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Dr. Mark Peterson of the University of California, Berkeley pulled up a darkened yellow map of the Battle of Princeton on a projector screen at last Thursday’s meeting of the Regional Planning Board.  
 
“You wouldn’t want to use it to find yourself from Trenton to Princeton in the dark, but this primary document was drawn by an anonymous spy for General Washington,” he said. 
 

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz will speak on "The Long and Tragical History of Post-Partisanship" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in the Friend Center, Room 101. The talk is the second installment of the 2011-12 President's Lecture Series. From George Washington's presidency and the eras of the Federalist and Whig parties, to the Confederacy and the present day, Wilentz will examine the longstanding "illusion of post-partisanship" that has marked the American political scene. The lecture will be webcast.

Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles
Wolfensohn Hall

What is the relationship between the idiom of the observer (historian, anthropologist) and the idiom of the actors, dead or alive? This question, which has been addressed from widely different (and usually unrelated) points of view, will provide an oblique approach to the cognitive, moral, and political implications of the historian’s craft today.

Princeton University's Class of 2011 emerged through the FitzRandolph Gate today, the culmination of days of reunions, class day events, and memorable speakers.

(Image courtesy of the D&R Canal Commission)

Princeton Battlefield Society and Crossroads for the American Revolution Association. Saturday, Feb. 26th, 8:30am-3:30pm, Friend Center – 101, Princeton University, Corner of William St. & Olden St., Princeton, NJ 08540. Results of study financed by grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program, U.S. Department of Interior. Presentation by the consulting team - Wade Catts, Milner Associates, and Dr. Robert Selig, Historian, followed by panel featuring American Revolution experts Dr. Larry Babits - Southern Campaign Historian, Dr. Charles Neimeyer - Marine Corp.

It wasn’t so long ago that Princeton was surrounded by farms and countryside. With those days in mind, the library’s Community Room will showcase an all-day exhibit of old photographs, maps, documents, newspaper articles, and testimonies about the farm and families who worked the land. At 7:30 p.m., soil enthusiast and Princeton Farmers Market manager Judith Robinson will lead a panel discussion by a local historian, a 10th-generation farmer, a native species consultant, and a new farmer.