Historic Happenings Blog

Self-Quarantined and Bored? During the present COVID-19 pandemic it is critical people listen to medical experts and abide by the recommended "social distancing" rules where possible. If self-quarantining has you bored, now might be a good opportunity to catch up on your reading! Garden State Legacy can help! The  GSL archives  hold nearly 250 articles on New Jersey history and the  Bookstore  page is your portal to finding over 30 books by GSL authors. You can also plan for when the crisis passes and we can travel freely again with the  History in Your Backyard  directory of NJ history sites, museums, organizations, and more. Or, take a virtual museum tour of  Treasured Artifacts of the Garden State!

“New Jersey’s Darkest Hour”  Donald Johnstone Peck “New Jersey’s Whaleboat Privateer”  Mary Rizzo “Hard Winter”  Robert A. Mayers “Colonia’s WWI Hospital”  Virginia Bergen Troeger “The Jersey Shore War Story That Wasn’t”  Joseph G. Bilbly “The Battle of the Short Hills”  Robert A. Mayers “Panic on the Palisades”  James M. Madden “Hub of the Revolution”  Robert A. Mayers “The Second Battle of Princeton?”  William Marsch “The Widow who Saved a Revolution”  Dennis Rizzo & Alicia McShulkis “Mayhem on the Roads to Monmouth Courthouse”  Robert A. Mayers “Let Us Never Forget”  Francis McGinley “The Women of Fort Hancock”  Mary Rasa “Newark’s Rotunda Pool”  Michele Rotunda & Scott Rotunda Delany “New Jersey’s Nike Missiles”  Mary Rasa “Sandy Hook Proving Ground”  Mary Rasa “Finding the Eagle’s Perch”  Robert A. Mayers “New Jersey & the War of 1812”  Harvey Strum “Development of Radar on the Jer...

Garden State Legacy  is pleased to announce it will be releasing a  special issue  dedicated to the role of New Jersey in the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the vote. It is scheduled for release by February 1, 2020, in time to mark the centennial of New Jersey’s ratification of the Amendment on February 9, 1920. Articles currently in progress include an overview of women’s suffrage in NJ and pieces focusing on Vineland’s place in the early fight and the role of state’s African-American, Jewish, and immigrant suffragists—even anti-suffragists will be discussed. GSL appreciates the contributions of its authors and has a policy of playing an honorarium of $100 for pieces over 2,500 words. We are planning for six articles and so need to raise a minimum of $600 to compensate the writers. Anything over that will go into the pot to fund GSL’s normal issues through 2020. This is a great opportunity to show your support for women’s suffrage history, GSL’s talented...