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Through a study of the history of the French colonial Congo-Océan Railway, Stanford historian JP Daughton has discovered how modern humanitarianism arose from the brutality of European colonialism.
By Samuel Huneke
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Stanford history professor Allyson Hobbs participates in a discussion with other historians about the Civil War on the 150th anniversary of its final battle on the Tavis Smiley on PBS.
To view the program visit the PBS Tavis Smiley Show…
"A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life" by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in American…
Drawing on 18th-and 19th-century writings, religious studies scholar Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the concept of "hell" influenced religion, politics and social reform.
By Marguerite Rigoglioso
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The History Department would like to congratulate Sarah Sadlier, a junior triple major (History, American Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures), who has been selected as a recipient of the 2015 Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award. …
Congratulations to David Fedman, a PhD candidate in Japanese history, who has won the 2014 Ristow Prize for best essay in the history of cartography! The Dr. Walter W. Ristow Prize is offered annually by the Washington Map Society to…
The history of the settlement of the American West comes to life with Geography of the Post, a digital mapping platform that creates visualizations of where and when post offices operated.
By the 1870s, a combination of gold rushes,…
In an exhibition of rare books and in her research, Stanford history scholar Mackenzie Cooley reveals how studying the animals in Western culture can improve stewardship of the natural world today. Opening at Stanford on April 6, the "Beasts…
CLAYBORNE CARSON, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford, was in Selma, Alabama, last weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the day known as “Bloody Sunday…
Allyson Hobbs talked about her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, in which she examines the lives of African Americans who chose to pass as white between the 18th and mid-20th centuries. In her book, the…
