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Report. Gordon, Cameron and Jonathan Peters, “Present problems and future solutions to Staten Island's transportation system.” College of Staten Island-Staten Island Project; Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, 2004.

Book. Gold, Kenneth M. and Lori Weintrob. Discovering Staten Island: A 350th Anniversary Commemorative History. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.

Book. Mitchell, John G., et. al. High Rock and the Greenbelt: The Making of New York City’s Largest Park. Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College; Charlottesville, Va. : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Book. Kramer, Daniel C. and Richard M. Flanagan. Staten Island: Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2012.

Museum Exhibition. “From Farm to City: Staten Island 1661-2012.” Museum of the City of New York, 2012.

Thesis. Nicholls, Elizabeth. “Historical Changes in the Frog and Toad Communities of Staten Island, NY 1880-2011,” College of Staten Island, 2012.

Thesis. Spach, Brian. “Visual Conscience: Accountability Journalism and Its Role in Society.” College of Staten Island, 2012.

Book. Goode, David, et. al. A History and Sociology of the Willowbrook State School. Washington, District of Columbia : American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013.

Dissertation. Zalma, Adam. “Staten Island in the Harbor Metropolis.” Rutgers University, 2014.

Dissertation. Bartlett, Jason Todd. “The Politics of Community Development: A History of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.” Temple University, 2014.

Dissertation. Zavala, Melissa. “Wild NYC: Building Biodiversity in Fresh Kills and City Parks.” Graduate Center/CUNY, 2014.

Dissertation. Ely, Michael. “Deinstitutionalizing Difference: Asylums for the Severely or Profoundly Mentally Retarded Between 1960-2000.” University of Texas, San Antonio, 2015.

Book. McCarthy, David. American Artists Against War, 1935-2010. University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2015.

Book. Anekwe, Obiora. Narrative Visions of the Willowbrook State School: An Artistic Survey in Bioethics and Special Education. [New York, NY]: Ethically Speaking Press, 2016.

Dissertation. Lawton, Kathryn. “Deinstitutionalization and Disability Rights: Police and Activism in New York State.” State University of New York, Buffalo, 2016.

Dissertation. Morales, Jack N. “Literacy Sponsorship at Staten Island Community College of the City University of New York.” Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2016.

Dissertation. Nugent, Patrick. “The Urban Environmental Order: Planning and Politics on Staten Island, 1945-1984.” George Washington University, 2016.

Ford Foundation White Paper. Nugent, Patrick. “Mass Transit, New Towns, and National Parks in New York City’s ‘Forgotten Borough,’” 2016.

Article. Nugent, Patrick. “Mass Transit, New Towns, and National Parks in New York City's ‘Forgotten Borough,’” Journal of Planning History, (vol. 16, issue 2), 8/19/2016.

Book. Coogan, Jeffrey. Staten Island in Fiction: 1896-2015. Staten Island, New York: Castleton, 2017.

Article. Jorge Matos Valldejuli. “The Racialized History of Disability Activism from the ‘Willowbrooks of this World.’” The Activist History Review (11/4/2019).

Book. Melosi, Martin. Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Book. Halpern, Sydney. Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis. Yale University Press, 2021.

Book. Boussac, Tamara. L’affaire de Newburgh : aux origines du nouveau conservatisme américain. Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2023.

Book. Gold, Kenneth M. The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island and the Subway. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.

Museum Exhibition. “Activist New York: Disability Rights.” Museum of the City of New York, 2024.

Educational Television Broadcast. Science Histories / Willowbrook Hepatitis Study. Group Gendai Films. Producer: Koichi Fujita / Minoru Tano. Director: Keisuke Kuga. Broadcast: NHK-BSP / NHK-BS4K. First Air Date: December 2, 2024.