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Peter Stansky

Peter Stansky is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Stansky received his first BA in History from Yale, and a few years later received a second BA in History from King's College, Cambridge. He contemplated a career in law, but instead did a Ph.D. in History at Harvard University. He taught at Harvard until 1968, when he left to join the Stanford faculty.