By R. H. Schmitt Jr.
Trenton, Princeton and Mercer County have long commanded much of New Jersey’s Revolutionary War attention. But just beyond those better-known battlefields, Allen’s Town, Upper Freehold...
Woodrow Wilson, says historian James Axtell, was the architect of Princeton as a modern university. Axtell had been intrigued by Woodrow Wilson, the United...
James Axtell’s book on Princeton University (“The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present,” Princeton University Press) may be the first...