James Campbell, professor of history; James Ferguson, professor of anthropology; and Ken Opalo, doctoral student in political science, are co-signers of an open letter that accuses American broadcaster "60 Minutes" of rendering Africans "voiceless and all but invisible" in its portrayal of the continent.

The upcoming performance at Bing Concert Hall of "The Demo," is a musical retelling of Engelbart's landmark demonstration of interactive computing.  Engelbart was a former researcher at the Stanford Research Institute.

Stanford's archives on the attack of the luxury liner, the Lusitania, inspired author Erik Larson's new book, Dead Wake.

Tobias Wolff, acclaimed author and Stanford professor of English and Creative Writing, discusses performances of his stories by San Francisco theater company Word for Word in a Newsweek article on the performance group's new dramatizations of works by Alice Munro.