History

Devin Fore is Exploring the Interplay of German Media and Culture

The Deceptiveness of Archives

Elyse Graham ’07 says dirty tricks surrounding library access go back centuries

Class Close-Up: History of Mathematics Starts 4,000 Years Ago

Students learn ‘a whole landscape of the subject. It’s a crash course,’ says visiting fellow Alex Kontorovich ’02

Tao Leigh Goffe ’09 Unpacks Exploration of the Caribbean

Julian Zelizer Calls For Partisanship

Michael Cannell ’82 Writes About Cop Corruption

Professor Sean Wilentz Watches ‘A Complete Unknown’

‘The facts are all true, the songs are all true. But none of it happened the way that the film depicts it,’ says the Princeton history professor

Ed Park Reimagines Korean History

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui Highlights Indigenous Experiences

What Now? Faculty React to Trump Victory

Many ponder how dangerous a second term will be. ‘I think he needs to be taken seriously, but not literally,’ says Robert P. George

Oral History: 60 Years Since Football Perfection

Sixty years after their perfect season, members of the 1964 football team look back

She Brought America and Greece Together

Princeton Portrait: Mary Alison Frantz (1903-1995)

Math Be Damned, He Fell Upward Through a Career in Medicine

Princeton Portrait: John Finney 1884 (1863-1942)

The Long, Fraught Princeton-Harvard Football Rivalry

‘There may well be antagonism, but if there is, it won’t be for the first time’

A History of Exclusion

Faculty Book: Beth Lew-Williams

Faculty Book: Wendy Warren: A New England History with Slavery Unbound Slavery

‘Moral Provocateur’

Jan Gross’ views on Polish violence against Jews spark another controversy

History: A Murder in Mexico

Never-before-seen photographs shed light on Leon Trotsky’s murder

History: America the Profligate

Why we save so little, spend so much, and borrow like crazy

The history teacher

Gary Nash ’55 *64 works at a university, but his heart is in the schoolhouse