News
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Teaching Stanford’s history
A new spring quarter course examined Stanford’s past, including the people, personalities, and politics that have made the university what it is today.
May 31, 2023
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Stanford Historical Society membership elects four board members
The Stanford Historical Society (SHS) membership recently elected four individuals recommended by the SHS Governance Committee to the Board of Directors.
May 22, 2023
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Academic freedom’s origin story
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.
May 01, 2023
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Hennessy, Etchemendy look back on 16 years of leadership at Stanford
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.
February 13, 2023
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Stanford Oral History Program Summer Interns
Makeda Barr-Brown describes the student interns' contributions to the historical record of the Stanford Libraries and shares their reflections and the lessons learned.
September 15, 2022
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SHS presents annual awards for historical writing, oral history, and volunteer service
At the Stanford Historical Society Annual Meeting on May 17th, 2022, SHS Co-Vice President Charles Junkerman presented the society’s annual awards.
June 08, 2022
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Stanford Historical Society President's 2021-2022 Annual Report
SHS president Geoff Cox highlights the accomplishments by the society and the “new normal” in terms of sponsoring both campus-based and online programming.
June 08, 2022
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SHS and University Archives host History In Community conference and workshops
The conference included the Community History Roundtable: Gathering, Preserving, and Telling the Untold Stories; the Architectural Preservation Workshops; and online workshops.
June 07, 2022
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Stanford Historical Society members elect board slate
SHS members elected Kristen Domingo, Jean McCown, and Karen Springen, all with strong experience at Stanford.
May 31, 2022
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Guest Blogger: Summer Intern Eli Waldman
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.
September 20, 2021
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Guest Blogger: Summer Intern Sol Martinez
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.
September 01, 2021
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Internships for Hands-On 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.
August 01, 2021
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A Lost Commencement Speech Found...and a New Digital Exhibit on John W. Gardner
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.
May 31, 2021
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SHS to debut new visual symbol inspired by heraldry, university tradition
The triple redwood frond represents the organization, transmission, and generation of knowledge that takes place in Stanford’s classroom and labs.
May 31, 2021
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Stanford Historical Society elects new board members
Bernadine Chuck Fong, Margo Horn, Bev Kiltz, Katie Shoven, and Robert "Bob" Siegel were elected to their first three-year term on May 13.
May 26, 2021
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Sandstone & Tile available for full-text search now
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.
May 25, 2021
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Stanford Historical Society and Stanford Libraries launch Hope, Resilience, and Change series
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.
July 28, 2020
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Stanford Historical Society elects new board members
Isabel Alvarez-Valdez, Nate Boswell, Jeannie Crumly Cole, and Pat Lopes Harris bring considerable expertise in financial management, student engagement, and communication.
July 14, 2020
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Stanford Historical Society presents Beyers Writing Prize and Schofield Oral History Award
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.
June 24, 2020
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Stanford University COVID-19 Oral History Project
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.
April 22, 2020
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Guest Blogger: Summer Intern Zoe Wallace
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.
September 24, 2019
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Stanford’s Oral History Program celebrates its 500th interview
The 500th interview features Kathy Ku, who retired in 2018 after serving nearly four decades in Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing.
March 28, 2019
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Susan W. Schofield receives inaugural oral history award
Schofield has conducted many interviews and edited many more oral history transcripts, while also shepherding the conceptualization and development of new oral history projects.
December 21, 2018
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Stanford Historical Society plans railroad sesquicentennial events
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.
October 23, 2018