Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first work of scholarship published under the Stanford name appeared in 1892, when Orrin Leslie Elliott’s The Tariff Controversy in the United States, 1789-1833 was issued as “No. 1” in the Leland Stanford Junior University Monographs Series. The imprint “Stanford University Press” was first used in 1895.
David Starr Jordan, the first president of Stanford University, stipulated as a condition of accepting the post that the university make provision for publishing the research of its professors and advanced students. That condition, embedded in his terms of appointment, directly prompted the creation of the press.
Stanford University Press publishes 130 books per year across the humanities, social sciences, and business, and has more than 3,500 titles in print.
Stanford University Press operates three named imprints: Redwood Press, launched in 2015 for trade titles; Stanford Briefs, launched in 2012 for short essay-length works; and Stanford Business Books, launched in 2000 for academic and professional titles in business.
Stanford University Press books have won the Bancroft Prize twice, in 1962 for Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision by Roberta Wohlstetter and in 1993 for A Preponderance of Power by Melvyn P. Leffler. The press has also won the Bryce Wood Book Award, the Albert J. Beveridge Award, multiple National Jewish Book Awards, and the Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, among others.
In April 2019, Stanford’s provost announced plans to cease providing funds for the press. Following protests from Stanford faculty, students, and the broader academic and publishing community, the subsidy for the 2019-20 academic year was reinstated, with options for future fundraising to be discussed.