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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Tucker Carlson meeting fans at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin in 2024.
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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’…

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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Samia Errazzouki discusses the execution of Dr. Rodrigo Lopes for poisoning Elizabeth I.

Kyle Harmse is a 7th year PhD candidate in History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine at Stanford Department of History. His dissertation, tentatively titled Engineering the Counter-Revolution: The techno-military mobilisation of…

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The Order of the Coif presents one or more awards to the author or authors of outstanding publications that evidence creative talent of the highest order. As a U.S. organization, the Order of the Coif recognizes outstanding scholarship by authors…

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The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes one outstanding faculty member who generously donates time to alumni, goes beyond the expectations of university appointments and embodies the Stanford Alumni Association mission. 

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Professor Paula Findlen has received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for her Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, 1573-1636/Firenze globale: il mondo di Francesco Carletti, 1573-1636. 

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