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The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous calendar year. The books must focus primarily on continental Africa (including…
Becca De Los Santos (Stanford '24, currently in Emory University PhD Program) for “Inversion of the Top-Down Operation: Enslaved Voices and French Abolitionism in 1840s Senegal,” Herodotus 34 (Spring 2024)
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These days, American constitutional law looks obsessively to the past. Interpreters of the U.S. Constitution have always appealed to history to understand what it means, but never to this extent or with these consequences. As the most recent…
The E. Ohnuki-Tierney Book Award for Historical Anthropology is a bi-annual award. To be considered for this award, a book should be an outstanding example of scholarship that focuses on “culture as historical processes.” The research must take…
Gili Kliger joined the Stanford History Department as Lecturer in September 2024. She received her Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2022. A historian of modern Europe, Gili’s first book manuscript, tentatively titled Found in…
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In a new book, Caroline Winterer explores how the geologic record upended biblical notions about the Earth’s age for 19th-century Americans, whose reconstructed understanding of time affected their sense of identity and purpose.
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Stanford University professor Jonathan Gienapp, author of the new book, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, is joined by Stephen Sachs of Harvard Law School to discuss Gienapp’s challenge to originalists…
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For a few hundred years, the New World of the Americas was thought to be genuinely new. But in the course of the nineteenth century, Americans became increasingly uncertain about the ground beneath their feet. Canal building uncovered strange…
The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?
In early July 1985, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese launched a legal revolution from the tony confines of the Sheraton…
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Imagine living in a world without a conception of a past greater than a few hundred or thousand years. A world in which “old” was perhaps not much older than your great, great, great grandfather. How would that change your conception of history,…
