Department of History

“Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born…”
-Walt Whitman

Published by

The Center for Global & Local History
Department of History
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348
Volumes 16-20 (2004-08) are available online at the State University of New York Digital Repository.

Published since fall 2003 by the Center for Regional Policy Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the LIHJ will now be published by the Center for Global and Local History, directed by Wolf Schäfer.

Noel Gish and Joshua Ruff have joined the new editor-in-chief, Charles Backfish, as Associate and Assistant Editors.

The LIHJ will continue as a peer-reviewed publication devoted to presenting “Long Island as America,” the mission the journal undertook when Roger Wunderlich created it in 1988.

As the LIHJ enters its 21st year, it is also taking a leap into the 21st century and making the transition to an open access online journal.

The journal has long been an essential source for students, scholars, historians, teachers, librarians, and interested residents. It will continue on this path, yet with some exciting new features. The LIHJ will retain its mission to publish original scholarly articles about this region and its people by placing it within the framework of local, national, and even global developments, thereby connecting Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk with national and transnational history.

It will employ web-based technology and explore new ways to look at local history within a larger context. Virtual museum tours, video interviews, and photo essays are new elements to appear on a regular basis. The review section will continue but include multimedia reviews of documentary films, exhibitions, and web sites in addition to books.

We welcome submissions of articles, as well as contributions to the LIHJ review section, via e-mail to CBackfish@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Please join the LIHJ online when its first issue of the twenty-first volume appears in the fall of 2009.