The Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra University has been awarded a $459,000 federal grant to digitize historic and contemporary regional materials. The grant will expand public access to ...

On a chilly night in 1838, James Lindsay Smith’s escape from slavery found him sleeping on cotton bales aboard a steamboat cruising on Long Island Sound. Even so, Smith, then on the cusp of freedom, ...

History is coming to life at Old Bethpage Restoration Village this weekend. Visitors to the site are being taken back to the year 1781, and Americans and the British are battling it out in a ...

Discover the overlooked contributions of Colonial-era women on Long Island, including their roles in farms and businesses ...