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OngoingExhibition: “Highlights from Special Collections and University Archives” September 16, 2017 from 9am to 4pmSpecial Event: Culper Spy Day Location: Special Collections Reading Room, Melville Library E-2320 October 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017Exhibition: “World War I Through the Lens: Photographs of the Western Front, 1914-1918” Location: Special Collections Reading Room, Melville Library E-2320 October 19, 2017 at 1pmLecture: “Long Island Naval History in Wartime, with an emphasis on World War I.” Location: Special Collections Reading Room, Melville Library E-2340 The primary focus of this lecture is the sinking of the San Diego, the only American capital warship in World War I off Fire Island. To place this event in context, the lecture will cover the country’s first amphibious landing on Plum Island, the British blockade including the wreck of HMS Culloden, and the Meigs and other whaleboat raids. Other historic events to be noted are submarine warfare and the wreck of the British 22-gun sloop-of-war Sylph during the War of 1812; Confederate raiders capturing Union shipping just offshore during the Civil War; and U-boats dropping off spies and attacking commercial vessels during World War II. November 2017Stony Brook University Art Crawl Details to come Past EventsSeptember 2016 to May 2017 February 1, 2017 to February 28, 2017 April 7, 2017 June 3, 2017 |
