Why — and How — We Digitize
It’s February, and we’re now in the second month of our NHPRC-funded digitization project. In twenty-three more months, we’ll have completed scanning and uploading 400,000 pages of our most-viewed...
View ArticleDigitization and the Council on Foreign Relations
In March our vendor began scanning the first batch of material to be digitized as part of our grant. We’ve sent 15 boxes (and over 15,000 pages) of the Council on Foreign Relations Records to be...
View ArticleArchives for Everyone
In each of the last two springs, several staff of the Mudd Manuscript Library and other members of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections have judged at the regional qualifier of the...
View ArticleRecords of Adlai Stevenson, Ambassador to the United Nations, Now Available...
In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, Adlai Stevenson spoke the most famous line of his career. The former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate was the United...
View ArticleOur NHPRC-Funded Digitization Project at Six Months
Late last year, the Mudd Manuscript Library was granted an award by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize our most-used Public Policy collections, serve them...
View ArticleKennan on Kennedy: “Dismal Foreboding for the Future of this Country”
George Kennan, like so many others, remembered exactly where he was and what he did upon hearing the news of John F. Kennedy’s death: “I had been at a luncheon when I heard he had been shot, but on...
View ArticleAllen Dulles and the Warren Commission
The 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death on Friday, November 22, has brought renewed attention to the Warren Commission and its conclusions on the assassination. Then-retired CIA Director Allen...
View ArticleMudd Library Awarded Grant to Provide Global Access to Records of the Cold War
by: Maureen Callahan The historian John Lewis Gaddis, author of a 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George Kennan, has stated that the Mudd Library holds “the most significant set of papers for...
View ArticleForrestal Digitization Completes Grant’s First Phase
First page of Forrestal’s letter resigning as Secretary of Defense, dated March 2, 1949. James V. Forrestal Papers (MC051), Box 151. http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC051/c05118 James V....
View ArticleHappy Holidays from John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles Papers (MC016), Box 567 John Foster Dulles, Princeton Class of 1908, devoted most of his life to public service, beginning in the late 1910s through his death in 1959. The John...
View ArticleNHPRC-Funded Digitization Grant Final Report
In December 2012, the Mudd Library announced that we had received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize the most frequently accessed portions of...
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