History of Science & Knowledge
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Eric Crahan
Editorial Director, Humanities & Social Sciences
As the publisher of Albert Einstein, Princeton University Press has a longstanding tradition and commitment to the history of science, publishing books in the history of knowledge and science in the broadest sense. Our list encompasses the history of the natural and physical sciences, from antiquity
to the present, while also incorporating histories of the humanities and the social sciences, of academic disciplines, and of the book. Throughout, we strive to be global and diverse in period, topic, and methodology.
New & Noteworthy
Featured Audiobooks
Ideas
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Deep time and the Civil War dead
In rocky tombs, formed millions of years before Gettysburg, rested the fossilized remains of a riotous wonder of life that had cavorted and gnashed its way through the continent’s primordial seas and landscapes. This lost world had been unearthed piecemeal in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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Einstein Papers Project’s editors’ reflections on The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 17
Josh Eisenthal, EPP Editor, reflects on Einstein's second meeting with Rabindranath Tagore.
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Einstein Papers Project’s newest volume: Einstein wrestles with politics and physics, 1929–1930
Since 1987 the Einstein Papers Project, based at Caltech, has been releasing a volume of Einstein's correspondence and papers approximately every three years. Volume 17 finds Einstein living mainly in Berlin, though traveling throughout Europe to attend conferences and receive honorary degrees.
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Listen in: Slouch
In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students.
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David N. Livingstone on The Empire of Climate
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species.
