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On Oct. 2, the Princeton University Board of Trustees announced in a letter that John Witherspoon’s statue would remain on campus. The decision came after an extensive review process that began in ...
Princeton’s naming committee continues to evaluate a proposal by members of the University community to remove or relocate a 2001 statue of John Witherspoon, following listening sessions and a ...
During the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting on Nov. 14, Nakia White Barr, the assistant vice president in the Office of the President and the secretary of the CPUC ...
A panel of scholarly experts will explore memorialization, monuments in American art history, and the university campus as a space and a community. Rachael DeLue, “Teaching the Witherspoon Statue” ...
Princeton’s Misguided Attempt to Erase Its Former President’s Legacy Statue of John Witherspoon on the campus of Princeton University in 2019.(Oleg Kovtun/iStock Editorial/Getty Images) ...
Should the bronze statue of the Rev. John Witherspoon, put up at Princeton University with great fanfare as recently as 2001, be removed from its prominent position on campus? Yes, according to a ...