The region around New York, where the Battle of Long Island took place.

A map from 1911 showing the historic vegetation regions of Long Island, keyed to show the areas of mixed hardwoodw and areas of prairie and open woodlands.

A amp from 1911 showing the terminal moraines along Long Island in black.

A brief description of the Long Island Indians known as the Metoac on this site. Learn that the Metoac group includes a few tribes that lived in Long Island New York.

Although the Americans suffered severe setbacks for months after independence was declared, their tenacity and perseverance eventually paid off. During August 1776, in the Battle of Long Island in New York, Washington's position became...

Here is a definition of "duty" followed by a reference to and description of the case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. Learn about the "duty of one in imminent peril" as well as the "responsibility of one causing the perilous...

An interesting and comprehensive essay on Adriaen Block, the development of New Netherlands, Dutch trade, and the impact of the Little Ice Age in Europe on fur trade in North America.

This site offers a general overview of several citation styles for research papers, including AMA, MLA and APA. Includes examples and subjects which most commonly use each style.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), the woman expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for "Traducing the ministers," of the Puritan Colony. She and other religious dissenters founded Rhode Island.

Site from NY DEC gives general information on estuaries and their ecological importance to the NY and NJ coastal areas. Gives more specific information on the Peconic Estuary and the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary, with a focus on...

An image of "Fishing Party on Long Island Sound off New Rochelle", created by James Goodwyn Clonney in 1847 (Oil on canvas, 66 x 93 cm).

This economics lesson plan integrates the history of the Hawaiian people with geography, natural resources, good and services and more. "In this lesson, we will learn how Hawaiians shared their island resources long ago."

On the morning of March 7, 1949, builder William J. Levitt opened a sales office for a new development of inexpensive single-family homes in a potato field in the center of Long Island's Nassau County. In bitter-cold weather, more than a...

Site accompanies a PBS special on the inspirational Nelson Mandela. Site chronicles the life and many struggles of Mandela. It specifically breaks his life down into four parts: childhood, revolutionary, prisoner, and husband. Also...

NOVA ferrets out long-forgotten secrets of architects and engineers of the early civilizations. Content focuses on the trebuchets of medieval Europe, the pharaoh's obelisks of ancient Egypt, the moai statues of Easter Island, the...

A military history of the first years of the Revolutionary War from Lexington and Concord to the Battle of Trenton. Included is information about the problems of maintaining the Continental Army and problems for the British Army.

A comprehensive site on the colonization of New Netherland by the Dutch. Find maps, pictures, and artifacts on this interesting tour.

An account written by Major General Wheeler describes the deplorable conditions at Camp Wikoff which was located on Long Island's Montauk Point during the Spanish-American War.

Nick Carraway observes the wasteful lives of four wealthy acquaintances in the nouveau riche society of West Egg, Long Island. During his time there, Carraway befriends his affluent and enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Selected (10)...

Pen pals from Long Island, NY and Nairobi, Kenya exchange video messages about school, family and their hopes for the future.

Minutes after its take off from New York's Kennedy International Airport, a Boeing 747 headed for Paris exploded midair over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996, leaving all 230 people aboard dead. The...

Macquarie Island (34 km long x 5 km wide) is an oceanic island in the Southern Ocean, lying 1,500 km south-east of Tasmania and approximately halfway between Australia and the Antarctic continent. The island is the exposed crest of the...

Fraser Island lies just off the east coast of Australia. At 122 km long, it is the largest sand island in the world. Majestic remnants of tall rainforest growing on sand and half the world’s perched freshwater dune lakes are found inland...

The 987-ha site on the volcanic island of Pico, the second largest in the Azores archipelago, consists of a remarkable pattern of spaced-out, long linear walls running inland from, and parallel to, the rocky shore. The walls were built...