History Lectures
Past Lectures
William Johnson Rysam and The Rise Of Sag Harbor
Lois Beachy Underhill
The Sugar Connection: Barbados And Shelter Island
Mac Griswold
Merchants And Early East Hampton
Sherrill Foster
John Howard Payne, His Life And Accomplishments
Hugh R. King
Bridgehampton in 1800: Isolated or Connected?
Ann H. Sandford
East Hampton’s Legendary Witch
Loretta Orion, Ph.D.
Indians of Eastern Long Island Lecture: The Ancestors: An overview of Montaukett Prehistory
John Strong, Ph.D.
The Legacy of Nathaniel Rogers (1787-1844): Long Island Artist from Bridgehampton
Natalie A. Naylor, Professor Emerita, Hofstra University
Religion in the Marketplace: The Churches of East Hampton
Reverend John Turner Ames
1998 East Hampton 350th Anniversary Lecture Series
The Material History of the Montaukett
Gaynell Stone, Ph.D.
Wyandanch: Sachem of the Montauketts
John Strong, Ph.D.
Leading the Way: Political Force of the Revs. James, Huntting, Buell and
Beecher
Reverend John Ames
Lion Gardiner: Long Island’s Founding Father
Roger Wunderlich, Ph.D.
Pirates, Whales, Wrecks and Salvage
Noel J. Gish
East Hampton vs. New York: A Very Old Story
Robert Ritchie, Ph.D.
The Origins of Government in East Hampton
Landon Wright, PhD.
From Barbizon to Bonac: East Hampton as an Art Colony
Helen Harrison
East Hampton and the Civil War
Harrison Hunt
“It Were as Well to Please the Devil as Anger Him,” Witchcraft in the Founding Days of East Hampton
Hugh R. King & Loretta Orion, PhD.
East Hampton: A Strategic Outpost of Connecticut in the 1660’s
Christopher Collier, PhD.
East Hampton in the 17th Century
John Murrin, Ph.D.
The Amistad
Quentin Snedecor
East Hampton Architecture: Plain and Fancy
Paul Goldberger
Writers of the East End: Responses to a Special Place
Constance Ayers Denne, Ph.D.
The Empire Strikes Back – On the East End in 1674
Donald Shomette
John Winthrop, Jr., of Connecticut, The First Govenor of the East End
Richard S. Dunn, Ph D.
COL. Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders & Camp Wikoff
Jeff Heatley
Governor Thomas Dongan and his Charter to East Hampton
Peter R. Christoph, MA
Trade and Community: East Hampton’s Curious Commercial Origins
Timothy Breen, PhD.
A Tradition of Craftsmen: The Dominy Craftsman of East Hampton
Dean Failey
Actually Earning a Living: The Dominy Craftsman of East Hampton
Charles Humme
The Persistent East Hampton Town Trustees
Stuart B. Vorpahl, Jr.
By Choice or By Chance: Single Women’s Lives In Nineteenth Century Suffolk
County, NY
Sherill Foster
The Captain and the King: The Life of Captain Samuel Mulford (1644-1725)
Dr. David E. Mulford
The Cannonball and the Long Island Railroad
Vincent Seyfried
East Hampton: the 19th Century Artists’ Paradise
Katharine T. Cameron