Writing a paper in history, political science, economics or cultural studies? Try searching in SBU Libraries’ Making of the Modern World, 1450-1914 (Gale). Find searchable books, serials, pamphlets, and essays from around the world that tell the story of four pivotal centuries in the West. Special emphases include trade and
The Sabin Americana database offers searchable, full-text access to thousands of archival documents from North, South, and Central America, as well as the Caribbean, from 1500 to 1926. Use it to enhance your research in history, cultural studies, religion, literature, and more. Gain insight into issues related to social and
For over 40 years (41 to be exact), aspiring and prestigious writers have flocked to Southampton to take part in what is now one of the most well-known writers conferences in the world. While over those years the landscape has shifted significantly out at Southampton, the Southampton Writers Conference has
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable,
Kate Kasten, Head of Humanities & Social Sciences at SBU Libraries, presented papers at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention and at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) this spring. At NeMLA, Kate presented a paper entitled, “(Un)happily Ever After: Beauty and Virtue in Catherine Durand Bédacier’s ‘La fée
Join us for an end-of-semester, on-site reference hour in the Humanities Building lobby on Monday, May 2nd from 2 to 3. Librarians will be available to answer questions about research, collections, and library services. Image: By The McClouds from Chicago ‘burbs, USA (New welcome mat from my parents) [CC BY-SA
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 Brooks, and Allen Ginsberg read their poetry at Stony Brook University
The SBU Libraries are conducting a trial of Historic Map Works (ProQuest) until April 8, 2016. Give it a try, and let us know what you think! Please send comments to kathleen.kasten@stonybrook.edu. Historic Map Works offers over 1,593,454 searchable, full-color, digitized maps, with content from the 15th-20th centuries. This collection
On March 30th, Dr. Kristina Lucenko presented her work on Mary Carleton as a commentator on marriage in seventeenth-century England, “I’m ‘Wife’! Stop there”: Mary Carleton’s “Uncivil” Union. Director of the Program in Writing & Rhetoric at Stony Brook University, Dr. Lucenko is the author of numerous essays, reviews, translations,
Please join us this afternoon at 1:00 in the Center for Scholarly Communication (2nd floor of the Central Reading Room in Melville Library) for the final event in the University Libraries Present: Women’s History Month Colloquium Series. Wednesday, March 30, 1:00: Dr. Kristina Lucenko “I’m ‘Wife’! Stop there!”: Mary Carleton’s
