History

Professor Ada Ferrer Is Telling Her Family’s Cuba Migration Trauma Story

Ferrer calls her new book ‘a plea for forgiveness from the people hurt by our leaving’

Matthew Jones Studies the History of Data, Surveillance, and AI

The Remarkable Influence of Whig-Clio on the U.S. Constitution

Professor Sean Wilentz Co-produced Bob Dylan’s New ‘Bootleg’ Albums

‘He works very, very hard. Genius does not become genius on its own. You have to work at it for it to flower’

Leonard Wantchekon Researches the Roots of Success in Africa and Beyond

Eve Krakowski Mines Ancient Documents to Understand Medieval Jewish Society

Reena Goldthree Is Shining a Light on Afro-Caribbean History

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

New Papers Highlight Ashbel Green 1783 and Betsey Stockton’s Relationship

Historian Fara Dabhoiwala Unravels Mysteries from the 18th Century

Outspoken Advocate Takes Unusual Path to Professorship

History professor Max Weiss says he was put on probation, then promoted to full professor

He Watched Biology from Up Close and Afar

Lewis Thomas ’33 (1913-1993)

Professor Emerita Martha A. Sandweiss Uncovers Civil War Mystery

Where Old and New Meet

As part of its biggest expansion ever, Princeton is transforming its campus while attempting to balance tradition and change

He Inspired Hemingway Before Falling Out Over a Famous Fish

Henry Strater 1919

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