Department of History records, 1930-1994.

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Department of History records, 1930-1994.

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Consists of subject and faculty files, correspondence, departmental budgets, and course syllabi. Also included in the collection are statistical forms of 19th century Princeton alumni compiled for a research project by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

6.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)

Princeton University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8114791

Princeton University Library

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Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies

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Princeton University. Faculty.

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Princeton University. Dept. of History.

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In the earliest years of the College of New Jersey, the study of history was typically marginalized as an ancillary aspect of politics such to the extent that in 1904 when Princeton University president Woodrow Wilson established the departmental system, history was grouped together with politics and economics in an arrangement that remained until 1924. The Department was carried through its formative years by the teaching skill and scholarship of its first two chairmen, Dana Carlton Munro and T...

Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...