This Month's Featured Articles

May 2020: No Coffins to be Had

By October 1918, the number of American war casualties was growing rapidly. At home, a Liberty Loan fund-raising campaign - the fourth in 19 months - was attracting crowds to its rallies, urging them to lend the government more money with which to fight the war.

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March 2026: Open Secrets - Long Islanders and the Antebellum Slave Trade

Introduction

In January 1861, as winter set in, a writer at the Huntington Long-Islander newspaper looked back a few months, to an autumn day when a few friends strolled to a school fair. At Cold Spring Harbor, they were struck by the beauty of the bay, and by a “pretty” sailing ship that lay at anchor. Then the tableau was spoiled; they learned that the old whaler was taking on supplies for the slave trade.

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New York - The American Revolution Part 3

New York - The American Revolution Part 3

Wendy Elkis Class of 1977

In 1775, Parliament passed the Restraining Act. This Act allowed New England to trade with England but cut off trade between them and other countries. This act made New England dependent upon British goods. An addition to this Act was forbidding colonists from fishing in the Atlantic. None of this sat well with the colonists. The rising tensions from the Restraining Act led to the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

In April 1775, News of Lexington & Concord spread throughout the colonies. Once news of Lexington and Concord reached New York, it sparked action among patriots. NY's Sons of Liberty overthrew the colonial government, forcing the Governor to flee to a ship in the harbor and the Lieutenant Governor to flee to Long Island.

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