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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT - 131 /

QUEENS COUNTY HISTORICAL CONFERENCE PAPERS -

1) Queens County and the Secession Crisis by David Osborn - 132 /

2) The Civil War in Queens County by Vincent F. Seyfried - 146 /

3) After Freedom in Newtown, Queens: African Americans and the Color Line, 1838-1899 by Roger Sanjek - 157 /

4) Baseball and the Blue Laws by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 168 /

5) A Stadium for Flushing Meadows by Matthew Kachur - 178 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

When Great South Bay Froze Over: Gleanings from the Baymen’s Oral History Group (Part II) by John M. Kochiss - 195 /

The Formation and Development of Brooklyn’s Black Churches, from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century by Clarence Taylor - 209 /

One Brooklyn Block: Population Characteristics and Change, 1880-1910 by Charlotte Woods Elkind - 229 /

REVIEWS:

Nina Federoff and David Botstein, eds. The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas on the Century of Genetics by Elizabeth Garber - 249 /

Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds. Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American by Michael Barnhart - 251 /

Robert B. MacKay, Stanley Lindvall and Carol Traynor, eds. An Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island by L.E. Gobrecht - 254 /

Robert Duifee’s Journal and Recollections of Newport, Rhode Island, Freetown, Massachusetts, New York City and Long Island, Jamaica and Cuba, West Indies and Saint Simons Island, Georgia, ca. 1785-1810. Edited by Virginia Steele Wood by W.M.P. Dunne - 255 /

Patricia Hansell Sisler and Robert Sisler. The Seven Hills of Port by Luise Weiss - 257 /

BOOK NOTES - 258