Made in Newark: The Newark Industrial Exhibition of 1872

Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 6:00pm

Newark Public Library, Centennial Hall, 2nd floor

Presenters: Guy Sterling and Ezra Shales

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20th Anniversary Program: Lonnie Bunch in Conversation with Linda Caldwell Epps

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 6:00pm

Newark Public Library, Centennial Hall, 2nd floor

Honoree: Timothy Crist

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Thomas McCarter, Trolleys, and Building Newark’s Streetcar Suburbs

Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 6:00pm

Newark Public Library, Centennial Hall, 2nd floor

Presenters: John Prieto and Steve Elliott

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True Owners of the Land: Munsee Lenape and the First Settlers of Newark

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 6:00pm

Newark Public Library, Centennial Hall, 2nd floor

Presenter: Timothy Crist

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One Hundred Years of Harmony and Some Discord: The New Jersey Symphony Centennial

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 6:00pm

Newark Public Library, Centennial Hall, 2nd floor

Presenters: Helen Paxton, Michael Redmond, Gabriel Van Aalst

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Ollie Stewart: W.W. II Correspondent for the New Jersey Afro-American and his Newark Readership

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 6:00pm

Newark Public Library, James Brown African American Room, 2nd floor

Presenter: Larry Greene

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Newark Archives Project Awarded Two Grants

The Newark History Society has received new grants to fund ongoing work on the Newark Archives Project database. The New Jersey Historical Commission awarded a $20,000 grant for FY2022, and then extended it through June 2023 with an additional $20,000 allocation. Also, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded a $5,000 COVID-19 Response Grant, with funding made possible through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Overall, the Society has raised more than $300,000 for the Newark Archives Project since 2009.

Newark History Society receives Award of Recognition

At the 2012 New Jersey Forum on November 17, 2012, the New Jersey Historical Commission presented its Award of Recognition to the Newark History Society “for Outstanding Service to Public Knowledge and Preservation of the History of New Jersey”. Ronald Becker, Head of Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers in New Brunswick, made the presentation to the Society on behalf of NJHC.