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 […]
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