Digital Collections
Image: Cover, Specula yearbook, 1969. I. Manuscripts & Papers Benjamin Tallmadge document: July 8, 1781 view document George Washington, Culper Spy letter: September 24, 1779 view letter and transcript George Washington, Culper Spy letter: September 26, 1780…
Events & Exhibitions
Image (above): “Alice’s Evidence.” Illustration by Salvador Dali. Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969. Image: Culper Spy Day open house, 2016. Ongoing Exhibition: “Highlights from Special Collections and University Archives” Location: Second Floor,…
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…
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…
Thanks to a major gift from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, Stony Brook University will establish an endowed chair in the Department of History: the Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American History. The gift makes it possible for Stony…
Special Collections and University Archives is currently featured on News 12’s “Long Island’s Hidden Past.” Hosted by journalist Danielle Campbell, the series showcases collections and repositories that preserve our region’s shared history. Featured in the segment are letters authored by…
While you’ve been working hard all year earning credits for your degree, we’ve been working hard all year to make your learning process a little more fun. And it’s exhausting – in a good way. ALA’s International Games Day is…
Constantia Constantinou, Dean of University Libraries, and Kristen Nyitray, Head of Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist, were among the guests invited by Assemblyman Steve Englebright for a special meeting with Speaker of the New York State Assembly…
General George Washington wrote a historically important letter about spy activities in Setauket. Did you know that Special Collections in the Melville Library has this original letter? Written during the American Revolution from “Head Quarters Westpoint,” the letter to Major…
Spy letters written by George Washington during the American Revolution. A history of the world published in 1493. The first map depicting Long Island as an island. Photographs of Stony Brook’s original train station. These are just a few examples…