In a Q&A, nuclear security scholar Gabrielle Hecht discusses the consequences of nuclear war, what radioactive contamination would look like today and what damage nuclear activities have already caused.
Italy, a previously fascist country, became a democracy shortly after World War II ended. That transition and the country’s 1948 election are still sources of debate, and led Stanford undergraduate Anatole Schneider to search for answers.
Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian traces the establishment of Mexican social clubs and the funds they raised for their hometowns between the 1960s and 1980s.
A new professional development course at Stanford for middle and high school teachers highlights the importance of teaching the history of the First World War in a global context.
In her new book, Stanford historian Londa Schiebinger examines the development of medical knowledge and experiments conducted on slaves in British and French colonies between the 1760s and early 1800s.
A new website curated by Stanford faculty and students, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, translates medieval literature into English for the first time.
Stanford Humanities Institute offered a new course to its latest cohort of high school students on the rise and fall of ancient Rome and its legacies in order to underline the importance of studying the classical world.
Items from the Pacific region gathered by Jane Stanford and Stanford faculty are on display as part of a new exhibition at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
