whose names […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Note [HTML] Articles Lauren Brincat, “Material Life on the Long Island Frontier: The Inventory of Captain William Lawrence Flushing, 1680” [HTML] or [PDF] Matthew M. Montelione, “Richard Floyd IV: Long Island Loyalist” [HTML] or [PDF] Christopher Minty, “A List of Persons on Long Island: Biography, Voluntarism, and Suffolk County’s 1778 Oath of Allegiance” […]
Continue ReadingDetermine why you are not having sex now, and what precisely you’d have to improve in order to begin. Sex is a shape or relaxation in which you forget your worries temporarily. Making love caused me to enormous quantity of annoyance in the form of bullying. The longer you wish to have sexual activity , […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Note [HTML] Articles Kevin Olsen, “What Do You Do With the Garbage? New York City’s Progressive Era Sanitary Reforms and Their Impact on the Waste Management Infrastructure in Jamaica Bay” [HTML] or [PDF] John Strong and Mary Laura Lamont, “The Richard Floyd Account Book, 1686-1690: A Search for Authorship and Historical Significance” [HTML] […]
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Note:This article is based on a paper given by Lamont and Strong at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference at Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT June 3-6 2012. We thank the Fire Island National Park administration for purchasing digital copies of the ledger books from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Introduction […]
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Music and art were the interconnected passions of artist William Sidney Mount’s life. Mount was one of the foremost pre-Civil War genre painters in the United States who lived in Stony Brook and Setauket, Long Island, for the majority of his life. Born into a family that loved singing, dancing, and performing music nearly as […]
Continue ReadingAnn M. Becker is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Empire State College. Dr. Becker served as the Assistant Editor for the Long Island Historical Journal through 2008. She is also the co-author of Stony Brook: State University of New York (2002), and author of Mount Sinai (2003). Christopher Capozzola is an associate professor of history […]
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John A. Strong. Running on Empty: The Rise and Fall of Southampton College, 1963-2005. Albany: Excelsior Editions, SUNY Press, 2013. Pp. 325. ISBN: 9781438446967. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. This is an exceptionally well-written narrative history of the Southampton branch of Long Island University. In many ways, the tale of the Southampton campus, an outlying branch […]
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Frank J. Cavaioli. Farmingdale State College, A History. Albany: SUNY Press, 2012. Pp. 316. ISBN: 9781438443676. Cloth, $29.95. Electronic, $29.95. Before discussing this comprehensive history of what is now Farmingdale State College, I offer two general comments. One is that every college and university deserves to have a history – one that recounts the tale […]
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Robert Maggio and Earlene O’Hare. Port Jefferson. Charleston, SC: Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, 2013. Pp. 127, photographs. ISBN: 0738598178. Paper, $21.99. Tricia Foley and Karen Mouzakes. Yaphank. Charleston, SC: Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, 2012. Pp. 127, photographs. ISBN: 0738592951. Paper, $21.99. Recently, I read in the real estate section of a Long Island […]
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Charlene Mires. Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Pp. 328. ISBN: 9780814707944. $30.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. There was a moment, seventy years ago, when the world’s hopes for peace centered on northern Nassau County. Before the United Nations (UN) took up residence along […]
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Mac Griswold. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Pp. 480. ISBN: 9780374266295. Paper, $18.00. Mac Griswold’s book details the fascinating history of her discovery and exploration of Sylvester Manor, a relic of Long Island’s past located on Shelter Island, and family owned for […]
Continue ReadingFirst of all, apologies for the delay in delivering Volume 24-1 of the Long Island History Journal. Administrative reorganization and technical issues conspired to delay this issue but with the work of our editors, especially Joshua Ruff, and the very kind assistance of Paul St. Denis of Stony Brook’s Teaching, Learning and Technology Center, the […]
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Introduction For most of New York City’s history, the city’s filth was about as evenly distributed as its wealth. Before reliable municipal services were widely available, affluent residents paid for regular garbage collection, street sweeping, and privy cleaning.[1] But in poorer neighborhoods garbage and filth were allowed to accumulate on the streets and in the […]
Continue ReadingAn Archaeological View of the Slavery and Social Relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York Ross T. Rava (Independent Researcher) and Christopher N. Matthews (Montclair State University) Abstract. The 1790 federal census recorded seventeen enslaved Africans living at Rock Hall Manor in Lawrence, New York, the largest number recorded for a single household in Queens […]
Continue ReadingIn this special issue of the Long Island History Journal, we highlight an impressive array of new scholarship on African American archaeology and community history on Long Island. Some of our contributors offer us a peek at their preliminary findings from ongoing works-in-progress. Others are sharing the results of years of field work and laboratory […]
Continue ReadingEditorial Note [HTML] Articles Thelma Jackson-Abidally, “Introduction: African Americans on Long Island, A Rich History” [HTML] or [PDF] Ross Thomas Rava and Christopher N. Matthews, “An Archaeological View of Slavery and Social Relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York” [HTML] or [PDF] Charla E. Bolton, AICP and Reginald H. Metcalf, Jr., “The Migration of […]
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The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island: A History. By John A. Strong. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. 332 pp., list of illustrations, preface, appendix, notes, references, and index. $29.95 hardcover. John Strong might be called the dean of Long Island Indian studies. Over the course of his career, he has produced several excellent histories of Long Island […]
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