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History News Network, "Exploring 'The Wall in the Head," by Robin Lindley, November 14, 2011. http://hnn.us/articles/142938.html
Note to Innovators: Sex Matters The Stanford Magazine talks with Professor Londa Schiebinger.
"Scholar investigates history of witchcraft prosecution" - History Professor Laura Stokes talks about the origins witchcraft prosecution. For the complete article visit: The Human Experience News
Congratulations to History for receiving the 2011 Fraenkel Prize, awarded by the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History, London, for the book manuscript Burned Bridge
History Professor Allyson Hobbs was invited to participate in C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" television series on American History TV. Allyson's lecture on the Great Migration from her lecture course, "From Freedom to Freedom Now: African American History 1865-1965," has been airing on C-SPAN
"The Wall of the Mind: Fifty years after the construction of the Berlin Wall, a Stanford historian investigates the powerful social impact of the Iron Curtain" by Kareem Yasin takes a look at Assistant Professor Edith Sheffer new book "Burned Bridge: How East an
Congratulations to History Professor Thomas Mullaney for winning the 2011 American History Association Pacific Branch Award for "Best First Book on Any Historical Subject" for his new book "Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China".
The Chronicle of Higher Learning has a good article on "Median Earnings by Major and Subject Area" complete with an interactive image with salary levels. (May 23, 2011)
"The Value of a Humanities Degree: Six Students' Views", and article by Jackie Basu, Karmia Cao, Gregory Hertz, Julian Kusnadi, Miles Osgood, and Alex Romanczuk ... for the full article visit The Chronicle of Higher education (June 6, 2011)
History Professor Albert Camarillo, special assistant to the provost for faculty diversity, and Karen Cook, vice provost for faculty development and diversity, talked about Stanford's efforts to increase the number of female faculty and faculty of color on campus ... for the full article visit Sanford Report (May 31, 2011)
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