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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