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  • This Week in Princeton History for March 25-31

    This Week in Princeton History for March 25-31

    In this week’s installment in our recurring series, a student defends himself and a campus organization against accusations of fabricating discrimination, an administrator vows that Princeton will comply with Prohibition, and more.

  • This Week in Princeton History for October 30-November 5

    This Week in Princeton History for October 30-November 5

    In this week’s installment of our recurring series, major renovations bring indoor plumbing to all dorm residents, a self-identified “group of queers” refuses to be silenced, and more. November 1, 1902—Town & Country reports that Princeton has made significant renovations to modernize, after a summer during which over 300 employees were focused on the dorms.…

  • Visibility Epidemic: Conversations on AIDS and Queerness at Princeton University, Part II

    Visibility Epidemic: Conversations on AIDS and Queerness at Princeton University, Part II

    By Travis York ’23 with April C. Armstrong *14 In this, the second part of the story on AIDS awareness on Princeton University’s campus, we will cover the representation of AIDS and queerness within selected student newspapers and alumni publications. While all of the United States began to discuss AIDS in the 1990s, especially in…

  • Visibility Epidemic: Conversations on AIDS and Queerness at Princeton University, Part I

    Visibility Epidemic: Conversations on AIDS and Queerness at Princeton University, Part I

    By Travis York ’23 with April C. Armstrong *14 As the first in a two-part series on AIDS at Princeton University, this post will cover the on-campus organizing that occurred surrounding AIDS awareness and prevention in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The second part of this series will focus on related discussions on campus…

  • This Week in Princeton History for June 27-July 3

    In this week’s installment of our recurring series, New Jersey’s governor worries that the colonists won’t support a college, a court rules in favor of an alum, and more. June 27, 1748—Governor Jonathan Belcher writes to the Committee of the West Jersey Society, But as I find upon the Best inquiry hardly Sixty thousand Souls…

  • This Week in Princeton History for April 11-17

    In this week’s installment of our recurring series, Shirley Chisholm speaks on campus, a lantern slide show is well-received, and more. April 11, 1930—Theatre Intime teams up with the Varsity Club of Bryn Mawr to present “The Constant Nymph.” April 14, 1972—Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress and…

  • This Week in Princeton History for February 28-March 6

    In this week’s installment of our recurring series, an honorary degree is controversial, students fear smallpox, and more. March 1, 1836—The Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine expresses outrage that Princeton has awarded William Gaston (Class of 1796) an honorary L.L.D., because they disapprove of thus honoring a Catholic. “We pronounce it a most gross outrage…

  • Early LGBTQIA+ Publishing and Civil Liberties During America’s “Lavender Scare”

    Documentation of LGBTQIA+ communities prior to the Stonewall riots of 1969 can be sparse. During the immediate post-World War II period, all manifestations of non-heterosexuality were under deliberate government attack within the era’s overall attempt to find and root out all “un-American activities.” Through a series of measures—the U.S. State Department purging employees with “homosexual…

  • “Wear ’Em”: Princeton University’s First Gay Jeans Day

    “Wear ’Em”: Princeton University’s First Gay Jeans Day

    The events of October 11, 1989, Princeton’s first “Gay Jeans Day,” reverberated far beyond the confines of a 24-hour period. Both then and much later, the day highlighted attitudes among students and alumni toward the LGBTQIA+ community as they existed in the late 1980s. The Princeton LGBTQIA+ Oral History Project (AC465) further gives us insight…

  • This Week in Princeton History for October 12-18

    In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, a rally mourns the death of Matthew Shepard, controversy surrounds an advertisement in the Daily Princetonian, and more. October 13, 1998—About 100 Princeton University students rally to mourn the loss of Matthew Shepard, a student…