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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?
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
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 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 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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