Celebrate “Culper Spy Day: Our Revolutionary Story” on Saturday, July 23! A collaboration of more than 15 local institutions and organizations, an activity-filled day of community events will highlight the amazing history behind George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring. Special Collections will…
SBU’s class of 1966 visited Special Collections and University Archives on Saturday, June 4. As part of festivities for their 50th class reunion, alums attended an open house in Special Collections and University Archives, which featured an exhibit of photographs, newspapers, yearbooks, and…
Special Collections is featured in The Weekly Genealogist on AmericanAncestors.org, a research portal by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEGHS). Founded in 1845, the NEGHS is the largest and oldest genealogical society in the United States. Featured website: Long Island…
This April marks the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month. Available for research use in Special Collections are the archives of prominent poets, including William Butler Yeats, John Ciardi, Allen Ginsberg, and Jorge Carrera Andrade. Acclaimed poets Kofi Awanoor, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn…
Comic books from Special Collections are featured in three of the Melville Library’s first floor display cases. Case one highlights the July 1976, issue #158 of The Amazing Spider-Man – “Hammerhead is Out”! Set at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Spiderman finds…
Join us on Wednesday, May 4 at 1pm for “Confucius: His Thoughts About Food,” a lecture by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman. Though he taught over 2,000 years ago, Confucius (551–479 BCE) remains a major force in Chinese thinking: and his…
Special Collections announces the opening of the Edith Gentile Collection. One of the first female stainless steel welders to work for Republic Aviation Corporation in Farmingdale, New York, Ida Gentile (known as Edith) was born in 1924 to Italian immigrant…
Students in professor Kristina Lucenko’s ACH 102 course visited Special Collections and transcribed an original letter dated September 24, 1805. Written by Isaiah Thomas in Boston, MA, he requests that his “esteemed friend” facilitate payment for bibles that he produced…
