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It was an unseasonably warm night in Chicago. On Tuesday, November 4, 2008, nearly a quarter of a million people—young and old, men and women of almost every racial and ethnic background—streamed into Grant Park. The crowd was peaceful and…
The program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education.
By Kathleen J. Sullivan
Provost John Etchemendy announced…
On August 11th, Hillary Clinton met privately with five Black Lives Matter activists in Keene, New Hampshire. The activists had arrived at Clinton’s campaign stop shortly before it was to begin, but they were not allowed to enter because the room…
Through research into the first historians of medieval Europe, Professor Paula Findlen discovers that an interest in women's history began much earlier than is assumed.
By Kathyrn Dickason
The Humanities at Stanford
Today,…
By Biliana Kassabova…
On March 4, 1865, after days of heavy rain, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address in a soggy capital to tens of thousands of Americans gathered in the mud and the muck. The speech was brief but profound and elegant. The…
In James Baldwin’s 1968 novel “Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone,” a child points to his light-skinned mother’s relationships to offer a compelling case that she is indisputably black:
“Our mama is almost white … but that…
A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is shedding light on a key chapter of the intertwined relationship between China and the United States.
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History Professor Allyson Hobbs, author of "A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life" gives a perspective on the Rachel Dolez case. Click the links below to listen to the programs.
Rachel Dolezal and the ‘politics of…
History Professor Allyson Hobbs talks about sexual violence against black women during the Post-Civil War Period in an article for the New York Times.
To read "Pay Tribute to the Black Women Who Spoke Out About the Sexual Violence" by…
