DescriptionNew Jersey has often stood at the forefront of movements for social and economic justice. This talk analyzes twentieth-century legislative campaigns for wage and hour fairness and foregrounds the...
DescriptionThe Preface highlights the contents of the current volume as well as briefly describes the the JRUL 100 anniversary of the Civil War special issue (1961). It also provides an update on the usage of...
DescriptionCowen discusses a broadside advertisement for a collection of materia medica and related items. published for Smith, Moore & Co. ("a store mixt, various, universal") in 1784. It is the only known...
DescriptionOver the past one hundred years, the phrase ―Insomnia Squad‖ has evolved from an inside joke among a few of Thomas Edison‘s laboratory staffers into a term of popular culture, familiar even to...
DescriptionThis paper examines the political career of James Sloan of Gloucester County, New Jersey. Sloan was instrumental in organizing the Democratic Republican party in Gloucester County, and he represented...
DescriptionAbstract: Slavery in New Jersey offers scholars a rich, untapped source for new scholarship about the meaning of freedom and liberty from the Founding Era to the Civil War. Kean University recently...
