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History Professor and Department Chair, Paula Findlen, is a 2016 recipient of a 2016 Premio Galileo prize. The Premio Galileo is an international prize awarded by the Fondazione Premio Internazionale Galileo Galilei in two categories…
"A liberal education cultivates empathy. It makes us human."
Allyson Hobbs
Associate Professor of History
Stanford will welcome the Class of 2020 on Tuesday. The day will culminate with the 126th Opening Convocation Ceremony from…
Hispanic voters are poised to have an unprecedented influence on the 2016 election, Stanford historian Albert Camarillo said. Key battleground states are home to increasing numbers of Hispanic voters, for example.
By Nancy Murphy
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BOOK REVIEW
WHERE THE JEWS AREN’T
The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
By Masha Gessen
170 pp. Schocken. $25.
By Steven Zipperstein
In the summer of 1932 Birobidzhan, some…
by Julie Makinen
For more than a century, Chinese typewriters have been objects of curiosity, confusion and even a fair bit of ridicule — after all, how do you type a language that has no alphabet?
On “The Simpsons,” smarty-pants…
Stanford history Professor Jack Rakove offers a long-term perspective on some of the changes and challenges facing the U.S. political system. The presidency has emerged as the strongest of the three government branches while Congress is seemingly…
By Tom Winterbottom
Rio de Janeiro, site of the upcoming…
Richard White has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. He joins four other History faculty that have been previously elected to the American Philosophical Society: Keith Baker, David Kennedy, Jack Rakove and James Sheehan.
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On June 22, Michelle Nickerson, associate professor of history at Loyola University, delivered the keynote address for the 2016 Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Political Economy. Nickerson’s talk, entitled “Mothers of Conservatism,”…
By Clifton B. Parker
Stanford’s Hoover Institution Library & Archives is a major scholarly resource for understanding humanity’s hot-button topics over the past 100 years.
War, peace and revolution in the 20th and 21st centuries…
