A Reflection on Bordentown

Memories of the Manual Training and Industrial School at Bordentown By Arthur L. Symes The Manual Training and Industrial School [MTIS] was established in 1886 by one Reverend Walter Rice in the city of Bordentown, NJ. “The school, which was a boarding, vocational...
Thomas Mundy Peterson’s Historic Vote

Thomas Mundy Peterson’s Historic Vote

By Larry A. Greene I first became aware of Thomas Mundy Peterson many years ago in graduate school at Columbia University while conducting research at the New Jersey Historical Society for Professor Eric Foner’s Civil War and Reconstruction colloquium.  New Jersey’s...
Rediscovering Women Who Made New Jersey History

Rediscovering Women Who Made New Jersey History

By Deborah Kelly In the summer of 1994, many preservationists and women’s history scholars gathered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania for the first national “Conference on Women and Historic Preservation.”  From this dialogue, the New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail was born....
Interpreting the Life of Molly Pitcher

Interpreting the Life of Molly Pitcher

By Stacy F. Roth June 28, 1778, Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey.  A blazing sun beat down upon the heads of soldiers of the American and British armies.  Stemming an almost disastrous retreat of the forces under General Charles Lee, General George Washington...
Paul Robeson, Teenage Idol

Paul Robeson, Teenage Idol

By Lamont Dixon When I was a teen, the “Motown sound” spun from vinyls throughout my house. The exquisitely soulful harmonies of The Temptations were favorites. I favored the baritone stylings of Melvin Franklin, notably on hits like Silent Night and Ball of...