The Oswego County Historical Society will host its first lecture of the 2018 series on April 22. Joyce Cook, retired librarian and past director of the Fulton Public Library will present a program based on her new biography titled "Elimina Spencer: Oswego's Civil War Battlefield Nurse." Pictured is a photograph of Elmina Spencer taken in Oswego circa 1865. (Photograph Courtesy of the Oswego County Historical Society)
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Oswego County Historical Society To Host Lecture On Oswego Civil War Nurse Elmina Spencer

The Oswego County Historical Society will host the first lecture of the 2018 season on Sunday, April 22, at 1:30 p.m. at the Oswego Public Library at 120 E. Second St., Oswego. Guest lecturer Joyce Cook will present a program based on her new book entitled “Elmina Spencer: Oswego’s Civil War Battlefield Nurse.”

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Dr. David Andrews, chair of economics at SUNY Oswego, speaks with students (clockwise from right) Yuqin Jin, Matthew Poteralski, Devlin Murphy and Brooke Kocsis in the course "Economic Development" in Room 111 of Mahar Hall. Andrews and colleagues in two other departments will launch a new major, PPE -- philosophy, politics and philosophy -- this fall.
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New Major At Oswego Crosses Academic Boundaries To Explore Public Policy

Abraham Lincoln: politician, philosopher or economist? Was John Stuart Mill just a philosopher? Was Adam Smith just an economist? A new SUNY Oswego degree program to launch this fall underscores the answer: Academic disciplines, like careers, often intersect, regardless of boundaries and labels.

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