Long Island History

 

Long Island History

 

 

General  (see also Digital Collections)

African-American History

• African American Museum of Nassau County (The Museum)
• African Slaves on Long Island, New York (History of American Women)
• The Amistad Insurrection (Long Island University. C.W. Post Campus.  B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library.  The African American:  A Journey from Slavery to Freedom)
• Bias Help, Inc. (BiasHelp.org)
• Black History on Long Island (Hofstra University.  Long Island Studies Institute)
• The Civil Rights Movement on Long Island:  A Local History Curriculum Guide for Middle School and High School, by Alan Singer, et al.  (Hoftstra University)
• Education Research Advocacy Support to Eliminate Racism (ERASE Racism)
• Invisible People of Suffolk, Nassau, Queens & Kings Counties, New York State (and Extended Families, comp. & ed. by Sandi Brewster-Walker (RootsWeb)
• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet (Lloyd Manor Historical Society)
• The Provisioning Plantation:  1652-1693:  Slavery as Economic Engine, by Patricia Shillingburg (Shelter Island.org)
• [L.I. Slave Revolt, Feb. 28, 1708], by Jesse Carey Smith (African American Registry)
• Seaman Joachim Pease, USN (1842-?) [Medal of Honor recipient] (U.S. Navy.  Naval Historical Center)
• Slavery on Long Island (Hofstra University.  Library. Special Collections Dept.)
• Townsend Slave Bible Returns Home, by Dagmar Fors Karppi (Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot) 
• Venture Smith (Wikipedia)
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa:  But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America.  Related by Himself, electronic ed., by Venture Smith, 1729?-1805 1805 (University of North Carolina. Documenting the American South) -- The narrative, in part, vividly documents his life as slave and freedman on Fishers Island and Long Island, NY
• Documenting Venture Smith Project (Beecher House Center for the Study of Equal Rights)
• Samuel Ballton House (MAAP:  Mapping the African American Past.  Place Detail)
• Way Stations on Freedom's Road, by Marcelle E. Fischer (New York Times.  Long Island Journal, Ja 2, 2001)

Archeology

        See also  African American history

                      Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

                      Indians

• Archelogical Institute of America:  Long Island Society (The Society)
• Archeology (SUNY at Stony Brook.  Stony Brook News.  University Experts)
• Archeology of Long Island (Suffolk County Archeological Association)
• Cultural Resources:  Historical and Archeological (Central Pine Barrens Comprehensive Land Use Plan, v. 2. Chapter 7)
• Indian Archeology of Long Island (Garvies Point Museum & Preserve)

Architecture

• Big Duck (Roadside America.com) 
• Improving the Past: The Colonial Revival on Long Island (Long Island Museum of Art, History, and Carriages [Stony Brook, NY] and Traditional Fine Art, Inc.)  
• One of a Kind Houses (New York Times.  Real Estate.  In the Region/ Long Island)
• Owner Demolishes Colonial Era Building[Nicholls House] (LongIslandGenealogy.com and LongIsland.com)
• Improving the Past:  The Colonial Revival on Long Island (Long island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages)
• Representational Architecture  (U.S. National Parks Service.  Using Historic Places to Teach.  Determining the Facts.  Reading 1) -- see "Big Duck"
• Stanford White (1853-1906) of Long Island (Long Island Genealogy.com.  The White Family of Long Island)
• Stanford White on Long Island (Museums at Stony Brook)

Art History

• Is Art Hereditary?:  The Mounts, A Family of Painters (Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages)
• Artist Colony (Bygone L.I.)
• Bohemian Paradise: David Burliuk, Nicolai Cikovsky and the Hampton Bays Art Group (Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages) 
• East End Stories (Parrish Art Museum)
• Fairfield Porter Collection and Archives (Parrish Art Museum)
• Idle Hour Artist Colony Artists and Personalities (Dowling College.  Long Island South Shore History)
• Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages (The Museum)
• Parrish Art Museum (The Museum)
• Our Story  (Pollack-Krassner House and Study Center)
• Shepard Alonzo Mount, by Deborah J. Johnson (Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages)
• Thomas Moran Biographical Art Collection (East Hampton Library)
• Vance Locke Murals (Three Village Historical Society)
• William Merritt Chase Collection and Archives (Parrish Art Museum)
• William Sidney Mount (Three Village Central School District)
• Jackson Pollack, 1912-1956 (U.S. National Gallery of Art)

Aviation & Aerospace History

• Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields:  New York, Eastern Long Island, by Paul Freeman (Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields)
• American Airpower Museum (The Museum)
• Apollo Lunar Module (Wikipedia)
• The Aviation Heritage of Long Island, by Joshua Stoff (Cradle of Aviation Museum) - note its links to Timeline, Aircraft, Airfields, Events, People 
• Cradle of Aviation Museum (The Museum)
• Floyd Bennett Field:  Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn (Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans (U.S. National Psrk Service)
• Grumman Memorial Park History Center (Grumman Memorial Park)
• Roosevelt Field, New York (Wikipedia)
• LeRoy Grumman (Cradle of Aviation Museum)
• Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927 (Eyewitness to History.com)  

Biography (& Lists of Famous Long Islanders)

• List of Long Islanders (Wikipedia)
• Papers and Biography of Lion Gardiner, 1599-1663, with an Appendix (1883), by Curtiss Crane Gardiner 

Cemeteries, National

        See also under names of various villages, towns, and counties

• Calverton National Cemetery [Calverton, NY]  (U.S.  Dept. of Veterans Affairs.  National Cemetery Administration.  Cemeteries.  New York)
• Cypress Hills National Cemetery [Brooklyn, NY] (U.S.  Dept. of Veterans Affairs.  National Cemetery Administration.  Cemeteries.  New York)
• Long Island National Cemetery [Farmingdale, NY] (U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.  National Cemetery Administration.  Cemeteries.  New York)

Cities - Nassau County

 

-- Glen Cove, NY

• Glen Cove, New York (Wikipedia)
• History (City of Glen Cove.  Glen Cove, NY:  The Heart of the Gold Coast)
• History of Glen Cove, by Antonia Petrash, Carol Stern, and Carol McCrossen (Nassau Library System) 
• Robert R. Coles L.I. History Room (Glen Cove Public Library)

-- Long Beach, NY

• [Brief History] (City of Long Beach.  Long Beach, NY, City by the Sea)
• Long Beach, New York (Wikipedia)
• Long Beach Historical & Preservation Society (The Society)
• Long Beach, NY - History in Pictures (YouTube)

 

Digital Collections 

• Digital Long Island (East Hampton Library.  Long Island Collection)
• History Lectures @ the Library (East Hampton Library.  Long Island Collection)
• Long Island Books Available Online (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Libraries.  Special Collections and University Archives.  Collections and Finding Aids) [selected LI historical classics, full-text]
• Long Island Books and Documents Collection (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Archives.  Contentdm Collection) 
• Long Island Historic Postcard Collection (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Archives.  Contentdm Collection)
• Long Island Memories (Long Island Library Resource Council.  Digitization Program) 
• Long Island Region (Cornell University Library.  New York Historical Literature.  Browse by Region) [selected LI historical classics, full-text works] 

Ducks

• Long Island Duck Farm History andEcosystem Restoration Opportunities, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, February 2009  (U.S.  Army Corps of Engineers and Suffolk County, NY)
• The Story of Our "Long Island Duckling" [unattributed author] and Rick Brand (Newsday) (LongIslandGenealogy.com)

Gardiners Island

• A History of the Pequot War, Or a Relation of the War Between the Powerful Nation of the Pequot Indians, Once Inhabiting the Coast of New-England, Westerly from Near Narraganset Bay, and the English Inhabitants, in the Year 1638, by Lt. Lion Gardiner [1860 edition] (Internet Archive)
• Lion Gardiner (Wikipedia)
• Lion Gardiner, and His Descendants.  With Illustrations.  Edited with Notes Critical and Illustrative, by Curtis C. Gardiner [1890] (Internet Archive)
• Papers and Biography of Lion Gardiner, 1599-1663.  With an Appendix.  Edited with Notes Critical and Illustrative, by Curtis C. Gardiner [1883]  (Internet Archive)
• Wyandance to Lion Gardiner (Long island Genealogy.com)

Genealogy

        See also  Indians

• Genealogy Federation of Long Island, Inc.  (Ancestry.com. The Federation)
• Member Organizations (Ancestry.com  Genealogy Federation of Long Island, Inc.)
• Long Island Genealogy and History (LongIslandGenealogy.com)
• Long Island Information Page, ed. by Nancy Lutz (Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page)
• Nassau County, New York Genealogy (Kindred Trails.com)
• Suffolk County, New York Genealogy (Kindred Trails.com)
• Wills of the Smith Families of New York and Long Island, 1664-1794:  Careful Abstracts of All the Wills of the Name of Smith Recorded in New York, Jamaica, and Hempstead Prior to 1794, with Genealogical and Historical Notes, by William S. Pelletreau (1898)  (Internet Archive)
• Wood Family of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island, N.Y., and Canada, written by Col. Casey A. Wood (1920)  (Internet Archive)

Geologic History

• Age of Loess on Long Island, by Vesna Kundic, Gilbert N. Hanson, and Daniel M. Davis (Stony Brook University.  Dept. of Geosciences)
• Cooperative Geologic Investigations of Long Island Sound (1980-Present) (Long Island Sound Resource Center)
• Did Asteroid Cause Ancient N.Y. Tsunami?, by Michael Reilly (Discovery News, Nv 20, 2008)
• Geologic Framework:  Structure and Geologic History of the Region (U.S. Geologic Survey.  Woods Hole Science Center.  USGS Studies in Long Island Sound:  Geology, Contaminants, and Environmental Issues)
• Geological Formation of Long Island, New York; with a Description of Its Old Water Courses, by John Bryson (1885)  (Internet Archive)
• Geology of Long Island (Garvies Point Museum & Preserve)
• Harbor Hill and Ronkonkoma Moraine Locations (U.S. Army Coastal Inlets Research Program)
• Kettle Hole Trail (Suffolk County Community College. Riverhead, NY)
• Long Island Geologists (Gilbert N. Hanson, SUNY at Stony Brook)
• Long Island Geology, by Dr. J. Bret Bennington (Hofstra University.  Department of Geology.  Research and Education)
• Reports (Long Island Sound Study)
• New Observations on the Glacial Geomorphology of Long Island from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), by J. Brett Bennington (Long Island Geologists' Conference, Stony Brook, NY, Ap 2003)  (Hofstra University.  Dept. of Geology)
• The Plains of Long Island, by Winslow C. Watson (1860) 
• Underground Water Resources of Long Island, New York, A.C. Veatch, et al. (1906)  (U.S. Geological Survey)

Government Pubications

• Long Island Government Publications:  A Bibliography, David Allen, ed., Jyoti Pandit, associate ed.  (State University of New York at Stony Brook.  University Libraries, distr. by Long Island Library Resources Council, Sept. 1986)   (Internet Archives) 

History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

       See also  Indians

• Lady Deborah Moody.  A Discourse Delivered before the New York Historical Society, May 1880, by James W. Gerard (GoogleBooks)
• Long Island (NY-NJ-CT Botany Online) - historical chronology
• Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing to Governor Stuyvesant, December 27, 1657 (Religious Freedom Page.  Sacred Texts)
• Long Island (A Virtual Tour of New Netherland.  [Long Island])
• Colonel John Scott of Long Island, 1634(?)-1696, by Wilbur C[ortez]. Abbott (1918) (Internet Archive)
• The Indomitable John Scott:  Citizen of Long Island, 1632-1704, by Lilian T. Mowrer (1960)
• Papers and Biography of Lion Gardiner, 1599-1663, ed. with notes critical and illustrative, by Curtiss C. Gardiner (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Yorkshire County, Province of New York (Absolute Astronomy.com) 

History - Pequot War, 1636

• Narrative of the Pequot War, by Lion Gardiner (1660)

History - French & Indian [7 Years'] War, 1754-1763

• Captain Thomas Terry's Company, New York Provincial Regiment  (CaptainTerrys.com)

History - Revolution, 1775-1783

• After Their Revolution was Won (Hartford Courant; from Newsday, Inc)
• American Prisoners of the Revolution, by Danske Dandridge (Google Books)
• American Revolution (Longwood's Journey) -- click on American Revolution
• Associated Loyalists:  Attack on Lloyd's Neck (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Associated Loyalists:  Capt. Ives's Encounter with the Whaleboats (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Associated Loyalists:  Magazine at Lloyd's Neck (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Associated Loyalists:  Report of Activities, June 17th, 1781 (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Badge of Military Merit (Conntecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution) - 1st Purple Heart
• Benedict Arnold's Report on His Attack on Forts Trumbull & Griswold (fortfriends.com) - raid launched from Greenport, L.I. 
• Blue Point:  British Supply Port (Long Island Genealogy.com; from Long Island Forum, 1972)
• Series I:  Correspondence, 1776-1856 (Litchfield Historical Society.  Benjamin Tallmadge Collection, 1776-1864)
• Chapter XI:  British Prison Ships - The Illicit Trade on Long Island Sound - Whaleboat Warfare (Google Books.  Domestic History of the American Revolution, by Elizabeth Fries Ellet)
• Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County, with Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes and Additions, by Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (1846)  (Internet Archives) [Full-text]
• H.M.S. Culloden (1776)  (VisWiki.com)
• Kings American Regiment:  Fanning to His Father (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Long Island Patriots and Their Stories (LongIslandGenealogy.com)
• Loyal Refugee Volunteers:  Rebel Attack on Fort Slongo (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Loyal Refugee Volunteers:  Prisoners, Ordnance, & Military Stores Taken at Fort Slongo (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Meigs' Raid (Wikipedia) - an American raid on Sag Harbor
• Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, Prepared by Himself at the Request of His Children (1858, repr. 1904) [Full-text]
• Passing It On:  How the Culper Spy Ring Passed on Information to George Washington [Newsday map] (Northport-East Northport Schools)
• Records of Old Revolutionary War Soldiers and Their Widows (New/Nouveau Brunswick. Provincial Archives) - Post-war Loyalist refugees
• The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, by Frederic Gregory Mather (1913)  (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
• Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties; with an Account of the Battle of Long Island, and the British Prisons and Prison Ships at New York, by Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (1849)  (Google Books) [Full-text]
• The Setauket Spies, by Beverly C. Tyler (Three Village Historical Society.  History Close at Hand.  Local 18th Century History) 
• New:  Stony Brook University Libraries Acquires a Second Letter Written by George Washington (SUNY at Stony Brook.  University Libraries.  Special Collections and University Archives.  Long Island Historical Documents Collection:  Intiatives and New Acquisitions)

History - War of 1812

• Fulton's Submarine (U.S. Library of Congress.  Reason.  American Treasures of the Library of Congress)
• Long Island, N.Y., & the War of 1812:  A Short, Classified Bibliography, by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• New York City and Vicinity, During the War of 1812-15, Being a Military, Civic and Financial Local History of that Period, with Incidents and Anecdotes Thereof, and Description of the Forts, Fortifications, Arsenals, Defences and Camps in and About New York City and Harbor, and Those in Harlem and on East River, and in Brooklyn, and on Long Island, and at Sandy Hook and Jersey City, with an Account of the Citizens' Movements, and of the Military and Naval Officers, Regiments, Companies, etc., in Service There, v. 2, by R. S. Guernsey (1895)  (Google Books)
• Sag Harbor in the War of 1812:  Excerpts from "Early Sag Harbor, An Address Delivered Before the Sag Harbor Historical Society, February 4, 1896, by H. P. Hedges (Long Island Genealogy.com) 
• War of 1812, 1812-1815 (Long Island University. C.W. Post Campus.  B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library.  Soldiers for Liberty:  African-American Freedom Fighters)

History - Civil War, 1861-1863

• Suffolk County (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
• Queens County (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch -- Queens then included present day Nassau County
• Kings County (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
• Long Island (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
• U.S.S. Monitor (1862-1862) (U.S. Navy Dept.  Naval Historical Center)
• U.S.S. Monitor Center (Mariner's Museum)
• New York Civil War Units:  Nicknames and Synonyms (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center)
• Greenpoint Monitor Museum (The Museum) 
• Continental Iron Works, Brooklyn, NY (Shipbuilding History.com)

History - Spanish-American War, 1898

• Camp Black - Garden City, Hempstead Plains, 1898 (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Camp Wickoff / Wyckoff on Montauk Point, Long Island (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Part 2, by Patrick McSherry (Spanish-American War Centennial Website) 
• Hardships at Hempstead; The State Troops at Camp Black Suffering Much for Lack of Equipments [sic] (New York Times, May 3, 1898: p. 3)
• Muster-in at Camp Black; Four Companies of the Fourteenth Regiment Sworn in as United States Volunteers; Second Provisional Ready; Fourteenth Expects to Go South at Once -- Liquor Problem Agitating the Minds of Officers at Headquarters (New York Times, May 14, 1898: p. 4)
• Rough Rider, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt Association)
• The Rough Riders, by Theodore Roosevelt (Bartleby.com) [Full-text]
• The Spanish-American War and the Long Island Railroad:  Camp Wickoff (Arrt's-Archives.com)
• The Stewart Line, Long Island Railroad Central Extension, Spanish-American War to World War Two (Arrt's-Archives.com)

History - World War, 1914-1918 [for the U.S., 1917-1921]

• "C" Battery Book. 306th F[ield] A[rtillery].  77th Division, 1917-1919, by John Foster, Introduction by Capt. Theodore Crane (1920)  (Internet Archive) 
• Camp Upton, N.Y.  Army Lessons in English - Military Studies, by Gar Meyers Cleveland, et al. (1920)  (Internet Archive)
• Brooklyn and Long Island in the War:  A Record of Deeds and Casualty Lists (Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  Eagle Library, no. 207)  (Internet Archive)
• Camp Upton (Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Brookhaven History)
• Camp Upton Described and Photographed, by Roger Batchelder (1918) (Internet Archive)
• Camp Upton in World War I (Trains are Fun.com. LIRR photos)
• Camp Upton Timeline (Prosites-johnrcotter.homestead.com.  The Lost Battalion of WWI)
• Cultural (Historical) Resource Management at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• "God Bless America:  Born on Long Island," by Vivian S. Toy (New York Times, New York / Region, De 9, 2001)
• Longwood Public Library - Camp Upton Postcards (Longwood Public Library.  Contentdm Collection)
• Oh! How He Hated to Get Up in the Morning:  Few Soldiers Have Matched Sergeant Irving Berlin's Resourcefulness in Beating Reville, by Lawrence Bergreen (Longwood's Journey)
• Principles, Plans and Purposes of the Educational Program.  Recruit Educational Center, by Gary Cleveland Meyers (Camp Upton, N.Y.) [1920] (Internet Archive)
• U.S.S. San Diego Shipwreck, by Capt. Daniel Berg [AC-6] (Capt. Dan Berg / Aqua Explorers, Inc.  New York and New Jersey's Wreck Valley) -- includes a related video link
• World War I - Draft Registration Cards:  Indian, Colored & Black Men of Suffolk County, L.I., New York, ed. by Sandi Brewster-walker

History - World War, 1939-1945

• Camp Hero, Fort Hero, Montauk Point, New York (Camp Hero.net)
• Coast Artillery at Camp Hero:  Montauk's Big Guns Versus the U-Boat (Skylighters.org)
• U.S.S. Long Island (AVG-1, Later ACV-1 and CVE-1), 1941-1947 (U.S. Navy Dept.  Naval Historical Center.  Online Library of Selected Images:  U.S. Navy Ships) -- decription is not just limited to images and captions
• Operation Pastorius (Wikipedia) -- U-boat landings of German spies and saboteurs
• Mitchell Air Force Base (Wikipedia)
• Montauk Project (Crystalinks.com) 

Indians

       See also  Archeology

                     Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

                     Names, Geographic

• A Short Narrative of My Life [autobiography], by Samson Occum (Montauk Tribe.org)
• Brief History of the Unkechaug Nation (Poospatuck Smoke Shop)
• Fort Massapeag Archeological Site (U.S. National Park Service.  National Historic Landmarks Program)
• History (Southold Town.  Fort Corchaug and Downs Farm Preserve)
• Indian Deeds [spreadsheet] (Montauk Native American Museum & Research Institute.  Early Land Records and Deeds)
• Invisible People of Suffolk, Nassau, Queens & Kings Counties, New York State, and Extended Families (Ancestry.com. Rootsweb)
• List of Historic Long Island Indian Deeds (Montauk Tribe.org)
• Local Native Americans (The Hamptons.com)
• Long Island Indians and the Early Settlers (LongIslandGenealogy.com)
• Long Island Native Historical Timeline (Montauk Tribe.org)
• Metoac History (First Nations:  Issues of Consequence. Histories)
• Montauk Tribe (MontaukTribe.org)
• Phantom Indian Tribes, by Anita Stratos (Suite 101.com)
• Shinnecock Indian Nation:  An Ancient History and Culture (Shinnecock Indian Nation)
• Shinnecock Tribal Nation Recognized by the Federal Government, by Aaron Boyd (Hamptons.com, De 30, 2009)
• Some Indian Fishing Stations Upon Long Island, with Historical and Ethnological Notes, by William Wallace Tooker (Algonquian Series, v. 7, 1901)  (Internet Archives)
• Tribal Links (Montauk Tribe.org) - suggested readings, external links, downloadable documents 
• Tribal History Overview (Montauk Tribe.org) 

Laboratories

 

-- Cold Spring harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)

• Archives (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• Celebrating 100 Years of Genetics, 1904-2004 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's President Congratulates Alumna [Dr. Carol Greider] on Winning Nobel Prize, October 5, 2009 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  Dolan DNA Learning Center) 
• Library and Archives (Cold Spring harbor Laboratory) -- esp. note the listings under Special Collections and Digital Collections
• Nobel Laureates in DNA f[rom]t[he] Beginning (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.  Dolan DNA Leanring Center.  Harlem DNA Lab & DNA Learning Center West)
• Oral History Collection (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

-- Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY)

• The First Video Game?:  Before "Pong", There was "Tennis for Two" (Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Brookhaven History) - in 4 parts
• The Nobel Prize (U.S. Dept. of Energy.  Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• 60 Years of Discovery, 1947-2007 (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Lighthouses

• 150th Anniversary Celebration for Fire Island Lighthouse (Fire Island National Seashore)
• Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society (The Society)
• Long Island's Lighthouses:  Past and Present, by Robert G. Mueller (Robert G. Mueller) -- excellent site, temporarily down 
• Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum & Gift Shop (The Museum)

Literary History

• Suffolk (New York State Literary Tree.org.  NYS Literary Map. County Search)
• Nassau (New York State Literary Tree.org.  NYS Literary Map.   County Search) 
• Queens (New York State Literary Tree.org.  NYC Literary Map.  County Search)
• Kings (New York State Literary Tree.org.  NYC Literary Map.  County Search)
• Glimpse into Long Island's Poetic Heritage (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Published African-American Poet, by George Wallace (About.com.  Poetry)
• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet (Lloyd Harbor Historical Society)
• An Address to Miss Phyllis Wheatly, by Jupiter Hammon (About.com)
• An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon (U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Memory.  African-American Odyssey)
• The Sea Lions (1849), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (James Fenimore Cooper Society Website.  Introductions to Novels by James Fenimore Cooper)
• The Sea Lions:  The Lost Sealers, by James Fenimore Cooper [full-text] (Project Gutenberg) 
• The Spy:  A Tale of the Neutral Ground [audio book], by James Fenimore Cooper (Project Gutenberg) - The book was loosely based on the Culper spy ring
• The Spy [full-text], by James Fenimore Cooper (Project Gutenberg)
• The Great Gatsby [full-text], by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The classic roaring 20's L.I. Gold Coast novel
• John Steinbeck of New York (Suffolk Cooperative Library Syetem.  Long Island Reads.  About John Steinbeck)
• The Walt Whitman Archive, Ed Folsom & Kenneth M. Price, eds. (The Archive)
• Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and Young Man (Bartleby.com.  Walt Whitman. Prose Works.  Specimen Days)
• Walt Whitman State Historic Site and Interpretive Center (The Center) 

Long Island Iced Tea

• The Official Website of the Original Long Island Iced Tea, by Robert Butt (LIIceTea.com)

Mansions

• Long Island Estates and Cultural Institutions, 1860-1930, by Diane Holliday (Dowling College.  Library)
• Long Island's Gold Coast, Past and Present (LIGoldCoast.com)
• Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum (VanderbiltMuseum.org)

Maps & Atlases

• Long Island Maps and Their Makers, by Dr. David Yehling Allen (SUNY at Stony Brook. Map Library) - links to chronological sections, from the colonial era to the 20th century
• Maps (Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page)

 

Maritime History

• Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum (The Museum)
• A Full and Particular Account of All the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the Steamboat Lexington, in Long Island, on the Night of January 13, 1840; As Elicited in the Evidences of the Witnesses Examined Before the Jury of Inquest, Held in New York Immediately After the Lamentable Event (H.H. Brown and A.H. Stilwell, 1840)  (Stony Brook University. Libraries.  Online Resources.  Research Websites.  Long Isand Books Available Online;  from Cornell University.  Library.  New York State Historical Literature)
• Long Island Lighthouses, Past and Present, by Robert G. Muller (The Author)
• Journal of the Voyage of the Sloop Mary, from Quebeck, Together with an Account of Her Wreck Off Montauk Point, L.I., Anno 1701, with introduction and notes by E.B. O'Callaghan (1866)  (Internet Archive) 
• Long Island Maritime Museum (The Museum)
• Maritime Programs (Long Island Traditions, Inc.)
• Sag Harbor's Customs House Helped a New Nation Out of Debt, by Jim Marquardt (Sag Harbor Express, Ap 4, 2009)
• Sag Harbor Whaling Museum (The Museum)
• Significant Cultural Maritime Places:  Centers of Maritime Activity in the South Shore Estuary (New York State.  Division of Coastal Resources.  Coastal Resources Online)

Missile Sites

• Nike Missiles and Missile Sites (Farleigh Dickinson University)

Museums

• Long Island Museums -- Long Island, NY (Long Island.com)
• Members  (Long Island Museum Association)  

Music History

• The Banjo Player, 1856, Oil on Canvas (Three Village Central School District) - notable for its realistic, respectful human portrayal, unusal for its time, by L.I. artist, William Sidney Mount 
• Harry Chapin (Wikipedia)
• Harry Chapin Archive (Harry Chapin.com)
• Sousa, John Philip, House ["Wild Bank"] (National Historic Landmarks Program) [Sands Point / Port Washington, NY]
• God Bless America (U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Memory. American Treasures of the Library of Congress)
• God Bless America and Kate Smith, by Richard K. Hayes (Kate Smith Commemorative Society) 
• Kate Smith:  God Bless America (Kate Smith Commemorative Society, Syracuse, NY) - site opens with Kate Smith's classic rendition of the Irving Berlin song
• Billy Joel Biography and Timeline (SONY Music Entertainment)
• John Philip Sousa (Wikipedia)
• John Philip Sousa Home (National Register of Historic Places - Nomination Form)
• Long Island Music Hall of Fame (Long Island Music Hall of Fame.org)
• Long Island Music Hall of Fame (Wikipedia)
• About Us (Long Island Philharmonic.  History)
• Members of the Hall of Fame [Inductees] (Long Island Music Hall of Fame.org)
• Links (Long Island Music Hall of Fame.org)
• Paul Simon (Wikipedia)
• Paul Simon Information (Paul.Simon.Info)
• Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning [written at Camp Upton, L.I., as sung by its composer, Irving Berlin]  (YouTube.com)

Names, Geographic

         See also  Indians

• Dutch Place Names = Plaatsnamen (Library of Congress.  Global Gateway.  Atlantic World.  The Dutch in America, 1609-1664.  New Netherland)
• Indian Place Names in the Borough of Brooklyn, with Historical and Ethnological Notes, by William Wallace Tooker (The Algonquian Series, v. 2, 1901)  (Internet Archives)
• Indian Place-Names on Long Island, and Islands Adjacent, with Their Probable Significations, by William Wallace Tooker, Algonkinist, ed., with an introduction by Alexander F. Chamberlain, pub. for the John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, N.Y.  (1911)  (Internet Archive)
• Long Island (New Netherlands Project.  A Virtual Tour of New Netherland)
• Long Island Town [i.e., mostly Village] Names, Then and Now (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• What's in a Name?, by Douglas Tuomey (Long Island Genealogy.com

Nazis

• Camp Siegfried, Yaphank, New York (Longwood's Journey)
• The German American Bund, by Gustave Neuss (Longwood's Journey)
• Mid-Island Mail, Published 1935-1941 (Longwood's Journey) - selected newspaper articles
• Nazism (Wikipedia.  Lindenhurst)
• Hitler's LI Legion, by David Behrens (Newsday; in Wild Bill Guarnere.  101st Airborne.  506th PIR.  Easy Company [Blog])
• Wunderlich's Salute:  The Interrelationship of the German-American Bund, Camp Siefried, Yaphank, and the Young Siegfrieds and Their Relationship with American and Nazi Institutions, by Marvin D. Miller (Open Library)

Newspapers

• Union List of Selected Newspapers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, 1984  (Long Island Library Resources Council and Suffolk Cooperative Library System)  (Internet Archives)

Oddities, Curiosities, Legends, & the Paranormal

• Long Island Oddities (LIOddities.com)
• Haunted Places and Centers of Paranormal Activity on Long Island (Long Island Paranormal Investigators)

Pine Barrens

• Evolution and History of the Central Pine Barrens (New York State.  Central Pine Parrens Joint Planning & Policy Commission)
• Lesson 12, Pine Barrens [lesson plan / debate format] (Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research)
• Long Service (Long Island Pine Barrens Society.  History)

Prohibition

• New York's "Rum Row":  Bootlegging on Long Island, by Jim Merritt (New York Archives, 2(3) Winter 2003)
• "Pirates and Prohibition," excerpted from East Hampton History, by Jeannette Edwards Rattray (Country Life Press, 1953; Long Island Genealogy.com) 
• Rum Runners (Long Island Traditions) - 3 audio accounts 
• Rum Running in Montauk (Montauk Life.  History)

Radio History

• The 1902 Marconi Building (Excerpts from:  In the Shadow of the Radio Towers, by Natalie Stiefel)  (Rocky Point Historical Society)
• Battle to Preserve a Visionary's Bold Failure, by William J. Broad (New York Times, Science, May 4, 2009) -- Tesla's Wardenclyffe
• Guglielmo Marconi, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 (NobelPrize.org)
• Marconi Wireless Building (Long Island Ruins and Remnants)
• Nicola Tesla's Mad Electricity (Modern Marvels, 1 of 5 & YouTube)
• Tesla Memorial Society of New York (The Society)
• Wireless History, by Connie Curry & Van Field (LongIslandGenealogy.com)

Shipwrecks

• Long Island Shipwrecks (LIGenealogy.com)
• HMS Culloden (Wikipedia)
• A Full and Particular Account of All the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the Steamboat Lexington, in Long Island Sound, on the Night of January 134, 1840; as Elicited in the Evidences of Witnesses Examined Before the Jury of Inquest, Held in New-York Immediately After the Lamentable Event (Providence:  H.H. Brown & A. H. Stillwell, 1840)  (Cornell University.  Library.  New York State Historical Literature)
• The General Slocum (Gare Maritime)
• Long Island Shipwreck Chart (Capt. Dan Berg's Shipwreck Expo) - click on ship names
• Pirates, Wrecks, Whales and Salvage, transcript of a lecture by Noel J. Gish, 3/27/98
• Shipwreck Gallery (Eco-Photo Explorers)
• Shipwrecks of the Long Island Sound and Connecticut (Capt. Dan Berg's Shipwreck Expo) - click on ship names
• U.S.S. San Diego:  WWI Comes to Long Island (Eco-Photo Explorers)
• Raynor Rock Smith, Hero Life Saver of the Wreck "Mexico" (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Wrecks and Rescues on Long Island:  Moriches, by Van. R. Field (Center Moriches Free Public Library)

Social Clubs

• Prominent Residents of Long Island and Their Pleasure Clubs (1916)

South Shore History

• L.I. South Shore History (Dowling College. Library)
• Listening Tour of South Shore History [oral history podcasts] (Dowling College.  Library.  L.I. South Shore History) - series ranges from Bay Shore to Bayport, and across several themes; recommended listening

Sports History

• Belmont Park (Wikipedia)
• Cradle of American Horse-Racing -- Courses and Coursers of Old (Chapter 3 In History of Queens County.  W.W. Munsell, 1882)  (Bklyn-genealogy-info.com)
• Belmont Stakes History (BellmontStakes.info)
• Secretariat - Belmont stakes - 1973 (YouTube.com)
• Brief History of Ice Scooters (South Bay Scooter Club)
• History of Race Week (Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association)
• History of the Brooklyn Dodgers (Wikipedia)
• History of the Hamptons Classic (HamptonClassic.com)
• History of Shea Stadium (New York Mets.mlb.com)
• Jackie Robinson Biography (biography.com)
• Long Island Ducks (Wikipedia)
• Long Island Ducks (Wikia.  Sports)
• New York Jets (1960-Present):  Historical Moments (Sports Encyclopedia.com)
• A Bittersweet Aftertaste for Jets Fans on Long Island, by Paul Vitello (The New York Times.  N.Y. / Region, Jan. 22, 2010)
• Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame (Hamptons Choice Online)
• Vanderbilt Cup Races (VanderbiltCupRaces.com)
• The Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Races (1904-1937)  (YouTube.com)
• West Side Tennis Club (Wikipedia) [Forest Hills & the U.S. Open]

 

Towns - Nassau & Suffolk Counties

• See  Long Island Towns

Transportation History (& Publicity)

• County Roads on Long Island, by Steve Anderson (NYC Roads.com)
• The Boynton Bicycle Railroad (Bygone Long Island)
• Franklin Mile Markers (Groundspeak.  Category Proposal)
• Meandering on Middle Country Road (A Brief History Taken from A Tour of Longwood, Nov. 2, 1993), by Suzanne Johnson (from Longwood Public Library) (Middle Country Road Renaissance Project)
• Old Colonial Road (Stony Brook Environmental Conservancy.  BioGems)
• Shinnecock and Peconic Canal, by Noble E. Whitford (University of Rochester.  History of the Canal System of the State of New York, v. 1, chapter 11 [1905]
• The Vanderbilt Cup Races (Vanderbilt Cup Races.com)

-- Long Island Promotional Tracts, by Railroads

• Homes on the South Side Railroad of Long Island:  A Sketch of the Region Traversed by the South Side Railroad of Long Island, Between Brooklyn and Moriches, Together with a Statement of the Inducements Offered by Property Owners Along the Line for the Purchase of Homes for New York Business Men, by George L. Catlin (1873)
• Out on Long Island, issued by the Traffic Department of the Long Island Railroad (1892)
• Long Island Railroad History Website (Unofficial)  (LIRR History.com)
• Unique Long Island (ca. 1900), by Hal Fullerton, for the Long Island Rail Road  (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Illustrated (1903), by the Long Island Railroad.  Passenger Dept.  (Internet Archive) - The 1905 edition is also online
• Summer Resorts on Long Island, "Where Cooling Breezes Blow":  Four Hundred Miles of Shore Line on Ocean, Sound and Bays (Long Island Railroad, 1908)  (Internet Archive)

Villages

      See   Long Island Villages - Nassau

              Long Island Villages - Suffolk

      See also  Cities  [above]

 

Weather (& Climate) 

• Climate (Wikipedia.  Long Island)
• Climate:  Snowfall Patterns on Long Island (North Shore Wx)
• Effects of Climate Change on Long Island (Citizens' Campaign for the Environment)
• Long Island, New York (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Climate Change.  Health and Environmental Effects.  Maps of Lands Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise -- On the Northeast Coast)
• Long Island Express:  The Great Hurricane of 1938, by Prof Scott A. Mandia (Suffolk County Community College)
• Long Island Hurricane History (Hurricanes-Blizzards-Noreasters.com)
• Long Island Rocks May Combat Climate Change, by Jaclyn Gallucci (Long Island Press.com, Jan. 5, 2010)
• North Shore Wx Site Index (North Shore Wx)
• Sound Health 2008:  {Climate Change}  (Long Island Sound Study)
• Water Spout on Long Island (YouTube) - in Oyster Bay Cove