Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 09, Number 1 (Fall 1996)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT /

In Memoriam: William M.P. Dunne (1934-1995) by Bill Dudley - 1 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

History of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Part Six: The Lab and the Long Island Community, 1947-1972 by Robert P. Crease - 4 /

The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part Two: The Struggle to Integrate Public Schools and Housing by Charles F. Howlett - 25 /

The Downs and Ups of Samuel Cabman (1809-1881): A Nineteenth-Century Smithtown Farmer and Shipbuilder by Elizabeth Shepherd - 47 /

“Something That Makes Me Feel At Home”: Marianne Moore and Brooklyn by Jon Sterngass - 65 /

The Town of Hempstead Archives, 1644-1996: A Wealth of Municipal History by Michael J. Robinson - 79 /

SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS:

Banned Books: The Challenge to the First Amendment of Pico V. Island Trees (1982) by Glenn Bernius - 90 /

The Fields, Woolworths, and Vanderbilts: Remembering the Gold Coast by Jeremy Gorelick - 96 /

His Majesty's Loyal Subjects: Long Island's Tories and the Division of Hempstead Town by Adam Herbsman - 101 /

REVIEW ESSAYS:

New Incarnation of Lydia Minturn Post's “Personal Recollections” on the American Revolution: A Review Essay by Natalie A. Naylor - 109 /

Response to an Uninspired Hoax: Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey Mckeever, Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman by Sarah A. Buck - 120 / REVIEWS:

Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever. Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman. (See review essays by Natalie A. Naylor and Sarah A. Buck) John J. Gallagher. The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 by Roger Wunderlich - 122 /

Giacinta Bradley Koontz, Editor. The Harriet Quimby Research Conference Journal, Volume One-1995 by Frank C. Erk - 125 /

Joshua Stoff. History of Early Aviation, 1903-1913 by Frank C. Erk - 128 /

Roger D. Stone. Fair Tide: Sailing toward Long Island’s Future by Philip Palmedo - 130 /

Joan Druett and Mary Anne Wallace. The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York by Diane F. Perry - 132 /

Andrea Wyatt Sexton and Alice Leccese Powers, eds. The Brooklyn Reader: 30 Writers Celebrate America’s Favorite Borough by Peter Stephan - 135 /

BOOK NOTES - 137 /

COMMUNICATIONS - 138