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Southampton Windmill Literary Landmark Dedication Ceremony

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Kristen Nyitray

The historic and iconic windmill on the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University has won designation as a Literary Landmark from United for Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Landmark status was granted to the windmill based on…

Trial Database: Archive Finder (formerly ArchivesUSA)

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Kristen Nyitray

Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland), previously available on CD-ROM. ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,600 repositories and more than 175,000 collections of primary source material across…

NARA Launches Founders Online

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Kristen Nyitray

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create Founders Online and make freely available the historical documents of the Founders of the United States…

Conference: “The Italian Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century England”

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Kristen Nyitray

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4 p.m. Center for Italian Studies Conference: “The Italian Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century England” Organized by Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University, with presentations by Professors Anthony Oldcorn, Brown University, Giuseppe Gazzola and Robert Viscusi, CUNY/Brooklyn. The…

Special Event: “Chinese Food and Herbs: Available, Fresh, Healthy, Natural, and Sustainable”

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Kristen Nyitray

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:45 p.m. “Chinese Food and Herbs: Available, Fresh, Healthy, Natural, and Sustainable” A lecture by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman, with a food tasting to follow. This talk will explore the terms Available, Fresh, Healthy, Natural, and…

Robert Browning Bicentennial Celebration, Thursday September 20

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Kristen Nyitray

Please join us at a Bicentennial Celebration for poet and playwright Robert Browning on Thursday, September 20 at 4 p.m. Featured speakers: Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library Edward Giuliano, President, New York Institute of Technology…

Digital Long Island Collection Receives National Recognition

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Kristen Nyitray

SBU Libraries’ Special Collections’ guide to digital Long Island documents and books receives recognition.

Posted in Digital Collections, Special Collections & University Archives

“Letters from a Spy”: James Jay, 1808

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Kristen Nyitray

The university’s James Jay letter (1808) is featured in the August 2, 2012 edition of The Village Times Herald. James Jay (1732 -1815), American physician and politician, and elder brother of John Jay, supplied medicines to George Washington during the…

SBU Baseball: Images from the University Archives

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Kristen Nyitray

Congratulations to the Stony Brook Seawolves on a remarkable season! From the University Archives, view photographs of SBU’s baseball teams over the years…

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Chinese Cuisine Event

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Kristen Nyitray

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 1 p.m. CHINESE CUISINE: ITS HISTORY, ART, AESTHETICS & CULINARY APPEAL by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman founded, and for nineteen years, has edited the award-winning magazine Flavor and Fortune. It is…

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