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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 these things-- it is a way of thinking about and seeing the world.
History majors have concentrated in areas such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Russia, Europe before 1700, Europe since 1700, Jewish History, Latin America, Science and Medicine, The Middle East, The United States, International History, and Comparative Empires and Cultures.
The History Department is offering several paid research opportunities for Stanford undergraduates to participate in a faculty-led research project over the 2024 Winter and Spring quarters.
An honors thesis in History aims to address a new research question or reinterpret a moment in history through an analysis of primary sources. History Honors students question accepted versions of a story and expand our understandings of the past, present, and future.
Welcome to the Stanford University Department of History. We offer innovative courses, cutting-edge research, and critical outreach to better understand the past in order to prepare for the future. Learn more.
Impossible Womb: Transgender Women and the Idea of Pregnancy, 1989-1996. 2022 - 2023 Awards. Assembling the Transnational Economy: Female Labor and the Clothing Trade in Neoliberal Mexico. Everyday Soldiers: America’s History of World War II in Video Games.
Minor in History. Students must declare the minor in History no later than Autumn Quarter of the senior year via Axess. Please see "How to Declare" below for more information on the declaration process.
Herodotus is a student-run publication founded in 1986 by the History Undergraduate Student Association (HUGSA). It bears the name of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the 5th century BCE historian of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Peer advisors are History undergraduates who serve as a resource for questions about the major or minor, departmental resources and policies, and community events.
History is about people, but what do we know about the people behind history’s scenes? Who are the people who tell us what we know about our past? And how do they come to know what they know?