American history

Specialists

Blogs

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
100th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | August 18, 2020
Lou Henry Hoover, Stanford class of 1898, and women’s right to vote in 1920 | July 21, 2020
Mapping slavery and emancipation | June 19, 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, 1824-1893.

    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

    William Shockley Papers

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

  • Frederick Emmons Terman

    Frederick Emmons Terman Papers

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

  • KZSU Project South

    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.

  • Front cover image from Nothing Left in my Hands by Kazuko Nakane

    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.

  • Broadside advertising Belasco's Girl of the Golden West, at the New Alcazar Theater (San Francisco, 1908)

    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.

  • Cesar Chavez, 1973

    Bob Fitch photography archive

    The Bob Fitch photography archive is the complete archive of activist photographer Bob Fitch of Watsonville, California.

  • Rev. Richards Zariņš

    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.

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