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Editing the world’s online encyclopedia: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Three
On October 19th, 2012 staff members of Mudd Manuscript Library once again opened the doors and archives for the purpose of composing and editing Princeton University-related articles on Wikipedia. For this third event of its kind, we decided to hold it during our normal business hours during volunteer weekend with the focus of enhancing Princeton athletics information. We had…
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MYTHBUSTER — “I Love Lucy” and a lost Presidential election?!
Is there any truth to the story that a commercial for Adlai Stevenson’s campaign interrupted an episode of “I Love Lucy” and cost him the 1952 election? This story has appeared in various books and articles, but none has a verifiable citation. For example, in the book “Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia”…
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Access to Higher Education: A National and Princeton Timeline
In light of the Trustees Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity that is working to develop recommendations for strategies to attract and retain more diverse campus community members, (including people of color and women, in areas where the University’s efforts to advance diversity have had more limited success), we offer this historical timeline. The mid to…
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American Civil Liberties Union Records Processing Completed
The Mudd Library is pleased to announce that the final two series of the third subgroup of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) records have been processed, and that the entire collection has been addressed is now available to the public. These materials join ACLU records long held at the Mudd Library: The Roger Baldwin Years,…
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Oldest Living Princeton Undergraduate Dies
Malcolm Warnock the oldest known living Princeton undergraduate alumnus of all time has passed away at the age of ______.
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Fidel Castro visits Princeton University
In 1959, not even three months after he came to power, Fidel Castro was invited to speak to a small group of undergraduate students and faculty members of the Woodrow Wilson School. In a recent donation to the University Archives, we received some key items related to Castro’s visit, including this letter of invitation. This…
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The Mudd Manuscript Library Hosts its Third Edit-a-thon on October 19
In the spirit of volunteerism, the Mudd Manuscript Library will host its third Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Friday, October 19th from 12:30-4:15 p.m. during Volunteer Weekend at Princeton University. This edit-a-thon will provide a unique, hands-on experience with University Archives collections and its focus will be on expanding and/or creating Wikipedia pages on Princeton athletics. Students…
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Senior Theses to Go Digital in 2013
Access to the most frequently used collection at the Mudd Manuscript Library—the Senior Thesis Collection—will be greatly enhanced in 2013 as we transition from collecting paper copies to electronic copies (PDFs) of theses. Dean of the College Valerie Smith has approved a plan for senior theses to be available online (but limited to the Princeton…
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Protecting country and Indians: The records of Junius Wilson MacMurray (1843-1898)
How likely is it to find Civil War letters and diaries among the papers of politicians, journalists, and diplomats that are kept at Mudd Library? Or Columbia Plateau Indian pictographs? Meet Junius Wilson MacMurray, whose records are kept among the papers of his son John Van Antwerp MacMurray, a diplomat most of our blog readers…
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“Princeton: America’s Campus” Lecture with Barksdale Maynard
The author of “Princeton: America’s Campus” will host a discussion with The New Jersey Historical Commission later this month. The book, by Barksdale Maynard, Princeton Class of 1988, features many photographs from the Historical Photograph Collection housed here at the University Archives at Mudd Manuscript Library. His most recent book “Princeton: America’s Campus” is the second book…
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