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‘Do I know my history?’ Los Angeles teens study Malcolm X and MLK with Stanford professor

Students at Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet School were inspired by a dual enrollment Stanford course that tackles ‘race, religion, and the politics of freedom.’

This is what my school was missing’: A dual enrollment course brings Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to under-resourced high schools

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Call for Papers: Religion on the Move

Stanford University's Department of Religious Studies is excited to announce its interdisciplinary graduate student conference “Religion on the Move,” taking place on May 9 and 10, 2024.

Religious Studies Phd Alumna, Kathryn Dickason's special issue in postmedieval

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-023-00282-2

The passing of Religious Studies Faculty Emeritus, Robert C. Gregg

It is with great sadness that the Department of Religious Studies announces the death of Robert C.

‘Hoover saw himself throughout his life as this minister and soldier.’ Photograph: Corbis/Getty Images

‘He was certainly a racist’: J Edgar Hoover and a history of white nationalism

One of the earliest photographs of J Edgar Hoover shows him aged 17, standing tall and proud in the starched uniform of a high school cadet.