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The Trenton Project is a collaborative documentary investigation by the Princeton University course, Documentary Film and the City.  We work in partnership with Trenton residents, institutions and community partners to produce short films which together offer a kaleidoscopic lens on the challenges Trenton faces, its ambitions for the future, and the many ways Trentonians are working together to weave and repair the fabric of their city.   Our work is part of the Program in Urban Studies and supported by the Community-Based Learning Initiative, a university program which connects Princeton classes with partners in the community and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. In 2016 & 2017, our work is generously supported by The 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education and the Princeton Histories Fund. Above all, we are grateful to dozens of individuals in Trenton and our institutional partners and welcome all ideas and suggestions.  The project’s director is Purcell Carson, a filmmaker and editor of long-form independent documentary.  The past two years, we are joined by historian Alison Isenberg, as we document Trenton in the 1960s.