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.
A new website curated by Stanford faculty and students, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, translates medieval literature into English for the first time.
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.
Items from the Pacific region gathered by Jane Stanford and Stanford faculty are on display as part of a new exhibition at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
English Professor Alex Woloch and two doctoral students discuss author Jane Austen’s writing style and why her novels still dominate literary and popular culture 200 years after her death.
The 1876 manuscript is believed to be the only surviving score from a performance conducted by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi and presents a unique research opportunity for historians and musicologists.
Equality, evil, progress and tradition were some of the big concepts Stanford faculty, including philosophy Professor Debra Satz, examined in Dangerous Ideas, a new humanities course.
