Department of History

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
1:00-2:15 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., Room N320
“A World of Many Flags: Privateering and the Strange Sovereignty of the Provincia Oriental”
Lauren Benton, New York University

Papers will be posted on the IHSS website:  http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml

Suzanne Swartz, PhD student in Department of History chosen for Lipper Internship Program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Swartz, a PhD student in the Department of History, has studied the Museum’s exhibitions, heard testimony from Holocaust survivors and attended seminars led by Museum scholars. “Lippers” then begin sharing the knowledge they have obtained with their [...]

The Departments of History and Geosciences and the Humanities Center
Stony Brook University
Present

Conevery Bolton-Valencius
Department of History, University of Massachusetts Boston

Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes:

Creating Knowledge in the Early United States

In the winter of 1811-12, a series of sizable tremors rippled out from the middle Mississippi Valley.  What we now term the New Madrid [...]

Click on link for Spring 2012 Courses: Spring 2o12

A Continuing Series on Environmental Studies and History Presents:
A talk by Professor Andrew Hurley
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Interpreting History in 3D:Applications of the Virtual City
in Communities, Classrooms, and Scholarship
Professor Hurley, a leading environmental and cultural historian, will speak about his and colleagues’ creation of the Virtual City, a “simulated world of downtown St. Louis from [...]

Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Wednesday, October 19th, 12:50 – 2:00 PM, SBS, Room N-320
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives – “Why State Strength and Weakness Persist: The Social Origins of State Power in 20th Century Latin America”
Hillel Soifer, Temple University – Department of Political Science
Wednesday, November 9th, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, SBS, Room N-318
Faculty Workshop – “The [...]

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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 [...]

Our Professor Sara Lipton, in her New York Times editorial, offers real “lessons of the past” for the current “Weinergate” scandal.  See link below for the editorial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17lipton.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper