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  Long Island Historical Journal, Table of Contents, 1988 to 2008

  Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 20, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2007/Spring 2008)

  The Center for Regional Policy Studies and Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Moving In, Moving On: Lee Krasner’s Work in Jackson Pollock’s Studio by Helen A. Harrison - 1 / A New Deal for Disaster: The “Hurricane of 1938” and Federal Disaster Relief Operations, Suffolk County, New York by Jonathan C. Bergman - 15 / The Opening of Suffolk’s First Four Year College: Adelphi-Suffolk: 1959-1960 by Leroy E. Douglas - 40 / John E. Gee and the Early Trucking Industry on Long Island by Bradley L. Harris - 60 / Williamsburg, Brooklyn: The Home of the First Successful Commercial Submarine by Henry Silka - 71 / Bridging the East River: The History of an Idea, 1800-1867 by Richard Haw - 83 / CONFERENCE PAPERS: “From Captivity to Freedom: Long Island During the American Revolution” Introduction - 112 / Surviving the Ordeal: Long Island Women During the Revolutionary War by Natalie A. Naylor - 114 / From Wretchedness to Independence: Suffolk County in the American Revolution by John G. Staudt - 135 / Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New York: Complicity and Resistance by Alan Singer - 163 / BOOK REVIEWS: John Hanc with a foreword by Ed Lowe. Jones Beach: An Illustrated History by Paul D. Van Wie - 174 / Adrienne Onofri. Walking Brooklyn by Donald E. Simon - 175 / John R. Stevens. Dutch Vernacular Architecture in North America, 1630-1800 by Gaynell Stone - 176 / Brookhaven Voices, 1655-2005 by Catherine Ball - 178 / John M. Burns. Thunder At Sunrise: A History of the Vanderbilt Cup, the Grand Prize and the Indianapolis 500, 1904-1916 by Garry Wilbur - 179 / Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. Long Island’s Prominent South Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip by Charles F. Howlett - 182 / Sara S. Gronim. Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York by John G. Staudt - 185 / Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski, and the Members of the Committee for the Old Burying Ground. The Old Burying Ground at Sag Harbor New York by Richard F. Welch - 188 / John J. Head. With Brush and Bridle, Richard Newton, Jr. – Artist and Equestrian by Ann Sandford - 188 / Kerriann Flanagan Brosky. Ghosts of Long Island: Stories of the Paranormal by Marilyn E. Weigold - 190 / Daniel M. Hendrick. Jamaica Bay (Images of America) by Garry Wilbur - 194 / Ruth Crocker. Mrs. Russell Sage: Women’s Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America by Natalie A. Naylor - 197 / Geoffrey K. Fleming. St. James (Images of America) by Barbara M. Russell - 199 / Dean F. Failey. Long Island Is My Nation: The Decorative Arts and Craftsmen, 1640-1830 by Marilyn E. Weigold - 201 / Clement M. Healy. North Fork Cemeteries (Images of America) Clement M. Healy. South Fork Cemeteries (Images of America) by Gaynell Stone - 204 / Gaynell Stone, ed. Native Forts of the Long Island Sound Area by John A. Strong - 206 / Gary Lawrance and Anne Surchin. Houses of the Hamptons,1880-1930 Paul J. Mateyunas. North Shore Long Island: Country Houses, 1890-1950 by Natalie A. Naylor - 210 / REVIEW ESSAY: The Indians and the Dutch: Encounters on the Forgotten Frontier by John A. Strong - 214 / OBSERVATIONS: Who are We?: A Demographic Update for Nassau and Suffolk Counties by Seth Forman - 222 / BOOK NOTES: prepared by Kristen J. Nyitray - 238 / PLACE NAMES: Babylon by Richard P. Harmond - 243

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 19, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2006/Spring 2007)

  The Center for Regional Policy Studies and Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: The Autonomous Commonwealth: Southampton, 1640-1644 by John A. Strong - 1 / The Garden City Hotel and the Modern American Peace Movement by Charles F. Howlett - 20 / Deepwells: A Crown Jewel in St. James by Bradley L. Harris - 44 / The Dimon Family: Bridgehampton Historiography and its Focus on Ordinary People by J. Kirkpatrick Flack - 64 / The Origins of Adelphi Suffolk College: The Sayville and Southampton Initiatives, 1957-1958 by Leroy E. Douglas - 81 / Building Student Power: A History of NYPIRG at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1974-1992 by Dan Woulfin - 98 / Early Disaster Mitigation Policy on Long Island’s South Shore by Jayme Breschard - 121 / Hubbard Latham Fordham: Keeping an Eye on Sag Harbor by Stephen Longmire -138 / The Postsuburban Development of Riverhead, Long Island: 1970 - 2000 by Eric Fauss - 145 / REFLECTIONS: The Peconic River by Richard P. Harmond - 164 / LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES: Shelter Island: An Island Sheltered by Islands by Patricia and Edward Shillenburg - 167 / PRIMARY SOURCE: Conference on the Future of Nassau and Western Suffolk: Introductory Remarks, Robert - 172 / BOOKS AND CULTURE - REVIEWS: Ann Sandford. Grandfather Lived Here: The Transformation of Bridgehampton, New York 1870-1970 by Marilyn E. Weigold - 182 / Newsday, Inc. Newsday’s Guide to Long Island's Natural World by John G. Staudt - 183 / Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss. Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names by Garry Wilbur - 186 / Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds. Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York by Natalie A. Naylor - 188 / Living the American Dream: Levittown and the Suburban Boom. Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York by Barbara Kelly - 189 / Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation. Queens Museum, Queens, New York by Richard F. Welch - 192 / Harry W. Havemeyer. Fire Island’s Surf Hotel and other Hostelries on Fire Island’s Beaches in the Nineteenth-Century by Marsha Hamilton - 194 / Stephen L. Meyers. Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. David Keller and Steven Lynch. Revisiting the Long Island Rail Road, 1925-1975 by Donald E. Simon - 196 / Joshua Stoff. Long Island Airports by Charles F. Howlett - 199 / Terry Wallace. Caroline M. Bell (1874-1970) and the Peconic Bay Impressionists by Natalie A. Naylor - 201 / Robert G. Müller, Long Island’s Lighthouses, Past and Present by Natalie A. Naylor - 203 / Three Village Historical Society. The Setaukets, Old Field, and Poquott by Charles F. Howlett - 206 / William J. Switala. Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by Floris Barnett Cash - 208 / Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. Long Island’s Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes by Myrna Sloam - 210 / Mary Cummings. Hurricane in the Hamptons, 1938 by Ann H. Sandford - 212 / Alexander Rose. Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Richard F. Welch - 214 / Pascal James Imperato. Tudor Village, The History of a Unique Community in Queens County by Donald E. Simon - 218 / James Driscoll. Flushing: 1880-1935 by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 220 / Toby Selda. Simply “Father”: Life with Theodore Roosevelt as Seen Through the Eyes of His Children by Natalie A. Naylor - 222 / BOOK NOTES: prepared by Kristen J. Nyitray - 224 / IN MEMORIAM: David A. Overton (1925-2005) by Barbara M. Russell, for the Editors - 229

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 18, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006)

  The Center for Regional Policy Studies and Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Steamboating Long Island Sound Style by Marilyn Weigold - 1 / Rescue over the Soviet Ambassador’s Residence by Martin J. Ingram With Introduction by Charles F. Howlett - 8 / The Actor’s Colony of St. James by Bradley Harris - 21 / The Blurring of the Queens-Nassau Border by Patricia T. Caro - 43 / Port Washington and Long Beach: Case Studies of Long Island’s First Wave of Suburbanization, 1900-1930 by Sean Kass - 54 / Lopped Trees: The Living Fences of Old Long Island by Philip Marshall - 67 / Elwood: Piecing Together History by Charlotte Muchnik - 81 / The Origins of Adelphi Suffolk College: The Port Jefferson and Stony Brook Initiatives, 1953-1956 by Leroy E. Douglas - 92 / William Sidney Mount: His Plans for the Stony Brook Harbor Area by R. Lawrence Swanson, Francis Turano, and Joseph Amondolia - 110 / REFLECTIONS: The Encyclopedia of New York State by Natalie A. Naylor - 123 / LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES: Southold: What's in a Name? More Than You Think by Antonia Booth - 127 / BIBLIOGRAPHY: Long Island Scholarship: A Bibliography Of Dissertations And Theses, 2000 - 2006 by Kristen J. Nyitray - 133 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: The Taint is in the Blood: Long Island and the Eugenics Movement by Rachel Merker – 143 / BOOKS AND CULTURE: REVIEWS: Marilyn Weigold. The Long Island Sound: A History of the People: Places and Environment by Mildred E. DeRiggi - 153 / Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut. The Other New York: The American Revolution Beyond New York City, 1763-1787 by Natalie A. Naylor - 155 / Nedda C. Allbray. Flatbush: The Heart of Brooklyn by Garry Wilbur - 158 / Slavery in New York, The New York Historical Society. Two part exhibit. Review of first part. October 7, 2005 by Alan Silver - 161 / Elizabeth Shepherd. Head-of-the-Harbor: A Journey through Time by Catherine Ball - 163 / Edward L. Dunbaugh. New England Steamship Company: Long Island Sound Night Boats in the Twentieth Century by Marilyn E. Weigold - 164 / Corey Dolgon. The End of the Hamptons. Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Richard F. Welch - 168 / Glen Williford and Leo Polaski. Images of America: Long Island’s Military History by John G. Staudt - 171 / James E. Haas. Conrad Poppenhusen, The Life of a German-American Industrial Pioneer by Bradley Harris - 173 / Michael Drinkard. Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead by Ann M. Becker - 179 / Mark Mills. Amagansett by Ann H. Sandford - 180 / BOOK NOTES: Prepared by Ann M. Becker - 181 / IN MEMORIAM: John Allen Gable (1943-2005) by John G. Staudt for the Editors - 182 / Barbara Ferris Van Liew (1911-2005) by Catherine Ball for the Editors - 184 / Alice H. Fiske (1917-2006) by Natalie A. Naylor for the Editors - 185 / LETTERS - 187

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 17, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2004/Spring 2005)

  The Center for Regional Policy Studies and Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Long Island’s 106th Rescue Wing: The History of America’s Oldest National Guard Unit by Charles F. Howlett - 1 / Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Women of the Setauket Library Club, 1896-1924 by Stacey Horstmann Gatti - 16 / The Legacy of New Deal Art on Long Island by Natalie A. Naylor - 41 / Excerpt from “The Vineyard: The Pleasures and Perils of Creating an American Family Winery” by Louisa Thomas Hargrave - 71 / The Promotion of Long Island by The Long Island Rail Road, 1900-1930 by Sean Kass - 80 / How Advanced were Long Island’s Native Americans? A Challenge to the Traditional View by Philip C. Weigand - 101 / Early Child Welfare in Nassau County by Ruth Shackelford - 119 / Lessons from Long Island: Public Health Science and Agricultural Trade by Justin Kastner, Douglas Powell, Jason Ackelson, Terry Crowley, and Karen Huff - 151 / OBSERVATIONS: The State Of Long Island? by Lee E. Koppelman and Seth Forman - 168 / LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES: The Counties: Kings, Queens, Suffolk, and Nassau by T. A. Milford - 185 / You’re Not Where You Think You Are: Long Island Place Names and Postal Zones by Walter Greenspan - 189 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: Jackson Pollock in East Hampton: Splattering the Art World by Alyssa Jakim - 194 / The Struggle for Religious Liberty in Flushing by Brian Tashman - 205 / DEBATE: John Strong vs. Faren R. Siminoff Review of Faren R. Siminoff. Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth Century Long Island - 214 / Response from Siminoff - 222 / BOOKS AND CULTURE: REVIEWS: Ron Ross. Bummy Davis vs. Murder Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter by Gary Wilbur - 227 / Thelma Jackson. African Americans in Northport: An Untold Story by Durahn Taylor - 229 / Floris Barnett Cash. African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal by Prudence D. Cumberpatch - 231 / Antonia Booth and Thomas Monsell. Images of America: Greenport. Geoffrey Fleming. Images of America: Southoldz by Caroline MacArthur - 236 / Belle Barstow. Setauket, Alias Brookhaven: The Birth of a Long Island Town with Chronological Records 1655-1679 by John Strong - 237 / Three Village Historical Society. Images of America. Stony Brook by Floris Cash - 241 / Steven Petrow, with Richard Barons. The Lost Hamptons by Ann Sandford - 243 / Vincent Seyfried. The Rockaway Trolley: The Story of the Ocean Electric Railway, 1886 to 1928. Vincent Seyfried and William Asadorian. Old Rockaway, New York in Early Photographs by Natalie A. Naylor - 245 / Joel T. Rosenthal. From the Ground Up: A History of the State University of New York at Stony Brook by Joshua M. Ruff - 247 / Donald M. Bayles. The Civil War Letters of Albert and Edward Bayles, and the History of Their Regiment, the 139th by Wilbur R. Miller - 251 / Joshua Stoff. Images of America: Long Island Aircraft Crashes, 1909-1959. Giacinta Bradley Koontz, The Harriet Quimby Scrapbook: The Life of America’s First Birdwoman, 1875-1912 by Natalie A. Naylor - 252 / Helen A. Harrison and Constance Ayers Denne. Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach by Stacey Horstmann Gatti - 254 / Running Scared, Running Free. Ward Melville Cultural Organization’s Educational and Cultural Center, Stony Brook, New York (February 15 – March 31, 2005) by Lynda R. Day - 260 / Eye of the Storm: The Civil War Drawings of Robert Sneden. Virginia Historical Society. Long Island display developed by Joshua Ruff, History Curator, Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages,1200 Rte. 25A,Stony Brook New York (February 19 – May 30, 2005) by Harrison Hunt - 262 / IN MEMORIAM: Robert David Lion Gardiner (1911-2004) by Honorable Peter Fox Cohalan for the Editors - 265 / Kendall A. Birr (1924-2004) by Chuck F. Howlett for the Editors - 269

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2003/Spring 2004)

  The Center for Regional Policy Studies and Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities on Eastern Long Island during the Seventeenth Century by Faren R. Siminoff - 1 / Shifting Sands: Long Island’s Barrier Beaches by Marsha L. Hamilton - 15 / Central Suffolk Pine Barrens Preservation - Part One by Lee E. Koppelman - 35 / Military Training at Camp Upton During The Great War: The Diary of Oscar I. Ostrow edited by Margery Cohen-Willard Introduction by Charles F. Howlett - 55 / A Brief History of the Nassau Hub: The Evolution of an “Old Line” Suburb by Bill Jensen and Seth Forman - 104 / A Long Island Yankee in King George’s Court: Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay and the 1939 British Royal Visit to the United States by Tim Barrett - 112 / Conrad Poppenhusen: A Biographical Sketch of the “Benefactor Of College Point” Emphasizing the Civil War Years by James E. Haas - 135 / LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES: Introduction: American State Names by Richard P. Harmond - 145 / William Wallace Tooker by John A. Strong - 149 / LOST AND FOUND: William H. Moore’s History of St. George’s Church by Beverly C. Tyler - 153 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: Michael Glynn’s Theater: The Making of a Cultural Institution in Patchogue, New York by Daniel Winkler and Crystal Vagnier - 155 / Social and Spatial Mobility of Irish and German Immigrants in Brooklyn in the Late Nineteenth Century by Vikram Chabra - 160 / An Overview of Plum Island: History, Research, and Effects on Long Island by Alexandra Cella - 176 / The Home of an American Poet: The Story of Walt Whitman’s Birthplace by Rachel Brandstadter - 182 / BOOK REVIEWS: Natalie Aurucci Stiefle. Looking Back at Rocky Point: In the Shadow of the Radio Towers Vol. 1. Robert F. Sisler. Long Island’s Contribution to the Development of Radio & Television by Barbara Kelly - 190 / Marilee Foster. Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land by Ann Sandford - 192 / Louisa Thomas Hargrave. The Vineyard: The Pleasures and Perils of Creating an American Family Winery by Marilyn E. Weigold - 194 / Ann M. Becker. Images of America: Mount Sinai. Antonia Booth and Thomas Monsell. Images of America: Greenport. Geoffrey K. Fleming. Images of America: Bridgehampton by Richard I. Barons - 196 / Tom Andersen. This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound by Michelle Land - 200 / Sylvie Murray. The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 by Barbara Kelly - 203 / EDITOR’S NOTE AND LETTERS - 206

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 15, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2002/Spring 2003)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Rural Connections: Early Republic Bridgehampton and Its Wider World, 1790-1805 by Ann H. Sandford - 1 / Alicia Patterson, “Newspaperman” by Geri Solomon - 23 / The Life of Teuntje Straatmans: A Dutch Woman’s Travels in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World by Annette M. Cramer van den Bogaart - 35 / The Legacy of Nathaniel Rogers (1787-1844), Long Island Artist from Bridgehampton by Natalie A. Naylor - 54 / The Genesis of Neighborhood Health Centers in Suffolk County: 1965-1968 by Priscilla Redfield Roe - 72 / A Proud Member of the Community of Port Jefferson Remembers His Contributions to the Last Great Crusade - World War II by Richard Acritelli - 104 / LOST AND FOUND: John Underhill, Captain of New England and New Netherland by John A. Strong - 122 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: Long Island Defeats Goliath: The Closing of Shoreham by Jane Forman - 128 / Origins of the Suffolk County Police Department by Brian Johnson - 141 / Prayer in Public School: Engel V. Vitale and its Effect on Long Island Communities by Andrew Malone - 148 / Boat Building in Amityville by Victoria Niemi - 163 / BOOK REVIEWS: John Komia Domatob. African Americans of Eastern Long Island. Black America Series. John Komia Domatob. African Americans of Western Long Island. Black America Series by Thomas D. Beal - 168 / Jeffrey A. Kroessler. New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis. George J. Lankevich. New York City: A Short History by Joanne Reitano - 171 / Victor Principe. Images of America: Bellport Village and Brookhaven Hamlet by Kathleen L. Scheibel - 173 / Natalie E. Naylor, ed. Journeys on Old Long Island: Travelers’ Accounts, Contemporary Descriptions and Residents’ Reminiscences, 1744-1893 by Marilyn Weigold - 174 / Theresa M. Collins. Otto Kahn: Art, Money, and Modern Time by Karen Cooper - 176 / James E. Haas. This Gunner at His Piece: College Point, New York and the Civil War with Biographies of the Men Who Served by Edward H.L. Smith, III - 177 / Charles Denson. Coney Island: Lost and Found. Michael Immerso. Coney Island: The People’s Playground. Brian J. Cudahy. How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County by Garry Wilbur - 180 / Havemeyer, Harry W. East on the Great South Bay: Sayville and Bayport, 1860 - 1960 by Sister Joan Ryan - 187 / Steven Gregory. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community by Thomas D. Beal - 188 / Kristen J. Nyitray and Ann M. Becker. Stony Brook: State University of New York. College History Series by Joel Rosenthal - 191 / Barbara Shea. Discover Long Island: Exploring the Great Places from Sea to Sound by Natalie Naylor - 193 / BOOK NOTES - 195 / COMMUNICATIONS - 196

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 14, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Freaks and Geeks: Coney Island Sideshow Performers and Long Island Eugenicists, 1910-1935 by Tanfer Emin - 1 / Mohawk Sovereignty over the Long Island Indians: Fact or Fiction? A Re-Examination of Primary and Secondary Sources by John Strong - 15 / Robert Moses, Jones Beach, and the Legacy of Progressive-Era Conservationism by Michelle Kleehammer - 27 / Village School to City System: The Schools of the Town of New Utrecht by John F. Roche - 42 / Preserving “The Good Old Spirit”: Long Island in the Colonial Revival by Joshua Ruff - 62 / From Potato Patch to Wine Orchard: Southold Town’s Path of Rural Preservation by Michael Rokofsky - 86 / “The Devil's Own Imponderables”: Two Smithtown Men in the American Revolution by Elizabeth Shepherd - 86 / NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: “Long Island has been a School to Me”: The 1825 Letter of an Instructor at Schools at Rockaway and Great Neck Transcribed and annotated by James Greve - 119 / The Origin, Rise, and Decline of the Long Island Branch of the Ranger Family: An Update by Charles E. Squires, Robert J. Young, and Michael B. Ranger - 125 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: Black Migrant Workers on the East End of Long Island during the 1950s and 1960s by Caroline Axelrod - 128 / The Birth of the United Nations in Lake Success by Erika Brown - 138 / Jupiter Hammon: America’s First Black Poet by Marshalette Gillings - 147 / BOOK REVIEWS: Frank Cavaioli. State University of New York at Farmingdale. by Sean A. Fanelli - 156 / John A. Strong. The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island. by Gaynell Stone - 157 / Natalie A. Naylor, ed. “The People Called Quakers”: Records of Long Island Friends, 1671-1703. by Christopher Densmore - 160 / Tom Montalbano. Images of America: Syosset. by Karen Cooper - 162 / BOOK NOTES - 163 / FILM REVIEW - 164 Parsing Pollock by Helen A. Harrison / COMMUNICATIONS - 170

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 13, Number 2 (Spring 2001)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / FEATURE ARTICLES: The Ordeal of Arnold A. Bocksel, A Long Island Soldier Taken Prisoner in World War II by Richard Acritelli - 142 / Nativist and Irish Riots in Brooklyn, 1854 by Hugh E. O’Rourke - 158 / Doing and Not Doing Long Island History: The Long Island Historians from Wood To Weeks by Richard P. Harmond - 174 / Reviving Long Island History: A Comparison of Two Updated Editions by Natalie A. Naylor - 184 / Long Island History on the World Wide Web by David Yehling Allen - 188 / Joris and Catalina Rapalje, The First Colonists in New Netherland by D. Reid Ross - 205 / The Origin, Rise, and Decline of the Long Island Branch of the Ranger Family by Charles E. Squires, Robert J. Young, and Michael B. Ranger - 219 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Religious Freedom Collides with AIDS Education in Public Schools: The Case of Ware V. The Valley Stream School District and the Commissioner of Education of the State of New York by Jeremy Francis - 233 / The Secret Success of Robert Townsend and The Setauket Spy Ring by Carmen Granda - 242 / David Frothingham’s Long Island Herald: 1791-1798 by Heather R. McIlvaine - 249 / REVIEWS - 254 / Tom Twomey. Exploring the Past: Writings from 1798 to 1896 Relating to the History of the Town of East Hampton by Hugh R. King / Harvey Aronson, ed. How Long Island Inspired America to Fly. Joshua Stoff. Transatlantic Flight: A Picture History 1873-1939 by Roger Seybel / Salvatore J. LaGumina. Images of America: Long Island Italians by Frank J. Cavaioli / Joan Gay Kent. Discovering Sands Point: Its History, Its People, Its Places by Natalie A. Naylor / Candace Ward, ed. New York City Museum Guide, 2nd Rev. ed. by Joshua Ruff / BOOK NOTES - 266

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 12, Number 2 (Spring 2000)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - In Memoriam: Mitzi Caputo by Robert Hughes / EDITORIAL COMMENT: The Building of the Suffolk County Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial by Christopher A. Gennari - 134 / FEATURE ARTICLES: Taking the Middle Way: Algonquian Responses to the Reverend Azariah Horton’s Mission on Long Island (1741-1744) by John A. Strong and Zsuzsanna Török - 145 / Brooklyn’s Consolidation: A Point of View by Anna M. Lanahan - 159 / Brooklyn’s Consolidation: A Different Point of View by Donald E. Simon - 177 / Clinton Academy: Its History and Architecture by Sherrill Foster - 181 / Land, Livestock, and Liberty: Richard Smith of Smithtown by Elizabeth Shepherd - 193 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Book Banning in Long Island School Libraries: A Reexamination of Island Trees School District v. Pico et al. (1982) by Raphael Rabin-Havt - 209 / Mitchel Field and the History of Aviation on Long Island by Reggie Shore - 216 / Brookhaven National Laboratory and “Big Science” by Amanda Stone and Vincent Taurassi - 221 / REVIEWS: Jerome Loving. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself by Joann P. Krieg - 228 / Tom Twomey, editor. Awakening the Past: The East Hampton Lecture Series 1998 by Marsha L. Hamilton - 230 / Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened by Natalie A. Naylor - 231 / Richard A. Winsche. The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names by Edward J. Smits - 235 / Marx Linder and Lawrence Zacharias. Of Cabbages and Kings: Agriculture and the Formation of Brooklyn by Garry A. Wilbur - 236 / Donald A. Petrie. The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail by Robert A. McCaughey - 239 / Gene Horton. Blue Point Then and Now by Sr. Joan Ryan - 241 / Frances Roe Kestler. Never-Never Land: The Saga of Westmoreland Farm by Francis L. Kunkel - 241 / BOOK NOTES - 242 / COMMUNICATIONS - 244

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 13, Number 1 (Fall 2000)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / FEATURE ARTICLES: Go East, Young Man: Nineteenth-Century Farm Life on the South Fork of Long Island by Roger Wunderlich - 1 / Long Island to the Measure of Oxen by Elizabeth Shepherd - 11 / History Visited and Revisited by Donald E. Simon - 23 / Introduction to the “Recollections of the Reverend Nathaniel S. Prime” by Richard P. Harmond - 23 Material Evidence of Ideological and Ethnic Choice in Long Island Gravestones, 1670-1800 by Gaynell Stone - 44 / Photographic Depiction of Race and Ethnicity in Newsday and The New York Times Long Island Sunday Supplement by Arthur B. Dobrin - 72 / An Accommodating Artistry Robert Morris Copeland’s Landscape Designs for Shelter Island by David Sokol - 82 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Guglielmo Marconi and His Influence on Long Island’s Italian American Community by Lauren Branche - 94 / Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson’s Decade of Development by Jonathan Chavkin - 100 / What Cost Reform? Fiscal Policy in the City Of Brooklyn, 1870-1898 by Perri Thaler - 108 / REVIEWS - 122 / Joann P. Krieg and Natalie A. Naylor, eds. Nassau County: From Rural Hinterland to Suburban Metropolis by Joshua Ruff / Tom Twomey, ed. Tracing the Past: Writings of Henry P. Hedges 1817-1911 Relating to the East End by John A. Strong / Elizabeth K. Kaplan, Robert W. Kenny, and Roger Wunderlich, eds. William Sidney Mount: Family, Frienas, and Ideas by Phyllis Braff / James Driscoll, Derek M. Gray, Richard J. Hourahan, and Kathleen G. Velsor. Angels of Deliverance: The Underground Railroad in Queens, Long Island, and Beyond by Natalie A. Naylor / Arnold A. Bocksel. Rice, Men and Barbed Wire by Richard Acritelli / COMMUNICATIONS – 139

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 11, Number 2 (Spring 1999)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / FEATURE ARTICLES: Creating a New County: Nassau by Edward J. Smits - 129 / Beacons for All: A History of Long Island Lighthouses by Joshua Ruff - 145 / From the Domestic to the Public Arena: Long Island Women Take Part in the U.S. Sanitary Commission by Sandra Roff and Diane DiMartino - 161 / Immigrants, Indians, and Idle Men: Long Island's “Rabble in Arms” in the French and Indian War by John G. Staudt - 178 / William Wallace Tooker: A New Look at Long Island’s Pioneer Ethnographer by Lois Beachy Underhill - 190 / Javits V. Roosevelt: The 1954 Race for New York State Attorney General by Michael Kelly - 203 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS - 223: Nazis on Long Island by Lucas Hanft - 223 / REVIEWS - 231: Deborah Johnson, ed. William Sidney Mount, Painter of American Life by Robert W. Kenny / Newsday. Long Island: Our Story by Edwin G. Burrows / Joann P. Krieg. A Whitman Chronology by Maxwell Wheat / M(ildred) H(ess) Smith, with the assistance of Jeanmarie DiNoto. Garden City, Long Island in Early Photographs, 1869-1919 by Vincent F. Seyfried / Shirley G. Hibbard. Rock Hall: A Narrative History by Stephen J. Sullivan / Linda B. Martin. Nassau County at 100: The Past and Present in Photographs by Diane Perry / BOOK NOTES - 241 / COMMUNICATIONS - 242

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 12, Number 1 (Fall 1999)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / FEATURE ARTICLES: The Janes Who Made the Planes: Grumman in World War II by Christine Kleinegger - 1 / The “Encouragement of Seminaries Of Learning”: The Origins and Development of Early Long Island Academies by Natalie A. Naylor - 11 / “For God, Country, and Home”: The Origin and Growth of the Catholic War Veterans USA, 1935-1957 by David L. O’Connor - 31 / Nassau Challenges Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Program for County Reform by Constantine E. Theodosiou - 54 / Loyalty and Dissent: Free Speech at Adelphi University, 1964-1968 by Daniel Rosenberg - 76 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Women of the Union: The Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864 by Melissa Brewster - 92 / Long Island’s Era of Octagons by Jessie Mee - 101 / The 1939 World's Fair and its Vision of the Future by Lindsey Gish, Bryan Harmon, and Matthew Jensen - 108 / REVIEWS - 114 / Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Joshua Ruff / Robert P. Crease. Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 by Peter B. Kahn / Averill Dayton Geus. From Sea To Sea: 350 Years of East Hampton History by Mary Petrie / Kenneth C. Brady. Arthur S. Greene,1867-1955: The Life And Work of a Long Island Photographer by Suzanne Johnson / Mary Feeney Vahey. A Hidden History: Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad in Cow Neck and on Long Island by Kathleen Velsor / Roberta Halporn. New York is a Rubber's Paradise: A Guide to New York's Cemeteries in the Five Boroughs. Scope Staff. Where to go and what to do on Long Island by Gaynell Stone / Terry Walton. Cold Spring Harbor...Rediscovering History in Streets and Shores by Christine King / BOOK NOTES - 132

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 10, Number 2 (Spring 1998)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / FEATURE ARTICLES: The Spanish American War and Montauk Point: Introduction to Charles Johnson Post’s Memoir of Camp Wikoff by Richard P. Harmond - 139 / Montauk: A Chronicle of ‘98 by Charles Johnson Post - 143 / Suffolk County’s Commemoration of the Spanish American War by Judith A. Gordon - 159 / State of the Island: Councilmanic or At-Large Districts for Long Island Towns? by Edith L. Gordon - 163 / Lion Gardiner, Long Island’s Founding Father by Roger Wunderlich - 172 / The Many Lives of Sayville’s Lewis Noe by Hank Shaw - 186 / “Barren and Waste Land”: Long Islanders and the Pine Barrens by Marsha L. Hamilton - 207 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: How Separation of Church and State Affects Children on Long Island by Kimberly Horoski - 222 / Blocker v. Manhasset Board of Education (1964): Long Island’s First Challenge to Public School Segregation by Kimberly Mockler - 227 / BOOK REVIEW ESSAY - 236: Lynda R. Day. Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. Grania Bolton Marcus. A Forgotten People: Discovering the Black Experience in Suffolk County. Natalie A. Naylor, ed. Exploring African American History on Long Island and Beyond by Floris Barnett Cash / REVIEWS - 244: Robert Sisler and Patricia Sisler. Those Half-Thousand Great Ships Built in Port Jefferson. by Richard Welch / Ebenezer Miller. Diary of Ebenezer Miller of Miller Place, Long Island, New York, 1762-1768, transcription and footnotes by Margaret Davis Gass and Willis H. White by Edward Smith / Harry W. Havemeyer. Along the Great South Bay by Hank Shaw / Bevery Tyler. Discover Setauket, Brookhaven’s Original by Gloria Sesso / Horace Hallock, The Orphan Path: Journals of Horace Hallock 1819-1834. Compiled by Elizabeth M. Smith Doering. by Judith Hallock / Thinking and Writing: A Guide for College Students by Christopher Gennari

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 11, Number 1 (Fall 1998)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / FEATURE ARTICLES: The Greater City and Queens County by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 1 / By a Margin of 277 Votes: The Consolidation of Brooklyn and New York by Donald E. Simon - 15 / Deepwells: A Nineteenth-Century Farm for the Twenty-First Century? by Elizabeth Shepherd - 27 / State of the Island: Sixty Years After The Hurricane: The Case for Replacing the Steeple of Sag Harbor's Old Whaler's Church by Paul Goldberger - 42 / Congregational Autonomy and Presbyterian Discipline: The Immoral Ministry of Luther Gleason in Early Republic New York, 1789-1808 by Robert E. Cray, Jr. - 47 / Recent Articles on Long Island History by Natalie A. Naylor with the assistance of Victoria R. Aspinwall - 64 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS - 81: The 1939 World’s Fair: Yesterday’s World of Tomorrow by Adrienne McIlvaine - 81 / Four Dramatic Events that affected Long Island by Rajesh Parekh - 87 / The Aeronautical Heritage of Port Washington by Daniel Pedisich - 96 / REVIEWS - 106: Natalie A. Naylor and Maureen O. Murphy, eds. Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators by Elizabeth Ewen / David Yehling Allen. Long Island Maps and Their Makers: Five Centuries of Cartographic History by Edwin Burrows / Clarence Taylor. Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle for School Integration in New York City by Kimberly Welch / John A. Strong. “We Are Still Here!” The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today, 2nd ed. by Daria Merwin / Hal B. Fullerton. Gardener of Eden: The Wit and Wisdom of Hal B. Fullerton. Compiled and edited by Anne Nauman. by Chet Chorzempa / Jeffrey A. Kroessler. Lighting the Way: The Centennial History of the Queens Borough Public Library, 1896-1996 by Christine King / Frederick W. Bone. Sands of Time: A History of the Sand and Gravel Operations in Port Jefferson and Nearby Harbors. Edited by Mildred Michos. by Henry Bokuniewicz / Vincent F. Seyfried. Flushing Academy by Natalie A. Naylor / BOOK NOTES - 124 / COMMUNICATIONS - 126

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 09, Number 2 (Spring 1997)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / State of the Island: Peconic County Pro and Con - Peconic County: To Be or Not To Be? by Roger Wunderlich - 140 / The Case for Peconic County by Fred W. Thiele, Jr. - 145 / Peconic County: The Myth and the Reality by Lee E. Koppleman - 152 / FEATURE ARTICLES: The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part Three: Militancy and Black Consciousness by Chuck Howlett - 168 / John P. Holland and the Creation of the American Submarine Fleet by Richard F. Welch - 209 / Walt Whitman's Long Island Friend: Elisa Seaman Leggett by Joann P. Krieg - 223 / Library Service at the United States Merchant Marine Academy: Origins and Development, 1942-1949 by Stephen R. Wiist - 234 / EXHIBIT ESSAY: The Last of the Mount Family Artists: Evelina Mount (1837-1920) by Ita G. Berkow - 245 / REVIEWS: John A. Strong. The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island: From Earliest Times to 1700 and “We Are Still Here!” The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today by Daria Merwin - 252 / Suzannah Lessard. The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family by Mark L. Taff - 254 / Steve Wick. Heaven and Earth: The Last Farmers of the North Fork by Laurel Stevenson - 257 / Noel J. Gish. Smithtown, New York, 1660-1929: Looking Backward through the Lens by David Burner - 260 / John Jiler. Dark Wind: A True Account of Hurricane Gloria’s Assault on Fire Island by Jim Papa - 262 / BOOK NOTES - 264

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 1997)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Friends in the Spirit: African Americans and the Challenge to Quaker Liberalism, 1776-1915 by Lynda R. Day - 1 / Environment vs. Development: Groundwater and Land Use Planning in Nassau and Suffolk Counties by Lee E. Koppelman - 16 / “The Village of East-Hampton,” A Sketch by John Howard Payne edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert P. Rushmore - 25 / Who Says the Montauk Tribe is Extinct? Judge Abel Blackmar’s Decision in Wyandank V. Benson (1909) by John A. Strong - 39 / Promises Kept: Empire State College on its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary by Barbara Kantz - 56 / Presidential Elections in the Twentieth Century: Patterns on Long Island by Howard A. Scarrow, assisted by Dawn Walsh - 71 / Who Has Done More? Vincent Seyfried and the Discovery of Queens History by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 79 / Julia Pettee’s Year in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute Library School: 1894-1895 by Mario Charles and Sandra Roff - 86 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: William Levitt: Businessman or Bigot? by Whitney P. Bowe - 97 / The Algonquians of Long Island as an Agrarian Society by Danielle Lindemann - 104 / A Sailboat for the Bay: The Narrasketuck and its Class by Kempton B. Van Hoff - 110 / REVIEWS: Robert B. MacKay, Anthony Baker and Carol A. Traynor, eds. Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940 by Deborah J. Johnson - 116 / Lynne Matarrese. The History of Levittown, New York by Barbara Kelly - 118 / Margaret Lundrigan Ferrer and Tova Navarra. Levittown: The First 50 Years by Carol Hoenig - 119 / Mary Parker Buckles. Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound by Marilyn Weigold - 121 / Claire Nicolas White. Stanford White: Letters to His Family by Mark L. Taff - 123 / Thomas McGonigle. Going to Patchogue by Jim Papa - 125 / Giacinta Bradley Koontz, ed. The Harriet Quimby Research Conference Journal, Volume Two-1996 by Frank Erk - 129 / George A. Raisglid. Uprooted: the Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor by Edith Gordon - 130 / Ebenezer Miller; Margaret Davis Gass and Willis H. White, eds. Diary of Ebenezer Miller of Miller Place, Long Island, New York, 1762-1768 by Edward Smith - 133 / VIDEO REVIEW: Ziggy Attias and Ofer Cohen. Traveling the Distance by Gaynell Stone - 133 / BOOK NOTES - 134

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 08, Number 2 (Spring 1996)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part One: The Struggle to Integrate Public Schools by Charles F. Howlett - 145 / William Sidney Mount: The Influence of Music and the Violin in his Works by Ernest Salem - 166 / The Quest for a Suffolk County Legislature by Lee E. Koppelman - 177 / The Theatrical Community of Long Island's South Shore in the Early Twentieth Century by Lorraine Maier Hewins - 188 / Corona's Little Italy: Past and Present by Frank J. Cavaioli - 199 / The Mining of Port Jefferson Harbor for Sand and Gravel by Jeffrey Kassner - 213 / REVIEW ESSAYS: Recovering Victoria Woodhull by Amanda Frisken - 225 (on Lois Beachy Underhill. The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Virginia Woodhull) / Long Island's Poet, America's Bard: Reading Walt Whitman's America by Thomas D. Beal - 235 (on David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography) / REVIEWS: Natalie A. Naylor, ed. Exploring African American History: Long Island and Beyond by William McAdoo - 250 / Nancy Hyden Woodward. East Hampton: A Town and Its People, 1648-1992 by Sherrill Foster - 253 / Elly Shodell. Flight of Memory: Long Island’s Aeronautical Past by Roger Seybel - 254 / Candace Ward, ed. New York City Museum Guide by Florence Ogg - 256 / Alan Trachtenberg. Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol by Jim Papa - 256 / Marlene Haresign, et al. Water Mill Celebrating Community: The History of a Long Island Hamlet, 1644-1994 by John A. Strong - 258 / BOOK NOTES - 261 / EXHIBITION REVIEW: The Museums at Stony Brook: “Robert Moses and the Shaping of New York” by Nancy Dawkins - 262 / COMMUNICATIONS - 263 / Index of Reviews in the Long Island Historical Journal, Volumes 1 through 8 by Ellen N. Barcel - 265

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 09, Number 1 (Fall 1996)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT / In Memoriam: William M.P. Dunne (1934-1995) by Bill Dudley - 1 / FEATURE ARTICLES: History of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Part Six: The Lab and the Long Island Community, 1947-1972 by Robert P. Crease - 4 / The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part Two: The Struggle to Integrate Public Schools and Housing by Charles F. Howlett - 25 / The Downs and Ups of Samuel Cabman (1809-1881): A Nineteenth-Century Smithtown Farmer and Shipbuilder by Elizabeth Shepherd - 47 / “Something That Makes Me Feel At Home”: Marianne Moore and Brooklyn by Jon Sterngass - 65 / The Town of Hempstead Archives, 1644-1996: A Wealth of Municipal History by Michael J. Robinson - 79 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: Banned Books: The Challenge to the First Amendment of Pico V. Island Trees (1982) by Glenn Bernius - 90 / The Fields, Woolworths, and Vanderbilts: Remembering the Gold Coast by Jeremy Gorelick - 96 / His Majesty's Loyal Subjects: Long Island's Tories and the Division of Hempstead Town by Adam Herbsman - 101 / REVIEW ESSAYS: New Incarnation of Lydia Minturn Post's “Personal Recollections” on the American Revolution: A Review Essay by Natalie A. Naylor - 109 / Response to an Uninspired Hoax: Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey Mckeever, Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman by Sarah A. Buck - 120 / REVIEWS: Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever. Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman. (See review essays by Natalie A. Naylor and Sarah A. Buck) John J. Gallagher. The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 by Roger Wunderlich - 122 / Giacinta Bradley Koontz, Editor. The Harriet Quimby Research Conference Journal, Volume One-1995 by Frank C. Erk - 125 / Joshua Stoff. History of Early Aviation, 1903-1913 by Frank C. Erk - 128 / Roger D. Stone. Fair Tide: Sailing toward Long Island’s Future by Philip Palmedo - 130 / Joan Druett and Mary Anne Wallace. The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York by Diane F. Perry - 132 / Andrea Wyatt Sexton and Alice Leccese Powers, eds. The Brooklyn Reader: 30 Writers Celebrate America’s Favorite Borough by Peter Stephan - 135 / BOOK NOTES - 137 / COMMUNICATIONS - 138

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 07, Number 2 (Spring 1995)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT - 139 / FEATURE ARTICLES: A Life of Integrity: Hugh Gregg Cleland by David Burner - 140 / In Memoriam: Rufus Burford Langhans by Mitzi Caputo - 142 / Long Island Confronts the Vietnam War: A Review of the Antiwar Movement, Part One by Charles F. Howlett - 144 / General Nathaniel Woodhull and the Battle of Long Island by Michael Hayes - 166 / “By the Rude Storms of Faction Blown”: Thomas Jones, a Long Island Loyalist by Patrick J. McNamara - 178 / An Inspired Hoax: The Antebellum Reconstruction of an Eighteenth-Century Long Island Diary by Sarah Buck - 191 / My Grandfather Loved the Salt Marshes by Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr. - 205 / Robert Moses and the Making of Jones Beach State Park: Persistence and The Grand Design by R. Marc Fasanella - 207 / Commitment for a Lifetime: The Long Island Long-Term Marriage Survey by Finnegan Alford-Cooper - 220 / The Content and Significance of the Archives of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point by Michael J. Robinson - 235 / LOST AND FOUND: Faith Baldwin: America’s First Lady of Romantic Fiction by Frances R. Kestler - 243 / REVIEWS: Joshua Stoff. From Canoes to Cruisers: The Maritime Heritage of Long Island by Marilyn Weigold - 253 / Natalie A. Naylor, ed. The Roots and Heritage of Hempstead Town by John A. Hewlett - 254 / William T. Lauder and Charles F. Howlett. Amityville’s 1894 School House by Paul J. Baker - 256 / W.M.P. Dunne. Thomas F. McManus and the American Fishing Schooners by Donald A. Petrie - 258 / E. A. (Bud) Livingston. President Lincoln’s Third Largest City: Brooklyn and the Civil War by Edwin G. Burrows - 259 / Janice L. Schaefer. The History of Mastic Beach by Christopher Berdan - 259 / Edith Gaines. The Charity Society, 1794-1994: An Institution for the Use and Benefit of the Poor Among the Black People by Natalie A. Naylor - 261 / John Ellis Kordes. A. T. Stewart’s Garden City: A Documentary Film by Natalie A. Naylor - 262 / Hayward Cirker, ed. Life in Old New York Photo Postcards by Nancy Dawkins - 265 / COMMUNICATIONS - 266

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 08, Number 1 (Fall 1995)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 / FEATURE ARTICLES: The History of Brookhaven National Laboratory Part 5: Particle Hunters by Robert P. Crease - 3 / The Indians of Fort Massapeag by Robert S. Grumet - 26 / The Murder of Stanford White by Paul R. Baker and Mark L. Taff - 34 / Long Island Confronts the Vietnam War: A Review of the Antiwar Movement, Part Two by Charles F. Howlett - 56 / Robert Cushman Murphy and Environmental Issues on Long Island by Richard P. Harmond - 76 / Title IX, A Catalyst for Change, Women and Education since 1972: Long Island, A Case History by Edith L. Gordon - 83 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS: A Long Island Spy Story and Its Effect on American Legal History by Tami Thompson - 103 / Long Island's Struggle for Civil Liberty under the Dutch Regime by David Aliano - 111 / Confronting Bias in Schools and Housing: The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in 1970 by Kaisha K. Moore - 119 / REVIEWS: Gaynell Stone, ed. The History & Archaeology of the Montauk, 2nd ed. by David Bernstein - 126 / Clarence Taylor. The Black Churches of Brooklyn by Floris Barnett Cash - 128 / Edward A. T. Carr. Faded Laurels: The History of Eaton’s Neck and Asharoken by Barbara Johnson - 131 / Joshua Stoff. Charles A. Lindbergh: A Photographic Album by Peter Parities - 133 / Joann P. Krieg and Natalie A. Naylor, eds. To Know the Place: Exploring Long Island History. Rev. ed. by Gaynell Stone - 134 / EXHIBITION REVIEW: “Long Island Maps and their Makers.” An exhibition sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) and the State University at Stony Brook by Edwin G. Burrows -137 / GAME REVIEW: Jay Laquinta. Long Island Trivia: The Race to Montauk by Roger Wunderlich - 138 / BOOK NOTES - 139 / COMMUNICATIONS - 141

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 06, Number 2 (Spring 1994)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT - 145 / FEATURE ARTICLES: State of the Island - Anatomy of the Long Island Economy: Retrospective and Prospective by Lee E. Koppelman and Pearl M. Kamer - 146 / Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects: 1860-1940 by Robert B. MacKay - 168 / Long Island Triangulated: Nineteenth-Century Maps and Charts of the U.S. Coast Survey by David Yehling Allen - 191 / Bibles and Muskets: The Acculturation of East End Native Americans in the Eighteenth Century by John Charles Witek - 208 / Lewis Howard Latimer: The Career of a Black Inventor by James P. Johnson - 223 / Columbus and the Whitman Connection by Frank J. Cavaioli - 233 / The Fullertons and the Experimental Farms of the Long Island Railroad by Chet Chorzempa - 245 / The Role of the Community in Civil War Desertion by Judith Lee Hallock - 254 / REVIEWS: Richard F. Welch. An Island’s Trade: Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding on Long Island by W.M.P. Dunne - 266 / Esther Newton. Cherry Grove, Fire Island. Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town by Barbara Balliet - 268 / John H. Long, ed., Kathryn Ford Thome, comp. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries by David Yehling Allen - 272 / John Esten with Rose Bennett Gilbert, photographs by Susan Wood. Hampton Style: Houses, Gardens, Artists by Ellen R. Samuels - 273 / Salvatore J. LaGumina. New York at Mid-Century: The Impelliteri Years by Frank J. Cavaioli - 275 / Eleanor F. Ferguson, edited by Anne Nauman. My Long Island: Growing up on Hal B. Fullerton’s Blessed Isle, 1902-1942 by Ron Ziel - 277 / Elly Shodell. Cross Currents: Baymen, Yachtsmen and Long Island Waters, 1830s-1990s by W.M.P. Dunne - 278 / Janet Perin and Charles F. Howlett. A Walk Through History: A Community Named Amityville by William Ingui - 279 / EXHIBITION REVIEW: Nineteenth-Century Long Island Lithographs: A Mirror of the Middle Class by Elaine Cohos - 281 / BOOK NOTES - 283 / COMMUNICATIONS - 284

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 07, Number 1 (Fall 1994)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 / FEATURE ARTICLES: State of the Island - Anatomy of the Long Island Economy; Prospective for Development by Lee E. Koppelman and Pearl M. Kamer - 3 / The History of Brookhaven National Laboratories, Part Four: Problems of Transition by Robert P. Crease - 22 / The Reaffirmation of Tradition among the Native Americans of Eastern Long Island by John A. Strong - 42 / The Revolutionary War and its Aftermath in Suffolk County, Long Island by Gaetano L. Vincitorio - 68 / Western Long Island and the Civil War: A Political Chronicle by David Osborn - 86 / Robert Moses and the Making of Jones Beach State Park: Part One by R. Marc Fasanella - 99 / Remembering Great Neck by Joann P. Krieg - 111 / The Great Gatsby as Long Island History by Roger Wunderlich - 119 / LOST AND FOUND: Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Love and Luck: The Story of a Summer's Loitering on the Great South Bay by Richard P. Harmond - 125 / REVIEWS: Joshua Stoff. Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production by Leroy Douglas - 130 / Stephen N. Elias. Alexander T. Stewart. The Forgotten Merchant Prince by Thomas D. Beal - 132 / Richard C. Malley. In Their Hours of Ocean Leisure: Scrimshaw in the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum by Diane F. Perry - 134 / R.C. Anderson. The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, 1600-1720 by W.M.P. Dunne - 135 / BOOK NOTES - 136 / COMMUNICATIONS - 137

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 05, Number 2 (Spring 1993)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT - 131 / QUEENS COUNTY HISTORICAL CONFERENCE PAPERS - 1) Queens County and the Secession Crisis by David Osborn - 132 / 2) The Civil War in Queens County by Vincent F. Seyfried - 146 / 3) After Freedom in Newtown, Queens: African Americans and the Color Line, 1838-1899 by Roger Sanjek - 157 / 4) Baseball and the Blue Laws by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 168 / 5) A Stadium for Flushing Meadows by Matthew Kachur - 178 / FEATURE ARTICLES: When Great South Bay Froze Over: Gleanings from the Baymen’s Oral History Group (Part II) by John M. Kochiss - 195 / The Formation and Development of Brooklyn’s Black Churches, from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century by Clarence Taylor - 209 / One Brooklyn Block: Population Characteristics and Change, 1880-1910 by Charlotte Woods Elkind - 229 / REVIEWS: Nina Federoff and David Botstein, eds. The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas on the Century of Genetics by Elizabeth Garber - 249 / Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds. Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American by Michael Barnhart - 251 / Robert B. MacKay, Stanley Lindvall and Carol Traynor, eds. An Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island by L.E. Gobrecht - 254 / Robert Duifee’s Journal and Recollections of Newport, Rhode Island, Freetown, Massachusetts, New York City and Long Island, Jamaica and Cuba, West Indies and Saint Simons Island, Georgia, ca. 1785-1810. Edited by Virginia Steele Wood by W.M.P. Dunne - 255 / Patricia Hansell Sisler and Robert Sisler. The Seven Hills of Port by Luise Weiss - 257 / BOOK NOTES - 258

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  Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 06, Number 1 (Fall 1993)

  Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  TABLE OF CONTENTS - EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 / FEATURE ARTICLES: Long Island’s Mrs. Tippecanoe and Mrs. Tyler Two by Natalie A. Naylor - 2 / History of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Part Three: Little Science, Big Science by Robert P. Crease - 17 / Kleagles, Klokards, Kludds, and Kluxers: The Klan in Suffolk County, 1915-1928, Part One by Jane S. Gombieski - 41 / “You May Take Watts, But You'll Never Take New Lots”: Racial Succession and the East New York Riot Of 1966 by Jon Sterngass - 63 / Walt Whitman in the Public Domain: A Tale of Two Houses by Joann P. Krieg - 83 / In Her Wake: The Story of Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont by Raymond E. Spinzia - 96 / Recent Articles on Long Island History by Natalie A. Naylor - 106 / LOST AND FOUND: ONE - High-Living on the Great South Bay: Schuyler Livingston Parsons, Untold Friendships by Richard P. Harmond - 121 / LOST AND FOUND: TWO - Charles Hanson Towne: Loafing Down Long Island by Raymond Plank - 125 / REVIEWS: Barbara M. Kelly. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown by Mollie Keller - 129 / Philip F. Palmedo and Edward Beltranmi. The Wines of Long Island: Birth of a Region. Photographs by Sara Matthews by Thomas Maresca - 131 / Natalie A. Naylor, Patricia Snyder and Melissa Patton. Long Island’s History and Cultural Heritage: An Integrative Curriculum Resource of Educators by John A. Hewlett - 133 / David McCullogh. The Great Bridge by Thomas D. Beal - 134 / William T. Lauder. Amityville History Revisited by Charles F. Howlett - 136 / EXHIBITION REVIEW: “Woven History: The Technology and Innovation of Long Island Coverlets, 1800-1850” by William Ayres - 138 / BOOK NOTES - 140 / COMMUNICATIONS - 141