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: Princeton University Press, 2006
Breese, Gerald William. Footprints on Edgehill Street : Glimpses of Princeton Life, 1684-1990. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1991
Escher, Constance K. She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton: The Illustrated Odyssey of a Princeton Slave. Eugene: Resource Publications, 2022
Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration of the State of New Jersey. Old Princeton’s Neighbors. Princeton: Graphic Arts Press, 1947.
Greenwald, Alice M. Old Traditions, New Beginnings: Two Hundred Fifty Years of Princeton Jewish History. Princeton: Historical Society of Princeton, 2002
Greiff, Constance M. and Wanda S. Gunning. Morven: Memory, Myth & Reality. Princeton: 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: Princeton University Press, 1967
Hageman, John F. History of Princeton and its Institutions. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1877
Hobler, Randy and Jeanne Silvester. Princeton: On the Streets Where We Live, Revisited. Princeton, 2003
Kidder, William L. Revolutionary Princeton, 1776-1783: The Biography of an American Town in the Heart of a Civil War. New York: Knox Press, 2021
Leitch, Alexander. A Princeton Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
Martens, Wiebke and Jennifer Jang. Discovering Princeton: A Photographic Guide with Five Walking Tours. Atglen: Schiffer, 2017
Nobles, Gregory. The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Rhinehart, Raymond P. Princeton University. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Smith, Richard D. Princeton. Dover: Arcadia, 1997
Smith, Richard D. Princeton University. Charleston: Arcadia, 2005
Washington, Jack. The Long Journey Home: a Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey 1776-1976. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005
Watterson, Kathryn. I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017
Papers of Princeton newspaper database. https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/
Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu
Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society Heritage Tour. https://princetonwjhcs.org/heritage-tour/
Researchers can supplement their work at the Historical Society by contacting other local institutions, including the Princeton Public Library and Princeton University Library.
