DescriptionOn December 10, 1889, Mr. V. H. Emerson of Newark, New Jersey, an "electrician of long experience," demonstrated Thomas A. Edison's phonograph to the greater public of Hightstown, New Jersey. The...
DescriptionIn February 1872, Washington Augustus Roebling looked on as a caisson for the New York and Brooklyn Bridge (later known as the East River Bridge and subsequently the Brooklyn Bridge for short) was...
DescriptionMatsudaira Tadanari (松平忠礼) came to Rutgers College in 1875 from a Japanese samurai family. He became head of the family after his father's early death. He graduated from Rutgers College in...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period (1868-1912)
DescriptionMatsukata Kōjirō son of Count Matsukata, entered Rutgers College in 1885 through the Rutgers College Grammar School. While at Rutgers College, he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and a...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)
DescriptionIn the twentieth century, Spain’s Fascist uprising, ensuing civil war and thirty-six-year Franco dictatorship jettisoned an estimated 114,226 citizens to mass graves and roadside ditches, and...
DescriptionFrom the formalization of Cold War civil defense to the rise of homeland security, emergency management in the United States has always been structured by power and privilege. “Emergency Poetics and...
DescriptionPurpose of Project: While the profession of nurse anesthesia precedes that of its physician anesthesiologist counterparts by over a century, dating back to roots during the American Civil War, the...
