News:
The first in the History Department’s film series “History into Film: The Good, the Bad and the (Hilariously) Awful” Godfather II: An Immigrant Saga with an introduction by Professors David Kennedy, Carol Mckibben and Paula Findlen
The Stanford Daily (November 5, 2009)
"Professor fights subpoena" History Professor Robert Proctor
The Stanford Daily (October 28, 2009)
Priya Satia's book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East is the recipient of the 2009 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize...
Important Notice for History Majors regarding the WIM (Writing in the Major) requirements for 09-10 academic year. Please see "Courses" page for details.
Toronto National Post’s “Last link mourned”, Prof. Priya Satia comments on last WWI veteran’s passing.
Toronto National Post (August 7, 2009)
"Brilliant insights that led us astray in Iraq" by Assistant Professor Priya Satia
Financial Times (Aug 4, 2009)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “Iraqis are too Shewd to fall for an ‘Invisible’ Occupation”
Financial Times (July 1, 2009)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia won the American Historical Association – Pacific Coast Branch’s award for the best first book in any field of history(February, 2009).
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “The Shadow of History Passes Over Pakistan”
Financial Times (May 20, 2009)
Assistant Professor Thomas Mullaney’s “The Chinese Typewriter” on The China Beat, May 14, 2009
Stanford Magazine interviewed Assistant Professor Priya Satia on “Lessons of War” in their May/June 2009 issue.
Time Magazine listed History Senior Lecturer Martin Lewis' YouTube Edu video as one of their favorites in the April 27, 2009 issue.
History: Geography of U. S. Elections
History Professor Steven Zipperstein’s article
“Immersed in, and Suspicious of, Books”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (May '09)
History Honors student, Stephanie Beck had an op-ed based on her Honors thesis on an earlier epidemic of the swine flu in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“When politics, and swine flu, infect health
History major alumna Sarah B. Kleinman will head to Oxford University next fall as one of 32 Americans awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship....
Chair: Paula Findlen
Upcoming Events:
Art and Architecture of Early Modern Russia Series
“A Century of Change: Russian Art and Architecture in the 17th Century ”
November 10, 2009, 12:15 p.m.
British History Lecture Series
"A Revolution in Political Economy: Party Politics and the Revolution of 1688-89 in England" a talk by Steve Pincus, Yale University
November 12, 2010 at 4:15
New publications:
CHINA'S COSMOPOLITAN EMPIRE: THE TANG DYNASTY
by Mark Edward Lewis
ISLAM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA
by Sean Hanretta
CHINA BETWEEN EMPIRES: THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DYNASTIES
by Mark Edward Lewis
DIVERSE NATIONS: EXPLORATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF RACIAL & ETHNIC PLURALISM
by George M. Fredrickson
ITALY'S EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: GENDER AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE GRAND TOUR
Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama
ROSENFELD'S LIVES: FAME, OBLIVION AND THE FURIES OF WRITING, Steven J. Zipperstein