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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 Shadd Cary’s papers and create machine-readable transcriptions of her hand-written documents. The re...

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, education, elections, environment, ethnicity, and race, finance, health, labor, public opinion, real ...

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