https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs <p>2374-0647</p> New Jersey Historical Commission at Rutgers University Libraries en-US New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2374-0647 <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="license"><img style="border-width: 0;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>. All authors retain copyright. https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/370 <p>Review of Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism</p> Marsha E. Barrett Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 237 241 10.14713/njs.v10i2.370 https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/367 <p>Review of Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story</p> George Robb Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 242 245 10.14713/njs.v10i2.367 https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/368 <p>Winner of the 2023 New Jersey Scholastic Alliance Stellhorn Undergraduate Award.</p> Emily Sánchez Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 96 221 10.14713/njs.v10i2.368 https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/366 <p>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.</p> Rachel De La Cruz and Cayla Kerekgyarto and the Women in American History class at Union College Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 222 236 10.14713/njs.v10i2.366 https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/322 <p>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)&nbsp; to court ordered&nbsp; equalization of funding for city and suburban schoools (R<em>obinson v. Cahill</em>) and demand for&nbsp; zoning revisions&nbsp; to make possible&nbsp; the development of low and moderate income housing (<em>Mt. Laurel)</em>. Serves as a corrective to the popular depiction of the suburbs as bastions of privilege while&nbsp; considering NJ"s conspicuously&nbsp; fragmented local governance as an obstacle to advancing regional social and&nbsp; economic equity.&nbsp;</p> James Wunsch Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 69 95 10.14713/njs.v10i2.322 https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/369 Steven Elliott Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 10.14713/njs.v10i2.369 https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njs/article/view/363 <p>Review of a museum exhibit on the history of ice cream.</p> Jonathan Woolley Copyright (c) 2024 New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2024-10-18 2024-10-18 10 2 246 250 10.14713/njs.v10i2.363