Professor Simone Brioni’s EGL 333/HUI 333 class “Italian American Experience in Literature” visited Special Collections to conduct original research using the Pietro di Donato Collection on Thursday, February 28. Students examined, evaluated, and discussed manuscripts, correspondence, artifacts, and published works…
The Lone Survivor is a film which tells the true story of a US Navy SEAL team in Afghanistan in 2005. Lt. Michael Murphy from Long Island died during one of the teams’ heroic operations, along with all the other…
Dr. Elyse Graham (Department of English) shared her research on trolling behavior on the early internet, with an emphasis on the development of the phenomenon in a context of community boundary maintenance, misogyny, and the accessibility of the early internet. …
In partnership with the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Humanities Institute, the Graduate Student Organization, and other campus entities, the library was very pleased to host Humanities and the Digital: A Workshop, on February 13th. This workshop, on…
Professor Karen Lloyd’s ARH 204 class “Arts in the Age of Exploration” visited Special Collections on Thursday, February 14 to learn about the history of printmaking and early illustration techniques. A selection of SBU Libraries’ most rare books were examined,…
On February 6th, the University Libraries hosted its third annual forum dedicated to the Modern Language Association convention. This year, the forum included work presented at the American Historical Association meeting as well. Both conferences were held in Chicago in…
Dr. Clark will be leading a book reading and discussion of her latest publication: Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers (Ohio Univ Press)
Special Collections announces the opening of an important collection for historical research that documents a Long Island family and community dating back to 1705. Historian and author Willis H. White has donated the Samuel Hopkins Miller Collection, an archive comprised…
Women make up half of the population, but less than one in four elected leaders are women. When women run, they win at the same rates as men. Research shows that engaging women in politics in high school and college…
The rapid development of the Digital Humanities and their involvement in the Humanities research field has brought into discussion a vivid debate about how humanist scholars should meet these new digital challenges and how to incorporate them to their research.…