New Jersey

This title focuese on construction feats across the Hudson - technical elegance, physical beauty. Fog, tide, ice, and human error - before the American Revolution those who …

A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceOne of The Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of June 2025The riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorkers …

Home to many rare and endangered flora and fauna and a 17 trillion-gallon aquifer, the Pinelands National Reserve is New Jersey’s largest natural resource and needs to be preserved …

A history of maritime warfare off the Jersey coast from the perspectives of both Patriot and Loyalist privateers. 538 Pennsylvania and New Jersey privateer vessels waged war …

A 'vessel for living' - such were the words Glenn Adamson used to describe this remarkable residence. Richard Meier designed the Grotta home to house Sandra and Louis Grotta's …

For the first time in forty years, the story of one of America's most maligned cities is told in all its grit and glory. With its open-armed embrace of manufacturing, Newark, New …

This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, …

Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more …

Integrating social and political history with an account of the issues surrounding the Civil War, a compelling study examines the ironies, paradoxes, and contradictions that …

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security …