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Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper, was the…
Working with an international team, Stanford history Professor Londa Schiebinger has used gender analysis to spark discovery in science and innovation in technology.
BY BARBARA WILCOX
Doing research wrong costs lives and money. Ten…
The Jewish Lives biography series published by Yale University Press, a collection of volumes now numbering more than twenty and edited under the supervision of Steven J. Zipperstein and his Israeli colleague Anita Shapira, has been awarded the…
On the January 27, 2015 episode of “Crosscurrents,” we are talking about identity. We have heard how people, whether intentionally or not, can “pass” as another race, just by the sound of their voice. Passing can also be a full-time, physical…
Stanford Pulitzer Prize-winning historian dies at 93
A leading post-World War II historian, Stanford Professor Carl Degler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking 1972 book on slavery and…
Claybore Carson, Professor of American History and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of American History, have both have books listed in ""The Best 15…
Students in SIMILE, an intensive year-long humanities program with a focus on the history of science, put hand-made ink to hand-made paper to recreate the ancient manuscript process. Their projects captured for posterity snippets of ancient and…
Stanford history Professor KEITH BAKER has won an Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association. Each year the AHA honors senior historians in the United States for lifetime achievement in the discipline.…
Stanford archaeologist leads the first detailed study of human remains at the ancient Egyptian site of Deir el-Medina. By combining an analysis of written artifacts with a study of skeletal remains, Stanford postdoctoral scholar Anne Austin…
