Author: Bill Bleyer

Bill Bleyer is the author of George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide. He is coauthor, with Harrison Hunt, of Long Island and the Civil War and author of Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt’s Summer White House, Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon, and Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History. A prize-winning staff writer for Newsday for 33 years, Bleyer has been an adjunct professor at Webb Institute, the naval architecture college in Glen Cove, New York, and Hofstra University. (Author photo: © Audrey C. Tiernan)

Critical Thinking Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021

George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring: Separating Fact from Fiction

The efforts of a group of self-taught Patriot spies who would later become known as the Culper Spy Ring played an important role in winning independence from Great Britain. But their story still has many missing pieces, and unfortunately legend and even unsubstantiated speculation have filled the gaps. From experience in the French and Indian […]

by Bill Bleyer