From 1971 to 2001, the Historical Society published a scholarly journal of original research related to the remarkable and significant history of Princeton. The Journal’s content continues to be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and curious residents alike. A full list of the articles in the Princeton History journal’s issues is below.
The Princeton History journal can be accessed online via the Princeton University Library catalog. Hard copies are available in the Princeton Room at the Princeton Public Library, at Firestone Library at Princeton University, and in the Reading Room at the Historical Society of Princeton.
Princeton History, no. 1, 1971
Bainbridge House
Constance Mann Greiff
Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Movement in New Jersey
Arthur S. Link
Hemingway and Princeton
Carlos Baker
When Merwick was the University’s “Graduate House” 1905-1913
Willard Thorp
Princeton in 1874, A Bird’s Eye View
Halsey Thomas
Album of Princeton Photographs
Book Reviews
Princeton History, no. 2, 1977
Guernsey Hall
Eleanor Marquand Delanoy
The Great Princeton Mail Robbery
Lucius Wilmerding, Jr.
The Princeton Group
Ernest Gordon
Alexander Hall at the Princeton Theological Seminary
Robert S. Beaman
Mr. Eliot’s Stay in Princeton
Margaret M. Keenan
General Washington’s Highway
Elizabeth G.C. Menzies
Book Reviews
Princeton History, no. 3, 1982
The Princeton Grandees
Nathaniel Burt
The Five Houses
Constance Greiff
The Olden Family of Drumthwacket
Mary Spence
The Spanels of Drumthwacket
Margaret Spanel
The Remodeled Drumthwacket
William H. Short
Development of Constitution Hill
Perry Morgan Jr.
Princeton History, no. 4, 1983
Origins of the Delaware and Raritan Canal
Lewis B. Cuyler
Princeton Basin
Nancy Knox
Architectural Terra Cotta: A Local Industry
Diane Jones Sliney
Princeton History, no. 5, 1986
Dr. Benjamin Rush in Princeton: 1777-1778
Ruth L. Woodword
Princeton Plagues: The Epidemics of 1832, 1880, and 1918-19
Frederick English
Princeton’s First Pediatrician
Jeannette Munro
The Genial Dr. Howell: Princeton Medicine in the 1820’s-1830’s
Nancy Knox
Princeton History, no. 6, 1987
Heckscher Arrives in Princeton
William S. Heckscher
Émigrés and Students
Murray H. Reich
Three Russian Women
Beverly S. Almgren
Jews in Princeton
Gertrude W. Dubrovsky
Scholars Before the Wind
Sally R. Roberts
The Émigrés and the Town
Norma Turner
Princeton History, no. 7, 1988
Henry Van Dyke, Poet of Genteel Princeton
Nathaniel Burt
Woodrow Wilson
Arthur S. Link
Goethe, Thomas Mann and Einstein
Mary Lou Kohfeldt Stevenson
. . .And John O’Hara
John D. Davies
Princeton History, no. 8, 1989
The Promised Land at Princeton: Princeton and the Great Awakening, 1734-1756
Martin Flaherty
Hugh Stott Tayler
Margaret Keenan
A Theatrical Love Affair in Princeton
Stuart Duncan
Small Town, Distinguished Architects: Part 1
Constance Greiff, et al
Princeton History, no. 9, 1990
A Very Troublesome Person: Princeton’s First Settler, Dr. Henry Greenland
John M. Murrin
With Promptness, Efficiency, and Exactness: Princeton and the 1850 Census
Philip A. Hayden
The McClellans, Father and Son
Frederick M. English
Small Town Distinguished Architects: Part 2
William Short, et al
Princeton History, no. 10, 1991
Views of Morven
Constance Greiff
Prime: Another Resident of Bainbridge House
Giles R. Wright
She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton
Constance K. Escher
Princeton History, no. 11, 1992
Sarah Jane Potter and the Interior Decoration of Prospect, 1852-1877
Margaret K. Hofer
Double Dick: Princeton’s Other Richard Stockton
Philip A. Hayden
Princeton and Pearl Harbor: Town and Gown
Richard D. Challener
The Response to the War
Richard D. Challener
Princeton History, no. 12, 1994
How Are Things Up On the Hill?
Jeanne Silvester
Back to the Future: The Farsighted Four
Randy Hobler
Experiencing Megalopolis in Princeton
Micheal E. Ebner
Princeton History, no. 13, 1995
Mary Watts’ Store
Jeanne Silvester
Taking Care of Business
Nancy Brewer Eills
Cesar Pronier’s Visit
Allan C. Lane and P.C. Kemeny
A Playbill of Shops
Nancy Brewer Eills
Princeton History, no. 14, 1997
Einstein in a Rear-View Mirror
James R. Blackwood
A Princeton Family in 1825
Nancy Brewer Eills
Reflections on a Surviving Issue of ‘The Citizen’
Kevin Gaines
Completing the Historical Record: Princeton’s First Exhibition on the African American Community
Dwandalyn Reece King
Princeton History, no. 15, 1998
Craftsmanship, Comfort and Elegance: The Architecture of Rolf W. Bauhan, 1920-1966
Emily Croll
Tusculum: The History of a House
Constance M. Greiff & Wanda S. Gunning
Moved Buildings in Princeton
Susanne Hand
Princeton History, no. 16, 2001
The Rose Family Photography Studio in Princeton
