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Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass and strives to create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history during a "Transcribe-a-thon" - a crowdsourced transcription event. This year, we will focus on the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, one of the earliest Black women to edit a newspaper, serve as a Civil War recruiter, and attend law school. During the event, we’ll use Zooniverse to access digitized files from Mary Ann Sh...

Since 1964, Data and Statistical Services (DSS) has been collecting data to build one of the world’s largest microdata collections. In addition to memberships with large data providers such as ICPSR, Roper, Social Science Electronic Data Library, and Statistics Canada, DSS collects from associations, governmental organizations, and private companies. Agreements with the European Union and the United Kingdom Data Archive help facilitate data access. A few highlights include data on economics, e...

The collection includes more than 2,700 original books, atlases, pamphlets, newspapers and magazines relating to human and political rights, liberty, and independence around the time of the American Revolution.

The CPUC Committee on Naming is seeking suggestions for naming meeting rooms and event spaces in Prospect House as part of plans to renovate the historic campus building.

Squalls of indignation gust across campuses so frequently that they seem merely performative — synthetic, perfunctory, uninteresting. Princeton’s current contretemps, however, fascinatingly illustrates how wokeness, which lacks limiting principles, limits

Squalls of indignation gust across campuses so frequently that they seem merely performative -- synthetic, perfunctory, uninteresting. Princetons current contretemps, however, fascinatingly illustrates how wokeness, which lacks limiting principles, limits opposition to itself.

Squalls of indignation gust across campuses so frequently that they seem merely performative - synthetic, perfunctory, uninteresting. Princetons current contretemps, however, fascinatingly illustrates how wokeness, which lacks limiting principles, limits

Everybody seems to be up in arms over Musk turning Twitter into a real social media platform. When Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum ban Twitter, you know Musk is doing a great job. Bringing an end to all the propaganda from disease to Putin is such a breath of fresh air. Pray for

‘The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse’ by Lyndall Gordon pulls off a feat of multidimensional life-writing.

What will philology become in the wake of the digital revolution? How can computer vision, handwritten text recognition, natural language processing, deep neural networks and/or other forms of machine learning refine the arsenal of techniques for studying premodern evidence? This works-in-progress symposium will feature six teams of Princeton scholars who are applying machine learning to manuscripts, rare books, archives, inscriptions, coins and other pre-1600 texts. Presentations will include p...