American history

Specialists

Benjamin Lee Stone

Curator for American and British History

Associate Director, Department of Special Collections

(650) 485-9851

bstone@stanford.edu

American history

British and Commonwealth history

Blogs

Digital editions of Booker T. Washington Papers and Frederick Law Olmsted Papers available online through Rotunda Press | June 21, 2022

Books of folk rhymes by early Chinese immigrants acquired and digitized | November 11, 2021

Brown, Burlingame and Hinman family archives open for research | September 1, 2021

Stanford Historical Society and Stanford Libraries launch Hope, Resilience, and Change series | September 17, 2020

Lou Henry Hoover, Stanford class of 1898, and women’s right to vote in 1920 | July 21, 2020

Notable collections

Eadweard Muybridge Photographs

Collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs. Original materials include images of the Stanfords' residences in Sacramento and San Francisco, and two printed cards from his horse in motion series.
Leland Stanford Papers

Materials relating to the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford's political career, business and financial interests, and the founding and construction of Stanford University.
William Shockley Papers

Professional and personal papers documenting research on transistors and electronics; genetic influences on intelligence; and science education.
Frederick Emmons Terman Papers

Documents all phases of his long and influential career as an educator, electronics engineer, administrator, and author.
KZSU Project South Interviews

Transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by Stanford students during the summer of 1965.
Issei Oral History Project in Watsonville Collection

The Issei Oral History Project in Watsonville consists of interviews conducted by Kazuko Nakane from 1978 to 1983 with fifteen Japanese-American residents in Watsonville, California.
William R. and Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection

2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bob Fitch photography archive

The Bob Fitch photography archive is the complete archive of activist photographer Bob Fitch of Watsonville, California.
Rev. Richards A. Zariņš papers

The personal archive of Latvian American pastor, author, bibliophile and collector Richards Zariņš (1913-2006) contains his personal papers and the records of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church of New York.