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🎉 Congratulations @Stanford Class of 2025! We look forward to celebrate you on Sunday. history.stanford.edu/academics/cong…

Did you know that Journal of #GlobalHistory is open access? Read the latest OA articles, at no costs to you 👉 cup.org/3IvqjNv #Twitterstorians #worldhistory

Some American docs changed more than *just* America. They changed the globe! 🌍 The UN Charter 🕊️ The Truman Doctrine 🧭 The Marshall Plan Vote for the idea(s) you think most significantly reshaped America and the world in #100Docs → 100docs.vote

Stories like this reminds me why I love being a historian. You can feel @tsmullaney 's passion for what is far more than just machines and technology, but human struggles, aspirations, and dreams. Feel so lucky to have studied with him @Stanfordhistory nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyr…

#AlumniNews Congrats to Prof. @hirako13 (Stanford History 2018, @MonashUni) for receiving 2025 Reid Prize for his book Making Mao's steelworks : industrial Manchuria and the transnational origins of Chinese socialism (@CambridgeUP 2024)

Today is the 80th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, the Trinity test in New Mexico. Did you know the Library has leader of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer's papers? More than 300 boxes worth. Read more:…

Some National Tattoo Day trivia: When the Social Security Administration first began issuing numbers, it wasn't uncommon for people to get their number tattooed on their body. 💪 Photo from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the…

🎥 Provostial Fellow and Lecture, @abdulbakarchive from @stanfordaaas, joined us for a lecture on the legacy of #African and #Diaspora Muslims in preserving #Islamic intellectual traditions. 👉Watch the full talk and Q&A on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=P9ztCE…

Ink wash painting titled "Cat's Interest" by Qin Yang, created using traditional Chinese ink on paper.

Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini: The Wonders of the Creation and the Curiosities of Existance (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing), ca. 1203-1283 AD.

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month📢 Together, we can make strides in addressing mental health conditions, improving health coverage, and breaking the stigma. Learn more: zurl.co/ZTq7B

Many thanks to @OpenAI and Daniel Bashir for hosting me yesterday to discuss Chinese Computing, the Hypographic Age, and SILICON. In a few weeks, the excitement continues with a virtual talk at @cohere . Eager to learn more about Multilingual LLM and AI research.

New Education About Asia Editor Elise Huerta shares an update on the journal's relaunch as a biannual, open-access online publication and the four key tenets of her vision for its future direction. Read it all in a new Editor's Message from Huerta: bit.ly/3GJnPur

#HistoryMatters Check your mailbox for the latest issue of Perspectives by @AHAhistorians. If you have not subscribed yet, see historians.org/perspectives-i… Bonus: Contributions are solicited at historians.org/news-publicati…

In the early 1900s, Jane Stanford envisioned “a grand library,” capable of holding a million volumes. Her proposal laid out the groundwork for Cecil H. Green Library. On this day in 1919, Green Library open its doors to faculty and students.

#employment Hartford International University invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Islamic Studies / Co-Director of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations mesana.org/resources-and-…

#AlumniNews Prof. Vivian Yan-Gonzalez (Stanford History PhD 2022, @chapmanu) publishes her "Left or Right, Loyal or Disloyal: Ideology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics" in @PacHistReview @vyangonzalez online.ucpress.edu/phr/article-ab…