Friends of the Princeton University Library
Friends of the Princeton University Library
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0 likes 114 playsOn March 27, 2022, the Friends welcomed Dr. Daria Rose Foner, a 2011 Princeton alumna, who recently joined Sotheby’s New York after having served as the Research…
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0 likes 34 playsOn February 13 at 3 p.m., the Friends of the Princeton University Library welcomed W. Drake McFeely, former chairman of W.W. Norton & Company, to its Small Talk…
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0 likes 34 playsThe Friends of Princeton University Library welcome Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who will discuss her book, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate…
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0 likes 17 playsCarolyn Yerkes, co-curator of the "Piranesi on the Page" exhibition, and associate professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, discusses the…
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0 likes 55 playsFriends of Princeton University Library host their annual fall dinner on October 24, 2021, with featured speaker Fintan O'Toole, acclaimed author; Leonard L.…
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0 likes 63 playsProfessor Peter Brooks, a comparative literature scholar, with a special interest in 19th and 20th century French novels, discusses his current work-in-progress,…
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0 likes 85 playsProfessor John Fleming discusses his extensive personal library, which includes 16th century Italian editions of the works of Petrarch as well as 10 folio volumes of The…
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0 likes 55 playsMolly Greene, professor of history and Hellenic studies and director of the Program in Hellenic Studies, will outline the contours of the Greek world from the 15th…
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0 likes 75 playsWas Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is Austen’s writing…
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0 likes 14 playsJoan Wallach Scott, American historian and professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss her latest book, "On…
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0 likes 295 playsOn Jan. 2, 2020, a collection of 1,131 letters from Nobel laureate and renowned writer Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot to his lifelong friend Emily Hale were unsealed at…
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0 likes 36 playsTerry Seymour will describe and show us his extraordinary collection of the books, papers, and artworks identified with the protean Scottish biographer, traveler, and…
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0 likes 33 playsPerched on the northern tip of Manhattan, The Met Cloisters focuses on the art, architecture, and gardens of the European Middle Ages. In this virtual field trip, C.…
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0 likes 27 playsSerious historians of the book may recall that Catherine the Great was among the Russian rulers who continued the formation of a world-class imperial library and…
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0 likes 18 playsRare book dealer Heather O’Donnell, founder of Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn, spent three years at Princeton as a member of the Society of Fellows in the…
