NJSAA Events

In-Person Meeting

May 1, 2025 at 3pm

IN-PERSON at UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ

Co-Sponsored by Union College of Union County and REVNJ

Please join us for our IN-PERSON presentation "1780 in New Jersey: Year of Crisis, Year of Hope" by Phil Papas, followed by a walking tour of "Revolutionary Trees in the UCNJ Tree Grove" by Tom Ombrello.

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If you are working in New Jersey studies and would like to present your current research, please contact program coordinator Melissa Ziobro (mziobro@monmouth.edu).

Past Lectures

• Dr. David Blake, Department of English at The College of New Jersey, "Liking Ike: Eisenhower, Advertising, and the Rise of Celebrity Politics"

• Gordon Bond, author, “My Patron: The Friendship of James Parker and Benjamin Franklin”

• Carla Cielo, historic preservation consultant, "Domestic Outbuildings of Northwest Central New Jersey”

• John Delaney, Princeton University Library, “Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888”

• Eleonora Dubicki, reference and instruction librarian at Monmouth University, "Carnegie Libraries in New Jersey, 1900-1923" (co-hosted with the Union County Cultural & Heritage Commission)

• Frank J. Esposito & Donald Lokuta, authors, "Victorian New Jersey - Photographs by Guillermo Thorn from the Kean University Collection"

• Brad Fay, filmmaker and board president of the Millstone Valley Preservation Coalition, "Farming in the Millstone Valley"

• John Fea, Messiah College, “Philip Vickers Fithian: An 18th Century Jersey Boy”

• Raymond Frey, Centenary College, “The History of Centenary College in Hackettstown”

• Catherine Hudak, educator at Morris Hills Regional District, "The Ladies of Trenton: Women's Political and Public Activism in Revolutionary New Jersey" (co-hosted with the Alice Paul Institute)

• William Kroth, president of the Sterling Hill Mine Museum in Sussex County, "Great Zinc Mines of Sussex County"

• Maxine N. Lurie, Seton Hall University, "17th Century New Jersey"

• Maxine H. Lurie & Richard Veit, authors, "Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrative History of the Garden State" (co-sponsored with the Trenton Free Public Library)

• Bill Marsh, Monmouth University, “Why Lincoln Lost New Jersey Twice”

• Robert McGreevey, The College of New Jersey, "Trenton's Early Civil Rights Activists" (co-hosted with the Trenton Free Public Library) and "Borderline Citizens: The U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration"

• Lucia McMahon, William Paterson University, “Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic”

• Sandra Moss, M.D., past-president of the Medical History Society of New Jersey and the American Osler Society, "1916 Polio Epidemic"

• Phillip Papas, Union County College, "Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee”

• Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi, author and former journalist, "Northern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War" (co-hosted with the Monmouth County Library Headquarters) and “The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion”

• Brian Regal, Kean University, "The Jersey Devil: The Real Story"

• Gary Saretzky, Monmouth County Archives, "Photographers of Middlesex County" and “New Jersey’s Civil War Photographers”

• Jean Soderlund, Lehigh University, "The Lenape Indians and Colonial West Jersey"

• Bob Vietrogoski, Rutgers University’s George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, “How New Jersey’s Governors Created the State Medical Education System”