History

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

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

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.

Through studying the residues of South Africa’s mining industry – a core infrastructure of the apartheid regime – Stanford historian Gabrielle Hecht shows how its deleterious effects continue.

Libraries play a critical role in preserving video games, but legal restrictions are impacting preservation efforts in unexpected ways, says Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives curator Henry Lowood.

What the film Oppenheimer got right – and missed – about creating the world’s first atomic bomb. “I think there’s a broader tragedy that came out less clearly: the political tragedy of the nuclear arms race.”

A new AI-driven analysis finds the most popular U.S. history textbooks used in California and Texas commonly misrepresent the scientific consensus around climate change.

The recent tragedies in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay are part of a long history of violence inflicted upon Asian Americans, says Stanford historian Gordon Chang.

A compilation of Stanford scholarship and insights into the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine.