Long Island History

Long Island History

a classified list of links to online sources

General

See also New York State History [web page] (Patchogue-Medford Library)

Bayles' Long Island Handbook: 1885, by Richard Mather Bayles. Babylon, NY: Budget Steam Print, 1885 (Google Books)
Bygone Long Island (BygoneLI.com)
Long Island University's Cedar Swamp Historical Society Collection Website Project (The Society and Long Island University. C.W. Post Campus. B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library)
Culloden Point (Wikipedia)--figured in the Revolution & Amistad Affair
David Seidler - Script Writer of The King's Speech (The Stuttering Foundation. Podcasts. StutterTalk.com [Episode 240], 11/17/10) - script writer with a L.I. connection
List of Municipalities on Long Island (Wikipedia)
Long Island (Stony Brook University Libraries. Online Resources. Research Websites)
"Long Island: Global National and Local", by Wolf Schaffer, Long Island History Journal, 21(1) Fall 2009 (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local History)
"Long Island Forum" [search] (Internet Archive)
Long Island's List of Endangered Historic Sites: 2010 (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
Long Island Heritage Trail (Island Publications. Heritage Long Island)
Long Island History [chronology] (Long-Island-Portal.com)
Long Island Region (Cornell University. Library. New York State Historical Literature. Browse by Region)
Long Island Stories (Long Island Stories)
Long Island Town Names Then and Now (Long Island Genealogy.com) - i.e., village names
Long Island Books Available Online (Stony Brook University Libraries. Online Resources. Research Websites)
Long Island Historical Documents Collection: Initiatives and New Acquisitions (Stony Brook University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives)
Long Island, by Natalie A. Naylor (Organization of American Historians) - only a segment of the larger original article
Long Island History (East Hampton Library. Long Island Collection)
Long Island History [Blog], by Scott Kraft (lihistory.sakraft.com)
Long Island History Committee of RASD (Suffolk County Library Association. Reference and Adult Services Division)
Long Island History (Suffolk Cooperative Library System. Live-Brary. Topic Guides)
Long Island Historical Journal (SUNY at Stony Brook. Digital Repository)
Long Island History Journal, 21(1) 2009- (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local History) -- Newly revived as an e-version, with a slight name change, currently available on a free subscription basis
Long Island History Room (Smithtown Public Library. Richard H. Handley Collection of Long Island Americana)
Long Island Studies Institute (Hofstra University)
Long Island Studies Institute Collections (Hofstra University)
Spin Your Globe to Long Island (Modern Mechanix.com; National Geographic, 75[4] Ap 1939) -- The view from the 1939 World's Fair
Survey Home Page (Long Island Traditions)
Teaching American History with a Long Island Perspective: Pre-Coumbian through the American Revolution / Stephen N. Sanfilippo (SUNY at Stony Brook. History Department. Long Island History Journal, 22(1) Winter 2011
What's in a Name, by Douglas Twomey (1960) (Long Island Genealogy.com)

-- Classic Long Island Histories & Classic Collections of Historic L.I.

Documents

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, v. 14: Documents Relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements, Principally on Long Island, with a Map of Its Western Part Made in 1666, tr., comp. and ed. from the Original Records in the Office of the Secretary of State and the State Library, under the direction of the Hon'ble. Joseph P. Carr, Secretary of State, by Berthold Fernow. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons, & Co., 1883. (Internet Archive) -- See also other volumes (1-15) in this series, listed on PML's New York State History web page most of which contribute additional material on Long Island history; and note that these volumes are searchable.
A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island; with Their Political Condition, to the End of the American Revolution, 2nd ed., by Silas Wood (1824) (Internet Archives) [Full-text]
The History of Long Island; From Its Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Time. With Many Important and Interesting Matters, Including Notices of Numerous Individuals and Families; Also a Particular Account of the Different Churches and Ministers, v. 1, 2nd ed., rev. and greatly enl., by Benjamin F[ranklin]. Thompson, Counsellor at Law (1843) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
The History of Long Island; From Its Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time. With Many Important and Interesting Matters, Including Notices of Numerous Individuals and Families; Also a Particular Account of the Different Churches and Ministers, v. 2, 2nd ed., rev. and greatly enl., by Benjamin F[ranklin]. Thompson (1843) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
A History of Long Island, From Its First Settlement by Europeans , to the Year 1845, with Special Reference to Its Ecclesiastical Concerns. In Two Parts. I. Its Physical Features and Civil Affairs. II. Annals of the Several Towns, Relating Chiefly to Ecclesiastical Matters, by [Rev.] Nathaniel S. Prime (1845) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
Antiquities of Long Island, to Which is Added a Bibliography by Henry Onderdonck, Jr., by Gabriel Furman, ed. by Frank Moore (1874) (Cornell University. Making of America)
Historic Long Island (1902), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
A History of Long Island, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, v. 1, by Peter Ross, LL.D. [and William S. Pelletreau] (1902) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
A History of Long Island, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, v. 2, by Peter Ross [and William S. Pelletreau] (1902) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
A History of Long Island, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, v. 3, by William S[mith]. Pelletreau [and Peter Ross] (1905) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]
The Evolution of Long Island: A Story of Land and Sea, by Ralph Henry Gabriel (1921) (Internet Archive) [Full-text]

African-American History

See also Ducks

Geologic History

Pine Barrens

Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc. (The Society)
Long Island Field Office (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
The Paleo-environmental History of Long Island Sound, as Traced by Organic Carbon, Biogrnic Silica and Stable Isotope / Trace Element Studies in Sediment Cores, by J.C. Varekamp, et al. In Procedings, 6th Biennial Long Island Sound Meeting (Groton, CT, October 2002), pub. 2004: pp. 109-113 (Wesleyan University)

Fishers Island

Fishers Island Strategic Plan, 2007-2017, written by Valerie P. Scopaz, AICP, VMS Planning Services; prepared for: Fishers Island, Town of Southold, September 2007 (Southold [N.Y. : Town])

Forts

See also History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763

History - Revolution, 1775-1783

History - War of 1812

History - Civil War, 1861-1865

History - Spanish-American War, 1898

History - World War, 1914-1918

History - World War, 1939-1945

Indians

Long Island (NorthAmericanForts.com. New York's Forts)
New York State Military Forts, by Time Period (N.Y.S. Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museums and Veterans' Research Center) - click on a time period, then on a map showing the area of L.I. in which you are interested
New York State Military Forts, Find by Name of Fort (N.Y.S. Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) - click on the section of the alphabet, with which the name of the fort in which you're interested begins

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Gardiners Island

See also History - Pequot War, 1636

Indians

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)

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An Americn Lordship / George Parsons Lathrop
Early Memories of Gardiner's Island (the Isle of Wight, New York) / Sarah Diodati Gardiner
Gardiner's Island: A Collection of Historical Highlights of the Island / Jeannette Edwards Rattray
The Island: Being the Story of the Fortunes and Vicissitudes and Triumphs of the Island, Once Known as Monchonake...Now Known as Gardiner's Island...Now Faithfully Related from Original Documents and Presented to the Public / Robert Payne
Lord of the Manor [videorecording] / produced by L. Franklin Devine; CBS Video

Genealogy

See also Architecture

Cemeteries, General

Cemeteries, National

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)

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Long Island / New York Genealogical Resources in the Celia M. Hastings Local History Room / ed. by Toni Raptis; Patchogue-Medford Library - classified list, under the following subject headings: Cemeteries - Long Island; Census - Long Island; Census - New York State; Long Island Families (alphabetically, by surname); Religious Institutions; Research Guides; Telephone Books; Vital Records - Long Island; Vital Records - New York State
American Families of Historic Lineage, Long Island edition / ed. by William S. Pelletreau and John Howard Brown
Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, Being the Ancestry and Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith / Herbert Furman Seversmith
Genealogies of Long Island Families: From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record / [comp. by] Henry B. Hoff
Long Island Genealogies / Mary Powell Bunker
Long Island Source Records: From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record / [comp. by] Henry B. Hoff
Register, in Alphabetic Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700: With Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Compiled from Various Sources / Teunis G. Bergen

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 (MacGowan and Slipper, Printers, 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)
Mapping of Geologic Formations and Aquifers of Long Island, New York, comp. by Russell Suter, Wallace de Laguna, and Nathaniel M. Pearlmutter, 1949 (New York State. Department of Conservation. Water Power and Control Commission. Bulletin GW-18) (Internet Archive)
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, C.S. Shlichter, Isaiah Bowman, W.O. Crosby, and R.E. Horton. Washington, DC: GPO, 1906 (U.S. Interior Department. Geological Survey) (Internet Archive)

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Configuration of the Rock Floor in Western Long Island, N.Y. / Wallace de Laguna and M.L. Brashears, Jr.
Eastern Long Island Geology: History, Processes and Field Trips / Les Sirkin
Evolution of Long Island: A Story of Land and Sea / Ralph Henry Gabriel
Geohyrologic Appraisal of Water Resources of the South Fork, Long Island, New York / Bronius Nemickas; prepared in cooperation with Suffolk County Water Authority and Suffolk County.Department of Health Services
Geologic History of Long Island: And, Stages in the Geologic History of Long Island / Maynard M. Nichols
Geology of Long Island, New York / Myron Leslie Fuller; U.S. Geological Survey
Mapping of Geologic Formations and Aquifers of Long Island, New York / Russell Suter, Wallace de Laguna, and Nathaniel M. Pearlmutter; prepared by the Water Power and Control Commission with the cooperation of the U.S. Geological Survey
Physical Long Island: Its Glacial Origin, Historic Storms, Beaches, Prairies, and Archaeology / Paul Bailey
Report on the Geology and Hydrology of Kings and Queens Counties of Long Island / J. Homer Sanford
Toxics on Tap: Chemical Contamination of Long Island Drinking Water Supplies: A Study / Walter L.T. Lang and Joseph P. Salvo; New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. Toxic Chemicals Project
Western Long Island Geology: History, Processes and Field Trips / Les Sirkin

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

See also under Long Island regional histories, histories of L.I. counties,

towns, villages, and outer islands

Abbott, Wilbur Cortez. "Colonel" John Scott of Long Island, 1634(?)-1696 [full-text]. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918 (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
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])
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)
Tooker, William Wallace. John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter: Cockenoe-de-Long Island and the Story of His Career from Early Records [full-text]. London: Henry Stevens' Son & Stiles, 1896 (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
Yorkshire County, Province of New York (Absolute Astronomy.com)

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Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island / Faren Rhea Siminoff
Long Island Indian Affairs: 1664 to 1681 / [John C. Bakel, ed.]
Rate Lists of Long Island, 1675, 1676 and 1683 / comp. by E.B. O'Callaghan

History - Pequot War, 1636

See also Gardiners Island

Indians

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

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

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)
The Loyalist, by Martha Flint (Ancestry.com. RootsWeb. Early Long Island)
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)
"Thomas Jones: Embittered Long Island Loyalist", by Joseph S. Tiedemann, Long Island History Journal, 21(1) Fall 2009 (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local 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)

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Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution / Barnet Schecter
Burning of the Hay at Coram and Capture of Fort St. George at Mastic / Thomas R. Bayles
Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn / Henry P. Johnston
Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War / Edwin G. Burrows
General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York [v. 1] / Morton Pennypacker
General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York, v. 2 [Supplement] / Morton Pennypacker
History and Guide to the Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge Trail: The Capture of Ft. St. George at Mastic, N.Y. and the Burning of the Forage at Coram, N.Y., November 23, 1780 / Alvin R.L. Smith
Irony of Submission: The British Occupation of Huntington and Long Island, 1776-1783 / Lois J. Meyer
Long Island Behind the British Lines During the Revolution / John Reynolds
Long Island in the American Revolution / Myron H. Luke and Robert W. Venables
Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut / Frederic Gregory Mather
Revolutionary Spies [videorecording]: The Culper Ring / Long Island Video Project
Sound Rising: Long Island Sound at the Forefront of America's Struggle for Independence / Richard Radune
Wickham Claim: Being an Inquiry into the Attainder of Parker Wickham / Dwight Holbrook

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

African-American Civil War Casualties Interred at Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island, New York, comp. by Henry Robert Burke (LWF Communications. Resting Places of U.S. Colored Troops. New York)
African-American Civil War Museum Honors OB Civil War Vet David Carll, by Dagmar Fors Karppi (Oyster Bay Enterprise-Pilot, August 20, 2010)
Brooklyn in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Brooklyn Public Library)
Exhibitions: Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864 (Brooklyn Museum)
Civil War (Brooklyn Historical Society. Emma: The Catablog of Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society)
Rural Cemetery, Huntington, New York: United States Officers and Colored Civil War Veterans, submitted by Bob Farrell (LWF Communications. Resting Places of U.S. Colored Troops. New York)
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)
Links to Fellow Living Historians and Historical Societies (nycivilwar.com; Company "K," 67th NY Volunteers)
Long Island (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center. The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
Long Island and New York - Civil War Information (LI Genealogy.com)
Long Island Civil War Regiments (rad2duhbone53.webs.com)
Long Island Veterans Remembered, by Robert (Bob) Farrell (North Shore Civil War Roundtable, Huntington, Long Island, New York, October 29, 2009)
North Shore Civil War Roundtable (The Roundtable)
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)
Miscellaneous Civil War Documents - Field Reports and Statistics Relating to Long Island Troops (LI Genealogy.com)
The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building (About.com. Long Island, NY. Town of Huntington Attractions) - originally established by Civil war veterans as a public library, it later became the Town Historian's office and archives, and was more recently restored, as a museum, to the public, by the Huntington Historical Society
9th Virginia Infantry [Regiment], Company "C" (9thvareenacting.com) - a recreated Confederate unit, comprised mainly of Long Island reenactors
14th Brooklyn, Company "E" (14thbrooklyn.info)
Twentieth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry (Gary Kappeser)
20th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment [Raised in Brooklyn, largely German-speaking; Civil War and post-war period documents] (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room):
- Bibliography
- Acts of Congress Relating to Horses of Mounted Officers Lost in Service, U.S.A[rmy]
- Head-Quarters. Army of the Potomac. General Orders No. 40 (April 10, 1863)
- New York (State). General Head-Quarters. Adjutant General's Office. General Orders No. 98 (December 31, 1862) - Promotion and appointments since December 1st
- U.S. War Department. Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton]. Instructions for Making Muster-Rolls, Mustering into Service, Periodical Payments, and Discharging from Service of Volunteers or Militia. Washington, [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, [Sept. 30,] 1862.
- U.S. War Department. Adjutant General's Office. General Orders No. 79 (March 31, 1863) -- consolidating the Corps of Engineers and Topographical Engineers
- Miscellaneous Special Orders (1862-1863)
- Miscellaneous Regimental Documents (Orders, Reports, Map)
- Notices, Reports, Circulars, Returns (1862-1863)
- In der Schlacht von Antietam [Ger.: In the Battle of Antietam; poem]
- Veterans' Records (20th NYVI Regt. Veterans' Verein)
Civil War Letters and Diary of Henry W. Prince - 1862-1865: The "Monitors," 127th New York State Volunteers: An Account of the Period November 24, 1864 to January 31st, 1865, Including the Battle of Honey Hill and Deveaux's Neck, South Carolina (Battle of Honey Hill, S.C.; Gary W. Myers)
History of the 127th New York Volunteers "Monitors" in the War for the Preservation of the Union - September 8th, 1862, June 30th, 1865, material collected and arranged by Franklin McGrath, Co. A. (Internet Archive)
127th New York Infantry [Regiment] (Anthony P. DellaRocca)

History - Spanish-American War, 1898

-- Camp Black

Camp Black, Garden City, Hempstead Plains 1898 (Long Island Genealogy.com)
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)

-- Camp Wickoff

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)

-- Rail Transport

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)

-- Rough Riders

Rough Rider, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt Association)
The Rough Riders, by Theodore Roosevelt (Bartleby.com) [Full-text]

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)
German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada (U.S. Navy Department. Office of Naval Records and Library. Historical Section Publication No. 1, published under the direction of Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920) - Includes U-boat, convoy, and anti-submarine activities in L.I. waters, as well as elsewhere.
"God Bless America: Born on Long Island," by Vivian S. Toy (New York Times, New York / Region, De 9, 2001)
Joseph D'Ambrosio Memorial Camp Upton Collection: A Finding Aid (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
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)

Immigration history

See also Villages - Suffolk (web page) -- Farmingville, NY

Ku Klux Klan

Nazis

Patchogue-Medford Area History (web page) -- Marcello

Lucero

"Diasporas in Suburbia: Long Island's Recent Immigrant Past", by Joshua Ruff, Long Island History Journal, 21(1) Fall 2009 (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local History)
Long Island Wins (LongIsland Wins.com)

Indians

See also Archeology

Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

Names, Geographic

-- General

Local Native Americans (The Hamptons.com)
Long Island Indians and the Early Settlers (LongIslandGenealogy.com)
Long Island Native Historical Timeline (Montauk Tribe.org)

Phantom Indian Tribes, by Anita Stratos (Suite 101.com)

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

-- Biography

John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter: Cockenoe-de-Long Island and the Story of His Career from the Early Records, by William Wallace Tooker. London: Hentry Stevens' Son and Stiles, 1896.
Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England, by W. deLoss Love, Ph.D. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

-- Architecture

"Traditional Architecture of Long Island Native Americans," [Part 4]. In Long Island Traditional Architecture, 1600-1870: A Teacher Resource Guide, Nancy Solomon, ed.; Long Island Traditions

-- Deeds

Indian Deeds [spreadsheet] (Montauk Native American Museum & Research Institute. Early Land Records and Deeds)
- List of Historic Long Island Indian Deeds (Montauk Tribe.org)

-- Fishers Island, N.Y.

Archeological Exploration of Fishers Island, New York, by Henry Lee Ferguson. New York; Lancaster, PA: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation; Lancaster Press, 1935.

-- Fort Corchaug

-- Fort Neck (Fort Marsapeag / Massapeag), Battle / Massacre of, [1653?]

Fort Massapeag Archeological Site (U.S. National Park Service. National Historic Landmarks Program)

Fort Neck (New York State. Division of Military and Naval Affairs. State Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)
From Fort Neck to Harbour Green: A Tale of the Massapequa Indians, by Eric Usinger (Massapequa Observer, April 24, 1998)

-- Forts / Ceremonial Centers

Native Forts of the Long Island Sound Area (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 8). Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association and Nassau County Archaeological Committee, 2006.

-- Genealogy

Invisible People of Suffolk, Nassau, Queens & Kings Counties, New York State, and Extended Families (Ancestry.com. Rootsweb)

-- Languages & Dialects

Languages and Lore of the Long Island Indians (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 4). Stony Brook, NY; Lexington, MA: Suffolk County Archaeological Association; Ginn Custom Publishing, 1980.

-- Montauk(ett) Nation

Important Links (Montauk Indian Nation) - Grouped into "Suggested Reading", "External Links", and "Downloadable Documents"
Metoac History (First Nations: Issues of Consequence. Histories)
Montauk Tribe (MontaukTribe.org)

Short Narrative of My Life [autobiography], by Samson Occum (Montauk Tribe.org)

Tribal History Overview (Montauk Tribe.org)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

History and Archaeology of the Montauk (Reading in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 3), Gaynell Stone, ed. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeology Association, 1993.

The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island, by John A. Strong. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001.

-- Names, Geographic

Indian Place-Names of Long Island and Islands Adjacent: With Their Probable Significations, [comp. by] William Wallace Tooker. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1911.

-- Shinnecock Nation

Shinnecock Cultural Center and Museum (The Center and Museum)
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)
Summer Afternoons: The Landscape Paintings of William Merritt Chase, by Ronald G. Pisano, designed by John Esten. Boston: Bullfinch Press; Little, Brown, 1993.

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

Shinnecock Hills, Long Ago, by Helem M. Wettereau. East Patchogue, NY: Searles Graphics, 1991.
Shinnecock Indians: A Culture History (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 6), ed. by Gaynell Stone. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1983, 2007.
Shinnecock Powwow: A Study of Culture Change, by Harvey Golden Laudin. New York: New York University, 1973.

-- Unkechaug Nation

Brief History of the Unkechaug Nation (Poospatuck Smoke Shop)

History of Poosepatuck Reservation, by Juanita Langhorn Mayo. Lewis Historical Publishing, 1958.

Unkechaug Nation: The Official Blog of the Unkechaug Nation (Unkechaug.wordpress.com)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

History of the Unkechaug Nation, by John A. Strong, Ph.D. [s.l.: The Author,] 2008.

My People, the Unkechaug: The Story of a Long Island Indian Tribe, by Lone Otter (Donal E. Treadwell). Amsterdam, Neth.: Kiva, 1992

Jewish History

Housing Segregation Background Report: Long Island, New York, June 21, 2006 (National Fair Housing Alliance)
Jewish Genealogical Society of Long Island (The Society)
Leiman Library (The Library)
Reading Hebrew Tombstones (Jewish Gen)

Jones Beach

Jones Beach, Long Island (New York Architecture Images)
Jones Beach State Park (Wikipedia)
Jones Beach State Park: History (JonesBeach.org)
Travel: Jones Beach, and How They Dreamed It Up, by John Hanc (American Heritage.com)

Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan Flares Up on Long Island, by David Behrens (BrookhavenSouthHaven.org; courtesy Newsday)

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)
Lighthouses of Long Island, New York (K.E. Scroope / Scroope.net)
Long Island Chapter (United States Lighthouse Society)
Long Island's Lighthouses: Past and Present, by Robert G. Mueller (Robert G. Mueller) - was best site on the subject excellent site, now down
Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum & Gift Shop (The Museum)
The Old Field Lighthouse (Inc. Village of Old Field) - about half-way down the page

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)

Long Island Rail Road

See Transportation

Mansions

See Architecture

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

See also Shipwrecks

Whaling

Women's History

Life-Saving Service & Coast Guard Stations (U.S. Coast Guard)
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)
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)

Motion Picture & Theater Industry

About Us - Organizational History (Long Island Motion Picture Arts Center and Museum)
Calderone Theatres Collection, ca. 1920-1990 (Hostra University. Library. Special Collections Department)
Famous Long Island Film Sites (Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau and Sports Commission)
Top 10 Movies Filmed on Long Island (About.com: Long Island)
Suffolk County Film Commission (The Commission)
Nassau County, N.Y. Film Commission (The Commission)

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])
"Long Island Nazis: A Local Synthesis of Transnational Politics", by Ryan Shaffer, Long Island History Journal, 21(2) Spring 2010 (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local History)
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)

Parks

First Annual Report of the Long Island State Park Commission, Organized Under Chapter 112 of the Laws of 1924, to the Governor and Legislature of the State of New York, May, 1925, Commissioners, Robert Moses, President, et al. (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

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 and Television History

Long Island Radio and TV Historical Society (The Society)
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)
Operation of the World's Largest Radio System, In History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy, by Capt. Linwood S. Howeth (1963): pp. 289-96 (U.S. Navy. Bureau of Ships and Office of Naval History; United States Early Radio History)
Tesla Memorial Society of New York (The Society)
Wireless History, by Connie Curry & Van Field (LongIslandGenealogy.com)

Railroads

See Transportation

Shipwrecks

See also Maritime History

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)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican / Tom Clavin
Endless Search for the H.M.S. Hussar: New York's Legendary Treasure Shipwreck / Robert Apuzzo
H.M.S. Culloden / Frederick P. Schmitt and Donald E. Schmid
Long Island Wrecks, Buildings / [s.n.]
Mayday!: Shipwrecks , Tragedies and Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore / Van R. Field
Scuba Diving: The Wrecks and Shores of Long Island, NY / David Rosenthal
Ship Ashore!: A Record of Maritime Disasters Off Montauk and Eastern Long Island, 1640-1955 / Jeannette Edwards Rattray
Shipwrecks and Lighthouses of Eastern Long Island / Henry Keatts and George Farr
Shipwrecks in New York Waters: A Chronology of Ship Disasters from Montauk Point to Barnegat Inlet from the 1880's to the 1930's / Paul C. Morris and William P. Quinn
Shipwrecks, Strandings, and Sinkings Off Long Island's South Shore / Fred. B. Jones
They Were All Strangers: The Wreck of the John Milton at Montauk, New York / Henry Osmers
U.S.S. San Diego, the Last Armored Cruiser /Gary Gentile
Water and Ice: The Tragic Wrecks of the Bristol and of the Mexico on the South Shore of Long Island / Arthur S. Mattson
Wreck Valley: A Record of Shipwrecks Off Long Island's South Shore / Daniel Berg
Wreck Valley II: A Record of Shipwrecks Off Long Island's South Shore and New Jersey / Daniel Berg
Wreck Valley III: A Record of Shipwrecks Off Long Island's South Shore and New Jersey / Daniel Berg
Wrecks and Rescues on Long Island: The Story of the U.S. Lfesaving Service / Van R. Field

Social Clubs

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

South Shore History

See also Shipwrecks

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)
Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches; Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J. Cypress, Jr. [i.e., William Post Hawes and Priscilla Hawes], ed. by Frank Forester. New York: Gould, Banks & Co., 1842 (Patchogue-Medford Library)
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]

Statehood

"Long Island -- The 51st State?", Lee Koppelman [video] interview (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local History)

Technology

Long Island Technology Hall of Fame (TechIsland.org)

Towns - Nassau & Suffolk Counties

See Long Island Town Histories and Records web page (Patchogue

-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

See also Brookhaven Town History web page (Patchogue-Medford

Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

Transportation History (& Publicity)

See also History - Spanish-American War, 1898

Maritime History

Trolleys

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)

Trolleys

Amityville Historical Society Celebrates 100th Anniversary of the Cross Island Trolley (Amityville Record, September 9, 2009)
Huntington Railroad (Long Island Rail Road History Website)
List of Streetcar Lines on Long Island (Wikipedia)
Northport Traction Company (Long Island Rail Road History Website)
Queens Trolleys of the 1930's: Future Sites of the Long Island Expressway, narrated by Vincent Seyfried (YouTube)
Suffolk Traction Company (Bygone Long Island)
Suffolk Traction Company (Trains are Fun)
Trolley Days: A History of Trolleys in the Town of Babylon (The Beacon, June 18, 2009)
Trolley Era in Farmingdale, 1909-1919, by Patricia A. Christiansen, Deputy Mayor, Village of Farmingdale (Farmingdale Observer, July 24, 2009)

Villages

See Long Island Villages - Nassau [web page]

Long Island Villages - Suffolk [web page]

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

Whaling

See also Maritime History

Shipwrecks

Women's History

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum (The Museum)
Sag Harbor Whaling Museum (The Museum)
A Brief History (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Melville History)
Whaling and Fishing (Power to Learn)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

For Candlesticks and Corset Stays: Long Island's Yankee Whalers, by Lawrence Cone; Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
Early Long Island: Its Indians, Whalers and Folk Rhymes, by Paul Bailey
Last Whaler, by Capt. Nicholas Stevenson Karas
In the Wake of Whales: The Whaling Journals of Captain Edward Peter Brown, 1841-1847, prepared for publication by Constance J. Terry

Women's History

See also Maritime History

Shipwrecks

Whaling

[Long Island Women] (LI Genealogy.com)
History and Accomplishments (Long Island Women's Agenda)
Long Island Women's History: A Sampler from the PML Local History Collection [and Web Links] (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
News 12 Long Island: Women's History Month [video] (New 12 Long Island)
In Search of Catoneras: Long Island's Pocahontas, by John A. Strong, James Van Tassel and Rick Van Tassel (Long Island History Journal, 21(2) Spring 2010)
Whirlwind Campaign of Long Island: 1912 (Votes for Women: "Spirit of 1776" Campaign Suffrage Wagon)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land, by Marilee Foster
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. by Julia Alvarez (Long Island Reads Selection)
Idle Hours: The Grace and the Glory, by Pat S. Hogeboom
Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them, by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators, ed. by Natalie A. Naylor and Maureen O. Murphy; Hofstra University. Long Island Studies Institute
The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York, by Joan Druett and Mary Anne Wallace; Three Village Historical Society
She Went a-Whaling: The Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown from Orient, Long Island, New York, Around the World on the Whaling Ship Lucy Ann, 1847-1849, by Martha Smith Brewer Brown, transcribed and ed. by Anne MacKay
Takeoff!: How Long Island Inspired America to Fly: Stories and Photographs of the Men and Women Who Took Us from the Farm Fields to the Moon / Newsday, Inc.
Women Artists of Eastern Long Island, an Exhibition held at Guild Hall. Moran Gallery; American Association of University Women. East Hampton Branch
Women's Work: Native and African Americans of Long Island, Gaynell Stone, guest curator; Margaret Johnson, exhibit chair; Shirley Van Deroef, director; Westhampton Free Library

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

Algonquian Peoples of Long Island, From Earliest Times to 1700, by John A. Strong. Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University, 1997.

Coastal Archaeology Reader: Selections from the New York State Archaeological Association Bulletin, 1954-1977 (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 2). Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1978.

Conkey, Laura E., Ethel Boissevain, and Yves Goddard. "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island: Late Period." (Coastal Region). In Handbook of North American Indians, v. 15: Northeast, Bruce G. Trigger, volume editor. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

Effect of European Contact and Trade on the Settlement Patterns of Indians in Coastal New York, 1524-1665: The Archeological and Documentary Evidence, by Lynn Ceci; A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Anthropology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York. New York: The University, 1977.
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- Long Island Indians and Their New England Ancestors: Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot and Wampanoag Tribes, by Donna Gentle Spirit Barron. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006.
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- "We are Still Here!": The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today, by John A. Strong. Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1998.
- We Hang in the Balance, by Harriet Brown. [s.l: s.n.,] 1954.

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