{"product_id":"inner-sanctum-memory-and-meaning-in-princetons-faculty-room-at-nassau-hall-9780691148618","title":"Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall","description":"\u003cp\u003eInner Sanctum takes readers inside the Faculty Room of Princeton Universitys historic Nassau Hall. It explores the Faculty Rooms role as the symbolic center of Princeton and venerable repository of its institutional memory  and looks at how the room and its portraits reflect and helped shape the Universitys identity.  Located at the very heart of the Princeton campus  the Faculty Room served variously as a prayer hall  library  and museum  until University president Woodrow Wilson had it remodeled in 1906 for executive and ceremonial use. The room is distinctive for its fine architectural features  stately design  and remarkable collection of portraits depicting University founders  American presidents  British monarchs  clergymen  scholars  scientists  and others. This book traces how the Faculty Rooms changing function and the diverse portraits on its walls tell an evocative story of Princetons evolution from a small school of dissident theologians to the world-renowned research university it is today. It demonstrates how the rooms contents and design  as well as its long and varied history  invite interpretation across a range of narratives  including those of memory  religion  history  race  biography  portraiture  and architecture.  The accompanying volume to a 2010 exhibition in the Faculty Room itself  Inner Sanctum features a foreword by University president Shirley M. Tilghman and essays by Toni Morrison  Sean Wilentz  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.  and volume editor Karl Kusserow  as well as a closing poem by Paul Muldoon.  THE EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:  \"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S27\/79\/14G91\/index.xml?sectionfeatured\" Faculty Room at Nassau Hall  Princeton University May 28  2010 through October 30  2010\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495999397941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691148619","price":30.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691148618.jpg?v=1780905944","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/inner-sanctum-memory-and-meaning-in-princetons-faculty-room-at-nassau-hall-9780691148618","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}