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Learn how Stanford University was founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in honor of their son, and how it evolved into a leading research institution and a hub of innovation. Explore the origins, challenges, and achievements of Stanford from 1885 to the present day.
Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California, founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane. The university has a large campus, a diverse academic program, a strong entrepreneurial culture, and a prominent alumni network.
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George M. Fredrickson (July 16, 1934 – February 25, 2008) was an American author, activist, historian, and professor. He was the Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University until his retirement in 2002. [1]
Robert N. Proctor is an American historian of science and professor at Stanford University. He is known for his books on human origins, Nazi medicine, tobacco industry, and agnotology.
David M. Kennedy is a professor emeritus of history at Stanford University and the editor of the Oxford History of the United States series. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear, a book on the American people in the Depression and War, 1929–1945.
On March 2, 2015, Stanford Archives posted 444 images of Sterling and his papers to its Flickr stream. [10]An Indian rubber tree (Ficus elastica cv. doescheri), which he planted at the opening of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Sinclair Library, is listed by the UHM Campus Arboretum as the J. E. Wallace Sterling Namesake Tree.
The elder Rakove taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1957–1983) and Barat College (Lake Forest, Illinois). Jack Rakove earned his AB in 1968 from Haverford College and his PhD in 1975 from Harvard University. He was also a student at the University of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1967. [1] At Harvard, he was a student of Bernard Bailyn.