Words that Make New Jersey History: A Primary Source ReaderHoward L. Green Here isa unique collection of documents that spans the history of New Jersey, from the arrival of Dutch traders in the 1600s to the present. The materials touch on a range of subjects such as slavery and abolitionism, the labor movement, race and ethnic relations, and economic and environmental issues. The documents include letters, journals, pamphlets, petitions, artwork, and songs created not only by those who exercised power, but also by men and women of more humble station. Their lively accounts range from descriptions of Native Americans in the seventeenth century to Bruce Springsteen's lament about a declining factory town. New to this expanded edition is the text of former governor James McGreevey's "I am a Gay American" speech, as well as entries about the Abbott v. Burke court ruling mandating that New Jersey equalize funding of urban and suburban schools districts, sprawl and its effects on water supply, and the state's economic boom in the 1990s. A balanced survey of New Jersey's history in the context of a changing nation, this book is ideal for general readers who want to explore the primary sources of the state's past, and to U.S. history students at the high school and college levels. |
Contents
IndianWhite Relations 1685 | 16 |
Runaway Servants in the Early | 27 |
Citizens Oppose Private Charters | 30 |
A Puritan Gravestone | 33 |
Excerpts from the Journal of Esther | 39 |
John Woolman | 42 |
Benjamin and William | 50 |
The Journal | 56 |
Randolph | 194 |
The Cost of Living 1919 | 209 |
Race and the Labor Movement 1923 | 211 |
Regulating Female Employment 1923 | 215 |
The National Womans Party in New Jersey 1925 | 216 |
Criticism of President Hoover 1931 | 219 |
A Labor Unions Vision 1935 | 221 |
Welfare during the Great Depression 1936 | 223 |
The Petition of Negro Prime | 62 |
The Society | 73 |
A Travelers Observations 1794 | 81 |
A Shoemaker Three Plows and an Eagle 1806 | 88 |
A Schoolgirls Needlework | 102 |
A View of Dover c 1844 | 109 |
New Jerseys Fugitive Slave | 115 |
Ethnic Violence | 121 |
The North | 128 |
Feminist | 135 |
A Republican Congressional | 141 |
Soldiers Protest | 147 |
Vacation at Long Branch 1869 | 154 |
Conditions at Oxford | 168 |
Farmers Against | 181 |
Ben Shahns Jersey Homesteads Mural 1937 | 225 |
A Newark Woman on Welfare 1939 | 227 |
Republican Congressmen on War in Europe 1939 | 230 |
A Black Woman Trying to Get a Job 1940 | 233 |
Segregation in the Schools 1941 | 236 |
Women in Defense Plants 1943 | 238 |
Correspondence Between a Young Woman and Her Husband at War 19431944 | 242 |
SECTION SEVEN Peace and Problems | 247 |
Cranbury Township 1956 | 251 |
Income Distribution c 1960 | 254 |
Promoting Electrical Appliances 1963 | 256 |
Willingboro in the Early 1960s | 258 |
The Newark Riots | 262 |