Articles 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 […]
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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, […]
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