John Hatcher
The Black Death: A Personal History
July 16, 2009
About the Video
John Hatcher, Cambridge University history professor and 2008-09 Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, shares the challenges of writing and researching his book The Black Death: A Personal History. He talks about the way in which he combines history and non-ficitional writing to describe a single location during the Black Death.
About the Series
The Human Experience outreach initiative has the objective of raising awareness of humanities research at Stanford University.

