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American history

Course guides

Course number Term Guide Instructor
PWR 1MG Spring 2013 The Rhetoric of the American West Gemma, M.

Notable collections

This collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs.

Leland Stanford, 1824-1893.

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

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

Frederick Emmons Terman

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

Radio Station KZSU

Transcripts of interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by Stanford students during the summer of 1965.

Subject Librarians

Curator for American and British History, Head, Humanities and Social Sciences Resource Group
(650) 485-9851