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Department of History

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Welcome to the Stanford University Department of History

We offer innovative courses, cutting-edge research, and critical outreach to better understand the past in order to prepare for the future.

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Studying History

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Clerics' Wives and Women in the Medieval Latin West, 800–1200

Europe's Little Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of Neutral Moresnet

How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information

Nuclear Weapons: An International History

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

 

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The Department of History is a part of the School of Humanities and Sciences

 

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