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A new spring quarter course examined Stanford’s past, including the people, personalities, and politics that have made the university what it is today.

The Stanford Historical Society (SHS) membership recently elected four individuals recommended by the SHS Governance Committee to the Board of Directors.

The history of academic freedom—a concept that can be traced back to a scandal at Stanford at the turn of the last century—can help us understand the debates today.

The Stanford Historical Society hosted an event for former President John Hennessy and former Provost John Etchemendy to reflect on the challenges, strategies, and fond memories.

Makeda Barr-Brown describes the student interns' contributions to the historical record of the Stanford Libraries and shares their reflections and the lessons learned.

At the Stanford Historical Society Annual Meeting on May 17th, 2022, SHS Co-Vice President Charles Junkerman presented the society’s annual awards.

SHS president Geoff Cox highlights the accomplishments by the society and the “new normal” in terms of sponsoring both campus-based and online programming.

The conference included the Community History Roundtable: Gathering, Preserving, and Telling the Untold Stories; the Architectural Preservation Workshops; and online workshops.

SHS members elected Kristen Domingo, Jean McCown, and Karen Springen, all with strong experience at Stanford.

I was able to document and archive monumental parts of Stanford history during the Vietnam War Era and the COVID-19 pandemic without ever having been on campus.

Perhaps the greatest discovery made during the internship was that of John J. Johnson’s unpublished manuscript titled Foreign Images of the U.S.: 1860-1992: A Cartoon History.

A silver lining of the pandemic was the ability to engage a whole cohort of interns, spread across the country, in the effort of documenting the many aspects of Stanford history.

This new Spotlight exhibit makes available digitized materials that highlight Gardner’s life and his lasting impact on higher education, public service, and Stanford University.

The triple redwood frond represents the organization, transmission, and generation of knowledge that takes place in Stanford’s classroom and labs.

Bernadine Chuck Fong, Margo Horn, Bev Kiltz, Katie Shoven, and Robert "Bob" Siegel were elected to their first three-year term on May 13.

The availability for full-text search via Searchworks provides an eye-opening experience for history lovers to explore in depth the content of this important collection.

The exhibit aims to explore the spirit of hope and resilience displayed by Stanford students, faculty, and leaders when faced by hardships and crises in history.

Isabel Alvarez-Valdez, Nate Boswell, Jeannie Crumly Cole, and Pat Lopes Harris bring considerable expertise in financial management, student engagement, and communication.

Molly Culhane wrote about social regulation and institutional change at Stanford in relation to a dispute in 1964-1965; Betsy Fryberger conducted interviews in the history of arts.

The sense that we are experiencing a major historical event is truly and intensely palpable, and there are many stories that we need to share with future generations.

I also now know the significance of oral history. I think most of the time we take stories for granted until they’re no longer available.

The 500th interview features Kathy Ku, who retired in 2018 after serving nearly four decades in Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing.

Schofield has conducted many interviews and edited many more oral history transcripts, while also shepherding the conceptualization and development of new oral history projects.

To the Stanford Historical Society, the 150th anniversary of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad sounds like a good reason to pause, reflect and celebrate.