Acknowledgments

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 […]

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Contributors (2022)

Bill 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 […]

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Review of Books, Becker-Boris on GW’s LI Spy Ring

Erin 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 […]

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Review of Books, Johnson on Art of LI PoC

Suzanne 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 […]

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2022 Vol. 30-1

Articles 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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