FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Peter Mickulas
September 24, 2009
Phone: 609-984-0954
Historical Commission Publishes Online Scholarly History Journal
Trenton NJ - The New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the New Jersey Department of State, has announced the publication of Volume 124, Number 1, the Fall 2009 issue of the periodical New Jersey History. This magazine began publication 164 years ago as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, and published under the direction of that Society until 2005. The journal has now been re-launched under the editorial direction of historians at the New Jersey Historical Commission and Kean University. New Jersey History is now an online journal, published and hosted by Rutgers University Libraries, in partnership with the Historical Commission, Kean University, the New Jersey Historical Society, the New Jersey Digital Highway, and Rutgers University Press.
Volume 124, no. 1 includes essays on the history of women's education, historical archaeology, and political history, in addition to a new cartographic survey of historic canals in the state and reviews of noteworthy recent scholarship on the state and region. Upon the publication of the journal's first digital edition, Thomas Fleming, noted historian and author of numerous books on New Jersey and American history, touted the issue's article on Jersey City's "Boss" Hague as "the best thing I've ever read about" Frank Hague.
All contents of the journal are available online, free of charge, at http://njh.libraries.rutgers.edu. All articles and reviews published in New Jersey History are licensed under a Creative Commons agreement, allowing them to be duplicated and shared without restriction as long as proper attribution is made to the original source. New Jersey History will publish online twice a year - in the fall and spring. Submissions to the journal should be scholarly articles (fully documented) but aimed at a non-specialized audience. The editorial staff welcomes essays from all disciplines, including 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, register at the journal's homepage, or email the editor, Peter Mickulas, at peter.mickulas@gmail.com.
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The New Jersey Historical Commission is a division of the Department of State. The 17-member Commission's purpose is to preserve, promote, and disseminate the history of the state through grants, publications, media projects, and public programs.
