The three volumes of Antebellum Brooklyn - In the News - contain selected articles from the Long Island Star and the Brooklyn Evening Star from 1834 to 1861, topical samplings of news articles ranging from the original charter of the City of Brooklyn to the brink of the American Civil War. Each volume is a resource for historians and local history buffs.
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Thomas L. Lawrence is a local Brooklyn history researcher. He began his study of pre-Civil War Brooklyn in 1990 while residing in Brooklyn Heights, New York. His research culminated in the publication of Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur - Anson Blake 1789-1868 - Exemplar of Antebellum Wealth - A Financial and Commercial Biography (Outskirts Press 2024) containing much historical information about the early development of the original City of Brooklyn. Mr. Lawrence is a graduate of New York's Union Theological Seminary and the clinical residency program at New York's Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute. For forty years he has conducted a practice of individual, group, couple and family therapy in both Brooklyn and Staten Island.