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In addition the Stanford Historical Society has the mission "to foster and support the documentation, study, publication, dissemination, and preservation of the history of Stanford University." [ 96 ] Since 1978 its oral history program has interviewed over 800 people connected to Stanford. [ 97 ]
Born in San Francisco in 1937, Sheehan earned a BA from Stanford University in 1958 and a PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. He taught at Northwestern University between 1964 and 1979, then moved back to Stanford to succeed Gordon A. Craig as Stanford's historian of modern Germany.
Thomas Andrew Bailey (December 14, 1902 – July 26, 1983) was a professor of history at his alma mater, Stanford University, and wrote many historical monographs on diplomatic history, as well as the widely used American history textbook, The American Pageant. [2]
Richard White (born 1947) is an American historian who is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University.Earlier in his career, he taught at the University of Washington, University of Utah, and Michigan State University.
as editor The Uses of History: Essays in Intellectual and Social History. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1968. "The burden of history", History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), pp. 111–134. as co-author (1966) with Willson Coates and J. Salwin Schapiro, The Emergence of Liberal Humanism. An Intellectual History of Western Europe, vol.
[3] This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life." [ 4 ] The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity".
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (1950) is a collection of sixteen essays by American literary critic Lionel Trilling, published by Viking in 1950. The book was edited by Pascal Covici, who had worked with Trilling when he edited and introduced Viking's Portable Matthew Arnold in 1949. [ 1 ]
Interior of the house circa 1933. Prior to the end of World War I, the Hoovers had commissioned architect Louis Christian Mullgardt to design their Stanford home; however, Mullgardt publicized his appointment prior to the end of the war, angering the Hoovers, who felt that it was an inopportune time in the waning months of a terrible conflict to announce the construction of a large home.