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James Campbell is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University. Professor Campbell's career has focused on African American history and the wider history of the Black Atlantic.
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Jordan Virtue, of Stanford University, won the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper, "'The Lyre of War': Black Civil War Memory in Paul Laurence Dunbar." Andrew L. Slap, Chair of the Prize Committee, presented the…
Historians Jane Calvert, founding director and chief editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project, and Jonathan Gienapp, professor of history and law at Stanford University, guide us through the drafting, debates, and compromises…
Letters written by John Dickinson, a member of the Continental Congress, displayed in Cambridge, Mass.
Credit: Lauren O'Neil for The New York Times
“It’s hard to overstate the significance of this,” said Jonathan Gienapp, an associate professor of history and law at Stanford University, who co-wrote the introductory essay with Jane E. Calvert, a Dickinson scholar. “This is a very…
On March 24, Stanford Public Humanities hosted Jessica Riskin, the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, at the Humanities Center to celebrate her new book "The Power of Life" (Riverhead Books/Penguin, March 24, 2026). The French…
The medieval period is well known for several large-scale and horrific persecutions, especially ones based on religious grounds. One of these is a succession of expulsions of the Jews from one kingdom after another. Persecutions like these don’t…
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize.
The Spengler Award committee – consisting of Steve Meardon (chair), Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, and Nina Eichacker –…
We had the opportunity to speak with Mariana Calvo, a fifth-year PhD candidate in Transnational, International, and Global History and coordinator of the Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop, about her dissertation project and…
Annelise Heinz (Stanford History PhD 2015) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. She is primarily a historian of modern America whose research focuses on the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. Her…
Farah Bazzi is an 8th year Ph.D. candidate in early modern global history. Her work aims to bridge Mediterranean and Atlantic history with a focus on environmental thought, race, indigeneity, cosmology, cartography, and technologies of conquest.…
