Event Videos

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...
Speaker:
John Leshy, Felicity Barringer (moderator)
Date
Tue April 26th 2022
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...
Speaker:
Laurence F. Cotton, Clementine Jang (moderator)
Date
Thu February 10th 2022
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...
Speaker:
Traci Bliss, Paul G. Nauert (moderator)
Date
Thu January 20th 2022
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...
Speaker:
Professor Gavin Jones (Stanford University), Professor Daniel Lanza Rivers (San Jose State University)
Date
Thu November 18th 2021
Author Blaine Harden stops by the Bill Lane Center to speak about myths and his book "Murder at the Mission"
Date
Tue August 10th 2021
About the Book Eighteen years old and fizzing with optimism, Solimar Castro-Valdez embarks on a perilous journey across the Mexican border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, California, dazed by...
Date
Thu June 17th 2021
Cameron Blevins, former Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellow, will stop by to the Lane Center to discuss his new book, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West. Blevins will be joined...
Date
Tue June 8th 2021
Join the Bill Lane Center and the Palo Alto City Library for a virtual author event with Jeanette Arakawa, as she discusses her autobiographical novel, The Little Exile, based on her own experience as...
Date
Thu May 27th 2021
Join Palo Alto City Library and the Bill Lane Center for the American West are hosting a conversation between Rev. Kaloma Smith and author Julie Lythcott-Haims as they discuss antiracism in a...
Date
Sat May 22nd 2021
The State of the West Symposium is a gathering at Stanford to take stock of the economic and fiscal health of the Western region. Since 2011, the symposium has featured academic researchers, business...
Date
Thu May 13th 2021