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Why Study History? | Department of History
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.
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Sam Wineburg | Department of History
Wineburg's scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: history, education, and the psychology of teaching and learning. His articles and commentaries have appeared in such diverse outlets as Cognitive Science, Journal of American History, Smithsonian Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times.
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A Year in the Pacific: Insights from Fulbright-Hays Scholar Sonya ...
The main government rationale behind the Fulbright-Hays DDRA grant is to increase the foreign language proficiency of future educators, and so it is important to highlight how your research abroad will directly contribute to foreign language acquisition.
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Alumni Interview with Professor Jacob Daniels (Stanford History PhD ...
Choosing a major is important, first and foremost, as a matter of character. I think the question isn’t, “What do I want to do with my life?” but rather, “What kind of person do I want to be?”
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Stanford historian reexamines United States ... - Stanford University
Why is it important for us to understand and learn about that particular period of history? What are some of the lessons that are relevant to today’s America?
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AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
A typical machine-learning program will try to maximize overall prediction accuracy for the training data. If a specific group of individuals appears more frequently than others in the training data, the program will optimize for those individuals because this boosts overall accuracy.
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Featured Interview | Rome Archive Seminar | Department of History
The seminar emphasizes the value of knowing the history of a repository to understand why things ended up there as well as how this material is organized and reorganized over many centuries.
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Alumni Interview with Scott Spillman (Stanford History PhD, 2017)
I appreciated the importance that Wood places on the role of ideas in history (such as the idea of equality or the idea of America), and I was impressed by his ability to show the drama of history as it unfolded.
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Jennifer Burns | Department of History
If you were not an undergraduate history major, explain why history is your chosen discipline and the academic experiences that have prepared you for graduate study.
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Paula Findlen | Department of History
I have taught the early history of science and medicine for many years on the premise that one of the most important ways to understand how science, medicine and technology have become so central to contemporary society comes from examining the process by which scientific knowledge emerged.