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Austin Clements is a 6th year PhD Candidate in U.S. History field, studying cultural and intellectual history of religion, political extremism, fascism, and white supremacy. He has been a recipient of American Religions in a Global Context…

Narusa Yamato is 6th year Ph.D. candidate in East Asian History. Interested in the history of science and material culture, her work probes the  relationship between imperialism, nation building, and capitalism by studying the history of the…

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Jair Bolsonaro is now awaiting trial on charges of plotting a coup, depriving Brazil’s far-right bloc of its figurehead. Yet with a presidential election due next year, the Brazilian left hasn’t found a candidate who can match Lula’s popular…

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Intersectionality describes interdependent systems of inequality related to sex, gender, race, age, class and other socio-political dimensions. By focusing on the compounded effects of social categories, intersectional analysis can enhance the…

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In a Nature article, Stanford historian Londa Schiebinger and a global, multidisciplinary group of co-authors argue that analyzing the ways different types of inequality can intersect in people’s lives will improve natural science and…

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Scott Spillman (Stanford PhD 2017) is an American historian and the author of Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today (Basic Books, 2025). His essays and reviews have appeared in The Point, Liberties, The…

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Three Stanford History faculty members will give upcoming lectures as part of the Stanford Continuing Studies Distinguished Lecture Series:
 

April 28: Caroline Winterer Answering Big Questions: Thoreau, Emerson, and MoreMay 12:…
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This article is a feature on Professor Paula Findlen

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades.

In 1988, Paula Findlen was…

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Tristan Hughes explores Ancient America's true age; how 19th-century fossil discoveries across North America revealed a history far older than previously believed, challenging the notion that the Americas were a 'New World.'

Tristan is…

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Late in 1774, Lord Robert Clive was found dead in his London townhouse. Rumors flew that conscience had finally compelled the rapacious conqueror to take his own life. Having just arrived in Pennsylvania from England, Thomas Paine recalled…