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The Newark History Society has received new grants to fund ongoing work on the Newark Archives Project database. The New Jersey Historical Commission awarded a $20,000 grant for FY2022, and then extended it through June 2023 with an additional $20,000 allocation.
The Newark History Society encourages original research into all aspects of Newark’s history. The Newark Archives Project’s online, keyword searchable guide to descriptions of over 4,000 archival collections with materials related to Newark is available at http://nap.rutgers.edu/.
Cudjo was the first African American businessperson in Newark. He died in 1823 at around 100 years of age. He was buried in the cemetery of Newark’s Trinity Church, located where the New Jersey Performing Arts Center now stands.
Black Liberation: Seeking Freedom in 18th and 19th Century Newark. Tuesday, September 19, 2023. Fighting on Two Fronts: Black GI’s in World War II and Ollie Stewart’s Reporting in the NJ Afro-American. Tuesday, May 23, 2023. One Hundred Years of Harmony and Some Discord: The New Jersey Symphony Centennial.
Leo P. Carlin, being sworn into office by city clerk Harry Reichenstein on July 1, 1954 as Newark’s first mayor under the new city charter adopted by voters in November 1953. Courtesy of The Newark Public Library.
This course is how Newark became Newark, and all the meanings that encompasses. Through class discussion, students will interact with the materials, the instructor, and their peers.
On November 14, 2012, the Newark History Society joined with the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and The Newark Public Library in a tribute to John T. Cunningham, native Newarker, distinguished historian of Newark and New Jersey, and longtime advocate for Newark cultural institutions.
the rebirth of New Jersey heirloom cider apples and the return, after 125 years, of one of the “lost arts” of Newark—the production of Newark cider. Historical accounts of early Newark are filled with praise for the quantity and quality of the region’s cider. Newark’s abundant apples,
Newark’s New Historians Graduate Students in Rutgers-Newark’s American Studies Program Monday, February 4, 2013 at 6:00 PM A PRoGRAm SPoNSoRed by the NewARk hiStoRy Society Moderator: thomAS mccAbe, Visiting Professor, Rutgers-Newark Presenters: elizAbeth meolA AARoN: “to bring Newark before the children: the 1911 Newark Study”
THREE NEWARK CEMETERIES & EFFORTS TO PRESERVE THEM Panelists: ELIZABETH DEL TUFO Mount Pleasant Cemetery GUY STERLING Woodland Cemetery BARBARA KRASNER Grove Street Cemetery New Jersey Historical Society 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ Please RSVP by March 7 to NewarkHistorySoc@gmail.com or by calling 917.254-5028 Open to the public at no charge.