Stanford professor emeritus of history David Kennedy is one of
five U.S.
historians whose insights President Barack Obama sought to grade his
performance in his first year of office.
The New York Times discusses recent research by Stanford's
Londa
Schiebinger and Shannon Gilmartin into the division of work in the
homes
of female lab scientists.
The Clayman Institute for Gender and Research at Stanford finds
that
female scientists have more obligations at home. Director and
history
professor Londa Schiebinger comments.
As the nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther
King
Jr., Stanford historian Clayborne Carson discusses what the late
civil
rights leader would think of social and economic justice in America
if
he were alive today.