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On this episode, Lessig speaks with Jonathan Gienapp, an associate professor of history and law at Stanford University. The two discuss whether the original meaning of the First Amendment gives the people of Maine — or the U.S. Congress — the…
Jordan Virtue, of Stanford University, won the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper, "'The Lyre of War': Black Civil War Memory in Paul Laurence Dunbar." Andrew L. Slap, Chair of the Prize Committee, presented the…
The Senegal Liberations Project brings together educators from the U.S. and West Africa to address the lack of attention to slavery and freedom within Africa. For descendant communities, and those around the world who continue to live in slavery'…
Historians Jane Calvert, founding director and chief editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project, and Jonathan Gienapp, professor of history and law at Stanford University, guide us through the drafting, debates, and compromises…
Letters written by John Dickinson, a member of the Continental Congress, displayed in Cambridge, Mass.
Credit: Lauren O'Neil for The New York Times
“It’s hard to overstate the significance of this,” said Jonathan Gienapp, an associate professor of history and law at Stanford University, who co-wrote the introductory essay with Jane E. Calvert, a Dickinson scholar. “This is a very…
On March 24, Stanford Public Humanities hosted Jessica Riskin, the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, at the Humanities Center to celebrate her new book "The Power of Life" (Riverhead Books/Penguin, March 24, 2026). The French…
The medieval period is well known for several large-scale and horrific persecutions, especially ones based on religious grounds. One of these is a succession of expulsions of the Jews from one kingdom after another. Persecutions like these don’t…
Congratulations to Mathew Ayodele, Stanford History Ph.D student, on receiving the Lagos Studies Association Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his paper, “Transactional Agency: Nigerians, Indigenous Authorities, and Colonial…
Gabby Edelin plans to enter the legal field and give back to the communities that made her path possible. | Harry Gregory, Kurt Hickman, Andrew Brodhead, Charity Ferreira, and Paulina Pimentel-Mora
In her four years at Stanford, the history and psychology double major made lifelong friendships, joined a multigenerational sisterhood, and deepened her commitment to serving her communities.
Gabrielle Edelin was 10 when she decided she…
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize.
The Spengler Award committee – consisting of Steve Meardon (chair), Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, and Nina Eichacker –…
