Department of History

Colloquium Series held during Campus Lifetime (12:50-2:10 pm) in Room N318
Wednesday, September 21, 2011:
Marisa Balsamo, Rational Recreation in the Spectacle of Victorian London.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011:
Ying-Ying Chu, Measuring Cultural Change: A History of the Cornell-Peru Project, 1952-1964.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
Adam Charboneau, John Lindsay’s Fun City and New York’s Open Spaces, 1966-1973
Tuesday, November 1, 2011:
Andrew Ehrinpreis, [...]

Ruben Weltsch, the first head librarian at Stony Brook and a long-time member of the History Department, died last week.
Though it may seem strange to liken the extremely modest and gentle Ruben Weltsch to John Toll, they both shared the characteristic of being in the right place at the right time and of having a [...]