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How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?
How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?
(April 5, 2007) For over 2,000 years, nobody has been able to identify with certainty the route that Hannibal used to cr... Read more
15 May 2007
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Medieval Matters: Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Medieval Matters: Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Elaine Pagels' speaks of her most recent book on the Book of Revelation.
13 Feb 2014
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1hr 16mins
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The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts
The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts
Robert Gregg discusses the competing narratives concerning the death of Jesus and the argument that contributed to the d... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 13mins
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Rumi as a Healer: A Physician's Perspective
Rumi as a Healer: A Physician's Perspective
(January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love... Read more
7 Jan 2008
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Why the Anglo-Saxons Matter: King Alfred and the Making of England
Why the Anglo-Saxons Matter: King Alfred and the Making of England
Michael Wood looks at one of the most exciting and formative periods in British history, the Viking Age, when three gene... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 38mins
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History Changes Gears: The Russian Revolution of 1917
History Changes Gears: The Russian Revolution of 1917
Bertrand Patenaude discusses the social forces that propelled the revolution forward despite the efforts of the Provisio... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 30mins
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San Francisco Stories: A History of Jewish San Francisco
San Francisco Stories: A History of Jewish San Francisco
Fred Rosenbaum explores how Jews have been a prominent part of SanFrancisco since the days of the Gold Rush. (Winter 201... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 26mins
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Earth Matters: How Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Improves Our Water, Air, and Health
Earth Matters: How Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Improves Our Water, Air, and Health
In this program in our ongoing series, “EarthMatters,” Rob Jackson will discuss the urgent tasksthat confront us in this... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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53mins
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San Francisco Stories: Race and Identity in Spanish California
San Francisco Stories: Race and Identity in Spanish California
Barbara Voss explores the archaeological remains at the Presidio to investigate social changes among the colonists in Sp... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 24mins
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Stanford Writers in Conversation: An Evening with Lynn Stegner
Stanford Writers in Conversation: An Evening with Lynn Stegner
Lynn Stegner will discuss the essential tools of the writer’s craft—voice, plot, structure, point of view—and share her ... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 7mins
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Adam Hochschild gives an illustrated talk aboutsome of the men and women who people the pagesof his latest book, "Spain ... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 26mins
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A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Denise Levertov
A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Denise Levertov
This program marks the 20th anniversary of Denise Levertov’s death in December 1997, and will follow the luminous trajec... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 38mins
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Trust, Truth, and Technology: How Media Are Shaping the Way We Trust One Another
Trust, Truth, and Technology: How Media Are Shaping the Way We Trust One Another
Jeff Hancock discusses how today's human interaction is mediated so regularly by technology and how there are more oppor... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 29mins
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Guns in America: A Year After Sandy Hook
Guns in America: A Year After Sandy Hook
Just over a year after Sandy Hook, one of the worst mass shootings in United States history, Stanford Law School profess... Read more
13 Feb 2014
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #15
Medieval Matters: Modern European Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past
Medieval Matters: Modern European Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past
(November 14, 2007) Patrick Geary examines contemporary uses of the Middle Ages by various political movements, left and... Read more
10 Dec 2007
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Stanford Writers in Conversation: An Evening with Tom Kealey
Stanford Writers in Conversation: An Evening with Tom Kealey
Tom Kealey discusses the essential tools of the writer’s craft—dialogue, plot, point of view—as well as share his person... Read more
22 Dec 2017
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1hr 25mins
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Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band (A Reading)
Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band (A Reading)
Inspiring his audience with the notion that, in a world of crime, mystery, and danger, all things can be understood thro... Read more
30 Mar 2007
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Ranked #18
An Evening with Geoff Nunberg: The Paradox of Political Language
An Evening with Geoff Nunberg: The Paradox of Political Language
Left and right may disagree as to which expressions count as deceptive packaging and which are merely effective branding... Read more
30 Mar 2007
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Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure
Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure
(March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what ar... Read more
21 May 2007
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San Francisco Stories: History of Latino San Francisco
San Francisco Stories: History of Latino San Francisco
Tomás Summers Sandoval will trace the history of "latinidad," or pan-Latin American identity, that emerged in San Franci... Read more
25 Jan 2017
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1hr 19mins
