http://history.sunysb.edu State University of New York, Stony Brook Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:16:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Undergraduate Studies Committee has added a section called "Writing Resources" to the Undergraduate page of this website.  The link will bring you to a useful list of errors to avoid and also a directory of helpful websites.  Pay a visit and let us know what you think. http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/06/17/helps-toward-good-writing/ Social History (link opens RTF file) La República (Lima, Peru) Amazon.com Alternet http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/06/16/reviews-of-andean-cocaine-2009/ This Field Seminar introduces some major debates and literatures about Latin American history since 1820. It is designed for MA-level students who intend to go on to a Ph.D. in Latin American History, though advanced students from other geographic concentrations, disciplines, and area universities are more than welcome. The focus ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/06/16/his-542-modern-latin-american-history-graduate-field-seminar/ All events will take place at SBS (Social and Behavioral Sciences Building) N-318 FROYLÁN ENCISO The Author as Bureaucrat: Debates around the Diplomatic Works of Octavio Paz and the Latin American Traveler-Writers 3/4 (W) 12:50 PM JUAN PABLO ARTINIAN Politics of Visual Representation in Argentina; State Power and Popular Creativity: Antonio Berni and Ricardo Carpani ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/02/27/department-colloquium-series-spring-2009/ This course will examine the formation of racial, ethnic and national identities in different American contexts in the modern era. We will begin with broad synthetic approaches to the history of racial discourses and their sociopolitical uses in the formation of modern nations, empires, and market economies. In ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/02/06/history-534-race-and-nation-making-in-the-americas/ By now, it has become widely accepted that History (with a capital H) was deeply implicated in naturalizing the territorially delimited nation-state as one of the fundamental categories of historical analysis and narration. This recognition of the radical historicity of their own disciplinary knowledge is leading many historians to take ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/02/06/his-653-transnationalizing-historyhistoricizing-the-global/ This is one of the theme seminars in the Doctoral program of the Department of History.  It is open to all doctoral students and MA students in the History program.  All others, including MAT students, must have the instructor's permission to enroll. The readings will include a mixture of thematic, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/02/06/history-532-gender-religion-and-modernity/ This Theme Seminar, intended primarily for aspiring Ph.D. students from any regional concentration or discipline, explores the history of what anthropologist Sidney Mintz calls the "food-drugs"--sugar, tobacco, coffee, alcohol, betel, chocolate, yerba mate, coca and the like.  It examines their creation as commodities and their powerful historical contributions to ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/02/06/his-553-food-and-drugs-commodities-in-global-history/ The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in cooperation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will hold a conference in Stony Brook on March 20-21, 2009, on “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries.” Military man and engineer, chronicler and diplomat, lord ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2009/02/01/upcoming-conference-the-worlds-of-lion-gardiner/ Click on the title of this entry to find links to those extra documents I promised for your suburban town histories.ChrisLand Use Map, 1968Land Use Map Key to Different UsesRacial Composition and Total Population, 1960 and 1970 http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/12/04/for-history-of-american-suburbia-students/