Guide to Topics

East Asian studies

Use to retrieve collections that document historical and cultural aspects of East Asian countries, particularly China and Japan. Included
are the papers of diplomats, missionaries, and travelers. Strengths include period photographs, personal and diplomatic correspondence, and the records
(1941-1966) of an umbrella civilian relief organization.

Economic history

Consists of collections documenting economic activity on every settled continent including the papers of government officials and advisors, influential scholars, bankers and businessmen, and the records of for-profit and non-profit development and advocacy organizations. The collections are particularly strong in documenting the subject areas of public and international finance, economic development, United States foreign economic policies, and economic policies in Latin America.

Browse Collections

EDDY COLLECTION

EDITIONS FOR THE ARMED SERVICES

Education

Use to retrieve collections related to education (with a capital E) as a focus of individuals and organizations, their writing activities, and programs. It is not to be used for education in specific disciplines, such as the teaching of literature or religion, which have their own topical access points. Subject files of printed material on educational issues in selected Latin American countries are included.

EDUCATION, HISTORY OF

EDWARDIAN NOVELS

EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703-1758)

Jonathan Edwards, the elder, was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. In 1757, on the death of the Rev. Aaron Burr, who had married Edwards's daughter Esther, he reluctantly agreed to replace his late son-in-law as the president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where he was installed on February 16, 1758. Almost immediately after becoming president, he was inoculated for smallpox, which was raging in Princeton at the time. However, Edwards died of the inoculation on March 22, 1758, and was buried in the Princeton Cemetery.

Einstein, Albert

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) first arrived at Princeton in May 1921 to deliver five Stafford Little Lectures on the theory of relativity. The lectures were held in McCosh Hall from May 9th to May 13th, delivered in German, and were followed by a 20 minute resume in English. Einstein also accepted an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Princeton in 1921.

He returned again in 1933 as a life member of the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study and lived in Princeton for the remaining 22 years of his life. While an important member of the larger intellectual community of Princeton, Einstein was not a member of the Princeton University faculty, although he did have an office on campus from 1933 until the construction of the Institute's Fuld Hall in 1939. 

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

See entry for Victorian Novelists

ELIOT, T.S. (THOMAS STEARNS) (1888-1965)

EMBLEM BOOKS

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)

ENGLISH BOOKS

ENGLISH BOOKS -- The Princeton One Hundred Great English Books

ENGLISH BOOKS, EARLY PRINTED, 1475-1700

ENGLISH CIVILIZATION OF THE LATTER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY -- EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE 1890'S

Environmental studies

Use to retrieve collections that pertain to natural history, conservation, and endangered species. Princeton’s holdings are primarily
personal papers of 19th and 20th-century naturalists, consisting of journals, field notes, correspondence, and manuscripts.

EPHEMERA

EPIGRAPHY

Ethiopic Manuscript Collections

Over the past century, the Princeton University Library has become one of the leading repositories for Ethiopic manuscripts in North America. Nearly all the manuscripts are in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections.

ETHNOGRAPHY

European history

Used to discover collections documenting Europe from the 17th through 21st centuries. Princeton's collections are particularly strong for
the political history of Western Europe.

European literature

Use to retrieve collections related to the writings of non-English and non-Spanish European authors, consisting of personal papers as well
as critical texts. (Use Latin American literature for writers in Spanish.) French, German, and Russian writers predominate.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

In 1769, James Granger published a Biographical History of England with blank leaves for the addition of portraits, etc. to the taste of the purchaser. Hence grangerising, for the practice he formalized and promoted. Grangerised or extra-illustrated books, as they are now more commonly called, are copies which have had added to them, either by a private owner or professionally, engraved portraits, prints, etc., usually cut out of other books, and sometimes also autograph letters, documents and drawings. (John Carter)