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Department of History and Green Library’s Special Collections hosted an enthusiastic group of Stanford students for a hands-on field trip to explore the University Archives in February 2026. Dr. Anne Ladyem McDivitt, the Academic Technology…
Ph.D. student Mariana Calvo talks to Argentina's Radio Amanecer about her research about the expansion of European corporations into Latin America through investment, infrastructure construction, and socio-economic control.
An all-star conversation among Stanford professors, recorded live before Stanford students, about originalism and how it interacts with recent cases from the federal courts of appeals. Anya Bidwell hosts Jud Campbell, Jonathan Gienapp, and Orin…
Stanford historian Jenna Phillips discusses the influence of medieval customs on Valentine’s Day traditions, highlighting how 12th- and 13th-century poets and musicians shaped our modern understanding of love.
Steven Press is Associate Professor of History whose teaching and research focuses on sovereignty, international relations, and commodity networks in modern Europe and European colonies. He is the author of two award-winning books, Rogue…
No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe receives the Medieval Academy of America's 2026 John Nicholas Brown Prize awarded to outstanding monographs in medieval history.
The Hoover Institution Center for Revitalizing American Institutions webinar series features speakers who are developing innovative ideas, conducting groundbreaking research, and taking important actions to improve trust and efficacy in American…
Congratulations to history major George Porteous (’27) for his recent election as Editor-in-Chief of Volume 269 of the Stanford Daily.
In addition to working at the Daily since autumn of his freshman year, George recently spent the…
Call it the information age, the fourth industrial revolution, the cognitive era. Call it whatever you like, but it seems clear we are in the midst of an economic transformation as profound as those that sent medieval serfs to the cities, yeoman…
Tucker Carlson meeting fans at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin in 2024.
(Credit: Landon Nordeman for The New York Times)
If you’re looking for an answer to the question “How did we get here?” — from 1990s multiculturalism and free market globalism to ICE raids and Venezuela — you could do worse than using the arc of Tucker Carlson’s career as your lens. And if you’…
