CALL FOR PAPERS: NEW JERSEY FORUM, 2010

The New Jersey Historical Commission, the NJ State Archives, and the NJ State Museum invite proposals for research papers to be delivered at the New Jersey Forum, to be held on Saturday, November 20, 2010. Held every other year, the New Jersey Forum provides an opportunity for college and university faculty, teachers, graduate students, independent scholars, museum professionals, historical society members, and all others with an interest in New Jersey studies to present new research to their peers. This interdisciplinary conference defines New Jersey studies broadly, covering not only traditional state history, but also archaeology, geography, fine and decorative arts, material culture, the humanities, literature, ethnic studies, the history of science and technology, labor and industry, public policy, religious history, and popular culture-all with special emphasis on new scholars and scholarship. Click here to learn how to submit a proposal. All submissions are due by December 15, 2009.

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Attention New Jersey historic sites and museums! The Historical Commission is conducting a survey of the state's educational resources for teachers

The Historical Commission is compiling a guide to your institutions for those New Jersey history and social studies teachers interested in arranging student field trips and in taking advantage of all of the resources your organization has to offer. Take our online survey now to be included in this valuable new educational resource!

Click Here to take survey

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The Historical Commission is now on Facebook! Become a Commission "fan" and keep informed about all NJHC events, publications, and grant deadlines.

The Historical Commission's Conference "New Jersey and the Bill of Rights" was held in Trenton on November 21. An outline of The Right of the People Shall Not be Violated: The Evolution of Constitutional Rights in New Jersey, an address given by Professor Robert Williams during the morning program, is available here.

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The journal New Jersey History, founded as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society in 1845 and published under the direction of the Society until 2005, has been re-launched under the editorial direction of historians at the New Jersey Historical Commission, Kean University, and the Society. This peer-reviewed journal will be published online twice a year by the Rutgers University Libraries. NJH is also supported by the New Jersey Digital Highway, which will provide an additional access point for the journal from its website, and will preserve the digital version of the journal via the RUcore preservation platform. Rutgers University Press will help market the new journal, enabling it to reach the broadest possible audience.

The Fall 2009 issue, Volume 124, number 1, is now available online. This issue, the first published in four years, includes the following essays:

• Lucia McMahon, William Paterson University, "'A More Accurate and Extensive Education than is Customary': Educational Opportunities for Women in Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey"
• Matthew T. Raffety, University of Redlands, "Political Ethics and Public Style in the Early Career of Jersey City's Frank Hague"
• Richard W. Hunter, Nadine Sergejeff and Damon Tvaryanas, "On The Eagle's Wings: Textiles, Trenton, and a First Taste of the Industrial Revolution"
• Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, "The Arc of Liberalism and the Career of Harrison 'Pete' Williams"

The issue also presents a new historic "Survey of the Canals and Water Raceways of New Jersey" by the New Jersey Geological Survey and reviews of new and notable scholarship on the history of the state.

The editorial staff invites scholars, students, and writers to submit scholarly articles aimed at a non-specialized audience for its forthcoming issues. We welcome essays from all disciplines-for example, law, literature, political science, anthropology, archaeology, material culture, cultural studies, and social and political history-bearing on any aspects of New Jersey's history. We are also interested in documents, photographs, and other primary source material that could be published with annotations. For further details email peter.mickulas@sos.state.nj.us or visit the journal homepage.

All work published in New Jersey History will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License, unless otherwise noted.

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