Princeton History

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

Rally ’Round the Cannon: Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor

College Songs Boomed — Then Declined

College songs rose in prominence along with our modern idea of college life

Reunions Quiz: Can You Tell Fact From Fiction?

How well do you know Princeton Reunions?

Virtual Princetoniana Museum Captures History of Reunions and Princeton

More than 150 class jackets can be viewed online, and that’s just the beginning of the museum’s 5,000-plus Princeton gems

Early Reunions Organizers Fought to Bar Women From the P-rade — and Lost

They do not ‘fundamentally belong,’ wrote an alum in 1958

A Tragic Candidate in the Princeton ‘Conclave’ for University President

E. Harris ‘Jinks’ Harbison 1928

Walking Tour Highlights Princeton as a Film Set

He Watched Biology from Up Close and Afar

Lewis Thomas ’33 (1913-1993)