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Between the Lines

Last June, working at the Rare Books and Special Collections Department hidden within Firestone, I found myself tearing up as I sifted through pages just shy of 150 years old. I had been processing the Civil War Letters of Adam Badeau for nearly a month, my longest and most meticulous project to date.

by Hildegard Krieger on April 19, 2014May 19, 2018

A Prince at Princeton

In September 1940, Japan’s prime minister, Konoe Fumimaro, concluded the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, committing the three countries to support each other against the United States in the event of American entry into World War II.

by Alex Costin on February 21, 2015March 16, 2017

Eugenics at Princeton

The perception of people with intellectual disabilities as “defective” is grounded in an intellectual superiority that finds its natural home among the academic elite.

by Talya Nevins on April 12, 2015April 18, 2015

Neighbors with Nazis

Fernand Lépinay is a friend of my grandparents who lives outside of the small town of Laigle in the rainy Orne department of Lower Normandy.

by Emily Lever on May 4, 2015August 11, 2015

The New Garden Theatre

Once a small-town movie house that navigated the local market with bumbling charm, the Garden Theatre has grown into an exhibit of Old Princeton nostalgia under its new management. This is all well and good for Princeton’s polished and intellectual reputation, but I’ll miss the old Garden’s cozy modesty.

by Alex Costin on August 11, 2015July 15, 2017

Disappearing Histories

In the bowels of Firestone Library, behind bombproof walls and inside climate-controlled rooms, lies the entire life’s work of Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa.

by Lara Norgaard on October 4, 2015

Wittgenstein in Shadow

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy’s most misunderstood philosopher.

by Geoff Sinclair on March 26, 2016March 27, 2016

Stories From My Grandfather

Prince Faisal kissed him, reached into his robe, and pulled out a revolver. Three shots rang out in the hall.

by Hetty Yejae Lee on March 27, 2016

Everyone except for the dinosaurs

Samuel Bollen on Dinosaurs.

by Samuel Bollen on October 2, 2016

A Brief and True History of Adirondack Chairs

Any school child knows that Neil Armstrong was the first man to sit in an Adirondack chair on the moon, but few know the story of its humble roots as a wee embryo in the mind of Thomas Lee.

by Carson Welch on October 2, 2016

Witness Theater

Art, trauma, and the Holocaust

by Serena Alagappan on November 13, 2016

Jewish Wisdom

Love, lust, and etsah in the Orange Bubble.

by Ben Perelmuter, Zach Cohen on December 3, 2016December 13, 2016


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