The story discusses the interactive website Kindred Britain, created by Nicholas Jenkins, associate professor of
English. 

The Chronicle of Higher Education examines the rise in the study
of
Chinese Philosophy in American universities. The article mentions
David
Nivison, professor emeritus of philosophy at Stanford
University.

San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2013

Associate Professor, J.P. Daughton is quoted on how nations
address, or
fail to address, the bloody imperial histories memorialized in
their museums.

'Men We Reaped' is Stanford alumna Jesmyn Ward's
new memoir.
Ward holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from
Stanford
University.

The book is reviewed by Molly Anotopol, lecturer in English and recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford
University. 

Ignacio Ornelas, who works in the libraries's special collections, has helped document Bracero history at the local level. 

Ignacio Ornelas, who works in the libraries's special
collections,
has helped document Bracero history at the local level.

Northern California businessman Glen McLaughlin turned over his
map
collection to Stanford. Now the public can see and download 731 of
the
maps thanks to a digitizing project at the university.

John L'Heureux, professor emeritus of English at Stanford,
discusses
"Death of a Man" a poem he wrote about the
assasination of
John F. Kennedy. The poem appears in The Atlantic's
Special JFK Commemorative Issue.

The Economist highlights the website, "Kindred Britain"
created by Nicholas Jenkins, associate professor of English at
Stanford. The website traces relationships among some 30,000 Britons
in
the database.

Palo Alto Weekly covers a Hoover institution exhibit, "Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives" and quotes curator and assistant archivist of the Hoover Archives, Nicholas Sierkierski. 

Abraham Verghese, professor of medicine at Stanford reviews Butler's part memoir/part journalistic examination of end-of-life healthcare. 

The list recommends Cantor Arts Center exhibit "Carrie
Mae Weems:
Three Decades of Photography and Video." It is the first
large-scale retrospective devoted to Weems who is widely acclaimed
as
one of today's most eloquent interpreters of he...

The article mentions The Stanford Literary Lab, co-founded by Stanford Professor Franco Moretti and Matthew
Jockers, a former lecturer in the Department of English.

Working with scholars from around the world, Stanford philosopher Rega Wood is on a mission to recover the lost works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, the first professor of Aristotelian natural philosophy at a major Western University

BY MOLLY TAYLOR-POLESKEY

September 16, 2013