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Professor Dan Edelstein has been awarded the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for 18th Century Studies for his most recent book, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin.
Professor Joel Cabrita has been named to the 101st Class of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows.
Pedro Regalado is Assistant Professor of History with a focus on the history of race, immigration, planning, and capitalism in urban America. His first book, Nueva York: Making the Modern City (under contract with Princeton University Press),…
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A new course brings together more than 30 faculty from diverse disciplines to explore how different groups have claimed and reshaped the Declaration of Independence across generations.
For two and a half centuries, the Declaration of…
This article explores the lives of Black women, free and enslaved, who hawked prepared foods like pepper pot stew on the streets and in the markets of northern cities between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Though ubiquitous in…
At a time when politicians are openly attacking the study of history, “Their Generation” goes back to the scholars who fundamentally transformed the field after the 1960s and, in doing so, changed how Americans understand themselves. These…
Benjamin Hein (Stanford History Ph.D., 2018) is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of modern Germany, Professor Hein explores how the circulation of ideas, people, and goods across Europe and the North Atlantic World…
“Cuba has always loomed large in the U.S. imagination,” says Mikael Wolfe, director of Stanford University’s Cuba Observatory. For decades, U.S. policy toward Cuba has been shaped by sanctions, pressure and political narratives that rarely face…
Jessica Riskin is Frances and Charles Field Professor of History. Her research and courses focus on European intellectual and cultural history from the seventeenth through nineteenth century, history of science and technology, and Old Regime and…
Thomas Mullaney, a professor in the Department of History, has been named the UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures at Stanford University. This designation is part of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Program, an inter-university cooperation network with more…
