Call for nominations!

The 2010 Alfred E. Driscoll Prize

The Alfred E. Driscoll Dissertation Prize is awarded in alternate years to the outstanding doctoral dissertation in New Jersey history. The prize is an award of $1,500 to the author of a dissertation completed in the previous two years. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2010. An application form and instructions on applying can be found here.

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Please note: the Historical Commission regrets to announce that all mini grant reviews for Fiscal Year 2010 have been completed. No further funds are currently available. The next possible mini grant reviews will, if the state budget permits, take place in July, 2010. The Commission will not accept mini grant applications prior to the third week of July.

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Save the date! Friday, March 26, 2010: History Issues Convention

more details soon!

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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 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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