Tag: Levittown

In Levittown’s Shadow with Tim Keogh

February 5, 2024
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Cover of In Levittown's Shadow by Tim Keogh.
In Levittown's Shadow by Tim Keogh from University of Chicago Press.

While Long Island developed a reputation for affluence throughout the 20th Century, there has always been a parallel history of the everyday workers and servants who toiled in the shadow […]

Making Long Island with Larry Samuel

September 24, 2023
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Drawing of a man stepping from a 1920s automobile in front of a cozy home.
Hicksville Real Estate Ad from the Times Union, 1928.

Larry Samuel is an author and historian whose latest book looks at the development of Long Island throughout the 20th Century. It was a time of land speculation and rapid […]

Cold War Long Island

January 18, 2022
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The cover of the book Cold War Long Island.
Christopher Verga and Karl Grossman document life on Long Island during the Cold War years.

Journalist Karl Grossman and historian Christopher Verga have teamed up for the new book Cold War Long Island, out now from the History Press. In it, they detail the productive […]