New Jersey History

Topics

1. General Works
2. Land, Land Use, Geology, Archaeology
3. The First People
4. The Dutch
5. The Swedes
6. The English, Their Proprietors, and the Two Jerseys
7. Transportation: Canals, Railroads
8. The Revolutionary Years
9. Slavery
10. Civil War Years
11. Progressive Reform
12. Labor Movement
13. The War to End All Wars
14. Depression Years
15. World War II and Aftermath
16. Modern Times
17. Modern Times: Consumerism
18. Modern Times: Education
19. Modern Times: Land Use

I. General Works:

• Cunningham, John T. This Is New Jersey. 4th ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
• Farner, Thomas P. New Jersey in History: Fighting to be Heard. Harvey Cedars, NJ: Down the Shore Publishing, 1996.
• Fleming, Thomas. New Jersey: A History. NY: W.W. Norton, 1984.
• Gordon, Thomas F. The History of New Jersey from Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1977.
• Green, Howard L, ed. Words that Make New Jersey History: A Primary Source Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
• Lurie, Maxine N, ed. A New Jersey Anthology. 2nd. ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
• Lurie, Maxine N, and Mark Mappen, eds. Encyclopedia of New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
• Mappen, Marc. Jerseyana: The Underside of New Jersey History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
• Westergaard, Barbara. New Jersey: A Guide to the State. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

II. Land, Land Use, Geology, Archaeology:

• Stansfield, Charles, A., Jr. A Geography of New Jersey: The City in the Garden. 2nd ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
• Veit, Richard. Digging New Jersey’s Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
• Wacker, Peter O. Land and People: A Cultural Geography of Preindustrial New Jersey: Origins and Settlement Patterns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1975.
• Wacker, Peter O. and Paul G. E. Clemens. Land Use in Early New Jersey: A Historical Geography. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1995.

III. The First People:

• Dowd, Gregory Evans. The Indians of New Jersey. New Jersey History Series, 3. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.
• Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of New Jersey, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum, 1991.
• ---, The Lenape- Delaware Indian Heritage, 10,000 B.C, - A.D. 2000. n.p.: Lenape Books, 2001.
• Stansfield, Charles A. “The Lenape and the Land.” An Ecological History of New Jersey. New Jersey History Series, 8. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1996.

IV. The Dutch:

• Balmer, Randall. A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies. Religion in America Series. NY: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Cohen, David Steven. The Dutch-American Farm American Social Experience Series, 24. NY: New York University Press, 1992.
• Kraft, Herbert C. The Dutch, the Indians, and the Quest for Copper: Pahaquarry and the Old Mine Road. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum, 1996.
• Fabend, Firth Haring. The Dutch Family In the Middle Colonies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
• Wacker, Peter O. “The Dutch Culture Area in the Northeast, 1609-1800.” New Jersey History 104.1-2 (1986) : 1-21.

V. The Swedes:

• Becker, Marshall J. “The Swedes and Dutch in the Land of the Lenape.” Pennsylvania Heritage 10.1 (1984): 20-23.
• Dahlgren, Stellan and Hans Norman. The Rise and Fall of New Sweden: Governor Johan Risingh’s Journal 1654-1655 in Its Historical Context. Trans. Marie Clark Nelson. Stockholm, Sweden : Uppsala, 1988.
• Esposito, Frank J. “The Lenape and the Swede: Indian and White Relations in the Delaware River Region, 1638-55.” New Jersey History 112.3-4 (1994): 1-14.
• Johnson, Amandus. The Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1664. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Printing Company, 1927, c1914.
• Siokalo, Zoriana E. Before Penn: Swedish Colonists In the Land of the Lenape. Philadelphia: American Swedish Historical Museum, 1988.
• Voorhees, David William. “In the Republic’s Tradition: The Persistence of Dutch Culture In the Mid-Atlantic Colonies After the 1664 English Conquest.” Halve Maen 74.3 (2001): 49-54.

VI. The English, Their Proprietors, and the Two Jerseys:

• Greiert, Steven G. “The Earl of Halifax and the Land Riots in New Jersey, 1748-1753.” New Jersey History 99.1-2 (1981): 13-31.
• Jacobson, Douglas. “American Puritanisms Observed: New England and New Jersey” New Jersey History 110.1-2 (1992): 1-17.
• McConville, Brendan. These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
• McCormick, Richard Patrick. New Jersey from Colony to State, 1609-1789. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1981.
• Purvis, Thomas L. “Disaffection Along the Millstone: the Petition of Dollens Hegeman and Anti-Proprietary Sentiment in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey.” New Jersey History (1983): 61-82.
• Weeks, Daniel J. Not for Filthy Lucre's Sake: Richard Saltar and the Antiproprietary Movement in East New Jersey, 1665-1707. Allentown, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2001.
• Young, Claribel. “Land Ownership in Proprietary East Jersey: The Case of Sarah Reape, Quaker.” New Jersey History 117.3-4 (1999): 46-63.

VII. Transportation: Canals, Railroads

• Adams, Arthur G. The Hudson Through the Years, 3rd ed. NY: Fordham University Press, 1996.
• Birkner, Michael J. “Journalism and Politics in Jacksonian New Jersey: The Career of Stacy G. Potts.” New Jersey History 97.3 (1979) 159-177.
• Cranmer, H. Jerome. The New Jersey Canals: State Policy and Private Enterprise, 1820-1832. NY: Arno Press, 1978.
• Cuyler, Lewis B. “Origins of the Delaware and Raritan Canal.” Princeton History 4 (1983): 1-16.
• Dale, Frank. Delaware Diary: Episodes in the Life of a River. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
• Ferraro, William M. “The Economic Life and Death of a Morris Canal Village: Bowerstown, Washington Township, Warren County.” New Jersey History 108.3-4 (1990): 1-33.
• Haussamen, Brock. When the Railroads Came To Somerset County. North Branch, NJ: Raritan Press, 2000.
• Miller, Jacquelyn C. “Breach over Troubled Waters: Special Interest Groups and Public Policy Formation – The Morris Canal Abandonment Controversy.” New Jersey History 109.1-2 (1991): 1-25.

VIII. The Revolutionary Years in New Jersey.

• Di Ionno, Mark. A Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Trail for Families and History Buffs. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
• Dowd, Gregory Evans. “Declarations of Dependence: War and Inequality in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1776-1815.” New Jersey History 103.1-2 (1985): 47-67.
• Leiby, Adrian C. The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
• Lefkowitz, Arthur S. The Long Retreat: The Calamitous American Defense of New Jersey, 1776. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
• Mappen, Marc. A. “The Paupers of Somerset County: 1760-1800.” The Journal of the Rutgers University Library 33.2 (1970): 33-45.
• Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. NY: Oxford University Press, 1982.
• Riccards, Michael P. “Patriots and Plunderers: Confiscation of Loyalist Lands in New Jersey, 1776-1786.” New Jersey History 86.1 (1968) 14-28.
• Schleicher, William A. and Susan J. Winter. Somerset County: Crossroads of the American Revolution. Images of America . Charlestown, SC: Arcadia, 1999.
• Skemp, Sheila L. Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist. NY: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
• Walling, Richard S. Men of Color at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778: The Role of African Americans at Monmouth. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1994.

IX. Slavery:

• Bezis-Selfa, John. “Slavery and the Disciplining of Free Labor in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic Iron Industry.” Pennsylvania History 64.(Special Issue): 270-286.
• Cudd, John. “The Unity of Reform: John Grimes and The New Jersey Freeman.” New Jersey History 97.4 (1979) 197-212.
• DeJong, Gerald F. “The Dutch Reformed Church and Negro Slavery in Colonial America .” Church History 40.4 (1971): 423-436.
• Greene, L.A. “A History of Afro Americans in New Jersey.” Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 56.1 (1994): 4-71.
• Hodges, Graham Russell. Root & Branch: African Americans in New York & East Jersey, 1613-1863. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
• ---, Slavery and Freedom In the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1997.
• Schleicher, William and Susan Winter. “Patriot and Slave: the Samuel Sutphen Story.” New Jersey Heritage Magazine Winter, 2002: 31-43.
• Wagman, Morton. “Corporate Slavery in New Netherland.” Journal of Negro History 65.1 (1980): 34-42.
• Watson, Judith Green. “Slavery in Middletown: What the 1798 Direct Tax Reveals.” New Jersey History 120.3-4 (2002): 2-45.
• Williams, Robert J. “Blacks, Colonization, and Antislavery: The Views of Methodists in New Jersey, 1816-60.” New Jersey History 102.3-4 (1984): 50-67.
• Wright, Giles R. Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1988.
• ---, New Jersey’s Underground Railroad Heritage: “steal away, steal away—": A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 2002.

X. Civil War Years:

• Bilby, Joseph G. Forgotten Warriors: New Jersey’s African American Soldiers in the Civil War. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1993.
• ---, “Remember You Are Jerseymen!”: A Military History of New Jersey’s Troops In the Civil War. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1998.
• ---, Three Rousing Cheers: A History of the Fifteenth New Jersey, From Flemington to Appomattox. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1993
• Gillette, William. Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994
• Hayward, John. Give It To Them, Jersey Blues!: A History of the 7th Regiment, New Jersey Veteran Volunteers in the Civil War. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1998.
• Jackson, William J. New Jerseyans in the Civil War: For Union and Liberty. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
• Lender, Marc. “The Civil War: The Context of Change.” One State in Arms: A Short Military History of New Jersey. New Jersey History Series, 1. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1991.
• Martin, David G., ed. Heximer’s First New Jersey Battery in the Civil War. Hightstown. NJ: Longstreet House, 1992.
• Renda, Lex. “The Dysfunctional Party: The Collapse of the New Jersey Whigs, 1849-1853.” New Jersey History 116.1-2 (1998): 3-57.
• Schwartz, Joel. “Preindustrial Society Unravels, 1780s to 1870.” The Development of New Jersey Society. New Jersey History Series, 10. New Brunswick, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.
• Siegel, Alan A. Beneath the Starry Flag: New Jersey’s Civil War Experience. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
• Worton, Stanley N. “A State Divided.” Reshaping New Jersey: A History of Its Government and Politics. New Jersey History Series, 11. New Brunswick, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.

XI. Progressive Reform: Suffrage, Education, Business

• Beirne, Charles J. “ Jersey City’s Experiment with Commission Government.” New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings 82.2 (1964): 109-120.
• Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. 3ed ed. NY: New York University Press, 1993.
• Crocco, Margaret Smith. “Women of New Jersey: Charting a Path to Full Citizenship, 1870-1920.” New Jersey History 115.3-4 (1997): 37-59.
• Dodyk, Delight, W, ed. The Diary of Sarah Tabitha Reid, 1868-1873. Freehold, NJ: Monmouth County Historical Association, 2001.
• ---, “Education and Agitation: The Woman Suffrage Movement in New Jersey.” Diss. Rutgers U, 1998.
• Green, Howard. “The Red Scare and the Palmer Raids: Repression of Immigrants and Radicals in New Jersey, 1918-20.” New Jersey Heritage Fall 2001: 32-37.
• Handen, Ella. “Social Service Stations: New Jersey Settlement Houses Founded in the Progressive Era.” New Jersey History 108.1-2 (1990): 1-29.
• Kaplan Lawrence. A Utopia During the Progressive Era: The Helicon Home Colony, 1906-1907.” American Studies 25.2 (1984): 59-73.
• Kirchmann, George. “Unsettled Utopias: The North American Phalanx and the Raritan Bay Union.” New Jersey History 97.1 (1979) 25-36.
• Link, Arthur S. “Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Movement in New Jersey.” Princeton History 1 (1971): 25-38.
• Lunardini, Christine A and Thomas J. Knock. “Woodrow Wilson and Woman Suffrage: A New Look.” Political Science Quarterly 95.4 (1980-81): 655-671.
• Paulsson, Martin. The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform: Atlantic City, 1854-1920. NY: New York University Press, 1994.
• Platt, Hermann K. “ Jersey City and the United Railroad Companies, 1868: A Case Study of Municipal Weakness.” New Jersey History 91.4 (1973): 249-265.
• Reynolds, John. “The Silent Dollar”: Vote Buying in New Jersey.” New Jersey History 98.3-4 (1980): 191-211.
• Scheiner, Seth M. “Commission Government In the Progressive Era: The New Brunswick, New Jersey, Example.” Journal of Urban History 12.2 (1986):157-179.
• Shaw, Douglas. “The ‘New’ Immigration, 1880-1920.” Immigration and Ethnicity in New Jersey New Jersey History Series, 4. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1994.
• Sipenwall, Harriet Lipman. “The New Jersey Constitution and the 1875 “Thorough and Efficient” Education Amendment.” Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 59 (2000): 53-68.
• Stickle, Warren E, III. “The Applejack Campaign of 1919: “As ‘Wet’ as the Atlantic Ocean.” New Jersey History 89.1 (1971): 5-22.
• ---, “Edward I. Edwards and the Urban Coalition of 1919.” New Jersey History 90.2 (1972): 83-96
• Taggert, Robert J. “Woodrow Wilson and Curriculum Reform.” New Jersey History 93.3-4 (1975): 99-114.
• Walker, Larry. “Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Reform, and Public Administration.” Political Science Quarterly 104.3 (1989): 509-525.

XII. Labor Movement:

• Ebner, Michael H. “Strikes and Society: Civil Behavior in Passaic, 1875-1926.” New Jersey History. 97.1 (1979): 6-24.
• Golin, Steve. The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike, 1913. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988
• Gowaskie, Joseph. “Protests, Struggles, and Strikes, 1880- 1920.” Workers in New Jersey History. New Jersey History Series, 6. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1996.
• Schwartz, Joel. “The Urban-Industrial Order.” The Development of New Jersey Society New Jersey History Series, 10. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.
• Scranton: Philip B, ed. Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860-1940. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1985.
• Worton, Stanley N. “Businessmen and Bosses, Nativism and Reform.” Reshaping New Jersey: A History of Its Government and Politics. New Jersey History Series, 11. New Brunswick, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.

XIII. The War to End All Wars.

• Lender, Marc Edward. “War and Modern America ” One State In Arms: A Short Military History of New Jersey. New Jersey History Series, 1. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1991.
• Patrick, Jeffrey L. “Becoming a Soldier at Camp Dix: The World War I Letters of Private William Lehman.” New Jersey History 114.1-2 (1996): 49-75.
• Rose, Howard W. Camp Merritt: A Documentary. Englewood, NJ: Bergen Historic Books, 1984.

XIV. Depression Years:

• Dorsett, Lyle W. “Frank Hague, Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of the New Deal.” New Jersey History 94.1 (1976): 23-35.
• Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey. The WPA Guide to 1930s New Jersey. 1939 New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.
• Friedman, Sora H. “ No Place Like Home: The Settling of New Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey.” Communal Societies 19 (1999): 23-48.
• Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Michels, Edward H, Jr. “ New Jersey and the New Deal.” Diss. New York U, 1986.
• Noble, Richard A. “ Paterson’s Response to the Great Depression.” New Jersey History 96.3-4 (1978): 87-98.
• Price, Clement A. “The Struggle to Desegregate Newark: Black Middle Class Militancy in New Jersey, 1932-1947.” New Jersey History 99.3-4 (1981): 215-228.
• Stellhorn, Paul Anthony. “Depression and Decline: Newark, New Jersey, 1929-1941.” Diss. Rutgers U, 1982.
• Worton, Stanley N. “ New Jersey Comes of Age.” Reshaping New Jersey: A History of Its Government and Politics. New Jersey History Series, 11. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.
• York, Hildreth. “The New Deal Art Projects In New Jersey.” New Jersey History 98.3-4 (1980): 132-174.

XV. World War II and Aftermath:

• Cole, Wayne, S. Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War II. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974.
• Glaser, Martha “The German-American Bund in New Jersey.” New Jersey History 92.1 (1974): 33-49.
• Goudsward, Jack “The Defense of Paterson, New Jersey in World War II.” Journal of America’s Military Past 27.3 (2000):88-93.
• Oshinsky, David M. “ Fort Monmouth and McCarthy: The Victims Remember.” New Jersey History 100.1-2 (1982): 1-13.
• Sawada, Mitziko. “After the Camps: Seabrook Farms, New Jersey, and the Resettlement of Japanese Americans, 1944-1947.” Amerasia Journal 13.2 (1986-87): 117-136.
• Tucker, Barbara M. “Agricultural Workers in World War II: The Reserve Army of Children, Black Americans, and Jamaicans.” Agricultural History 68.1 (1994): 54-73.

XVI. Modern Times:

• Lurie, Maxine N. New Jersey’s Three Constitutions: 1776, 1844, 1947.” Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 59 (2000)” 1-18.
• ---, “The Twisted Path to Greater Equality: Women and the 1947 Constitution.” New Jersey History 117.1-2 (1999): 39-58.
• Schwartz, Joel “Post Industrial Society Emerges: The 1960s to the Present.” The Development of New Jersey Society. New Jersey History Series, 10. Trenton: NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.
• Shaw, Douglas “The Third Wave, 1960-" Immigration and Ethnicity in New Jersey History. New Jersey History Series, 4. Trenton: NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1994.
• Warton, Stanley N. “An Activist Judiciary.” Reshaping New Jersey: A History of Its Government and Politics New Jersey History Series, 11. Trenton, NJ:

XVII. Modern Times: Consumerism:

• Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
• ---, “From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America .” American Historical Review 101.4 (1986): 1050-1081.
• O’Connor, John E. and Charles F. Cummings. “Bamberger’s Department Store, Charm Magazine, and the Culture of Consumption in New Jersey, 1924-1932.” New Jersey History 102.3-4 (1984): 1-33.

XVIII. Modern Times: Education:

• Golin, Steve. The Newark Teachers Strikes: Hopes On the Line. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
• Mintrom, Michael “Why Efforts To Equalize School Funding Have Failed: Towards a Positive Theory.” Political Research Quarterly 46.4 (1993): 847-862.
• Raiche, Donald R. “Richard J. Hughes, Frederick M. Raubinger, and the Struggle for New Jersey Public Higher Education.” New Jersey History 114.1-2 (1996): 18-47.

XIX. Modern Times: Land Use:

• Calthorp, Peter, William Fulton, and Robert Fishman. The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.
• Harr, Charles M. Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
• Kirp, David L. and John P. Dwyer. Our Town, Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
• Marshall, Alex. How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Road Not Taken. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001
• “Papers From The New Jersey Turnpike: Exit Into the American Consciousness” New Jersey History 118.3-4 (2000, Special Issue): 3-102.

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Last Updated - September, 2005