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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with 5 Resources on American Indian History

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with five library resources about Indigenous histories. November is Native American Heritage Month, an annual time to commemorate and reaffirm Indigenous cultural legacies and histories. 1) Rifkin, Mark. 2011. When did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty. Cary: Oxford University

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Sharon Williams November 1, 2021

Join Us at the Art Crawl on Saturday, October 23 from 1pm to 3pm

Free guided tours of Stony Brook University’s diverse art galleries will take place on Saturday, October 23 from 1pm to 3pm as part of campus-wide events for the inauguration of Maurie McInnis, sixth president of Stony Brook University. Participating galleries for the fall 2021 Art Crawl are: Charles B. Wang

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Kristen Nyitray October 22, 2021

New Library Research Guide: Sources for Studies of Indigenous Histories and Cultures

Stony Brook University Libraries (SBUL) has diverse collections to support research of Indigenous histories and cultures. A new library guide presents a curated selection of freely available and licensed content organized by theme and format. Coverage includes: art; databases; health disparities; languages; law; literature; Long Island; maps; metasites; museums; organizations; photographs and images;

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Kristen Nyitray October 15, 2021

Collections of Trailblazing Women Featured in Stony Brook University Magazine

Collections of Edith Gentile, Diana Chang, and Helen Hull Jacobs are featured in the latest issue of Stony Brook University Magazine. “Rare Treasures” highlights three trailblazing women whose the collections are part of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Edith Gentile (1924-2011) was one of the first female stainless steel

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Kristen Nyitray October 14, 2021

Special Collections to Participate at the 7th Annual Culper Spy Day

Save the Date! “Culper Spy Day: Our Revolutionary Story” will be held on Saturday, September 18, 2021. A collaboration of more than a dozen local institutions and organizations, Culper Spy Day is an activity-filled day of community events highlighting the amazing history behind George Washington’s intelligence gathering ring. Special Collections

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Kristen Nyitray August 23, 2021

Join us for Virtual Culper Spy Weekend on Sept. 12 and 13

The Three Village area of Long Island is home of the Culper Spy Ring, formed in 1778 to secretly provide General George Washington with the information he needed to turn the tide of the American Revolution. Join us for Virtual Culper Spy Weekend on September 12 and 13, 2020 to

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Kristen Nyitray September 8, 2020

SSO 102.23 students explore online collections: Look what they found!

This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging technologies from approximately 100 years ago. Students chose a specific

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Christine Fena April 14, 2020

Librarian Gisele Schierhorst’s Scholarly Article Published in American Music Research Center Journal

Gisele Schierhorst, Head of the Music Library at Stony Brook University, has authored a comprehensive history of an important, yet under-documented orchestra established on Long Island with roots here at Stony Brook University. The article entitled “The Suffolk Symphonic Orchestra and Society Papers” is published in the current issue of the American Music Research Center Journal (v.

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Kristen Nyitray February 26, 2020

New Timeline Chronicles the 40th Anniversary of SBU Hospital

A new timeline, which includes information drawn from historical papers and photographs from the University Archives, chronicles the history of Stony Brook Medicine. In 1980, Stony Brook University Hospital first opened its doors and became the region’s first academic medical center. Stony Brook was the first university center in the SUNY system to

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Kristen Nyitray February 26, 2020

My Research Life: Nava Berger

My Research Life is a blog series of interviews with Stony Brook people about how and where they do their research. Today, librarian Chris Filstrup talks with Nava Berger, a senior and Political Science and History double major. She is a candidate for history honors and is writing her History

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Chris Kretz February 3, 2020