http://history.sunysb.edu State University of New York, Stony Brook Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:09:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lib W-4540 Tu Th 6:50-8:10 Popular perceptions and representations of Islam and Muslims are often founded on ignorance and outright prejudice.  Fundamental to these understandings are narrow and highly politicized notions of history, frequently accepted uncritically.  Accordingly, this course seeks first to introduce analytical approaches crucial to developing nuanced understandings of historical ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/06/10/his-227-islamic-civilizationmuslim-societies-fall-2010/ SBS N-318 Tu Th 2:20-3:40 Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural formations that emerge from these circulations. This course will accordingly consider ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/06/10/his-301-02-the-world-of-the-indian-ocean-fall-2010/ Course Objectives This course has two objectives. First, as with any history course, it seeks to make you a better reader, writer, and therefore thinker. You will learn how to read arguments based on factual evidence, evaluate those arguments on the basis of that evidence, come to your own conclusions--to think ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/05/19/american-politics-diplomacy-since-1945/ The History Department has recently established a combined, 5-year BA/MA program in history.  This program will allow highly qualified and motivated undergraduates to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 10 semesters.  The program will provide a challenging 5th year of study that will serve as a springboard for ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/02/25/new-combined-bama-program/ The Social Studies Education web site has moved!  The new URL is http://history.sunysb.edu/sse/. http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/02/14/228/ Check out the link to this video, prepared by the American Historical Association's film-making team, on our graduate program here in the history department: Preparing Historians for the Challenge of 21st Century Academia Here are some pictures from the premiere showing of a video featuring our department's graduate program, at the 2010 ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/01/26/pictures-from-the-aha-showing/ Spring 2010 Calendar Stony Brook Faculty Workshop Benedict Robinson (Thursday February 11, 12:50-2:10) (Stony Brook University Department of English) “DISGUST, C. 1610, FARINGDON WARD WITHOUT.” New Research in Historical Social Sciences Pablo Piccato (Tuesday March 9, 12:50-2:10) (Columbia University, History Department. Director of ILAS - Institute of Latin American Studies) “MURDER AND POLITICS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2010/01/13/spring-schedule-intiative-for-historical-social-sciences/ As a research project for my history of industrial hazards class (History 414), students created wikis on the history of some of Long Island's hazardous waste sites, regulated under the EPA's Superfund site.  We've now converted the results into publicly available websites.  Check it out if you are interested.... Overview Suffolk County: ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/22/history-of-long-island-superfund-sites/ Tuesday, December 15, 2009, the Science Times section of the New York Times has published my first Letter to the Editor ever. Some decline. http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/17/new-york-times/ Monday, 14 December 2009, volume 21, issue 1, of the LIHJ went online with six articles, eight reviews, a video interview, the first images of its eMuseum and the "enhanced mission" of writing Long Island history into the larger framework of local, national, and global history. The Editor in Chief, Charles ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/17/long-island-history-journal/