The contents of the NJHPP’s Multimedia Teaching Resource Website and CD-ROM are listed below.

Unit 1: The American Revolution

Unit 1 focuses on New Jersey’s role as the “crossroads of the American Revolution.” It contains model lessons, primary source documents, images of historic sites, and excerpts from video documentaries on:

  • Origins of the revolution in New Jersey
  • New Jersey Quakers
  • Delaware Indian diplomacy
  • Slaves who fought as soldiers
  • William Franklin and William Livingston
  • New Jersey’s 1776 constitution
  • The Battle of Trenton
  • Women’s participation in the revolution
  • George Washington and Molly Pitcher

The unit features online lectures by:

  • David Steven Cohen
  • Gregory Dowd
  • Graham Hodges
  • Mark Lender
  • Maxine N. Lurie
  • Brendan McConville
  • Ann Pfau
  • Carl Prince
  • Sheila Skemp
  • Jean Soderlund

An interactive special feature combines primary source documents, an historic map, and animation in a classroom activity that requires students to anticipate and analyze military decisions by British and American commanders during the New Jersey campaign, from November 1776 through July 1777.

Unit 2: The Market Revolution

Unit 2 explores the economic, political, and social impact of New Jersey’s market revolution. It contains model lessons, primary source documents, images of historic sites, and excerpts from video documentaries on:

  • Alexander Hamilton and the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
  • The War of 1812 and New Jersey politics
  • Gibbons v. Ogden
  • The transportation revolution in New Jersey
  • Newark artisans
  • Factory workers in Paterson
  • Party politics during the Jacksonian Era
  • New Jersey's 1844 constitution
  • Fourierism in New Jersey

The unit features online lectures by:

  • Michael J. Birkner
  • David Steven Cohen
  • Howard Harris
  • Susan E. Hirsch
  • Maxine N. Lurie
  • Ann Pfau
  • Don C. Skemer
  • Harvey Strum
  • Peter Wacker
  • William L. Withuhn
An interactive special feature invites students to advise Alexander Hamilton on the establishment of his “national manufactory” in Paterson. The website also contains interactive tours of Paterson’s industry and system of raceways and of sites along the Morris Canal.

Unit 3: The Progressive Era

Unit 3 examines corruption and reform during the Progressive Era in New Jersey. It contains model lessons, primary source documents, images of historic sites, and excerpts from audio and video documentaries on:

  • Immigrants and the Dillingham Commission
  • Alice Paul and the woman suffrage movement
  • The development of mass entertainment
  • Municipal reform in Jersey City and Atlantic City
  • Muckrakers and the Garden State
  • Woodrow Wilson’s governorship
  • The Paterson silk strike
  • Newark and the Great Migration
  • World War I and the Espionage Act

The unit features online lectures by:

  • David Steven Cohen
  • John Milton Cooper
  • Delight Dodyk
  • Steve Golin
  • Paul Israel
  • Richard Kozarski
  • Mark Lender
  • Martin Paulsson