Long Island History

A classified list of online links & some references to offline sources 

General 
         See also  New York State History web page

• Famous Long Island (Long Island Convention & Visitors' Bureau and Sports Commission) -- Sections:  Long Island History; Whaling History & Maritime Museums; Gatsby's Gold Coast; George Washington's Spy Trail; Theodore Roosevelt Home; Walt Whitman Home; Lindbergh & Aviation History; Jackson Pollack & Other Artists; The Hamptons; Famous Long Island Beaches; Famous Film Sites; Famous Lighthouses; Actors & Comedians; Musicians & Designers; Historical Figures
• Famous Long Islanders - The Scoop on Celebs Hailing from LI  (LongIsland.com)
• Historic Long Island, New York (Visithistoriclongisland.com) -- Sections:  Historic Sites; Calendar/Events; Plan Your Visit; Resources; News; Contact.
• History of Long Island (Wikipedia)
• List of Long Islanders  (Wikipedia)
• Genealogy and Local History (Suffolk Cooperative Library System.  Live-Brary)
• "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 History [Blog], by Scott Kraft (lihistory.sakraft.com)
• Map of Long Island's National Historic Sites  (Newsday,com)
• McKee, Spencer.  33 Things Someone from Long Island Might Have to Explain to an Out-of-Towner  (Movoto.com)

-- Chronology

• Long Island History [chronology] (Long-Island-Portal.com) 

--  Endangered Places

• 2015 Endangered Historic Places on Long Island (New York History Blog)
• Endangered Places (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
• Long Island Ruins & Remnants (Long Island Oddities)
• Long Island's List of Endangered Historic Sites:  2010 (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities)
• Survey Home Page (Long Island Traditions)

--  Ethnic Groups

• Subject Guide to Material on Long Island Ethnohistory in Patchogue-Medford Library's Celia M. Hastings Local History Room, comp. by Mark Rothenberg, 8-23-17 (PML.  Local History Room)

--  Geography

• Geography of Long Island (Wikipedia)

-- Historic Trails

• The Benjamin Tallmadge Historic Trail (Suffolk County BSA and Brookhaven [N.Y. : Town])
• Historic Islip Trail  (Town of Islip)
• Long Island Greenbelt Trail[s]  (Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference)
• Long Island Heritage Trail (Island Publications.  Heritage Long Island)

-- Landmarks

• Long Island Landmarks (Long Island Wallpaper)

-- Local History Librarians

• Long Island History Committee (New York Library Association.  Suffolk County Library Association.  Reference and Adult Services Division)
• Long Island History (Suffolk Cooperative Library System.  Live-Brary.  Topic Guides) 

-- Long Peninsula vs. Long Island  [logic, proportion, & legalisms v. common sense]

• Panos, Jim.  "Long Island Opinion; Long Peninsula:  The Shape of Things to Come."  (New York Times, March 17, 1985)
• United States v. Maine [49 US 504]  (Wikipedia)

-- Municipalities

• List of Municipalities on Long Island (Wikipedia)

--  Names, Geographic

• The Indian Place-Names on Long Island and Islands Adjacent:  With Their Probable Significations, [comp.] by William Wallace Tooker, ed. by Alexander F. Chamberlain.  New York; London; Sag Harbor, NY:  G.P. Putnam's Sons.  Knickerbocker Press; Published for the John Jermain Memorial Library, 1911.
• Long Island Town Names Then and Now (Long Island Genealogy.com) - i.e., village names
• What's in a Name, by Douglas Twomey (1960)  (Long Island Genealogy.com)

-- Periodicals

• "Long Island Forum" [search]  (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Forum [Cumulative] Index, 1938-2003  (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Long Island Historical Journal:  Digital Edition [1998-2008] (Stony Brook University.  University Libraries) -- This is the print version [continued (online only) by Long Island History Journal] may be searched by subject heading, keyword, or author; clickable Table of Contents and List of Issues
• Long Island History Journal, 21(1) 2009-  (SUNY at Stony Brook. Center for Global and Local History) -- Electronic successor to Long Island Historical Journal (see above), with a slight name change, a valuable resource, currently available on a free subscription basis.
• The Nassau County Historical Journal, Cumulative Index, 1937-1957, comp. by Edward J. Smits   (Nassau County Historical Society)
• Suffolk County Historical Society Register Index - Finding Aid  (ligenealogy.com)

-- Study and Teaching

• Long Island Studies Institute (Hofstra University)

--  The Unusual on L.I.

• Long Island Stories (Long Island Stories)
• Long Island Oddities  (LI Oddities.com)

--  Special Collections

• Long Island (Stony Brook University.  Libraries. [Resource guides, organized by subject])
• Long Island Collection:  Digitized Documents and Books (Stony Brook University.  University Libraries) -- Sections:  Long Island Documents; Books, Pamphlets and Jourals; Library Subject Guides; George Washington Letters at Stony Brook University; Long Island Postcard Collections (Long Island Collections); Special Collections and University Archives at SBU; Department Head and Associate Librarian; Subject Specialist;  About This Guide; Feedback -- rewards examination
• Long Island History (East Hampton Library.  Long Island Collection)  -- Sections:  Search Our Collection; About Our  Collection; Digital Long Island; Visiting the Collection; Recommended Resources; Collection Highlights; History Lectures; Robert Townsend Account Books; The Book Store.  
• Long Island Room:  Richard H. Handley Collection of Long Island Americana (Smithtown Public Library) -- Sections:  L.I. Room Home; General Information; Assessing the Collection; Additional Resources.
• Long Island Region (Cornell University.  Library.  New York State Historical Literature.  Browse by Region)
• Long Island Studies Institute Collections (Hofstra University. Library.  Special Collections Department)
• 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)

African-American History

        See also  Archeology 
        See also  History - Civil War, 1861-1865
        See also  Immigration History|
        See also  Indians

• African American Museum of Nassau County (The Museum)
• African Slaves on Long Island, New York (History of American Women)
• The Amistad Revolt  (Cornell University)
• Bias Help, Inc. (BiasHelp.org)
• Black History Month, February 2016  (Some Readings, Viewings & Listenings, with a NYS or Local Focus), comp. by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• 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 NAACP on Long Island (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• 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)
• Rediker, Dr. Marcus.  The Amistad Rebellion [Lecture]  (Mystic Seaport)
• Seaman Joachim Pease, USN (1842-?) [Medal of Honor recipient] (U.S. Navy.  Naval Historical Center)
• Slavery (Brooklyn Historical Society.  Emma:  The Catablog of Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society)
• 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)
• Slavery on Long Island, exhibit, researched and written by Stephen Wagner; created for the web by Joshua Liebman (Hofstra University.  Library.  Special Collections Department)
• Way Stations on Freedom's Road, by Marcelle E. Fischer (New York Times.  Long Island Journal, Ja 2, 2001)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Domatob, Jerry Komia. African Americans of Eastern Long Island.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing, 2001.
• Domatob, Jerry Komia. African Americans of Western Long Island.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
• Brewster-walker, Sandi.  Colored Girl from Long Island:  The Story of My Early Life.  Champions Gate, FL:  Lulu Publishers, 2007.
• Ethnicity in Suburbia:  The Long Island Experience, Salvatore J. LaGumina, ed.  [S.l.:  s.n.,] 1980.
• Exploring African-American History:  Long Island and Beyond, ed. by Natalie A. Naylor.  Hempstead, NY:  Hofstra University, 1995.
• Friends of Freedom:  The Underground Railroad in Queens and on Long Island / James Driscoll, et al., ed. by Wini Warren.  Flushing, NY:  Queens Historical Society, 2006.
• Vahey, Mary Feeney.  Hidden History:  Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad in Cow Neck and on Long Island.  Port Washington, NY:  Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, 1998.
• Cantor, Martin R.  Long Island, the Global Economy, and Race:  The Aging of America's First Suburb.  [Bethpage, NY:]  Long Island Development Corp. / Greater New York Development Co., 2006.
• Day, Lynda Rose.  Making a Way to Freedom:  A History of African-Americans on Long Island.  Interlaken, NY:  Empire State Books, 1997.
• World Apart:  Segregation on Long Island.  Hempstead, NY:  Newsday, 1990.

Archeology

        See also  African American History
         See also  Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
         See also  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)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Early Papers in Long Island Archaeology / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 1
• Coastal Archaeology Reader:  Selections from the New York State Archaeological Association / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Island Aerchaeology and Ethnohistory, v.2
• History and Archaeology of the Montauk Indians,  / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 3
• Languages and Lore of the Long Island Indians, ed. by Gaynell Stone Levine and Nancy Bonvillain / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v.4
• Second Coastal Archaeology Reader, 1900 to the Present, ed. by James E. Truex / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v.5
• The Shinnecock Indians:  A Culture History, ed. by Gaynell Stone / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Osland Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 6
• Historical Archaeology of Long Island.  Part 1:  The Sites / Suffolk County Archaeological Association, Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 7
• Native Forts of the Long Island Sound Area / Suffolk County Archaeological Association.  Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 8
• SPLIA Historic Structure, Building-Structure,Historic District, and Archeological Site Inventories for East Moriches, Center Moriches, Mastic, Southaven, Brookhaven Hamlet, Bellport, East Patchogue, Medford, North Patchogue, Blue Point, New York / Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
• Stony Brook Site and Its Relation to Archaeic and Transitional Cultures on Long Island / William A. Ritchie
• Suffolk County Cultural Resources Inventory / Ellice B. Gonzalez, Edward S. Rutsch, et al.

Architects & Architecture (including Mansions)

• 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)
• Huntington Historical Society.  Long Island's Domestic Architecture, Old Churches, Mills; Special Exhibition, Fridays 2 to 5 P.M., April 9 to June 11, 1920.  Huntington, NY:  Huntington Historical Society, 1920  (Internet Archive) 
• Long Island's Gold Coast, Past and Present
• Moran, Wm. Edgar.  "Settlements on the Eastern End of Long Island." The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, 5(2) April 1919.  16 p.
• Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum (VanderbiltMuseum.org)
• Representational Architecture  (U.S. National Parks Service.  Using Historic Places to Teach.  Determining the Facts.  Reading 1) -- see "Big Duck"
• Roadside Attractions (Bygone Long Island)
• 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) (LIGoldCoast.com)
• Fraser, Georgia.  The Stone House at Gowanus:  Scene of the Battle of Long Island.  Stirling's Headquarters, Cornwallis' Redoubt, Occupied by Washington.  Colonial Residence of Dutch Architecture.  Built by Nicholas Vechte, 1699.  New York:  Witter and Kintner, Publishers, 1909.

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island / American Institute of Architects.  Long Island Chapter and the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
• An Architectural Journey Through Long Island / August Viemeister
• Beaux Arch '89:  An Exposition of Recent Architecture on Long Island /Alistair Gordon, ed.
• Beaux-Arts Estates:  A Guide to the Architecture of Long Island / Lisa Sclare and Donald Sclare
• Edward Lange's Long Island / Dean F. Failey and Zachary N. Studentroth, with the assistance of Helen J. Batcheler
• Glitter that was Once Gold:  Long Island Gold Coast Trivia / Kevin Durst
• Houses of McKim, Mead, and White / Samuel G. White; photos by Jonathan Wallen
• Long Island Country House, 1870-1930 / Parish Art Museum
• Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940 / ed. by Robert B. Mackay, et al.
• Long Island Architecture / ed. by Joann P. Krieg
• Long Island Domestic Architecture of the Colonial and Federal Periods:  An Introductory Study / Barbara Ferris Van Liew 
• Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them / Cynthia Zaitzevsky
• Long Island Modern:  The First Generation of Modernist Architecture on Long Island, 1925-1960 / Guild Hall; Alistair Gordon, guest curator
• Long Island Modernism:  1930-1980 / Caroline Rob Zaleski
• Long Island Moderns:  Art and Architecture on the North Shore and Beyond / Kenneth Wayne and Erik Neil, eds.
• Long Island Traditional Architecture, 1600-1870:  A Teacher Resource Guide / Nancy Solomon, ed.; Long Island Traditions
• Long Island's Prominent Families in the Town of Hempstead:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes / Raymond E. Spinzia and Judith A. Spinzia
• Long Island's Prominent Families in the Town of Southampton:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes / Raymond E. Spinzia and Judith A. Spinzia
• Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes, 2 v. / Raymond E. Spinzia and Judith A. Spinzia
• Long Island's Prominent South Shore Families:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip / Raymond E. Spinzia and Judith A. Spinzia
• Mansions and Millionaires:  Their Story, Their Style / Arlene Travis and Carole Aronson
• Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast / Monica Randall
• North Shore Long Island:  Country Houses, 1890-1950 / Paul J. Mateyunas
• On the Bay:  Bay Houses and Maritime Culture on Long Island'sMarshlands / Nancy Solomon with Paul Bentel; photos by Martha Cooper
• Portraits of Ten country Houses Designed by Delano and Aldrich / drawn by Chester B. Price
• Story of Idle Hour:  The William K. Vanderbilt Mansion, Now the Site of Dowling College / ed., Gloria Shetty-Plante; asst. ed., Muriel Petersen
• Transmission Towers on the Long Island Expressway:  A Study of the Language of Form / Michele Bertomen
• SPLIA Historic Structure, Building Structure, Historic District, & Archeologigal Site Inventories forEast Moriches, Center Moriches, Moriches, Southaven, Brookhaven Hamlet, Bellport, East Patchogue, Medford, North Patchogue, Blue Point, New York, 8 vols. / Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities 
• William Kissam Vanderbilt's Idle Hour:  The Mansion, Oakdale, Long Island, N.Y. / Restoration Committee for W.K. Vanderbilt's "Island Hour"  Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them / Cynthia Zaitzevsky

Artists & Art History

• Historic Artists' Site of Long Island (an initiative of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation)
• Arthur Dove (The Art Story.org)
• 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)
• Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages (The Museum)
• Parrish Art Museum (The Museum)
• Oral History Interview with Lee Krasner, 1964 Nov. 2- 1968 Apr. 11 (Archives of American Art)
• Our Story  (Pollack-Krassner House and Study Center)
• Poking Fun:  Political Puns and Social Satire in the Paintings of William Sidney Mount, by Elizabeth Kaplan (New York Council for the Humanities.  Speakers in the Humanities)
• Shepard Alonzo Mount, by Deborah J. Johnson (Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages) 
• 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)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Action / Abstraction:  Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 / ed. by Norman L. Kleeblatt
• Captain Elias Pelletreau, Long Island Silversmith:  An Account of His
• Elias Pelletreau, 1726-1810:  Goldsmith of Southampton, Long Island, New York / Bennett W. Trupin
• Life and Times, His Office, and His Craft / Mabel C. Weaks
• Caroline M. Bell (1874-1970):  And the Peconic Bay Impressionists / Terry Wallace
• Catching the Tune:  Music and William Sidney Mount / Museums at Stony Brook
• Convergence:   The Hamptons Since Pollock:  An Exhibition Held at the Nassau County Museum of Art, April 2-May 20, 2000 / Guest curator, Alistair Gordon
• Drawings and Sketches by William Sidney Mount, 1807-1868, in the Collections of the Suffolk Museum and Carriage House at Stony Brook, Long Island, N.Y. / The Museum
• Guild Hall in East Hampton:  An Adventure in the Arts, the First Sixty Years / Enez Whipple; designed by Miki Denhof; ed. by Cheryl Mercer 
• Helen M. Kroeger and Otto J. Kurth:  The Anchorage Studio and Peconic Bay Impressionism / Terry Wallace
• Jackson Pollock / Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel
• Lee Krasner:  A Biography / Gail Levin
• Long Island Moderns:  Art and Architecture on the North Shore and Beyond / Kenneth Wayneand Eric Neil, eds.
• Painter of Rural America:  William Sidney Mount:  1807-1868 / Alfred Victor Frankenstein
• Pollock [videorecording] / A SONY Pictures Classics Release
• Shared Aesthetic:  Artists of Long Island's North Fork / Geoffrey K. Fleming, gen. ed.; Sara Evans, assoc. ed.
• Useful Art:  Long Island Pottery / Cynthia Arps Corbett
• William Sidney Mount:  Family, Friends, and Ideas:  Essays / Three Village Historical Society.  Friends of the William Sidney Mount Project

Aviation & Aerospace History
--  General

• American Airpower Museum (The Museum)
• 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) 

---  PML Catalog Sampler: 

• Development of the Aerospace Industry on Long Island, 1904-1964 (Hofstra University.  Yearbook of Business, Series 5, Vol. 3), ed. by William K. Kaiser.  Hempstead, NY:  Hofstra University, 1968.
• Development of the Aerospace Industry on Long Island:  Financial and Related Aspects (Hofstra University.  Yearbook of Business, Series 5, Vol. 4), ed. by William K. Kaiser and Charles Stonier.  Hempstead, NY:  Hofstra University, 1968.
• Development of the Aerospace Industry on Long Island, vol. 3:  A Chronology, 1833-1965, [comp. by] Raymond V. DiScala (Hofstra University.  Yearbook of Business, Series 5, Vol. 5), with additions and ed. by William K. Kaiser.  Hempstead, NY:  Hofstra University, 1968.
• Shodell, Elly.  Flight of Memory:  Long Island's Aeronautical Past.  Port Washington, NY:  Port Washington Public Library, 1995.
• Stoff, Joshua.  The Aerospace Heritage of Long Island.  Interlaken, NY:  Heart of the Lakes Pub., 1989.
• Stoff, Joshua.  Long Island Aircraft Manufacturers.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia, 2010.
• Stoff, Joshua.  From Airship to Spaceship:  Long Island in Aviation and Space Flight.  Interlaken, NY:  Empire State Books, 1991. 
• Stoff, Joshua.  Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production.  New York:  Dover, 1993.
• Williford, Glen and Leo Polaski.  Long Island's Military History.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia, 2004.  -- includes material on military aviation

--  Aircraft Accidents
---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Negroni, Christine.  Deadly Departure:  Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How It Could Happen Again.  New York:  Cliff Street Books, 2000.
• Stoff, Joshua.  Long Island Aircraft Crashes, 1909-1959.  Portsmouth, NH:  Arcadia, 2004.

-- Airfields & Airports
---  General

• Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields, by Paul Freeman -- Note:  The fascinating general entry for New York State contains 10 clickable, more regional links, including the following 4 treating L.I.:
• New York State, Long Island, Eastern
• New York State, Long Island, Central
• New York City, Queens
• New York City, Brooklyn

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Gesar, Aram.  New York's Airports:  John F. Kennedy International -- Newark -- LaGuardia.  Osceola, WI:  Motorbooks International, 1994.
• Porcelli, Richard V.  Floyd Bennett Field.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
• Stoff, Joshua.  The Aerospace Heritage of Long Island.  Interlaken, NY:  Heart of the Lakes Pub., 1989.
• Long Island Airports / Joshua Stoff

---  Floyd Bennett Field

• Floyd Bennett Field:  Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn (Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans (U.S. National Psrk Service)

---  La Guardia Airport
----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Arend, Geoffrey.  LaGuardia, 1939-1979.  New York:  Air Cargo News, 1979.
• Stoff, Joshua.  LaGuardia Airport.  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia, 2008.

---  John F. Kennedy International Airport [formerly Idlewild Airport]
----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Scullin, George.  International Airport:  The Story of Kennedy Airport and U.S. Commercial Aviation.  Boston:  Little, Brown, [1968]. 

---  Republic Airport

• Republic Airport  (Wikipedia)

---  Roosevelt Field  [now a shopping mall]

• Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927 (Eyewitness to History.com)
• Roosevelt Field, New York (Wikipedia)  

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Pisano, Dominick and F. Robert van der Linden.  Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis.  Washington, DC:  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
• Stoff, Joshua and William Camp.  Roosevelt Field:  World's Premier Airport.  Terre Haute, IN:  Sunshine House, 1992.  [now a shopping mall]

--  Curtis, Glenn Hammond Curtis & Curtiss Aircraft

• Curtiss Way (www.curtissway.com)
• Glenn H. Curtiss (Inductee Profile)  (Long Island Technology Hall of Fame)
• Shulman, Seth.  Unlocking the Sky:  Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

-- Grumman Aerospace Corporation

• Grumman Memorial Park History Center (Grumman Memorial Park
• LeRoy Grumman (Cradle of Aviation Museum)

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Grumman Aerospace Corp.  Grumman, 50 Years.  [Bethpage, NY:  The Corp., ca. 1980].
• Grumman Aerospace Corp.  Grumman at War:  Grumman Makes Planes for the Men Who Make History, Fiftieth Anniversary.  Bethpage, NY:  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.[ca. 1945].
• Grumman, Sixty Years of Excellence / Bill Gunston
• Grumman Aircraft Since 1929 / Rene J. Francillon
• Grumman Albatross:  A History of the Legendary Seaplane / Wayne Mutza
• Grumman F-14 "Tomcat" / James Perry Stevenson
• Grumman X-29 / Steve Pace
• Ironworks:  A History of Grumman's Fighting Aeroplanes / Terry C. Treadwell
• Northrop-Grumman B-2 Spirit:  An Illustrated History / Bill Holder 
• P-47 Thunderbolt / William N. Hess
• Thunder Factory:  An Illustrated History of the Republic Aviation Corporation /Joshua Stoff

--- Lunar Module

• Apollo Lunar Module (Wikipedia)   

---  PML Catalog Sampler: 

• Pellegrino, Charles R. and Joshua Stoff.  Chariots for Apollo:  The Making of the Lunar Module.  New York:  Atheneum, 1985. 
• Stoff, Joshua.  Building Moonships:  The Grumman Lunar Module.  Portsmouth, NH:  Arcadia, 2004. 

Big Duck
         See  Architecture  (above)

Biography (& Lists of Famous Long Islanders)
         See also  PML Catalog under names of individuals

• List of Long Islanders (Wikipedia)

Cemeteries, National
          See also  Cemeteries, General
          See also  Genealogy
          See also under  L.I. counties, towns, villages, and islands 

• Calverton National Cemetery [Calverton, NY]  (U.S.  Department of Veterans Affairs.  National Cemetery Administration.  Cemeteries:  New York)
• Calverton National Cemetery (Find a Grave)
• Cypress Hills National Cemetery [Brooklyn, NY]  (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  National Cemetery Administration.  Cemeteries:  New York)
• Cypress Hills National Cemetery (Find a Grave)
• Long Island National Cemetery [Farmingdale, NY]  (U.S.  Department of Veterans Affairs.  National Cemetery Association.  Cemeteries:  New York)
• Long Island National Cemetery (Find a Grave)

Cemeteries, General
           See also  Cemeteries, National
           See also  Genealogy
           See also  Indians

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• American Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in the Town of Brookhaven / Harry W. Huson
• American Revolutionary War Soldiers' and Patriots' Graves in the Town of Riverhead, New York / Georgette L. Case
• Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery:  New York's Buried Treasure / Jeffrey I. Richman
• Cemeteries of Old Wantagh / Wantagh American Revolution Bicentennial Committee
• [Cemetery Book, by Name, Brookhaven Town]
• Cemetery Records of Those Who Served in the Revolution 
• Description of Private and Family Cemeteries in the Borough of Queens / Queens (New York, N.Y.).  Topographical Bureau
• Green Oasis in Brooklyn:  The Evergreens Cemetery, 1849-2008 / John Rousmaniere
• Historic Cemeteries of Oyster Bay:  A Guide to their Location and Sources of Transcription Information / John E. Hammond
• Huntington Historic Cemeteries / Rufus B. Langhans
• Index to the Huntington Rural Cemetery, 1853-1990 / Huntington Historical Society.  Genealogy Workshop
• Long Island Gravestone Studies:  Research Sources:  Home  (Stony Brook University.  Libraries)
• Memento Mori:  The Gravestones of Early Long Island, 1680-1810 / Richard F. Welch
• Memorials of Old Bridgehampton / James Truslow Adams
• North Fork Cemeteries / Clement Healy
• Old Burying Ground at Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York / comp. by Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski and Members of the Committee for the Old Burying Ground
• Sag Harbor, Oakland Cemetery / [comp.  by Alice H. Meigs, Marjorie H. Leek, and Ethel Metzger]
• Secret City:  Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York / Fred Goodman
• South Fork Cemeteries / Clement M. Healy
• Suffolk County Cemeteries / [comp. by Alice H. Meigs, Marjorie H. Leek, and Ethel Metzger]

Cities - Nassau County
        See also  Long Island Villages - Nassau web page
        See also under  Glen Cove, N.Y.
        See also under  Long Beach, N.Y.

-- 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 [Sample]

• 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]
• Digitizing Local History Sources (Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University) -- A generous five-year grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is enabling the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University to digitize local history materials in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.  As of April, 2022, includes contributions from 44 historical organizations; 65,000 images; and 4,100 gigabytes of data.

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)

Educational history 
--  General

• Colleges on Long Island, New York (Long Island Schools.com)
• School Districts (Long Island Schools.com) - Nassau, then Suffolk public school districts (clickable)
• Private Schools (Long Island Schools.com) - Nassau, then Suffolk private schools (clickable)
• Long Island Schools and Universities (Long Island Exchange)
• History of the East Islip School District (East Islip Union Free School District)
• Island Trees School District History (Island Trees School District)

-- College and University histories

• Brief History of Adelphi University (Adelphi University.  About Adelphi))
• Campus History (Long Island University.  C.W. Post Campus)
• Campus History (State University of New York.  The College at Old Westbury)
• Campus Information (Suffolk County Community College)
• Digitized Collections Document the History of Stony Brook University  Stony Brook University / SUNY at Stony Brook. University Libraries News)
• History (Long Island University)
• History and Traditions (Molloy College.  About Molloy)
• History of Hofstra University (Hofstra University)
• History of St. Joseph's University (St. Joseph's University)
• Mission and History (Nassau Community College)
• New York Institute of Technology (Wikipedia)
• New York Institute of Technology - Old Westbury Summary (New York Institutute of Technology - Old Westbury [campus]) - includes History
• Our History (Five Towns College)
• Short History of SUNY (State University of New York)
• Suffolk County Community College (Wikipedia)

Environmental History
          See also  Ducks
          See also  Geologic History
          See also  Pine Barrens

• Baldwin, Richard P. "No Person Shall Act Prejudicial to the Town's Authority."  Long Island Forum, 66(3) Summer 2003:  pp. 5-14.
• Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island, Inc.  (The Society)
• Focus on Nature
• 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)

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Anderson, Tom.  This Fine Piece of Water:  An Environmental History of Long Island Sound.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 2002.
• Clear Water:  A Guide to Reducing Water Pollution.  Mattituck, NY:  Save the Peconic Bays, 1990.
• Emergency Conference on Brown Tide and Other Unusual Algal Blooms (1986 : Hauppauge, N.Y.).  Proceedings of the Emergency Conference on Brown Tide and Other Unusual Algal Blooms, October 23 and 24, 1986, Hauppauge, N.Y.  [Hauppauge, NY:  The Conference, 1986.]
• Environmental Analysis, Inc.  Air Quality in Nassau-Suffolk County, N.Y.:  Evaluation and Analysis of the Long Island Lighting Company Sulphur Dioxide Monitoring Program.  Garden City, NY:  Environmental Analysis, Inc., [1972].
• Rabe, Ann, Kalpana Yelamanchilli, and Rohit Nepal.   Where Can the Children Play?:  A Report on Long Island's Priority Environmental Hazards and a Directory of Long Island Environmental Organizations.  Albany, NY:  Citizens' Environmental Coalition, 1993.
• Scorca, Michael P. and Jack Monti, Jr.  Estimates of Nitrogen Loads Entering Long Island Sound from Ground Water and Streams on Long Island, New York, 1985-1996 [electronic resource], prepared in cooperation with New York Department of Environmental Conservation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001.
• The Sound Book:  An Informative Citizen's Guide to Long Island Sound and the Watershed, presented by the Long Island Soundkeeper Fund, Inc.  Norwalk, CT:  Published by the Fund, 1992.
• U.S.  Environmental Protection Agency.  Long Island Sound Study:  Status Report and Interim Actions for Hypoxia Management, December 1990.  [Washington, DC:  EPA], 1990.

Fishers Island
         See  Outer Islands (of Long Island) web page, under Fishers Island 

Forts
         See also  History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775
         See also  History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763
         See also  History - Revolution, 1775-1783
         See also  History - War of 1812
         See also  History - Civil War, 1861-1865
         See also  History - Spanish-American War, 1898
         See also  History - World War, 1914-1918
         See also  History - World War, 1939-1945
         See also  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 

Gardiners Island
         See   Outer Islands (of Long Island) web page, under Gardiners Island
         See also  History - Pequot War, 1636
         See also  Indians

Genealogy
          See also  Architecture
          See also  Cemeteries, General
          See also  Cemeteries, National
          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 Gravestone Studies:  Research Sources (Stony Brook University.  University Libraries)
• 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)
• The Bergen Family, or, the Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, One of the Early Settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L.I., with Notes on the Genealogy of Some of the Branches of the Cowenhoven, Voorhees, Eldert, Stoothoof, Cortelyou, Barkeloo, Lefferts, Martense, Hubbard, Van Brunt, Vanderbilt, Vanderveer, Van Nuyse and Other Long Island Families [full text], [comp.] by Teunis G. Bergen.  Albany, NY:  Joel Munsell, 1876.  (Internet Archive) 
• The Conkling-Prosch Family, with Some Reference to the Detter, Roe, Reynolds, Mapes Brooks, Elder, McCarver and Other Connections [full text], [comp.] by Thomas W. Prosch.  Seattle, WA:  Press of the General Lithographing and Printing Co., 1909.  (Internet Archive)
• Some Chronicles of the Cory Family Relating to Eliakim and Sarah Sayre Cory and Their Descendants, Westfield, N.J, Ballston Spa, N.Y., with Others from John of Southold [full text], [comp.] by Harriet C. Dickinson.  New York:  Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher, 1914.  (Internet Archive)
• The Cox Family in America:  History and Genealogy of the Older Branches of the Family from the Appearance of Its First Representative in This Country in 1610, by Rev. Henry Miller Cox, A.M., Including the Cock -- Cocks -- Cox Genealogy of Long Island [full text], [comp.] by George William Cocks, assisted by John Cox, Jr.  New York; Sommerville, NJ:  The Author; Unionist-Gazette Association, 1912  (Internet Archive)
• Lion Gardiner and His Descendants, 1599-1890 [full text], with Illustrations, ed. with notes critical and illustrative, by Curtiss AC. Gardiner.  St. Louis:  A. Whipple, Publisher, 1890.  (Intenet Archive) 
• Family History:  Hall-Knapp [full text], [comp. by Emma Leona Knapp Hall & Shadrach Azariah Hall.  Redwood Falls, MN:  [n.p.], 1911.  (Internet Archives)
• The Hallock-Holyoke Pedigree, and Collateral Branches in the United States:  Being a Revision of the Hallock Ancestry of 1866 [full text], prepared by Rev. Wm. A. Hallock, D.D., with Additions and Tracings of Family Genealogies to the Present Date and Generation, [comp.] by Charles Hallock, M.A.  Amherst, MA:  Press of Carpenter & Morehous, 1906.  (Internet Archive)
• The Havens Family in Suffolk County, New York:  A Genealogical Survey of Some of the Descendants of William S. Havens, 17th Century Settler in Aquidneck, Rhode Island [full text], [comp.] by Barrington S. Havens.  [s.l.]:  The Author, 1975.  (Internet Archive) 
• Some Account of the Ireland Family, Originally of Long Island, N.Y., 1644-1880 [full text], [comp.] by Joseph Norton Ireland.  Bridgeport, CT:  Gould & Stiles, Printers, 1880.  (Internet Archive)
• The Jones Family of Long Island:  Descendants of Major Thomas Jones (1665-1726), and Allied Families [full text], [comp.] by John H. Jones.  New York:  Tobias A. Wright, 1906.  (Internet Archives)
• The King Family of Southold, Suffolk County, New York, 1595-1901 [full text], comp. from public records, family papers and the manuscript King Genealogy of Mr.Rufus King of Yonkers, N.Y., [comp.] by Lucy DuBois Akerly.  Newburgh, NY:  The Author, 1901.  (Internet Archive)
• The DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn:  A Huguenot Family Portrait [full text], [comp. by] Thomas A. DeLong.  Southport, CT:  Sasco Associates, 1972.
• The Family Record, Devoted for 1897 to the Sackett, the Weygant, and the Mapes Families, and to the Ancestors of Their Intersecting Lines [full text], nos. 1-12.  Newburgh, NY:  C.H. Weygant, 1897.  (Internet Archive)
• A Partial Genealogy of the Descendants of Samuel Parsons of East Hampton, L.I., 1630:  Constructed Mainly from Town and Church Records [full text], [comp.] by George R. Howell, of Albany, N.Y. (Formerly of Southampton, L.I.).  Albany, NY:  The Author, 1879.  (Internet Archive)
• The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies [full text], [comp.] by George Rogers Howell.  New York:  J.N. Hallock, 1866.  (Internet Archive)
• The Salmon Records:  A Private Register of the Marriages and Deaths of the Residents of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y., and of Persons More  or Less Closely Associated with that Place, 1696-1811 [full text], commenced by William Salmon, and continued by Members of the Salmon Family, ed. by William A. Robbins.  New York:  New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1918.  (Internet Archive)
• 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, [full text], by William S. Pelletreau (1898)  (Internet Archive)
• Genealogy of the Descendants of Stephen Randall & Elizabeth Swezey:  1624-1668, St. James Parish, London, England; 1668-1738, Rhone Island and Connecticut; 1738-1906, Long Island, New York [full text], [comp. by Stephen Morehouse Randall].  New York:  J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co., [1906].  (Internet Archive) 
• The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk County, England and Suffolk County, New York:  Also Written Totyl, Totehill, Tothill, Tuttle, Etc., 1580-1757 [full text], [comp.] by Lucy Dubois Akerly.  Newburgh, NY:  The Author, 1898.  (Internet Archive)
• English Record of the Whaley Family and Its Branches in North America [full text], [comp.] by Rev. Samuel Whaley.  Ithaca, NY:  Andrus & Church, 1901.  (Internet Archive) 
• Wood Family of Shelf, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Long Island, N.Y., and Canada, [full text], [comp. &] written by Col. Casey A. Wood.  Chicago, IL:  The Author, 1920.  (Internet Archive)
• Woodhull Genealogy:  The Woodhull Family in England and America [full text], comp. by Mary Gould Woodhull and Frances Bowes Stevens.  Philadelphia:  Henry T. Coates & Co., 1904.  (Internet Archive)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• 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)
• 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) 
• Geology of Long Island, New York / Fuller, M.
• 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)
• Cooperative Geologic Investigations of Long Island Sound (1980-Present) (Long Island Sound Resource Center)
• New York (State).  Department of Conservation.  Water Power and Control Commission.  Mapping of Geologic Formations and Aquifers of Long Island, New York (Bulletin GW-18), comp. by Russell Suter, Wallace de Laguna, and Nathaniel M. Perlmutter. Albany, NY:  Prepared by the Commission, with the cooperation of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1949  (Internet Archive)
• Bryson, John. The Geological Formation of Long Island, New York; with a Description of Its Old Water Courses [full text]. New York: MacGowan and Slipper, Printers, 1885. (Internet Archive)
• Watson, Winslow Cossoul. The Plains of Long Island [full text].  Albany, NY:  C. van Benthuysen, 1860 (Internet Archive)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Western Long Island Geology: History, Processes and Field Trips, by Les Sirkin. Watch Hill, RI: Book & Tackle Shop, 1996.
• Eastern Long Island Geology:  History, Processes and Field Trips, by Les Sirkin.  Watch Hill, RI:  Book and Tackle Shop, 1995. 
• Geohyrologic Appraisal of Water Resources of the South Fork, Long Island, New York, by Bronius Nemickas and Edward J. Koszalka; prepared in cooperation with Suffolk County Water Authority and Suffolk County.Department of Health Services.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982. 
• Toxics on Tap: Chemical Contamination of Long Island Drinking Water Supplies: A Study / Walter L.T. Hang and Joseph P. Salvo; New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. Toxic Chemicals Project. New York: NYPIRG, 1980.
• Story of an Island:  The Geology and Geography of Long Island, by Margaret M. Voelbel.  Port Washington, NY:  Ira J. Friedman, 1963.
• Physical Long Island: Its Glacial Origin, Historic Storms, Beaches, Prairies, and Archaeology, by Paul Bailey. Amityville NY: Long Island Forum, [ca. 1959].
• Geologic History of Long Island:  And, Stages in the Geologic History of Long Island / Maynard M. Nichols.  [s.l.:  M.M. Nichols, ca. 1950-1952]. 
• Configuration of the Rock Floor in Western Long Island, N.Y., by Wallace de Laguna and M.L. Brashears, Jr. [s.l.: s.n.], 1946.
• Report on the Geology and Hydrology of Kings and Queens Counties of Long Island, by J. Homer Sanford. [Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1938.]
• Geology of Long Island, New York, by Myron Leslie Fuller, U.S. Geological Survey.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914.    

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)

Immigration History
         See also  Villages - Suffolk(web page) -- Farmingville
          See also  Ku Klux Klan
          See also  Nazis 
          See also  Patchogue, NY -- History -- 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)

Haunted places, purportedly
          See also  L.I. Oddities (below)

• Haunted Places and Centers of Paranormal Activity on Long Island (Long Island Paranormal Society)
• Favorite Links (Eastern Suffolk Paranormal)

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Brosky, Keriann Flanagan.  Ghosts of Long Island:  Stories of the Paranormal.  Huntington, NY:  Maple Hill Press, 2006.
• Brosky, Keriann Flanagan.  Ghosts of Long Island II:  More Stories of the Paranormal.  Huntington, NY:  Maple Hill Press, 2008.
• Flammer, Joseph & Diane Hill.  Long Island's Most Haunted:  A Ghost Hunter's Guide.  Atglen, PA:  Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2009.
• Jansen, Gary.  Holy Ghosts, or How a (Not So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things that Go Bump in the Night.  New York:  J.P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2010, repr. 2011.
• Randall, Monica.  Winfield:  Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths.  New York:  Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Indians
         See  L.I. Indians -- Prehistory & History web page
         See also  Archeology 
         See also  Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775
         See also  Names, Geographic

Jewish History
         See also  History -- War of 1812

• 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
         See  LI - History - 1919-1929  ("The Roaring Twenties")

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)

Lakes

• Artist Lake, Middle Island  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Belmont Lake State Park  (New York State.  Dept. of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Canaan Lake, North Patchogue  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation) 
• East Hampton (N.Y. : Town).  Inventory of the Seaweeds of Lake Montauk (41.0601 N 71.9206 W), Montauk, East Hampton Town, Suffolk County, New York:  Final Report, [prepared by] Larry B. Little and Mark Abramson  (The Town)
• Lady of Lake Ronkonkoma (Weird U.S.)
• Lake Montauk  (Wikipedia)
• Lake Ronkonkoma  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Lakes and Waterways  (Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau & Sports Commission)
• Laurel Lake  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Patchogue Lake  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation)
• Swan Lake, Patchogue   (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation) 
• West Lake, Patchogue  (New York State.  Department of Environmental Conservation) 

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Johnson, Suzanne.  Longwood Long Ago:  The Story of Coram, Gordon Heights, Middle Island, Ridge, and Lake Panomoka.  Middle Island, NY:  Longwood Public Library, 2004. 
• Spencer, Dale and Janet Rischbieter.  Lake Ronkonkoma (Postcard History Series).  Charleston, SC:  Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
• Long Island Lakes [vertical file folder].  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)  -- includes sub-files on individual lakes

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
          See also  Whaling
          See also  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, the German-American Bund, and German-American Settlement League
         See also  L.I. - Villages - Suffolk, N-Z,  Under Yaphank

• Camp Siegfried, Yaphank, New York (Longwood's Journey)
• Casey, Nicholas.  "Nazi Past of Long Island Hamlet Persists in a Rule for Home Buyers."  (New York Times, October 19, 2015)
• Mid-Island Mail, Published 1935-1941 (Longwood's Journey) - selected newspaper articles
• Neuss, Gustav.  The German American Bund  (Longwood's Journey)
• Levitz, Eric.  "Nazi-Founded L.I. Town Restricted to 'Germans Only' is Sued for Discrimination."  (New York,  October 20, 2015)
• Race Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Long Island German-American Settlement League (Long Island Housing Services, Inc., October 19, 2015)
• U.S. District Court.  Eastern District of New York.  Long Island Housing Services, Inc., Philip Kneer and Patricia Flynn-Kneer, Plaintiffs v. German-American Settlement League, Inc, Defendant.  Compliant CV 15 5987  Demand for Jury  [Filed Clerk 19 October 2015, P.M. 3:31] (Long Island Housing Services, Inc.)
• Nazism (Wikipedia.  Lindenhurst)
• Hitler's LI Legion, by David Behrens (Newsday; in Wild Bill Guarnere.  101st Airborne.  506th PIR.  Easy Company [Blog])
• Shaffer, Ryan.  "Long Island Nazis:  A Local Synthesis of Transnational Politics." (Long Island History Journal, 21(2) Spring 2010)
• U.S.  Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Fritz Julius Kuhn  (FBI.  The Vault)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

Miller, Marvin D.  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.  Smithtown, NY:  Malamud-Rose Publishers, 1983.

---  PML Vertical File Sampler:

• Behrens, David.  "Hitler's Long Island Legion:  In 1936, a Seemingly Bucolic Yaphank Retreat Makes Nazism a Homegrown Concern" (Long Island:  Our Story).  Newsday, May 10, 1998:  pp. A12-13.
• Behrens, David.  "When the Nazis Camped Nearby" (Part II).  Newsday, December 13, 1983:  1, 4-5.
• Hanft, Lucas.  "Nazis on Long Island."  Long Island Historical Journal, 11(2) Spring 1999:  pp. 223-230.
• Miller, Marvin D.  "The Camp Siegfried Special."  Long Island Forum, February 1984:  pp. 28-34.
• Whitehouse, Beth.  "Property Maps Recall (Nazi) Past:  Inside Long Island:  Move to Expunge Unpleasant Memories" (Eye on Long Island).  Newsday, May 14, 1995:  n.p.

Newspapers

• Historic L.I. Newspapers   (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)  
• 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
          See also  Haunted places, purportedly (above)

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

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Lefebvre, Scott.  Spooky Creepy Long Island.  Atglen, PA:  Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
• Leita, John & Laura Leita.  Long Island Oddities:  Curious Locales, Unusual Occurences and Unlikely Urban Adventures.  Charleston, SC:  History Press, 2013.

Parks

• New York (State).  Long Island State Park Commission.  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 [full text]. Commissioners, Robert Moses, President, et al. [Albany, NY]:  The Commission, 1925.  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

--  PML Catalog Sampler:

• New York (State).  Long Island State Park Commission.  Jones Beach State Park.  [New York]:  The Commission, 1933.
• New York (State).  Long Island State Park Commission.  Report on Plan to Restore and Protect Fire Island, [by] W. Earle Andrews.  [New York:  Lithographed by Acme Photo Offset Corp., for The Commission, 1938.
• New York (State).  Long Island State Park Commission.  The Bayard Cutting Arboretum:  Near Hecksher State Park, Great River, Long Island.  Babylon, NY:  The Commission, 1952.
• New York (State).  Long Island State Park Commission.  Improvement of Jones Beach State Parkway System and Approaches:  Including Southern State Parkway, Meadowbrook State Parkway Northerly Extension, Wantagh & Meadowbrook Causeways.  Babylon, NY:  [The Commission.]  Jones Beach State Parkway Authority, 1952.
• New York (State).  Long Island State Park Commission.  Long Island State Parks and Parkways.  [s.l.]:  The Commission, 1972.
• Caro, Robert A.  The Power Broker:  Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
• Robert Moses:  Single-Minded Genius, ed. by Joann P. Krieg.  Interlaken, NY:  Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1989.
• Jones Beach [videorecording]:  An American Riviera, by POZ Productions.  Plainview, NY:  Distr. by Sand & Sea Pictures, L.L.C., 1998. -- Eli Wallach, narrator.
• Jones Beach [videorecording DVD]:  An American Riviera, by POZ Productions; George P. Pozderec, writer, producer & director.  [New York:  POZ Productions, Inc., 2006.  -- Eli Wallach, narrator.
• Hanc, John.  Jones Beach:  An Illustrated History.  Guilford, CT:  Globe Pequot Press, 2007.
• Trust for Public Land.  The Economic Benefits and Fiscal Impact of Parks and Open Space in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York:  A Report, by The Trust for Public Land, for the Long Island Community Foundation and the Rauch Foundation.  Boston:  Trust for Public Land, 2010.

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) - Audio accounts 
• Rum Running in Montauk (Montauk Life.  History)

Psyciatric Centers, Pioneering

• Exploring Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center [video]. ("The Proper People". You Tube)

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

Ruins
          See also  Forts

• Ruins & Remnants (Long Island Ruins & Remnants)  -- divided into 6 clickable sections:  Military, Industrial, Estate, Transportation, Public Works, and Private Property

Scriptwriters

• 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

Shipwrecks
         See also  Maritime History

• Long Island Shipwrecks (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) -- a bibliography of books and articles at the Library
• 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:

• Culloden Point (Wikipedia)--figured in the Revolution & Amistad Affair
• 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)

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)
• South Bay Scooter Club  (The Club)
• 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)

Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943

• Bayles, Thomas R.  "Noted Radio Pioneer had Lab, Tower at Shoreham in 1902."  Long Island Advance, December 23, 1965:  [n.p.].
• Sisler, Pat and Rob Sisler.  "Nikola Tesla:  The Eccentric Genius of the Airwaves."  Times Beacon Record, February 8, 1996:  p. 7.
• Marshall, Elliot.  "Seeking Redress for Nikola Tesla:  His Admirers Say that Americans have Ignored the Most Important Rival of Edison and Marconi."  Science, 214(30) October 30, 1981:  pp. 523-525.
• Moore, Michael.  "Machine Makes Lightning." Brevard Today [Cocoa Beach, FL], July 18, 1977:  [n.p.]
• [Anonymous.]  "Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943." [s.l.:  s.n., n.d.]
• Tesla, Nikola.  "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy:  With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sin's Energy."  Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, June 1900:  pp. 178-211.
• Weber, Harvey.  "Photo / A Pioneer with Flash Photography" (Hobbies).  Newsday, Part II, November 23, 1980:  67.

Towns - Nassau & Suffolk Counties
           See  Long Island Town Histories and Records web page
           See also  Brookhaven Town History web page

Transportation History (& Publicity)
          See also   History - Spanish-American War, 1898
          See also  Maritime History
          See also  Trolleys

• County Roads on Long Island, by Steve Anderson (NYC Roads.com)
• The Boynton Bicycle Railroad (Bygone Long Island)
• East Patchogue Monorail  (ScreaNews)
• 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 12 [1905]
• The Vanderbilt Cup Races (Vanderbilt Cup Races.com)

-- Long Island Promotional Tracts, by Railroads
              See also  Medford, N.Y. History web page under "Biography -- Fullerton Family" [for additional tracts]

• Catlin, George L.  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 [full text and sketches]. Brooklyn, NY:  South Side Railroad Company of Long Island, 1873. (Internet Archive) 
• Long Island Railorad Company.  Long Island and Where to Go!!:  A Descriptive Work Compiled for the Long Island R.R. Co., for the Use and Benefit of Its Patrons; Containing the Points of Interest on the Line of Their Road, Fares (Single and Excursion), Distances from New York, Number of Trains Daily Each Way, a List of Good Hotels and Boarding Houses within a Distance of Five Miles of the Depots; the Denomination of Each Church, and Attractions of the Various Places:  The Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Shooting, Cost of Living, &c. [full text & sketches]. New York:  Lovibond & Jackson, Publishers, 1877. (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Railway Company.  Long Island Illustrated [full text and sketches].  New York:  Aldine Press, 1882.
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Traffic Department.  Out on Long Island [full text and sketches].  New York:  Press of Charles K. Alley, 1890.  (Internet Archive) 
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Traffic Department.  Out on Long Island [full text].  New York:  American Bank Note Co.,  1892 (Internet Archive) 
• Long Island Railroad History Website (Unofficial) (LIRR History.com)
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Traffic Department.  Summer Homes on Long Island:  A Brief Description of New York and Brooklyn's Nearest Summer Resorts, with a List of Desirable Boarding Places, and How to Reach Them by the Long Island Railroad [full text and photos].  [New York]:  The Railroad, 1898.  (Internet Archive)  
• Long Island Railroad Company. Unique Long Island:  Bits of Beauty and Characteristic Sketches on the Island [full text and photos], by Hal Fullerton.  Long Island City:  The Railroad, [1900].  (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Passenger Department.  Long Island Illustrated [full text and photos], by Howard M. Smith.  Long Island City, NY:  The Railroad, 1903. (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Long Island Illustrated [full text and photos].  New York:  The Railroad, 1905.  (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Summer Resorts on Long Island, "Where Cooling Breezes Blow":  Four Hundred Miles of Shore Line on Ocean, Sound and Bays [full text and photos].  New York:  Long Island Railroad, 1908.  (Internet Archive)
• Long Island Railroad Company.  Passenger Department.  Long Island and Real Life, [by] A.L. Langdon and Howard M. Smith.  New York:  The Railroad, 1915.  (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)
• 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]
          See  Long Island Villages - Suffolk A-K [web pages]
          See  Long Island Villages - Suffolk L-Z [web pages]
          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
          See also  Shipwrecks
          See also  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 & Women's Suffrage
              See also  Maritime History
              See also  Shipwrecks
              See also  Whaling

• Centennial of  Women's Suffrage in New York State, 1917/2017:  U.S., N.Y.S., & Long Island Perspectives, for New York State History Month (November 2017), compiled, edited, & rev. by Mark Rothenberg (10/20/17)
• [Long Island Women]  (LI Genealogy.com)
• History and Accomplishments (Long Island Women's Agenda)
• Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement (Longislandwomansuffrage.com)
• 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)
• Kearns, Marguerite.  Suffrage History:  Long Island's Three Wagon Women (New York History Blog)
• Whirlwind Campaign of Long Island:  1912  (Votes for Women:  "Spirit of 1776" Campaign Suffrage Wagon)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Alvarez, Julia.  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.  Chapel Hill, NC:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.  (Long Island Reads Selection)
• Brown, Martha Smith Brewer. 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, transcribed and ed. by Anne MacKay.  Orient, NY:  Oysterponds Historical Society, [1993].
• Curran, Kathryn.  To Blush Unseen:  19th Century Long Island Women.  Hempstead, NY:  Hfstra University.  Museum, 1996.
• Druett, Joan and Mary Anne Wallace.  The Sailing Circle:  19th Century Seafaring Women from New York, [Setauket, NY:] Three Village Historical Society, [1995].
• Foster, Marilee.  Dirt Under My Nails:  An American Farmer and Her Changing Land, Bridgehampton, NY:  Bridgeworks Publishing Co., [2002].
• Guild Hall of East Hampton.  Women Artists of Eastern Long Island, an Exhibition held at Guild Hall.  East Hampton, NY:  Guild Hall.  Museum Section.  Moran Gallery; American Association of University Women.  East Hampton Branch, 1979.
• Hogeboom, Pat S.  Idle Hours:  The Grace and the Glory.  Philadelphia:  Ex Libris, [2005].
• Long Island Women:  Activists and Innovators, ed. by Natalie A. Naylor and Maureen O. Murphy; Hempstead, NY; Interlaken, NY:  Hofstra University.  Long Island Studies Institute; Empire State Books, 1998.
• Naylor, Natalie A.  Women in Long Island's Past:  A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives.  Charleston, SC:  History Press, 2012.
• Petrash, Antonia.  Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement.  Charleston, SC:  History Press, 2013.
• 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.  Melville, NY: Newsday, Inc., [2000]. 
• Women's Work:  Native and African Americans of Long Island, Gaynell Stone, guest curator; Margaret Johnson, exhibit chair; Shirley Van Deroef, director.  Westhampton, NY:  Westhampton Free Library, n.d. 
• Zaitzevsky, Cynthia.  Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them,  New York; London:  Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, in association with W.W. Norton, 2009.