Center News and Notes

A professor of history and environmental social sciences at Stanford, Zephyr Frank will transition into his role as Lane Center director on September 1, 2025.

Long since fish canneries built Southeast Alaska’s signature town, the trade is now being used to attract tourists. Read the latest in our online magazine, & the West.

The California Water Institute and the Maddy Institute are collaborating with Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West to bring the Eleventh Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference to Fresno State University on Wednesday, Feb…

In our final podcast on the West in collaboration with Michael Krasny, Greg Sarris, author and chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, discusses the complexities of Native American identity.

The archive contains over 600,000 items dating back to the 18th century, including original artifacts from the Gold Rush and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The Bill Lane Center acquired the California Historical Society Collection in…