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Leland Stanford: The Controversial Life of America’s Western Railroad Tycoon
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published: 19 Aug 2021
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Leland Stanford and the Founding of Stanford University
Leonard Nimoy tells a brief history of Stanford University's founding by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford.
Transcript:
"It was the gold rush of 1849 that really opened up California to the world. Gold miners made and lost riches in a few years. But the merchants who supplied the miners were the ones who earned the enduring wealth. The origin of Silicon Valley's focus on technology goes back to the founding of Stanford University. A consummate entrepreneur, Leland Stanford who made his first fortune selling picks and shovels to gold miners then risked it all again to build the Central Pacific Railroad connecting California with the east coast. Stanford later became California's Civil War governor and one of the largest land owners in the state. When his only child, Lelan...
published: 02 Feb 2009
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Inside the Mansion of Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford: One of America's Big Four Industrialists
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In the 1800’s, if you controlled the railroads, you controlled the free world. Today we are exploring the home of Leland Stanford, one of the “Big Four.” Railroad tycoons.
In this video, we'll explore Stanford University's Mansion, the founder of which was a very important figure in American history.
This mansion is a fascinating place to visit and explore, full of exciting historical facts and figures. If you're a Stanford fan or just curious about American history, this video is for you!
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published: 27 Dec 2022
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Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University (1999)
Part 1, "The Founding," covers the origins and building of the university through World War I; highlights include Stanford family history, the first Big Game between Stanford and UC Berkeley, early student life, the rise of tenure, and the 1906 earthquake. Part 2, "The Transformation," covers the development of Stanford as a world-renowned research university; highlights include the administrations of Provost Frederick E. Terman and President J. E. Wallace Sterling, the role of federal funding in the university's expansion, the turmoil of the 1960s, and the growth of new technologies leading to the personal computer revolution.
published: 26 Sep 2016
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?
Penetrating the fog of the coverup surrounding the murder of Stanford University's cofounder, historian Richard White deftly sifts through the evidence and reconstructs the full story. In 1885 Jane Stanford and her husband, Leland Stanford, co-founded Stanford University in memory of their deceased son. After Leland's death in 1893, Jane steered the university and its policies into eccentricity and controversy for more than a decade. When she died in 1905, her vast fortune was still the university’s lifeline.
To foreclose challenges to her bequests, Stanford's president and his allies insisted it was death by natural causes. But it was a murder, by strychnine poisoning, and the culprit walked. Against a backdrop of San Francisco’s machine politics, corrupt policing, tong wars, and heated ...
published: 26 Jun 2022
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Ghostly Lineage: Sacramento's 'Spooky' Stanford Mansion
Casey Hayden has been the director of the Stanford Mansion for more than a decade. And he says he's not the only person who works at the museum who's experienced something paranormal.
published: 13 Oct 2018
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Collecting in Life and Death: The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr.
Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th birthday. It is no secret that the Leland Stanford Junior University and Museum were created in memoriam for Leland Jr., but much less is said about how these institutions, and in particular the museum, emerged. The museum’s early collections reflect Leland Jr.’s curatorial interests, nurtured by his doting parents’ great wealth, class tastes, and social connections. Renowned curators even reckoned Leland Jr.’s early death a great loss to “the art-training” of the American people. This lecture analyzed the objects collected by Leland and provided insight into his role as a budding intellectual, drawing upon the research surrounding...
published: 06 Nov 2017
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The Life of Leland Stanford - A Biography
Greetings to all watching! Today is March 9th, marking the 197th Anniversary of the birth of this video's topic person: Leland Stanford! In this video, I will give a walkthrough on the life of this very important Californian-American historical figure, even though he isn't the most famous person of all time. Enjoy, and stay tuned to find out what is coming after!
published: 09 Mar 2021
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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors.
It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most...
published: 18 Aug 2020
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Leland Stanford: The Controversial Life of America’s Western Railroad Tycoon
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Source/Further reading:
https://governors.library.ca.gov/08-stanford.html
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stanford-thomas-welton-8620
https://www.nga.org/governor/amasa-leland-stanford/
https://www.sciencealert.com/an-incredible-45-day-storm-turned-california-into-a-300-mile-long-sea-and-it-could-happen-again
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/
http://cprr.org/Museum/Bailey_CPRR_1908.html
https://archive.org/details/southernpacific0000yenn/page/10/mode/2up
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leland-Stanford
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-stanford/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/18/forgotten-by-society-how-chinese-migrants-built-the-transcontinental-railroad
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/transcontinental-railroad-completed
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2900464
https://gizmodo.com/7-things-we-learned-about-the-world-thanks-to-photograp-453528816
https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/
https://www.hoover.org/research/herbert-hoover-graduate-have-stanford-degree-will-travel
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-of-fame/detail/leland-stanford
https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/the-mysterious-murder-of-jane-stanford-university-12482745.php
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/who-killed-jane-stanford
https://wn.com/Leland_Stanford_The_Controversial_Life_Of_America’S_Western_Railroad_Tycoon
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Source/Further reading:
https://governors.library.ca.gov/08-stanford.html
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stanford-thomas-welton-8620
https://www.nga.org/governor/amasa-leland-stanford/
https://www.sciencealert.com/an-incredible-45-day-storm-turned-california-into-a-300-mile-long-sea-and-it-could-happen-again
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/
http://cprr.org/Museum/Bailey_CPRR_1908.html
https://archive.org/details/southernpacific0000yenn/page/10/mode/2up
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leland-Stanford
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-stanford/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/18/forgotten-by-society-how-chinese-migrants-built-the-transcontinental-railroad
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/transcontinental-railroad-completed
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/05/08/first-transcontinental-railroad-stanford-forever-linked/
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2900464
https://gizmodo.com/7-things-we-learned-about-the-world-thanks-to-photograp-453528816
https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/
https://www.hoover.org/research/herbert-hoover-graduate-have-stanford-degree-will-travel
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-of-fame/detail/leland-stanford
https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/the-mysterious-murder-of-jane-stanford-university-12482745.php
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/who-killed-jane-stanford
- published: 19 Aug 2021
- views: 135600
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Leland Stanford and the Founding of Stanford University
Leonard Nimoy tells a brief history of Stanford University's founding by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford.
Transcript:
"It was the gold rush...
Leonard Nimoy tells a brief history of Stanford University's founding by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford.
Transcript:
"It was the gold rush of 1849 that really opened up California to the world. Gold miners made and lost riches in a few years. But the merchants who supplied the miners were the ones who earned the enduring wealth. The origin of Silicon Valley's focus on technology goes back to the founding of Stanford University. A consummate entrepreneur, Leland Stanford who made his first fortune selling picks and shovels to gold miners then risked it all again to build the Central Pacific Railroad connecting California with the east coast. Stanford later became California's Civil War governor and one of the largest land owners in the state. When his only child, Leland Stanford Jr. died, he and his wife, Jane Lathrop decided to devote their entire fortune towards the building of a great university, a place of learning that would strive to teach practical knowledge. In Stanford University's early years, tuition was free. As the university prospered, its students and faculty often engaged in entrepreneurial endeavors. Many of these were connected to advances in technology."
For requests to use this copyright-protected work in any manner, email the copyright owner, Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. The contact information can be found on our YouTube About page.
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Leonard Nimoy tells a brief history of Stanford University's founding by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford.
Transcript:
"It was the gold rush of 1849 that really opened up California to the world. Gold miners made and lost riches in a few years. But the merchants who supplied the miners were the ones who earned the enduring wealth. The origin of Silicon Valley's focus on technology goes back to the founding of Stanford University. A consummate entrepreneur, Leland Stanford who made his first fortune selling picks and shovels to gold miners then risked it all again to build the Central Pacific Railroad connecting California with the east coast. Stanford later became California's Civil War governor and one of the largest land owners in the state. When his only child, Leland Stanford Jr. died, he and his wife, Jane Lathrop decided to devote their entire fortune towards the building of a great university, a place of learning that would strive to teach practical knowledge. In Stanford University's early years, tuition was free. As the university prospered, its students and faculty often engaged in entrepreneurial endeavors. Many of these were connected to advances in technology."
For requests to use this copyright-protected work in any manner, email the copyright owner, Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. The contact information can be found on our YouTube About page.
- published: 02 Feb 2009
- views: 20677
6:58
Inside the Mansion of Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford: One of America's Big Four Industrialists
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In the 1800’s, if you controlled the railroads, you controlled the free world. Today we are exploring the home of Leland Stanford, one of the “Big Four.” Railroad tycoons.
In this video, we'll explore Stanford University's Mansion, the founder of which was a very important figure in American history.
This mansion is a fascinating place to visit and explore, full of exciting historical facts and figures. If you're a Stanford fan or just curious about American history, this video is for you!
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In the 1800’s, if you controlled the railroads, you controlled the free world. Today we are exploring the home of Leland Stanford, one of the “Big Four.” Railroad tycoons.
In this video, we'll explore Stanford University's Mansion, the founder of which was a very important figure in American history.
This mansion is a fascinating place to visit and explore, full of exciting historical facts and figures. If you're a Stanford fan or just curious about American history, this video is for you!
Location: Sacramento, California
Check out our Merch: https://thishouse.media
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Public Domain Photos from: Stanford University, California State Railroad Museum, Library of Congress
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Music from: Epidemic Sound
Assets from: Envato Elements
Drone Shots from: Envato Elements
0:00 Intro
0:23 Chapter 1
1:44 Sponsored by Blinkist
2:55 Chapter 2
- published: 27 Dec 2022
- views: 57852
1:58:11
Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University (1999)
Part 1, "The Founding," covers the origins and building of the university through World War I; highlights include Stanford family history, the first Big Game be...
Part 1, "The Founding," covers the origins and building of the university through World War I; highlights include Stanford family history, the first Big Game between Stanford and UC Berkeley, early student life, the rise of tenure, and the 1906 earthquake. Part 2, "The Transformation," covers the development of Stanford as a world-renowned research university; highlights include the administrations of Provost Frederick E. Terman and President J. E. Wallace Sterling, the role of federal funding in the university's expansion, the turmoil of the 1960s, and the growth of new technologies leading to the personal computer revolution.
https://wn.com/Becoming_Stanford_The_Making_Of_An_American_University_(1999)
Part 1, "The Founding," covers the origins and building of the university through World War I; highlights include Stanford family history, the first Big Game between Stanford and UC Berkeley, early student life, the rise of tenure, and the 1906 earthquake. Part 2, "The Transformation," covers the development of Stanford as a world-renowned research university; highlights include the administrations of Provost Frederick E. Terman and President J. E. Wallace Sterling, the role of federal funding in the university's expansion, the turmoil of the 1960s, and the growth of new technologies leading to the personal computer revolution.
- published: 26 Sep 2016
- views: 37626
1:13:14
Who Killed Jane Stanford?
Penetrating the fog of the coverup surrounding the murder of Stanford University's cofounder, historian Richard White deftly sifts through the evidence and reco...
Penetrating the fog of the coverup surrounding the murder of Stanford University's cofounder, historian Richard White deftly sifts through the evidence and reconstructs the full story. In 1885 Jane Stanford and her husband, Leland Stanford, co-founded Stanford University in memory of their deceased son. After Leland's death in 1893, Jane steered the university and its policies into eccentricity and controversy for more than a decade. When she died in 1905, her vast fortune was still the university’s lifeline.
To foreclose challenges to her bequests, Stanford's president and his allies insisted it was death by natural causes. But it was a murder, by strychnine poisoning, and the culprit walked. Against a backdrop of San Francisco’s machine politics, corrupt policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer will draw you into Stanford’s imperious household and the tumultuous politics at the university. And he reveals that, although several suspects had both motive and opportunity, only one had the means.
SPEAKERS
Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Author, Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University
In Conversation With George Hammond
Author, Conversations With Socrates
This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
Author photo by Jesse White; Stanford University photo by Y S / Unsplash.
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Penetrating the fog of the coverup surrounding the murder of Stanford University's cofounder, historian Richard White deftly sifts through the evidence and reconstructs the full story. In 1885 Jane Stanford and her husband, Leland Stanford, co-founded Stanford University in memory of their deceased son. After Leland's death in 1893, Jane steered the university and its policies into eccentricity and controversy for more than a decade. When she died in 1905, her vast fortune was still the university’s lifeline.
To foreclose challenges to her bequests, Stanford's president and his allies insisted it was death by natural causes. But it was a murder, by strychnine poisoning, and the culprit walked. Against a backdrop of San Francisco’s machine politics, corrupt policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer will draw you into Stanford’s imperious household and the tumultuous politics at the university. And he reveals that, although several suspects had both motive and opportunity, only one had the means.
SPEAKERS
Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Author, Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University
In Conversation With George Hammond
Author, Conversations With Socrates
This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
Author photo by Jesse White; Stanford University photo by Y S / Unsplash.
👉Join our Email List! https://www.commonwealthclub.org/email
🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 500 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Anthony Fauci in 2020.
In addition to the videos🎥 shared here, the Club reaches millions of listeners through its podcast🎙 and weekly national radio program📻.
- published: 26 Jun 2022
- views: 5923
1:38
Ghostly Lineage: Sacramento's 'Spooky' Stanford Mansion
Casey Hayden has been the director of the Stanford Mansion for more than a decade. And he says he's not the only person who works at the museum who's experience...
Casey Hayden has been the director of the Stanford Mansion for more than a decade. And he says he's not the only person who works at the museum who's experienced something paranormal.
https://wn.com/Ghostly_Lineage_Sacramento's_'Spooky'_Stanford_Mansion
Casey Hayden has been the director of the Stanford Mansion for more than a decade. And he says he's not the only person who works at the museum who's experienced something paranormal.
- published: 13 Oct 2018
- views: 2539
1:01:09
Collecting in Life and Death: The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr.
Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th...
Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th birthday. It is no secret that the Leland Stanford Junior University and Museum were created in memoriam for Leland Jr., but much less is said about how these institutions, and in particular the museum, emerged. The museum’s early collections reflect Leland Jr.’s curatorial interests, nurtured by his doting parents’ great wealth, class tastes, and social connections. Renowned curators even reckoned Leland Jr.’s early death a great loss to “the art-training” of the American people. This lecture analyzed the objects collected by Leland and provided insight into his role as a budding intellectual, drawing upon the research surrounding the corresponding exhibition featured at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
https://wn.com/Collecting_In_Life_And_Death_The_Curatorial_Legacy_Of_Leland_Stanford_Jr.
Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th birthday. It is no secret that the Leland Stanford Junior University and Museum were created in memoriam for Leland Jr., but much less is said about how these institutions, and in particular the museum, emerged. The museum’s early collections reflect Leland Jr.’s curatorial interests, nurtured by his doting parents’ great wealth, class tastes, and social connections. Renowned curators even reckoned Leland Jr.’s early death a great loss to “the art-training” of the American people. This lecture analyzed the objects collected by Leland and provided insight into his role as a budding intellectual, drawing upon the research surrounding the corresponding exhibition featured at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
- published: 06 Nov 2017
- views: 2870
8:09
The Life of Leland Stanford - A Biography
Greetings to all watching! Today is March 9th, marking the 197th Anniversary of the birth of this video's topic person: Leland Stanford! In this video, I will g...
Greetings to all watching! Today is March 9th, marking the 197th Anniversary of the birth of this video's topic person: Leland Stanford! In this video, I will give a walkthrough on the life of this very important Californian-American historical figure, even though he isn't the most famous person of all time. Enjoy, and stay tuned to find out what is coming after!
https://wn.com/The_Life_Of_Leland_Stanford_A_Biography
Greetings to all watching! Today is March 9th, marking the 197th Anniversary of the birth of this video's topic person: Leland Stanford! In this video, I will give a walkthrough on the life of this very important Californian-American historical figure, even though he isn't the most famous person of all time. Enjoy, and stay tuned to find out what is coming after!
- published: 09 Mar 2021
- views: 328
32:43
American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and rema...
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors.
It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him – his only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel – a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved.
Roland De Wolk is a U.C. Berkeley educated historian who left academia for a career in journalism, then returned to teach at a San Francisco Bay Area university as an adjunct while retaining his prize-winning investigative reporting work.
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https://wn.com/American_Disruptor_The_Scandalous_Life_Of_Leland_Stanford
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors.
It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him – his only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel – a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved.
Roland De Wolk is a U.C. Berkeley educated historian who left academia for a career in journalism, then returned to teach at a San Francisco Bay Area university as an adjunct while retaining his prize-winning investigative reporting work.
The work of CHS would not be possible without the support of our donors, members, and partners. Institutional support provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities; San Francisco Grants for the Arts, and Yerba Buena Community Benefit District.
- published: 18 Aug 2020
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