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Vincent Sanfedele

This Week in History: Protected against tyranny? The American executive from then to now

A photograph of one of the original copies of the U.S. Constitution next to a copy of the Dunlap Broadside Declaration of Indepdence.

This Week in History: Protected against tyranny? The American executive from then to now

Vincent Sanfedele
| ARCHIVES | April 14

This week in history, in 1900, President Grover Cleveland gave a lecture on the modern U.S. Executive Branch. This week, in 2026, PUL’s newest exhibit will open featuring original copies of the Declaration of Independence, covering similar tensions of executive power and tyranny.

This week in history, in 1900, President Grover Cleveland gave a lecture on the modern U.S. Executive Branch. This week, in 2026, PUL’s newest exhibit will open featuring original copies of the Declaration of Independence, covering similar tensions of executive power and tyranny.

Digital debates and the origin of a Princeton “In the Nation’s Service”

Five people stand behind an image of the revised informal motto mounted on a tripod.

Digital debates and the origin of a Princeton “In the Nation’s Service”

Vincent Sanfedele
| ARCHIVES | October 28

Wilson believed that the “processes of instruction which fit a large body of young men to serve their generation … ought also to serve as the initial processes by which scholars and investigators are made.”

Wilson believed that the “processes of instruction which fit a large body of young men to serve their generation … ought also to serve as the initial processes by which scholars and investigators are made.”

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