A Historian’s Diary: Gordon Craig and the Teaching of History at Stanford

December 5, 2023

This program, with a presentation by James Sheehan, celebrated the publication of a rich selection from the diaries of Gordon Craig, probably the most prominent American historian of Germany. Also, Sheehan used Craig’s diaries to illuminate the changing ways in which history was, and is, taught at Stanford.

Craig taught for many years at Stanford. He was a keen commentator on his field and its activities, as well as the university and its life. Edited by Edward Kehler and Bruce Thompson, A Historian’s Diary, 1935-1980 is witty, trenchant, elegant, and should be of particular interest to many. Both James Sheehan, Craig’s distinguished successor as the historian of Germany in the Stanford History Department, and Craig spent their careers informing undergraduates and training graduate students in German history. Gordon Craig wrote, among other books, Germany 1866-1945 and James Sheehan German History 1770-1866 that tell the troubled history of modern Germany. Sheehan also recently published Essays on German History and Historians.

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