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By Marguerite Rigoglioso
Among the…
Allyson Hobbs has been selected to be a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She joins six other History who had been previously selected Distinguished Lecturers: Jennifer Burns, Albert Camarillo, James T.…
Robert Harrison from KZSU has a two-part conversation with Aishwary Kumar, professor of History at Stanford. In Part One, they discuss B.R. Ambedkar, the moral and political philosopher who was in charge of drafting the constitution after…
The Distinguished Contribution to Asian Studies Award is how the AAS acknowledges, and expresses its thanks to, a senior member of the Association who over the course of a long career has made a difference to the field of Asian Studies. This year…
By Anita Law
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James Madison may be best remembered as the father of the constitution, but he was also the nation's first wartime president—and, as such, was the first to wrestle with how to use executive power in the Oval Office during a major national…
By Ian P. Beacock
The Humanities at Stanford
Nestled along the border between Argentina and Brazil are the spectacular, thundering Iguazu Falls. Surrounding them are two national parks – legally protected areas of…
By Liz Covart
History is about people, but what do we know about the people behind history’s scenes?
Who are the people who tell us what we know about our past? And how do they come to know what they know?
Today, we begin…
BY TOM WINTERBOTTOM
In the last 15…
The Indian Express named Professor Aishwary Kumar’s new book, “Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy”, one of the 15 most influential books of 2015. The list includes books by George Kateb on Abraham Lincoln (Abraham's…
