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From PU Princeton University Library March 20th, 2025
0 likes 4 playsFrom an inauspicious childhood in a Ural Mountain mining town, Tchaikovsky grew up to become one of the most known composers of the Russian Empire. How? And what made… -
From PU Princeton University Library January 30th, 2025
0 likes 36 playsTony Grafton has studied master scholar Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) for two decades of his life. In April 2024, Grafton began to realize that Scaliger was also a… -
From PU Princeton University Library January 24th, 2025
0 likes 9 playsLorraine Atkin and Stan Katz discuss Atkin’s new book, “Mightier Than the Sword: How Three Obscure Treaties Sanctioned the Enslavement of Millions and the… -
From PU Princeton University Library December 17th, 2024
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From PU Princeton University Library October 14th, 2024
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From PU Princeton University Library September 19th, 2024
0 likes 40 playsThe Friends of PUL’s own Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski reveals the story of Venice-born French writer Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-c. 1430). Raised in an intellectual… -
From PU Princeton University Library May 17th, 2024
0 likes 29 playsThe acquisition of two major collections, that of Peter Donald and Chris and Helen Theodotou, with a generous contribution by the Friends of PUL and the Seeger Center… -
From PU Princeton University Library March 1st, 2024
0 likes 34 playsDuring World War II, while Nazis were banning books and issuing rampant propaganda, the U.S. countered by sending millions of books to American troops in the field.… -
From PU Princeton University Library February 1st, 2024
0 likes 48 playsThe Friends of PUL host Christie Henry, Director of Princeton University Press, for an insightful discussion around “The Evolution of the Reader.” The book… -
From PU Princeton University Library October 31st, 2023
0 likes 47 playsFriends of Princeton University Library 2023 Fall Dinner After-dinner speaker: Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Director, Rare Book School -
From PU Princeton University Library September 7th, 2023
0 likes 45 playsThe Friends of Princeton University Library welcome award-winning author and legendary historian Adam Hochschild, who gives an illustrated lecture based on his latest… -
From PU Princeton University Library May 18th, 2023
0 likes 25 playsJeaninne Surette Honstein and Steven Knowlton present to the Friends of Princeton University Library their adventure in discovering, transcribing, and annotating an… -
From PU Princeton University Library May 2nd, 2023
0 likes 44 playsLandon Y. (Lanny) Jones is an author and magazine editor. His most recent book is "Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers,"… -
From PU Princeton University Library February 2nd, 2023
0 likes 39 playsThe Friends of Princeton University Library present Gene Andrew Jarrett, the Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. Jarrett… -
From PU Princeton University Library January 20th, 2023
0 likes 142 playsFriends of Princeton University Library Small Talk with Nina Khrushcheva *98, scholar and Professor of International Affairs, The New School