Programs

The Society sponsors programs open to the public throughout the year, highlighting a wide range of Stanford topics. Subjects are as diverse as the restoration of Memorial Church, physics at Stanford, Big Game heroes, history of the Medical School, Stanford in Britain, and the archaeology of the Stanford family house on campus. The Society co-sponsors an annual observance of Founders' Day, and also arranges field trips for members.

To find an event location, please consult the current campus map.

2015 - 2016 Program Schedule

Subject to Change
January 19, 2016
Tuesday

5:00 pm

Bechtel International Center Assembly Room 584 Capistrano Way Stanford, CA 94305

Camp Fremont: Stanford’s World War I Battlefield

As America entered World War I in 1917, Stanford University leased three-fourths of its Palo Alto land to allow the creation of an Army training camp, Camp Fremont, headquartered in present-day Menlo Park. The camp brought the war and its controversies home. Stanford adapted to the proximity of 28,000 soldiers, and the foothills acquired a trench ground and artillery range where dugouts and unexploded ordnance occasionally still emerge decades later. Peace broke out before most Camp Fremont troops saw battle, but the skills they acquired helped transform the West.

Barbara Wilcox, MLA ’15 and the author of World War I Army Training by San Francisco Bay: The Story of Camp Fremont (History Press, 2016), will give a presentation on Camp Fremont and its legacy in this program. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Registration required by January 13, 2016
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February 18, 2016
Thursday

5:00 pm

History Corner (Building 200, Room 2)

Tracking a Lost Voice: The Chinese Workers on Governor Stanford’s Transcontinental Railroad

  • Shelley Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities
  • Gordon Chang, Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities

Registration required
March 2, 2016
Wednesday

Time TBD

Cubberley Auditorium

The Grandest Child Care Experiment in History and Bing Nursery School

  • Christine VanDeVelde, journalist and author

Registration required
April 4, 2016
Monday

2016 Beyers’ Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing

Submission deadline 
May 2016

SHS 40th Annual Members’ Meeting & Reception

Feature program: Art: the Department, the Museum, and the McMurtry Building

  • Mona Duggan, Deputy Director of the Stanford Museum, Emerita
  • Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities
Registration required

Past Programs

 

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