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Writers' experiences of Partition is unlike the high-political narratives focused on Jinnah, Nehru & the Mountbattens.
Exodus: On both sides, people lived among the detritus of Partition & disruption
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A collection of horrific and emotional tales of the Partition of India with over 4,300 witness interviews is set to go public for the first time this week, it was announced on Sunday.
Partition Tales
Stanford Humanities Institute offered a new course to its latest cohort of high school students on the rise and fall of ancient Rome and its legacies in order to underline the importance of studying the classical world.
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A lightning bolt struck the tobacco world last Friday when the Food and Drug Administration announced a plan aimed at reducing the nicotine in cigarettes to a nonaddictive level. Within an hour, the value of global tobacco stocks plummeted — and…
The Governing Council of the Universitat de València has approved on Tuesday to appoint the science historian Londa Schiebinger, who is professor at Stanford and stands out for promoting excellence of women at science and engineering, as doctor…
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, written by historian ALLYSON HOBBS, made it to the 2017 summer reading lists of Harvard University Press and The Paris Review.
Allyson Hobbs
CAROLYN LOUGEE, the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emerita, was recently honored with two awards – the 2016 David H. Pinkney Prize and the 2017 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize – for her 2016 book, Facing the Revocation:…
Stanford history professor Nancy Kollmann discusses the establishment of the Russian Empire and how Russia’s past shapes its present.
In a new book, history Professor Nancy Kollmann provides insight into the rise of the…
Steven Press uncovers an overlooked method of empire-building in the late 1800s that saw Europe make an indelible mark on Africa. Press documents these historic events in his new book.
Stanford historian Steven Press has…
Stanford students who experience a new archives-centric teaching approach stress the importance of exposure to primary historical materials for students of all disciplines.
Senior Jiaxin Guan and freshman Emily Zhang…
