Arts & Humanities

War, Race, and Culture delves into U.S.-China diplomacy, the relationship between art and war, comic book propaganda, and more.

As nationalism grows both domestically and abroad, Literature for the Masses explores how Japanese popular culture from a hundred years ago resembles that of the 21st century.

In the eyes of Benjamin Albritton, one small, mangled transcript is emblematic of Stanford’s Special Collections and its purpose.

Singing for Justice – co-directed by Estelle Freedman, professor emerit of history – chronicles the long and joyful life of Faith Petric. It will air on PBS in March.

The archive contains over 600,000 items dating back to the 18th century, including original artifacts from the Gold Rush and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

Stanford’s Michael Rau combines human creativity and artificial intelligence to add new dimensions to storytelling and stagecraft.

With “The Island,” Nicholas Jenkins captures the poet’s formative years and relationship with his native England.

Building upon a workshop established in 2007, the center will enable a broad range of new activities, including events honoring Stanford luminaries in poetics.

By misunderstanding how 18th-century Americans conceptualized constitutionalism, originalists end up inventing history rather than recovering it, historian Jonathan Gienapp contends in a new book.

By returning to its foundational principles and adapting to contemporary needs, Stanford’s Creative Writing Program reaffirms its dedication to nurturing the next generation of writers.