To begin studying Princeton history, the following titles will be helpful:
Axtell, James. The Making of Princeton University: from Woodrow Wilson to the Present / Princeton,
N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006
Breese, Gerald William. Footprints on Edgehill
Street : Glimpses of Princeton Life, 1684-1990 / Princeton, N.J. : Darwin Press, 1991
Greenwald, Alice M. Old Traditions, New Beginnings: Two Hundred Fifty Years of Princeton Jewish History / Princeton, N.J.: Historical Society of Princeton, 2002
Greiff, Constance M. and Wanda S. Gunning. Morven : Memory, Myth & Reality / Princeton, N.J.: Historic Morven, Inc., 2004
Greiff, Constance M., Mary W. Gibbons, and Elizabeth G.C. Menzies. Princeton Architecture: a Pictorial History of Town and Campus. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1967
Hageman, John F. History of Princeton and its Institutions / Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879
Martens, Wiebke and Jennifer Jang. Discovering Princeton: A Photographic Guide with Five Walking Tours / Atglen, P.A.: Schiffer, 2017
Rhinehart, Raymond P. Princeton University / New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Smith, Richard D. Princeton / Dover, N.H. : Arcadia, 1997
Smith, Richard D., Princeton University /Charleston, SC : Arcadia, 2005
Washington, Jack. The Long Journey Home: a Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey 1776-1976 / Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 2005
Watterson, Kathryn. I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton / Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017
African American History in Princeton, The History of African American Community in Princeton, New Jersey by PULSE, http://phs.princetonk12.org/Clubs/PULSE
Princeton University Chapel, http://religiouslife.princeton.edu/chapel
Researchers can supplement their work at the Historical Society by contacting other local institutions, including the Princeton Public Library.
