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Princeton university press best of 2016
The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.
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- Princeton university press best of 2016
- Princeton university press spring 2016 preview
- Pulitzers and other major awards
- Papers projects
- Bollingen Series
- Sciences
- Humanities
- Selected titles
- References
The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.
Princeton university press spring 2016 preview
Pulitzers and other major awards
Six books from the Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes.
Books from the Princeton University Press have also been awarded the Bancroft Prize, Nautilus Book Award, and the National Book Award.
Papers projects
Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the Press include
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson has been called "one of the great editorial achievements in all history."
Bollingen Series
The Princeton University Press Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation, a 1943 project of Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study including archaeology, poetry, and psychology. The Bollingen Series was given to the university in 1969.