Princeton NJ Historical Sites Events Calendar

November 01

Victoria de Grazia: "The Perfect Fascist" - A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy, Princeton Public Library
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

November 05

Sourland "Train Station" Virtual Seminar Series
7:00 PM

November 07

Cannon Firing Demonstration, Washington Crossing State Park
12:00 PM

Indigenous People’s History Workshop, La Convivencia
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

November 12

Memory and the Woman Suffragists of New Jersey, Princeton Public Library
6:00 PM

November 18

Festival of Trees, Morven
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

November 20

Holiday Pop-Up Craft Sale at Morven
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Fund for Irish Studies
4:30 PM

November 21

Holiday Pop-Up Craft Sale at Morven
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

November 22

Holiday Pop-Up Craft Sale at Morven
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

December 05

Virtual Lecture: Who Was Here in December 1776?
7:00 PM

December 09

Art Talk: "Princeton and Women’s Suffrage", Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

December 15

The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation, A Conversation with Lynne V. Cheney and Allen C. Guelzo
4:30 PM

December 25

Witness the Crossing, Washington Crossing State Park
10:00 AM

December 26

The Trouble with Trenton Virtual Puppet Show, Old Barracks Museum
12:00 PM

Virtual Hogmanay Celebration - William Trent House Museum
1:00 PM

The Real Story of the Battle of Trenton, Old Barracks Museum
2:00 PM

Blacks at the Battles of Trenton, Old Barracks Museum
3:00 PM

Author Talk: Larry Kidder on "Revolutionary Princeton, 1774-1783: The Biography of an American Town in the Heart of a Civil War", Old Barracks Museum
5:00 PM

Author Talk: Don Hagist on "Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution", Old Barracks Museum
7:00 PM

January 04

Author Talk: Revolutionary Princeton, Historical Society of Princeton
7:00 PM

January 07

The History of Russian Design, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
4:00 PM

Historical Fiction Book Group, Historical Society of Princeton
6:30 PM

January 14

Virtual Author Event - A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
7:00 PM

January 17

Misadventures in Archaeology: The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott, Tulpehaking Nature Center
6:00 PM

January 18

Multifaith Service to Commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
7:00 PM

January 21

Revolutionary Princeton, 1774-1783: The Biography of an American Town in the Heart of a Civil War
7:00 PM

January 31

How the Vacuum Tube Created the Age of Electronics, The Sarnoff Collection
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

February 04

Frederick Douglass’s Relevance - For the 21st Century’s Black Lives Matter Protests, Somerset County Library
7:00 PM

Great Minds Salon: The History of Jews in Shanghai, Jewish Center of Princeton
8:00 PM

February 05

Men in Retirement, Princeton Senior Resource Center
10:00 AM

First Friday Film - "4 Little Girls" - PSRC
1:00 PM

February 06

"In Graves of Their Own:" Reclaiming the Locust Hill Cemetery, William Trent House
1:00 PM

Courthouse Research: Using Probate Records to Research Enslaved Ancestors, African American History and Culture Museum Online
2:00 PM

February 10

Virtual VIP Tour of George Washington’s Mount Vernon
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Same Principle Lives in Us People of African Descent in the American Revolution, Princeton Public Library
7:00 PM

February 12

Regenerative Loop Antennas Discussion, The Sarnoff Collection
7:15 PM

February 16

Black History Month Tribute to Frank Johnson's Music
12:00 PM

February 17

Harriet Hemmings and the Pursuit of Happiness – The Story of Thomas Jefferson’s Enslaved Daughter, Somerset County Library
7:00 PM

February 18

Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Struggle to Overthrow the Slave Power, 55 Plus Club
10:00 AM

February 21

African Americans In STEM Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, African American History and Culture Museum Online
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

February 23

Historically Speaking: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the African American Community, African American History and Culture Museum Online
7:00 PM

February 25

The Junior No. 1 Stories, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie
7:00 PM

The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis, 1754-1836 - HCHS Black History Month Program
7:00 PM

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, New-York Historical Society & PPL
7:00 PM

Understanding Princeton’s African American History
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

February 28

Sundays at the Sarnoff: Unsung WWII Code Breakers and Y-Operator Heroines of Bletchley Park
1:30 PM

March 04

Women in the American Revolution - Seminar, Old Barracks Museum
2:30 PM

Unsung Heroines: The Role of Women in the American Civil War, MCLS
7:00 PM

March 05

First Friday Film - "Brooklyn" - PSRC
1:00 PM

March 08

Lewis B. Cuyler Lecture: 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar, Historical Society of Princeton
7:00 PM

March 10

The Origin and Tradition History of Passover and Matsot, Jewish Center of Princeton
7:30 PM

March 25

Amazing African American Women, Princeton Public Library
4:00 PM