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LENA ZLOCK, a senior majoring in history and French, has won a 2019 Ertegun Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in the humanities at the University of Oxford next academic year.

Zlock is the first Stanford undergraduate to be honored…

Stanford History Department and Center for East Asian Studies held a memorial service for Harold L. Kahn, Professor Emeritus of History on Saturday, February 9, 2019, at the Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall.

The Department of…

Lillian Smith did something 70 years ago that was unusual for a white writer: She delved into the world of southern gentility to reveal the bigotry, both casual and virulent, that lay beneath. In her controversial book, “Killers of the Dream,”…

On Friday morning, President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, in order to access billions of dollars in funding for the construction of a wall. In doing so, Trump defied the authority of Congress, which had settled on a…

Professor Mikael D. Wolfe was awarded the Elinor Melville Prize for Best Book in Latin American Environmental History for his book Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico (Duke University…

Harold L. “Hal” Kahn, a professor emeritus of history who taught at Stanford for over 40 years, died at his home in San Francisco on Dec. 11 of natural causes. He was 88.

Kahn, a specialist in 17th- and 18th-century Chinese history, was…

 

            One hundred years ago, a wave of anti-Jewish violence swept over Eastern Europe, leaving as many as 300,000 Jews dead and tens of thousands of families destroyed.…

Last Sunday, as Border Patrol agents were tear-gassing Central American asylum seekers, including parents with their toddlers, more than 40,000 other migrants were being held in detention facilities across the United States.

The Economist, Dec 1, '2018.

 

The Economist best books of the year, under the History category, included Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, by Steven Zipperstein.

"The pogrom in Kishinev in 1903 became a…

The work of Stanford historian CLAYBORNE CARSON has been recently honored with two awards, one of which took him to the Taj Mahal Palace in India this month.

Carson, who is the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research…