
Why Study History? | Department of History
Why Study History? For a great many people, history is a set of facts, a collection of events, a series of things that happened, one after another, in the past. In fact, history is far more than …
Sam Wineburg | Department of History
Wineburg's scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: history, education, and the psychology of teaching and learning. His articles and commentaries have appeared in such …
A Year in the Pacific: Insights from Fulbright-Hays Scholar Sonya ...
Dec 10, 2024 · The main government rationale behind the Fulbright-Hays DDRA grant is to increase the foreign language proficiency of future educators, and so it is important to highlight …
Alumni Interview with Professor Jacob Daniels (Stanford History …
Sep 26, 2025 · Choosing a major is important, first and foremost, as a matter of character. I think the question isn’t, “What do I want to do with my life?” but rather, “What kind of person do I …
Stanford historian reexamines United States ... - Stanford University
Oct 25, 2017 · Why is it important for us to understand and learn about that particular period of history? What are some of the lessons that are relevant to today’s America?
AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
Jul 18, 2018 · A typical machine-learning program will try to maximize overall prediction accuracy for the training data. If a specific group of individuals appears more frequently than others in …
Featured Interview | Rome Archive Seminar | Department of History
Apr 15, 2024 · The seminar emphasizes the value of knowing the history of a repository to understand why things ended up there as well as how this material is organized and …
Alumni Interview with Scott Spillman (Stanford History PhD, 2017)
Apr 7, 2025 · I appreciated the importance that Wood places on the role of ideas in history (such as the idea of equality or the idea of America), and I was impressed by his ability to show the …
Jennifer Burns | Department of History
If you were not an undergraduate history major, explain why history is your chosen discipline and the academic experiences that have prepared you for graduate study.
Paula Findlen | Department of History
I have taught the early history of science and medicine for many years on the premise that one of the most important ways to understand how science, medicine and technology have become …