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John F. Kennedy took George Plimpton by surprise after a dinner party one evening when he pulled his friend aside for a word in the Oval Office. The president had Reconstruction on his mind—really, though, he wanted to discuss Plimpton’s…
Through studying the residues of South Africa’s mining industry – a core infrastructure of the apartheid regime – Stanford historian Gabrielle Hecht shows how its deleterious effects continue.
While apartheid – South Africa’s brutal racial…
History Minor Becca De Los Santos received a grant from CESTA and from History to attend "Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present", held at the University of London. Read below for her report on the experience:
On…
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This award recognizes individuals for their exceptional contributions to advancing civil and human rights.
Clayborne Carson, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor and professor of history, emeritus, at Stanford’s School…
Wallace Teska is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in African History, studying the development of state and non-state law in a transnational region spanning present-day Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. As a 2023-24 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellow…
Research shows that slowing biodiversity loss will require more knowledge of sex-specific responses to climate hazards like heat waves and extreme temperature fluctuations.
Biological sex can be an important factor in predicting how animal…
Eduardo Acosta is 2023-24 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History Department. He received his Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2022. A historian of early modern South Asia, he works on the…
Professor Kathryn Olivarius' book, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, has been awarded the AHA Prize in American History for an author's first or second book.
Congratulations Professor Olivarius!
Professor Peter Stansky recently received the Peter Davison Award from The Orwell Society. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of Orwell's life and work.
The Peter Davison Award
The Peter Davison Award is a…
Professor Jennifer Burns' forthcoming book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, has been drawing attention across the country and around the world. Below is a list of articles that have featured the book, slated to hit the shelves November…
