For the Stanford Humanities Center 2015 Presidential Lecture, renowned author Marilynne Robinson will draw from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s acclaimed essay “The American Scholar,” known as America’s intellectual Declaration of Independence,...

Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and practical tools to navigate the world. For those that collect them, however, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and in some cases disreputable characters in search of a finite...

Drawing from experiences living on both sides of the United States-Mexico border in the 1970s and in France in the 1990s, Enrique Chagoya's work juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to highlight ongoing cultural clashes in our global society.

Chagoya's work is...