Kristen Nyitray is the director of Special Collections and University Archives at Stony Brook. In this interview Joshua Berkowitz sat down with Ms Nyitray to discuss her work, as well as the interesting pieces contained in the collections and archives.
Mario Cuomo’s threat to flood United States Attorneys offices across the state with arrested drug suspects in 1990 was a long time coming.[1] Despite 7 years of both New York and the Federal Government expanding law enforcement and carceral infrastructure, Mario Cuomo, the 52nd Governor of New York, was faced with ever increasing crime rates and prisons that were perpetually overcrowded.
The Second Punic War began when Hannibal Barca, Ancient Carthaginian General, marched on Rome in 218 B.C.E. The goal of this move was to create a second war front that would tie up Roman armies that would have otherwise been sent to the front in Spain. The battle of Cannae was the third battle fought in this attack on the Italian peninsula and the most devastating to Rome.
Located between Latin Christendom to the west, the Byzantine Empire to the south and nomadic “pagans” to the east, the Kingdom of Hungary under the Arpad Dynasty (1000-1301) was an important frontier region in Europe. This paper examines the Kingdom of Hungary as an exemplar of the global Middle Ages.