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Stanford history Professor Jack Rakove offers a long-term perspective on some of the changes and challenges facing the U.S. political system. The presidency has emerged as the strongest of the three government branches while Congress is seemingly…
By Tom Winterbottom
Rio de Janeiro, site of the upcoming…
Richard White has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. He joins four other History faculty that have been previously elected to the American Philosophical Society: Keith Baker, David Kennedy, Jack Rakove and James Sheehan.
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On June 22, Michelle Nickerson, associate professor of history at Loyola University, delivered the keynote address for the 2016 Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Political Economy. Nickerson’s talk, entitled “Mothers of Conservatism,”…
By Clifton B. Parker
Stanford’s Hoover Institution Library & Archives is a major scholarly resource for understanding humanity’s hot-button topics over the past 100 years.
War, peace and revolution in the 20th and 21st centuries…
by Jacob Nierenberg
Actor, director and humanitarian Nate Parker spoke at the African & African American Studies (AAAS) department’s annual St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture on…
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…
