
Gordon H. Chang explores history through a personal lens in new book of essays
Q&A
War, Race, and Culture delves into U.S.-China diplomacy, the relationship between art and war, comic book propaganda, and more.

Gordon H. Chang explores history through a personal lens in new book of essays
Q&A
War, Race, and Culture delves into U.S.-China diplomacy, the relationship between art and war, comic book propaganda, and more.

New book examines how historical fiction fueled rise of Japanese nationalism before WWII
News
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.

Curator unravels mystery of Virgil manuscript’s journey to Stanford
Research
In the eyes of Benjamin Albritton, one small, mangled transcript is emblematic of Stanford’s Special Collections and its purpose.

Stanford professor’s folk-singer documentary coming to PBS for Women’s History Month
News
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.

Trove of California history to be housed at Stanford
News
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.

AI brings new potential to the art of theater
Q&A
Stanford’s Michael Rau combines human creativity and artificial intelligence to add new dimensions to storytelling and stagecraft.

New book explores W.H. Auden’s life between two world wars
Q&A
With “The Island,” Nicholas Jenkins captures the poet’s formative years and relationship with his native England.

New Center for Poetics ‘supports and encourages the vitality of the field’
Research
Building upon a workshop established in 2007, the center will enable a broad range of new activities, including events honoring Stanford luminaries in poetics.

How originalists may be twisting the Constitution
Analysis & Insights
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.