Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is one of the most important figures in the history of American labor. This stirring biography traces her personal and political life, foregrounding her commitment to civil liberties as the enduring force behind her worldview and returns her to her rightful place at the heart of the working-class movement.
Latinas/os in New Jersey
Histories, Communities, and Cultures
Latinas/os in New Jersey
Histories, Communities, and Cultures
Alien Soil
Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark
The Georgia of the North
Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
The Georgia of the North is a compelling narrative about the little-known struggles that African American women, and their community, faced when they arrived in the Garden State by way of the Great Migration to 1954 as they laid the foundations of the American civil rights movement in the North in the process.
American Anti-Pastoral
Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth
On the Turtle's Back
Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren
Rockin' in the Ivory Tower
Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
Historian James Carter takes a close look at how the rock music of the 1960s played an integral role in the lives of American college students. He traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities.
Garbage in the Garden State
Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey
Caught in the Crossfire
Separate Paths
Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey
Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey is the first cross-cultural study of European colonization in the region south of the Falls of the Delaware River (now Trenton). In the 1670s, Quaker men and women sought to acquire all Lenape territory for their own use and to sell as real estate to new immigrants. Through epidemics that ravaged Lenape communities and the introduction of slavery to the colony, Quakers defied their prior experience of religious persecution and their principles of peaceful resolution of conflict and equality of everyone before God. Despite mutual commitment to peace by Lenapes, old settlers, and Friends, Quaker colonization had similar results to military conquests of Natives by English in Virginia and New England, and Dutch in the Hudson Valley and northern New Jersey.