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A Princeton seminar in American art disentangles the facts and fictions in early images of scientific inquiry. Students learn critical skills they can apply to contemporary images, as well.

The Center for Digital Humanities, the Princeton University Library and the Office of the Dean for Research invite humanities scholars (faculty, postdocs, staff and other researchers and collaborators) to an information session to learn about seeking funding for digital humanities projects. We will offer an overview of the types of federal funding available from NEH, how to develop collaborative humanities projects, campus resources and partners, and some grantseeking basics. Scholars at all lev...

Simmons, a former University administrator and trailblazer in higher ed, and Fuchs, a Princeton Ph.D. and renowned cell biologist, were honored in a ceremony Nov. 16.

Join us for a PUL Author Talk with Jeaninne Surette Honstein and Steven Knowlton who will talk about their adventure in discovering, transcribing, and annotating an incredible manuscript that details the thrilling and sometimes horrifying ordeals of a starving prisoner in the last 13 months of the Civil War. “Thirteen Months in Dixie” is a rollicking tale of adventure, captivity, hardship, and heroism during the last year of the Civil War in a first-hand account by Oscar Federhen. Federhen w...

A special private tour of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library for the Student Friends of Princeton University Library. Selma, Lahore, Warsaw, Santiago … “Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021,” Princeton University Library’s latest exhibition, captures continuity and change in practices of protest and activism in diverse geographic contexts and around issues that may be particular to an area or of universal concern. The exhibition w...

“...I entirely underestimated the potential of science to uncover stories about the past, to reveal a history that is not only a product of texts and photographs but of leaves, rocks, and landscape.”

The archway in Lockhart Hall will be called Ikeda Arch effective Oct. 4. The naming is intended to memorialize Ikeda’s experience at Princeton and recognize his inspiring persistence during extremely challenging circumstances.

A 45-minute guided tour of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library at Princeton University. Tours meet in the lobby of Firestone Library. The exhibition is open daily from noon to 6 p.m. in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library. Open to the public. Princeton University has a COVID visitor policy. Please make sure you are in compliance. https://covid.princeton.edu/visitors "Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021" curators are Fernando ...

Join the Student Friends of the Princeton University Library for its first event of the 2022-2023 school year, a showcase of highlights from the Scheide Library led by Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts. The Scheide Library is one of the foremost collections of rare books in the entire world. Housed in Firestone Library on C Floor, this one-of-a-kind library belonged to William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton alum...

Towering tongues of fire wrap the broiling Earth.