I’ve spent a little time studying Princeton University’s history over the years. My first book was on a Witherspoon student who studied at Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) between 1770 and 1772. My second book covered Witherspoon’s role...
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Kevin Kruse returns to Twitter
Get up to speed here and here. The Princeton historian is back after Cornell and Princeton cleared him of plagiarism charges. I will let him explain:...
More on the plagiarism accusations made against Princeton historian Kevin Kruse
Get up to speed here. The Daily Princetonian has more reporting. Kruse has not interacted with his more than 500,000 Twitter followers since the story broke on June 14, 2022. Here are some highlights from the piece by Amy Ciceu...
Why did Princeton fire Joshua Katz?
Princeton University just fired a tenured classic professor. Read about it here. And now read Katz’s view of his firing at The Wall Street Journal: Nearly two years ago, I wrote in these pages, “I survived cancellation at Princeton.” I was...
Albert Raboteau, RIP
Princeton University religion professor Albert Raboteau‘s book Slave Religion was the first book I ever read on the history of the religion and the African American experience. Here is Adelle Banks at Religion News Service: Albert J. Raboteau, an American...
Historians assess the Trump presidency
Historian Julian Zelizer gathered an esteemed group of American historians at Princeton to assess the Trump presidency. Here is a taste of Jennifer Schuessler’s piece at The New York Times: From the day he took office, Donald J. Trump had...
Historian Allen Guelzo featured at the Princeton University alumni magazine
Deborah Yaffe just published a great feature on American historian Allen Guelzo, Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton’s James Madison Program. The piece, published at the Princeton University alumni magazine, covers Guelzo’s role in the rollout...