Event Videos

The Western History Lecture Series presents Claudio Saunt, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Regents' Professor at the University of Georgia. Saunt's talk, "The Land Beneath Our...

The Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, visits Stanford Law School to discuss her new book, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion." Co-sponsored by the Bill Lane Center, Stanford Center for Law and History and the Department of History.

The Western History Lecture Series presents "Blood Money," a talk by Louis Warren on California's Indian war bonds. This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford History Department and the Bill Lane...

Richard Nevle, Steven Nightingale, and Nicole Ardoin discuss "The Paradise Notebooks" and research on the development of pro-environmental behavior.

The ninth State of the West Symposium dives into the issues surrounding the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.

Mark Arax stops by to discuss his newest book, "The Dreamt Land."

John Leshy’s new history of America’s public lands, Our Common Ground (Yale University Press, 2022), explains how the U.S. government came to hold nearly 30% of the land in the nation (more than 600...

Apr. 26, 2022, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the master designer of public parks and a founder of the field of landscape architecture. Join historian and filmmaker...

The epic saga of Big Basin began in the late 1800s when the surrounding communities saw their once "inexhaustible" redwood forests vanishing. Expanding railways demanded timber as they crisscrossed...

Based on Professor Gavin Jones's recent book about John Steinbeck, this conversation will consider the author's relevance to our contemporary world and his interest in pressing issues such as climate...