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Professor Steven Press is the 2018 recipient of the American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch Award for his book Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa. 

 


 

Q&A with David Holloway, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History. Written with Áine Josephine Tyrrell.

After over 30…

C.S. Song, Host of Against the Grain, KPFA 94.1 FM interview with Professor Priya Satia 

What drove the Industrial Revolution? According to conventional wisdom, it was individual innovation and unfettered private enterprise. According…

BY CLIFTON B. PARKER

Given the flux of American politics right now, an idea like ‘universal basic income’ could gain political traction, a Stanford historian says.

Stanford scholar Jennifer Burns, a research fellow at the…

When historian Rowan Dorin first stepped onto the Stanford campus in early 2017, he made it a habit to visit Green Library every week to dig through its collection of medieval documents and objects.

After a few months, Dorin, an…

By Allyson Hobbs and Nell Freudenberger

We went to Montgomery, Alabama, to think about history, our country’s and our own. As a historian and a novelist, neither of us is especially adept at the confessional mode; it’s…

By James Zou and Londa Schiebinger

When Google Translate converts news articles written in Spanish into English, phrases referring to women often become ‘he said’ or ‘he wrote’. Software designed to warn people using Nikon cameras when the…

Professor Thomas S. Mullaney's new book The Chinese Typewriter has just been awarded the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, by the Media Ecology Association.

 

Podcast on New Books Network with Lance Turner.

 Londa Schiebinger‘s new book Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2017) examines the…

CIUDAD DE MEXICO (apro).- Hasta ahora los candidatos presidenciales, cuando no se están atacando, protestan contra la corrupción, la inseguridad y Trump, pero no han puesto mayor atención a un problema clave que azota a la nación desde mucho…