Detail from a Southampton Fire Department Helmet. (Southampton History Museum Collection) A quarter century after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Americans remember the day that changed the nation forever. The Southampton History Museum remembers the day and honors the hundreds of first responders and the thousands of other victims who lost their lives. As America marks the 25th anniversary of that day, there is a tangible memorial at the Southampton Fire Department, acknowle

Washington's Retreat at Long Island. August 1776. Copy of engraving by J. C. Armytage after Wageman, published circa 1860. (The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections) Joseph Reed, General George Washington's aide-de-camp, recalled these anguished remarks by Washington as the general watched the Continental Army retreat from Gowanus Heights in Brooklyn on August 27, 1776. The fight

The Battle of Bunker Hill, on June 17, 1775 was the latest in a string of miscalculations made by the British government, ultimately leading to the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

Recently, the Southampton History Museum acquired two remarkable scrapbooks in which a Southampton summer resident recorded the activities—in Southampton and beyond--of participants in one of the most fashionable sports of the Gilded Age. The photos and yellowed newspaper clippings filling the pages of this generous donation—for which we have Richard (Dick) Nilsson to thank—are not devoted to tennis, golfing or polo contests as you might expect. They are rather devoted to “co