New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

We All Scream for Ice Cream: A History of Summer’s Favorite Treat

2024-07-22T16:32:23-07:00

Review of a museum exhibit on the history of ice cream.

Review of Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism

2024-10-04T12:23:24-07:00

Review of Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism

Review of Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

2024-10-02T07:36:10-07:00

Review of Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

Dismantling Development: How Black Activists Spearheaded Affordable Housing In Paterson, New Jersey, 1950-1980

2024-10-04T11:44:19-07:00

Winner of the 2023 New Jersey Scholastic Alliance Stellhorn Undergraduate Award.

"I just wanted to play tennis”: Ellen Magliaro and Gender Discrimination in College Sports before Title IX"

2024-10-02T07:01:54-07:00

This paper is the result of a semester-long project in Professor Michele Rotunda’s Women in American History class at Union College. Rachel De La Cruz and Cayla Kerekgyarto served as the main writers, but all the following students in the class contributed to the research and first draft: Brian Abreu Castano, Kristen Camacho, Benjamin Castro, Carina De Simone, Lizbeth Gonzalez, Milena Guerra Gonzalez, Brianna Guzman, Stephanie Jaramillo, Olga Lopez, Shaylla Matos, Arianna Mesen, Veronica Mierzejewski, Daniela Mino-Lavariega, Andrea Murillo, Christina Sabat, Jaylenne Toro, Kiara Torres, and Victoria Valletutti. Special thanks to Sebastian Pereyra for discovering the case in the Union College Archives and to Professor Phillip Papas and Professor Rotunda for their valuable comments and suggestions.

"'Multiple Municipal Madness'" or What I Learned About Cities and Suburbs By Working for the New Jersey Legislature

2023-02-03T14:16:06-08:00

Personal acccount of staffing NJ Assembly Municipal Government Committee from 1977 to 1981 against the backdrop of the severe decline in the Big Six and other cities. Focuses on the legislative response ( or lack of it) to court ordered equalization of funding for city and suburban schoools (Robinson v. Cahill) and demand for zoning revisions to make possible the development of low and moderate income housing (Mt. Laurel). Serves as a corrective to the popular depiction of the suburbs as bastions of privilege while considering NJ"s conspicuously fragmented local governance as an obstacle to advancing regional social and economic equity.

Summer 2024 Letter from the Editor

2024-10-04T11:59:35-07:00