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Jun 1, 2012

The William R. Coe Summer Workshop in American History

The Coe workshop will not be offered in summer 2012. Updated information to follow.

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May 29, 2012

Richard W. Lyman, Stanford's seventh president, dead at 88

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Richard Lyman, a long-time faculty member and chair of the History Department before he became provost and president of Stanford, passed away over Memorial Day weekend 2012. For the full article click here.

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May 25, 2012

Railroaded - Professor Richard White's new book has won the Francis Parkman Prize

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Professor Richard White's Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (W.W. Norton, 2011) has been awarded the 55th annual Francis Parkman Prize. For more information click here.

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Apr 29, 2012

Distorting the Word 'Zionism': Liberal Zionists Speak Out

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“Distorting the Word 'Zionism': Liberal Zionists Speak Out” - Appearing in the Huffington Post on 4/25/2012, this column is part of a series from the Liberal Zionist Speak Out. To view the complete column click here.

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Mar 24, 2012

Professor Londa Schiebinger has been awarded an NSF grant for her Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, and Engineering project.

To visit the Gendered Innovations site click on this link.

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Mar 6, 2012

Stanford researchers bring life to high school history classes with a curriculum built around historical documents

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Mar 6, 2012

Galileo's Credo by History Professor Paula Findlen

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Galileo's Credo

by History Professor Paula Finlen

February 14, 2012 (The Nation) Click here for article

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Mar 6, 2012

Stanford History professor Priya Satia discussed the ethics of British aerial tactics in Iraq during the interwar years...

Professor Priya Satia lecturing

Air campaign set unethical precedent in Iraq, prof says

Friday, February 10th, 2012 (The Stanford Daily)
By Marwa Farag

Associate Professor of History Priya Satia B.A., B.S. ‘95 delivered a talk entitled “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia” Thursday at Annenberg Auditorium. The talk was part of the Ethics and War Series sponsored by the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

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Feb 24, 2012

Assistant Professor Allyson Hobbs has won the Graves Award in the Humanities, in recognition of her outstanding teaching.

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Feb 23, 2012

Rare Judeo-Spanish memoir gives a voice to the people of a lost culture

Stanford Report, February 21, 2012Historians Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein bring the history of Ottoman Jews to life in a text published by Stanford University Press.
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Talks and Videos

Headshot of Thomas S. Mullaney"A Chinese Typewriter in Silicon Valley"
(Google Tech Talk)
By Thomas S. Mullaney

Headshot of Edith ShefferEdith Sheffer: In Their Own Words

Headshot of James CampbellHistorical Consciousness - James T. Campbell

Upcoming Events

  • Jun 17, 2012
    Department of History Diploma Ceremony
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Publications

  • Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
    by Robert N. Proctor
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    A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
    by Aron Rodrigue
  • Book Cover: Critical Han Studies by Thomas S. Mullaney
    Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority
    by Thomas S. Mullaney
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