Long Island has been in the corridors of almost all major turning points of American history, but Long Island has been overlooked as a battleground of the civil

Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American commu

Clarence Taylor is Professor of History and Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College and Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New

Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When the images o

An account of how the women’s rights movement found fertile ground on Long Island and succeeded thanks to the suffragettes’ classic grassroots campaign. For