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John Murrin

*The Daily Princetonian* Remembers John Murrin

John Fea   |  May 9, 2020

Here is a taste of Edward Tian’s article in the Princeton student newspaper: John M. Murrin, professor of history emeritus at the University, died at the age of 84 on May 2 at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton...

Remembering John Murrin

John Fea   |  May 3, 2020

One of our great early American historians died yesterday, a victim of coronavirus.  Here is his obituary: John M. Murrin, Professor of History emeritus at Princeton University, died May 2 at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton of corona virus....

Rethinking America with John Murrin

John Fea   |  May 16, 2018

Princeton historian John Murrin never wrote a monograph.  But his essays packed a punch. Princeton Alumni Weekly is recognizing a new book of Murrin’s classic essays titled Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic.  I can think of few early American...

“You got that from Vickers, ‘Work in Essex County…’”

John Fea   |  July 13, 2017

How often does a passage from a book with a title like Farmers & Fisherman: Two Centures of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, written by a relatively unknown historian working at a Canadian university, make it into a blockbuster Hollywood film? [youtube...

Anglicization Reconsidered: Conference in Honor of John Murrin

John Fea   |  March 27, 2013

On April 19-20, 2013 the McNeil Center for Early American Studies will be sponsoring an academic conference to honor the work of early American historian John Murrin.  As many of you know, Murrin coined the term “Anglicization,” so it is...

Project Reading

John Fea   |  December 26, 2012

My reading over the Christmas Holiday included two books on Presbyterians and the founding of the College of New Jersey. I reread the first several chapters of Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker’ Princeton, 1746-1896 (1946).  This is a very useful mid-twentieth-century institutional...

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