by nj350 | May 13, 2016 | Liberty
By Senator Cory Booker When Americans think of the voting and civil rights movements, names like Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King Jr. often spring to mind. Few people might remember that one of the key figures at the intersection of these two...
by nj350 | May 12, 2016 | Liberty
By Bob Carr In 2003, I was fortunate to be able to purchase Woodrow Wilson’s former residence in Princeton, NJ. Wilson and his wife, Ellen, designed the house and hired a New York architect to finalize the plans and supervise its 1896 construction. As a younger man,...
by nj350 | May 12, 2016 | Liberty
By Steve Golin The Paterson silk strike of 1913 was a lot of fun. We don’t usually think of long-ago strikes as fun. The stereotype of early twentieth-century labor conflict is of desperate starving workers, laboring in sweatshops or mines, workers who in Marx’s...
by nj350 | May 12, 2016 | Liberty
By Governor Christine Todd Whitman Millicent Fenwick was a great example of a public servant, and was far ahead of her time when it comes to the qualities of leadership she exhibited in office four decades ago. After she was elected to Congress in 1974, she developed...
by nj350 | May 12, 2016 | Liberty
By James M. McPherson On February 11, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln departed from his home in Springfield, Illinois to take up the burdens of the presidency of a country that was falling apart. Seven deep-South states had already seceded from the Union. ...
by nj350 | May 12, 2016 | Liberty
By Mary Walton It is common for biographers to develop a relationship with their subjects, even those no longer living. And so it was with me and Alice Paul, the famous Quaker suffragist, who led the battle for a constitutional amendment giving women the vote. Our...
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