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Upcoming Workshop on Research Methods and Sources for Indigenous Studies

Sign up for the upcoming workshop that will cover research methodologies and relevant resources for Indigenous histories and cultures. We will walk through the new LibGuide for Indigenous Histories & Cultures, search strategies, and resources available at Stony Brook University

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First-year students use databases to explore the history of technology

This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging

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The Value of GIS, Part II

Historians deal with the “where” as much as the “when.” GIS and geospatial analysis provide a suitable platform to tackle the former theme. Yet, GIS remains underdeveloped or absent in history programs. It is strange that history departments have not

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