Department of History

As a research project for my history of industrial hazards class (History 414), students created wikis on the history of some of Long Island’s hazardous waste sites, regulated under the EPA’s Superfund site.  We’ve now converted the results into publicly available websites.  Check it out if you are interested….
Overview
Suffolk County: Farmingdale area, Holbrook area,  Port [...]

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, the Science Times section of the New York Times has published my first ever Letter to the Editor — some decline.

Monday, 14 December 2009, volume 21, issue 1, of the LIHJ went online with six articles, eight reviews, a video interview, the first images of its eMuseum and the “enhanced mission” of writing Long Island history into the larger framework of local, national, and global history.
The Editor in Chief, Charles Backfish, summarized the main content [...]

Margaret, Sharon, Gregory, Tao, Nicholas, Erin, Michelle, and William