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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.
Aug 22 2017 | Global roots of India’s freedom struggle
The Ghadar movement cultivated strong ties of solidarity with Egyptian, Irish, and other anti-colonial movements. Competing visions of the future world order coexisted with common dissatisfaction with the contemporary world order. Ghadar linked militant diaspora intellectuals with activists in the...
Aug 11 2017 | Stanford scholar traces medical experimentation on slaves in 18th-century Caribbean colonies
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.
Aug 10 2017 | Tales of India-Pakistan partition to go public
A collection of horrific and emotional tales of the Partition of India with over 4,300 witness interviews is set to go public for the first time this week, it was announced on Sunday.
Aug 10 2017 | Partition through writers’ eyes
Writers' experiences of Partition is unlike the high-political narratives focused on Jinnah, Nehru & the Mountbattens.
