http://history.sunysb.edu State University of New York, Stony Brook Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:13:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Margaret, Sharon, Gregory, Tao, Nicholas, Erin, Michelle, and William [caption id="attachment_759" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="1st year graduate students at holiday party 2009"][/caption] http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/12/17/1st-year-students-at-holiday-party-2009/ This course will look at the history of “modern” consumption patterns with particular emphasis on gender identities.  We will look at changing conceptions of “producers” (traditionally represented as  male) and “consumers”(traditionally gendered as female) and explore the ideas (“rational consumption”), practices (shopping), and  institutions (department stores, advertising agencies) that intertwine ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/11/23/history-532-historyculture-of-consumerism/ This course will explore the history of work and environment during the modern era (nineteenth and twentieth centuries).  We will start with readings from “classic” texts and authors that have  set older and newer agendas for the fields of labor history (Marx, Fink, D. Montgomery) and environmental history (Marx, Worster, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/11/23/international-perspectives-on-history-of-work-and-environment/