The Newark History Society encourages original research into all aspects of Newark’s history.

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This section provides course descriptions for classes related to Newark’s history. We invite your suggestions for additional curriculum to make available.

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Articles and TranscriptsThis section provides access to the text of several talks presented at Society programs and to other significant research. We invite your suggestions for other materials to make available.

February 2024

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s New York Bay Railroad in Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey

Maureen McDougall
Senior Architectural Historian, CHRS, Inc.

June 18, 2018

Newark’s Celebrated Cider

Timothy J. Crist
President, Newark History Society

May 23, 2019

Enclaves of Memory

Michael Immerso

Ralph Villani

Warren Grover

Newark’s Rotunda Pool: An Italian-American Legacy

Michele L. Rotunda and Scott Rotunda Delaney

April 16, 2018

The Unnatural Political Demise of German Newark

Dan O’Flaherty
Columbia University

November 14, 2017

Historians, Civic Memory, and the Story of Newark

Timothy J. Crist
President, Newark History Society

December 3, 2012

The Newark Communist Party: 1910 to the New Deal

Warren Grover
Author of Nazis in Newark

November 14, 2012

Newark Remembers
John T. Cunningham

Clement Alexander Price, Chad Leinaweaver,
Thomas McCabe, and Timothy J. Crist

November 2, 2012

Remarks at the Centennial Celebration of the Statue of George Washington in Washington Park, Newark

Timothy J. Crist
President, Newark History Society

September 19, 2011

When Princeton was in Newark: Aaron Burr, Sr. and Newark in the 1750s

Timothy J. Crist
President, Newark History Society

June 1, 2011

Lincoln & Newark

Thomas McCabe, Lecturer, Rutgers-Newark

November 9, 2009

Godly Government Puritans and the Founding of Newark

Timothy J. Crist
President, Newark History Society

March 23, 2009

How the Depression Transformed Newark City Government

Dan O’Flaherty, Professor of Economics,
Columbia University

January 24, 2002

Paul Stellhorn and the History of Newark

Professor Clement A. Price
Rutgers University–Newark