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Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History, Barbara Finberg University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Professor of French and Italian (by courtesy). She received her B.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Wellesley…

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Professor Riskin’s engaging new book, The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was reviewed for the New York Review of Books. 

"Posterity avenged him... In a society…

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The Constitution began as an experiment. Once it took effect, Americans had to figure out what it actually meant. They did not agree.

Host Dr. Katie Crawford-Lackey talks with Dr. Jonathan Gienapp, professor of history and law at Stanford…

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Under Professor Daughton’s leadership, the Center will continue to bring Stanford affiliates together with their colleagues in France to address historical and contemporary issues of common intellectual concern, to advance collaborative research…

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The North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS) Pre-Dissertation Grants are awarded to Ph.D. candidates to pursue preliminary research on potential dissertation-length studies related to any topic in British (including Scottish,…

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INDRA, for Industry Documents Research and Analysis, is freely available in beta on the Stanford University website (https://indra.stanford.edu), where you can now explore the UCSF Industry Documents Library, Columbia and CUNY's ToxicDocs, and…

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Professor Caroline Winterer spoke at National Constitutional Center about how the American founders drew inspiration from not only classical Greece and Rome, but other civilizations in the ancient world, including Carthage, Rome’s mortal enemy.…

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Kayra Guven, a Stanford University PhD student in History, developed Empires in Plane Sight: Airline Routes & Worldmaking, a proposal that examines maps of the global network of commercial airline routes that took shape in the twentieth…

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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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Jonathan Gienapp, professor of history and law and Stanford University, joins Mike Sacks of Court Accountability Action. Gienapp, a constitutional historian, draws on his historical research to show that the Roberts Court's originalist rulings…