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Scott Spillman (Stanford PhD 2017) is an American historian and the author of Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today (Basic Books, 2025). His essays and reviews have appeared in The Point, Liberties, The…
Three Stanford History faculty members will give upcoming lectures as part of the Stanford Continuing Studies Distinguished Lecture Series:
This article is a feature on Professor Paula Findlen
Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades.
In 1988, Paula Findlen was…
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Tristan Hughes explores Ancient America's true age; how 19th-century fossil discoveries across North America revealed a history far older than previously believed, challenging the notion that the Americas were a 'New World.'
Tristan is…
Late in 1774, Lord Robert Clive was found dead in his London townhouse. Rumors flew that conscience had finally compelled the rapacious conqueror to take his own life. Having just arrived in Pennsylvania from England, Thomas Paine recalled…
On March 20, 2025, Stanford’s History Department celebrated the spring equinox by hosting a hands-on workshop on astrolabes—ancient astronomical instruments invented in ancient Greece, widely used in the Islamic world during the medieval and…
“This is not for women only,” Estelle Freedman, professor emeritus of history, said of feminist studies. “This is the study of sexual inequality and distinctions about gender, so we called it feminist studies.”
Freedman co-founded…
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Narusa Yamato for receiving the Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council's Best Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper titled "The Global Making of a Japanese ‘Holstein Island’: Silk, Milk, and…
During a recent event on campus, professors Jonathan Gienapp and Michael McConnell came together for a wide-ranging discussion about the intersection of history, law, and politics in constitutionalism.
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This week, the ladies react to the ransacking of the federal government by Elon Musk and his fleet of DOGE dorks. Then, Kate and Leah speak with Jonathan Gienapp, professor of law and history at Stanford University and author of Against…
