Getting Started - Long Island History - Līve-brary Topic Guides at Suffolk County , NY Public Libraries

LI History Basics

Check out these local history rooms in Suffolk Public Libraries:

Amagansett Free Library
Bay Shore-Brightwaters (room recently created)
Brentwood Public Library
Center Moriches Free Public Library
Central Islip Public Library (building and room presently under construction)
Cold Spring Harbor Library
Cutchogue-New Suffolk Free Library
East Hampton Library
East Islip Public Library
Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (Rhodes Collection of the Three Village Historical Society)
Hampton Library in Bridgehampton
Harborfields Public Library (Library has local history room + Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Society Collection room)
Huntington Public Library
Islip Public Library
John Jermain Memorial Library [Sag Harbor, NY]
Longwood Public Library
Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library
Mattituck-Laurel Library
North Shore Public Library
Northport-East Northport Public Library
Patchogue-Medford Library
[Quogue Library]
Rogers Memorial Library
Sachem Public Library
Sayville Library (room recently created)
Smithtown Library
Southold Free Library

In addition, the remaining libraries in Suffolk usually have local history special collections or archives. Inquire at the reference desk.

February Highlight - Black History Month

The Colored Girl from Long Island: The Story of My Early Life - Sandi Brewster-walker
Call Number: B BREWSTER-WALKER, SANDI
Autobiography of the formative years, in Amityville, of a distinguished lady who who runs her own business, is active in L.I. African-American & Indian genealogy and politics, served in the Clinton administration, and is currently active in national politics
African-Americans in Northport: An Untold Story - Jackson, Thelma
Call Number: 974.725 NORTHPORT
African Americans of Western Long Island - Domatob, Jerry
Call Number: 974.725 DOM
African Americans of Eastern Long Island - Domatob, Jerry
Call Number: 974.725 DOM

March Highlight - Women's History Month

Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators - Naylor, Natalie A. and Maureen O. Murphy
Call Number: 309.4097 LON
Classic and best overview of women's many signal contributions to the history of Long Island, and beyond its borders, under 7 themes: Women Challenging Boundaries; Broadening Domestic & Traditional Roles; Meeting Social Needs & Services; Creating & Sustaining Community Organizations; Expanding Women's Work; Achieving National Fame; Engaging Feminist Activism. Appendices list L.I.'s Nationally Notable Women, followed by a bibliography and index.
Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them - Zaitevsky, Cynthia
Call Number: 712.0974 ZAI
Focuses on the work of 6 luminaries, and 12 lesser known lights of the great age of landscape architecture. Talented women, between 1890-1940, designed half of the grand vistas on the L.I. estates creating and conveying for the owners and those they sought to impress, the sense of gardens of wealth and power and refinement.
Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land - Foster, Marilee
Call Number: B FOSTER or 630.9747 FOS
A college grad of 1994 consciously pursues her family's potato farming, in Sagaponack, L.I., recording her varied experiences and reactions in the Southampton Press and in this book. Flashes of humor, outrage, attachment, and even genealogy range across these enchanting pages.