Program Recordings
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The Stanford Historical Society sponsors online and in-person presentations and events throughout the academic year. Many of the Society's past program videos and audio recordings are now available on the SHS YouTube Channel and the Stanford Historical Society Collections in the University Archives. Program recordings will continue to be uploaded to these platforms.
Featured Program Recordings
Leland: A Stanford Story -- Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Leland: A Stanford Story covers the grand (yet short) life of Leland Stanford Jr. and meditates on what it means to be a part of a school that only exists because of the death of a child.
Before and After Wallace Sterling: Stanford Presidents and Changing Times
This program examines how the character of the university’s presidents reflects the constantly changing challenges and opportunities that face Stanford and its peer institutions.A Historian’s Diary: Gordon Craig and the teaching of history at Stanford
Professor James Sheehan discussed the diaries of Gordon Craig, prominent American historian of Germany.