Princeton History

Musician Albert ‘Buck’ Johnston Jr. *49 and His Personal ‘D-Day’

Revealing his family’s truth put a young graduate student under significant strain

Why Princeton Took So Long to Become One

Fifteen years ago, consolidation brought the borough and township together — and changed the University’s relationship with its neighbors

Class Scribe Walter Lowrie 1890 and the ‘Highspot’ of Class Notes

Princetonians cherished an author’s shorter works — the witty dispatches of an octogenarian

Groundbreaking Poet Nazik Sadek al-Malaika *51’s Year as a Grad Fellow

The promising Iraqi writer, among the first women at the Graduate School, was a “not ‘an easy girl’” according to records from the Rockefeller Foundation

Seminar Students Bring Home a Revolutionary Treasure

Nassau Hall Was the Nation’s Capital, and Other Facts for the Semiquincentennial

One Exhibition, Decades of Donations, Centuries of History

Ivy Abroad

How a Princeton-born style has found new life in Japan

This Is the Difference Between Princeton in 1776 and Princeton in 2026

What did students on campus actually do in the 1770s? Dan Caprera ’16 dug deep to find out.

And Now, a Journey Through Princeton’s Time-Honored Traditions

Some, like beer jackets, endure while others — Nude Olympics, anyone? — fade with time

He Built a Secret Empire Ghostwriting for Students

Rally ’Round the Cannon: Stamp Act, the Other One

How a Dinosaur From the Utah Desert Came to Princeton

In 1996, William W. Warner ’43 penned the story of alumni who dug fossils and forged friendships in the summer of 1941

He Fled Nazi Germany and Shaped the Course of Art History

Elementary: Campus Architecture Certainly Isn’t

Behind the Stripes

What happens inside the mascot suit doesn’t always stay there

Hidden Chapel Pulpit Honors a Civil War Friend of America

A Stellar Student, He Transformed Our Understanding of the Stars

Henry Norris Russell 1897 *1900

There’s a Massive Ivy League Library Warehouse Across Route 1

ReCAP provides storage — and retrieval — for millions of items from multiple Ivy libraries

Checking Under the Hood

He Fled Europe and Became ‘The Patron Saint of Photocopying’

Alumni Become Agitators

‘He did not want me growing up in a country run by gangsters’

Why a father in Nazi Germany sent his son to Princeton

Prospect House Rooms Named for Pioneering Princetonians