The New Issue of New Jersey History is Out

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Here is the table of contents:

“When the Cat is Away the Mice Will Work: Thomas Alva Edison and the Insomnia Squad.”
Thomas Jeffrey, Associate Director and Sr. Editor of Thomas Edison Papers, Rutgers University

“Poverty and Localism in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey,”  
John Grigg, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Omaha

“To Reach Sweet Home Again: The Impact of Soldiering on New Jersey’s Troops During the American Civil War.”
Lenny Bussanich, former Adjunct Professor of U.S. History, Seton Hall University

“The Saga of Peter Still,”
The 2009 Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture, given by Spencer Crew, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History, George Mason University

Book reviews include Gerald G. Eggert’s analysis of Forging America Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution by John Bezís-Selfa; David M. Stameshkin’s critique of The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present by James Axtell; and
Herbert Ershkowitz’s evaluation of Mysteries of My Father by Thomas Fleming.

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