Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 12, Number 1 (Fall 1999)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

The Janes Who Made the Planes: Grumman in World War II by Christine Kleinegger - 1 /

The “Encouragement of Seminaries Of Learning”: The Origins and Development of Early Long Island Academies by Natalie A. Naylor - 11 /

“For God, Country, and Home”: The Origin and Growth of the Catholic War Veterans USA, 1935-1957 by David L. O’Connor - 31 /

Nassau Challenges Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Program for County Reform by Constantine E. Theodosiou - 54 /

Loyalty and Dissent: Free Speech at Adelphi University, 1964-1968 by Daniel Rosenberg - 76 /

SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS:

Women of the Union: The Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864 by Melissa Brewster - 92 /

Long Island’s Era of Octagons by Jessie Mee - 101 /

The 1939 World's Fair and its Vision of the Future by Lindsey Gish, Bryan Harmon, and Matthew Jensen - 108 /

REVIEWS - 114 /

Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Joshua Ruff /

Robert P. Crease. Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 by Peter B. Kahn /

Averill Dayton Geus. From Sea To Sea: 350 Years of East Hampton History by Mary Petrie /

Kenneth C. Brady. Arthur S. Greene,1867-1955: The Life And Work of a Long Island Photographer by Suzanne Johnson /

Mary Feeney Vahey. A Hidden History: Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad in Cow Neck and on Long Island by Kathleen Velsor /

Roberta Halporn. New York is a Rubber's Paradise: A Guide to New York's Cemeteries in the Five Boroughs. Scope Staff. Where to go and what to do on Long Island by Gaynell Stone /

Terry Walton. Cold Spring Harbor...Rediscovering History in Streets and Shores by Christine King /

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