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Stanford Historical Society
United States
Приєднався 25 бер 2016
The Stanford Historical Society (SHS) provides its members and supporters access to the authentic Stanford story, offering opportunities for preserving and sharing the university’s legacy and celebrating its history. SHS programming, research, public outreach, digital assets, publications and archival support create a personal and intellectual connection between its members and the university. Currently there are about 900 members and about 200 veteran volunteers. Many members regularly attend the exclusive members-only events and monthly programs as well as volunteer in society projects. We welcome anyone with or without Stanford affiliations to become our members.
If you would like to support the mission and the programming of the Stanford Historical Society, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. For more details, please use the web links below.
If you would like to support the mission and the programming of the Stanford Historical Society, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. For more details, please use the web links below.
AAAS Departmentalization—Ato Quayson Clip
Chloe Mendoza (Class of 2025, BA Anthropology) interviews Professor Ato Quayson, the inaugural chair of DAAAS.
This interview was recorded on June 6, 2023 on in Dr. Quayson's office on the Stanford campus.
AAAS-African and African American Studies
DAAAS-Department of African and African American Studies
This interview was recorded on June 6, 2023 on in Dr. Quayson's office on the Stanford campus.
AAAS-African and African American Studies
DAAAS-Department of African and African American Studies
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AAAS Departmentalization-Kimya Loder Clip
Переглядів 5321 день тому
In this clip, graduate student Kimya Loder speaks about the Social Action Committee's strategic plan when organizing to departmentalize AAAS. This interview was recorded on July 27, 2022 on Zoom. AAAS-African and African American Studies DAAAS-Department of African and African American Studies
Voices from the Stanford Disability Community
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On October 25, 2024, Stanford alumni, faculty, students, and staff gathered to celebrate the voices and perspectives of the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project, now available online. At the Voices from the Disability Community event, a five-member panel reflected on the day-to-day experience of living with disability at Stanford, disability advocacy, and future opportunities for the com...
Race Around The Quad: Race, Ethnicity, and Eugenics at John Steinbeck’s Stanford, 1919-1925
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November 14, 2024 Speaker: Kevin Hearle The Stanford University into which 17-year-old John Steinbeck matriculated in September 1919 was a deeply but somewhat idiosyncratically racist institution. Few African Americans were admitted, but most years the university’s founding president (one of the country’s leading eugenicists) posed with both the Chinese and the Japanese student clubs in “The Qu...
Planting the Seeds of Latino Diversity on the Farm
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October 17, 2024 Presenter: Albert Camarillo If you were to leaf through the pages of Stanford Quad beginning in the 1890s through the mid-1960s, you would have to look very closely to find the faces of students of color pictured among the many thousands of their white classmates. Since its origins, Stanford-much to its credit-admitted Asian, Native, African American, and Latino students, but t...
Voices from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project: Disability Studies and New Horizons
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Clips from interviews from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project describing disability studies and some exciting new horizons in research and practices related to disability at Stanford. Full recordings and transcripts available at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/disability-stanford
Voices from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project: My Perfect World
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Clips from interviews from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project featuring interviewees' visions of a perfect world as relates to disability. Full recordings and transcripts available at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/disability-stanford
Voices from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project: Changing Landscapes of Disability
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Clips from interviews from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project speaking to change over time re disability at Stanford. Full recordings and transcripts available at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/disability-stanford
Voices from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project: The Drive for Community
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Clips from interviews from the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project related to the history of community spaces for students with disabilities at Stanford. Full recordings and transcripts available at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/disability-stanford
Restoring Tiles and Rosettes in Main Quad
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The two segments in this video describe the restoration processes for cleaning up graffiti on a campus building and for restoring the historical rosettes in the main quad. The segments are excerpted from Main Quadrangle: Adaptation of Historic Clay and Concrete Materials from Floors to Roofs, a presentation by David Wessel, Principal, Architectural Resources Group. Wessel's presentation was par...
Before and After Wallace Sterling: Stanford Presidents and Changing Times
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May 1, 2024 Presenters: James J. Sheehan, William M. Chace, Geoffrey M. Cox Moderator: Larry Horton At the beginning of this academic year, the Stanford Historical Society published Stanford’s Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency, 1949-1968, a scholarly account of Wallace Sterling’s transformative role in Stanford’s history co-authored by historian and former Stanford archivist Roxanne L....
Stanford, Women Faculty, Feminist Research and Teaching: Some Historical Reflections
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March 7, 2024 Presenters: Nannerl O. Keohane, Myra Strober Moderator: Margo Horn At its founding in 1891, Stanford was one of a very few private co-educational universities in the country, with 130 of the 555 places in the first student body being held by women. It was also one of the first institutions to offer advanced degrees to women from the beginning. Stanford’s first female faculty membe...
Nan Keohane: Impact of CROW Discussion Groups
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Nannerl Keohane, a Professor of Political Science Emerita at Stanford, describes the impact that discussion groups in the 1970s at the Center for Research on Women (CROW) had on her research. To access full interview transcripts and recordings, visit the Stanford Historical Society website at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/discover-history/oral-history-program
Myra Strober: The Challenges of Raising Money for the Center for Research on Women
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Stanford Professor Myra Stober, the founding director of the Center for Research on Women (CROW), now the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, describes the fundraising challenges she encountered when establishing the center in the 1970s. To access full interview transcripts and recordings, visit the Stanford Historical Society website at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/discover-hi...
Myra Strober: Early Activities of the Center for Research on Women (CROW)
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Stanford Professor Myra Strober describes the early activities, including a noontime lecture series, of the Center for Gender Research, now the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, after its founding in 1974. For interview transcripts and recordings, visit the Stanford Historical Society website at historicalsociety.stanford.edu/discover-history/oral-history-program
Nan Keohane: Naming the Program in Feminist Studies
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Nan Keohane: Naming the Program in Feminist Studies
Myra Strober: The Signs Journal at Stanford
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Myra Strober: The Signs Journal at Stanford
Nan Keohane: Editing the Journal Signs at Stanford
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Nan Keohane: Editing the Journal Signs at Stanford
A Biography of Stanford Sandstone: From Greystone Quarry to Stone River
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A Biography of Stanford Sandstone: From Greystone Quarry to Stone River
GSB -- 90 Years of Progress and Innovation
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GSB 90 Years of Progress and Innovation
A Historian’s Diary: Gordon Craig and the Teaching of History at Stanford
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A Historian’s Diary: Gordon Craig and the Teaching of History at Stanford
Eugenics at Stanford: Jordan, Terman, and Other Legacies
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Eugenics at Stanford: Jordan, Terman, and Other Legacies
Main Quadrangle: Restoring Structural and Aesthetic Integrity of Sandstone Masonry
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Main Quadrangle: Restoring Structural and Aesthetic Integrity of Sandstone Masonry
Interview with 2022 Susan W Schofield Oral History Award Winners Michael Kahan and Nova Meurice
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Interview with 2022 Susan W Schofield Oral History Award Winners Michael Kahan and Nova Meurice