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A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is shedding light on a key chapter of the intertwined relationship between China and the United States.

History Professor Allyson Hobbs, author of "A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life" gives a perspective on the Rachel Dolez case. Click the links below to listen to the programs.

History Professor Allyson Hobbs talks about sexual violence against black women during the Post-Civil War Period in an article for the New York Times.

To read "Pay Tribute to the Black Women Who Spoke Out About the Sexual Violence" by…

Through a study of the history of the French colonial Congo-Océan Railway, Stanford historian JP Daughton has discovered how modern humanitarianism arose from the brutality of European colonialism.

By Samuel Huneke

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Stanford history professor Allyson Hobbs participates in a discussion with other historians about the Civil War on the 150th anniversary of its final battle on the Tavis Smiley on PBS.

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"A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life" by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians:  the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for best first book in American history and the…

Drawing on 18th-and 19th-century writings, religious studies scholar Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the concept of "hell" influenced religion, politics and social reform.

By Marguerite Rigoglioso

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The History Department would like to congratulate Sarah Sadlier, a junior triple major (History, American Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures), who has been selected as a recipient of the 2015 Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award.  She…

Congratulations to David Fedman, a PhD candidate in Japanese history,  who has won the 2014 Ristow Prize for best essay in the history of cartography!  The Dr. Walter W. Ristow Prize is offered annually by the Washington Map Society to recognize…

The history of the settlement of the American West comes to life with Geography of the Post, a digital mapping platform that creates visualizations of where and when post offices operated.

By the 1870s, a combination of gold rushes,…