Mad Hatters, Radium Girls and the Asbestos Hotel
As an industrial state, NJ is no stranger to industrial toxins. In recent decades, we have been home to over 140 Superfund cleanup sites...
Local History Online
- Nov 15, 2015
Newark Through the Ages
As the City of Newark prepared to celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2016, Elizabeth Del Tufo, President of the Newark Preservation and ...
- Mar 1, 2008
The Long Battle to Vote: Women’s Suffrage in America
At a time when America is beginning to realize that it lags far behind many other countries in electing women to positions of political...
- Apr 1, 2006
New Jersey and the Underground Railroad
The history of slavery in New Jersey encompasses both the bad and the good. On one hand, the state enacted legislation in 1786 that...