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Words that Make New Jersey History


Words that Make New Jersey Historybook coverWords that Make New Jersey History
A Primary Source Reader
Author: Howard L. Green


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Book Information
  Subject: New Jersey and the Region/History/Literary Studies
ISBN: 0-8135-3850-5
Pages: 328; 11 b&w illus.
Binding: Paper
   
Reviews
  "I thoroughly enjoyed . . . [this] compilation. Green has chosen . . . Very wisely from an enormous corpus of material. . . . One gets the feel of the period under discussion."-Peter O. Wacker, Rutgers University

"I'm very enthusiastic about this book. A collection of documents which focuses on New Jersey but also reflects national themes and issues can provide teachers and students with a valuable educational tool."--Joseph Stringer, Highland Park High School
   
Description
  Here is a 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.
   
Biography
  Howard L. Green compiled these documents as a project of the New Jersey Historical Commission in Trenton, New Jersey, where he served as Research Director.



 



 
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