Jerseyana: The Underside of New Jersey HistoryRutgers University Press, 1992 - 249 strani Readers of the New Jersey section of the Sunday New York Times eagerly look forward to Marc Mappen's astonishing tales of New Jersey history. Jerseyana is his first collection of these popular monthly columns. Here you will meet villains like Dutch Schultz, the mobster gunned down in a Newark gangland rubout, and heroes like Minerva Miller, a black woman who fought segregation at the turn of the century. There are famous events, like the explosion of Hindenburg, and obscure ones, like the assassination of the king of Italy by an anarchist from Paterson. There are amusing stories, like a buried treasure hoax in Morristown after the Revolutionary War, bizarre stories like the fact that the discoverer of New Jersey was allegedly devoured by cannibals, and dramatic stories, like the Jersey woman who survived Indian captivity. Arranged chronologically, these columns constitute a lively New Jersey perspective on American history. Individual essays deal with major themes in American history and how they affected New Jersey: the colonial era, the Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, World War I, the '20s and '30s, World War II, McCarthyism, women's history, and black history. Each of the fifty-four columns in this book stands as a colorful exploration in history. Together they constitute a sweeping survey of our state's rich heritage. |
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The Walam Olum | 3 |
Trenton | 6 |
The Man Who Discovered New Jersey | 10 |
Conquered by New York | 14 |
The First Bribe | 17 |
The Witches of Burlington County | 22 |
The Burglary of the Treasury | 25 |
Tories | 28 |
The War to End War Ended in Somerset County | 158 |
Jersey City Tastes Glory | 162 |
The Klan | 166 |
I Am the Law | 171 |
Keeping New Jersey Sober | 176 |
What the Pig Woman | 180 |
The Radium Girls | 185 |
Georgia on His Mind | 189 |
Lee at Monmouth | 32 |
The Hanging of Captain Huddy | 36 |
Trenton N J Was Almost Washington D C | 40 |
Free White Males Only | 44 |
She Never Lost Her Scars | 48 |
Aunt Polly among the Indians | 57 |
Alexander Hamilton in the Emergency Room | 63 |
The Beautiful Cigar Girl | 71 |
Getting Wrong with Lincoln | 77 |
The Treasurer and the Bandits | 85 |
The Great Eccentric | 98 |
The Professor and the Boss | 134 |
The Secret | 155 |
Was Hauptmann Guilty? | 192 |
The Chop House Rubout | 198 |
The Hindenburg | 201 |
Swastikas in Sussex County | 205 |
The First Week of the | 210 |
Longie | 214 |
Fighting Communism in the Garden State | 218 |
The Best and the Worst Governors | 222 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 233 |
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