20Results for "c. 1920"
Stories
Princeton and the Ku Klux Klan
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During the early 1920s, Princeton students came into contact with local members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their interactions with the Klan reveal both curiosity about the organization and anxiety about the following it could develop on university campuses.
Princeton’s Civil War Memorial
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Nassau Hall’s memorial atrium—built in the 1920s—reflects the era’s reconciliationist politics, erasing the role of slavery and emancipation in the Civil War and granting moral equivalency to the Union and Confederate causes.
Princeton Academies and Slavery
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Local academies in Princeton helped maintain the relationship between the College of New Jersey and the South.
Princeton and the Confederacy
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Hundreds of Princeton alumni served the Confederacy as soldiers, officers, and political leaders. Yet Princeton’s close involvement with the Confederate States of America has received surprisingly little scholarly attention until recently.
Princeton and the Civil War
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The Civil War divided Princeton as well as the United States along regional lines, complicating the university’s patriotic history of wartime service as students and alumni fought in both the Union and Confederate forces.
Primary Sources
A. C. Seruby ("Spader")
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Photograph of A. C. Seruby (nicknamed "Spader"), a campus vendor who sold peanuts, apples, and other goods to students.
Photo of Maclean House
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A photo of the President's House, with Nassau Hall in the background and the "liberty trees" in the foreground.
Brooks Emeny
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Photo of Brooks Emeny (class of 1924), a member of Princeton's Immigration Restriction League.
President Tubman with Harvey Firestone Jr.
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Photo of Liberian President William Tubman and Ambassador S. Edward Peal with Roger S. Firestone (‘1935), Raymond C. Firestone (‘1933), and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (‘1920).
"Nights of the Nightshirt at Princeton"
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Photograph of members of the Princeton Class of 1920 dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes at the University's 1924 Reunions celebration.