by lindaoppenheim | Dec 6, 2018 | books, Documents, Events, Exhibit, history
“Open Archive: Segregation in Princeton,” Princeton Public Library, 5:30-7:00 PM Explore original artifacts and archival materials that tell the story of segregation in Princeton – from businesses to schools to the local fight for civil rights. Presented...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 8, 2018 | Article, history, Truth and Reconciliation
Renee Gokey (Eastern Shawnee/Sac and Fox/Miami) and Dennis W. Zotigh (Kiowa/San Juan Pueblo/Santee Dakota Indian) summarize the history of Columbus Day and the growing movement to replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Their article lists the states and...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 24, 2018 | books, Events, history
At 6 pm on October 3, 2018, Labyrinth Books (122 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ) and the Princeton Public Library are pleased to invite you to a discussion of the Sean Wilentz’s radical reconstruction of the founders’ debate over slavery and the Constitution. Although the...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 17, 2018 | Events, history
On October 18, 2018, 7:00 – 8:30 pm at Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, there will be a panel discussion, in conjunction with exhibitions at Updike Farmstead and Princeton Public Library, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the “Princeton Plan,”...
