Category: Great reads

Tales from the world's largest refugee crisis find a home at Stanford

To mark the 70th anniversary of Partition, the creation of modern India and Pakistan, the 1947 Partition Archive in partnership with Stanford Libraries has made thousands of unheard stories from witnesses and survivors available online.  The online collection will bring more than 4,300 oral histories and 30,000 digital photos and documents into the public domain. The oral… Read more Tales from the world's largest refugee crisis find a home at Stanford

The story behind alumna Yaa Gyasi's "Homegoing"

In the July/August issue of Stanford magazine, writer SAM SCOTT tells the story of alumna YAA GYASI, whose remarkable book Homegoing will be featured as part of Stanford’s Three Books program during New Student Orientation. Homegoing follows the lineage of two half-sisters born in different villages in Ghana and their descendants through eight generations. It… Read more The story behind alumna Yaa Gyasi's "Homegoing"

Allyson Hobbs' A Chosen Exile makes summer reading lists

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, written by historian ALLYSON HOBBS, made it to the 2017 summer reading lists of Harvard University Press and The Paris Review. The 2014 book examines the phenomenon of racial passing, which is an intentional attempt by a person to assume a different racial identity,… Read more Allyson Hobbs' A Chosen Exile makes summer reading lists

Siegfried Hecker's book on nuclear dangers recognized

SIEGFRIED HECKER has won a national award from the American Association for State and Local History for his book, Doomed to Cooperate. Subtitled “How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Great Post–Cold War Nuclear Dangers,” the work tells the story of nuclear scientists from two former enemy nations who reached across political,… Read more Siegfried Hecker's book on nuclear dangers recognized

Need a good book for summer reading?

Whatever your summer plans, you’ll need some good reads. The Stanford Alumni Association offers these recommendations, chosen by STANFORD BOOK SALON faculty hosts. JOHN EVANS, Jones Lecturer of Creative Writing, hosted The Book of Hulga for the Book Salon. He recommends: Late in the Empire of Men, by Christopher Kempf In These Girls, Hope Is… Read more Need a good book for summer reading?

Harold Mooney’s Ecosystems of California wins California Book Award

Ecosystems of California has received the Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing in the 86th Annual California Book Awards. The comprehensive reference guide, which includes contributions from more than 150 authors, is a deep dive into the functions, management and diversity of each ecosystem in the Golden State. This adds to the PROSE Award for… Read more Harold Mooney’s Ecosystems of California wins California Book Award

Pamela Karlan on the legal implications of the Comey firing

In this Q&A with Stanford Lawyer, Law School Professor PAMELA KARLAN discusses the legal implications of the May 9 firing of FBI Director James Comey. President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey seems to have been a break with tradition. Can you talk about that – the structure of power – and why the… Read more Pamela Karlan on the legal implications of the Comey firing

Phil Pizzo reflects on transitions and identity

Scope, the award-winning Stanford Medicine blog, recently wrote about an essay PHIL PIZZO, former dean of the School of Medicine, wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) about later-life career transitions. After stepping down as dean, Pizzo founded Stanford’s successful Distinguished Careers Institute, which helps accomplished individuals transform themselves for roles with… Read more Phil Pizzo reflects on transitions and identity

Delphine Red Shirt's George Sword's Warrior Narratives honored

DELPHINE RED SHIRT, lecturer of Native American Studies and Special Languages, was recently honored with two awards for her 2016 book about the writings of Native American George Sword. Her book, George Sword’s Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition, examines the characteristics of the oral storytelling and literature of the Lakota people, who… Read more Delphine Red Shirt's George Sword's Warrior Narratives honored

Teaching middle-school students to love the humanities

The Stanford Humanities Circle, an after-school academic enrichment program for middle-school and high school students, concluded its first session on March 15, instilling some 50 pre-collegiate students with an appreciation for the humanities. The students, chosen by lottery, attended weekly sessions on campus, where they received instruction from Stanford faculty and Bay Area humanities experts.… Read more Teaching middle-school students to love the humanities