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NHPRC-Funded Digitization Grant Final Report
In December 2012, the Mudd Library announced that we had received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize the most frequently accessed portions of six highly-used collections documenting United States foreign policy and the origins of the Cold War. We are pleased to announce that as of December 2015,…
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Happy Holidays from John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles, Princeton Class of 1908, devoted most of his life to public service, beginning in the late 1910s through his death in 1959. The John Foster Dulles Papers (MC016) at the Mudd Manuscript Library document his career, particularly his influence on United States foreign policy. Portions of the Dulles Papers are currently being…
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Forrestal Digitization Completes Grant’s First Phase
James V. Forrestal ‘15, known to members of the Princeton community as the namesake of the James Forrestal Campus, served as Secretary of the Navy and as the first Secretary of Defense. The Mudd Library is the home of the James V. Forrestal Papers, and Mudd recently digitized Forrestal’s diaries dating from 1941-1949. The diaries…
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Allen Dulles and the Warren Commission
The 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death on Friday, November 22, has brought renewed attention to the Warren Commission and its conclusions on the assassination. Then-retired CIA Director Allen Dulles served on the commission and the Mudd Manuscript Library recently digitized five boxes of Dulles’ personal files documenting his work on the commission as…
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Kennan on Kennedy: “Dismal Foreboding for the Future of this Country”
George Kennan, like so many others, remembered exactly where he was and what he did upon hearing the news of John F. Kennedy’s death: “I had been at a luncheon when I heard he had been shot, but on returning to the office shortly afterward I received confirmation of his death. My reaction, in addition…
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Our NHPRC-Funded Digitization Project at Six Months
Late last year, the Mudd Manuscript Library was granted an award by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize our most-used Public Policy collections, serve them online, and create a report for the larger archival community about cost-efficient digitization practices. Excerpts from our six-month progress report is below. Work so far Project planning…
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Records of Adlai Stevenson, Ambassador to the United Nations, Now Available to View Online
In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, Adlai Stevenson spoke the most famous line of his career. The former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate was the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations. After a series of provocative political moves and a failed US attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime,…
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Archives for Everyone
In each of the last two springs, several staff of the Mudd Manuscript Library and other members of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections have judged at the regional qualifier of the National History Day competition held on Princeton’s campus. This is a contest for middle and high school students who, based on…
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Digitization and the Council on Foreign Relations
In March our vendor began scanning the first batch of material to be digitized as part of our grant. We’ve sent 15 boxes (and over 15,000 pages) of the Council on Foreign Relations Records to be scanned. The material will be returning to Mudd in April and all 15,000+ images should be available to anyone…
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Why — and How — We Digitize
It’s February, and we’re now in the second month of our NHPRC-funded digitization project. In twenty-three more months, we’ll have completed scanning and uploading 400,000 pages of our most-viewed material to our finding aids, and anyone with an internet connection will be able to view it. This is just the most recent effort to introduce…
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