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How Firestone Exploited Liberia — and Made Princeton as We Know It

Firestone’s racist system of forced labor made Princeton one of the world’s foremost research universities.
by Jon Ort via The Daily Princetonian on December 7, 2022

It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel

Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.
by Matt Stoller, Sam Haselby via The Chronicle of Higher Education on May 28, 2021

The Greatest Upset in Quiz Show History

Agnes Scott vs. Princeton, GE College Bowl, 1966.
by Lynn Q. Yu via Slate on August 6, 2018

Reassessing Woodrow Wilson, the Crusader President

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.
by Jacob Heilbrunn via The American Conservative on May 29, 2018

The Princeton & Slavery Project

A vast, interactive collection of resources related to Princeton's involvement with the institution of slavery.
via Princeton University on November 6, 2017

Names in the Ivy League

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.
by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on November 26, 2015
A man tacks applications to Princeton University on a bulletin board
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The Rise of the College Application Essay

The essay component of American college applications has a long history, but its purpose has changed over time.
by Sarah Stoller via Made By History on July 11, 2024
Woodrow Wilson.

The Poltergeist of Woodrow Wilson

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.
by Sean Durns via The American Conservative on February 9, 2024
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Endowed by Slavery

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”
by Andrew Delbanco via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2022
Action shot of the Detroit Lions playing the Chicago Bears in 1934.

How the NFL Popularized Thanksgiving Day Football

The NFL holiday tradition took off in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the unbeaten Chicago Bears in a game broadcast nationally on radio.
by Chris Mueller via HISTORY on November 10, 2021
Robert Smalls

What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls

We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
by Aderson François via The New Republic on July 3, 2020
Paintings of a line of people in darkness in chains behind a Black woman in the light receiving a diploma.

Slavery Reparations Seem Impossible. In Many places, They’re Already Happening.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.
by Thai Jones via Washington Post on January 31, 2020

John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.
by Alex Wellerstein via Physics Today on December 1, 2019

American Immigration: A Century of Racism

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2019

Aaron Burr — Villain of ‘Hamilton’ — Had a Secret Family of Color, New Research Shows

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.
by Hannah Natanson via Retropolis on August 24, 2019

Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future

If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor.
by Fred Scharmen via CityLab on May 13, 2019

Making History Go Viral

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2018
Black and white photograph of Henrietta Schmerler.

How Henrietta Schmerler Was Lost, Then Found

Women anthropologists, face assault in the field, exposing victim blaming, institutional failures, and ethical gaps in academia.
by Nell Gluckman via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 14, 2018
Football players kneeling in prayer on the field.

Football and the Political Act of Prayer

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.
by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on August 28, 2018

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015
Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Was Extremely Racist — Even By the Standards of His Time

He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on November 20, 2015

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