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.

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.

The Humanities Center is pleased to announce its class of 2017-18. It includes 23 new fellows representing a diverse array of humanities fields. Their topics range from slavery in Brazil to the history of the scientific method to Native American poetry to post-industrial labor in Sumatra. Starting in fall 2017,...