Newark History Society programs since January 2008 have been recorded and posted on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NewarkhistorysocietyOrg
B.T. Pierson’s Vocation: The Newark City Directory, 1835-1862
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
“In The Line of the Prophets:” Dr. Frank Kingdon and Newark, 1928-1940
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Homeownership and the Racial Wealth Gap in Newark
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
History is Made by You and Me: Voices from the Ironbound Community Corporation Archives
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Black Liberation: Seeking Freedom in 18th and 19th Century Newark
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Fighting on Two Fronts: Black GI’s in World War II and Ollie Stewart’s Reporting in the NJ Afro-American
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
One Hundred Years of Harmony and Some Discord: The New Jersey Symphony Centennial
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
True Owners of the Land: Munsee Lenape and the First Settlers of Newark
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Thomas McCarter, Trolleys, and Building Newark’s Streetcar Suburbs
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Newark History Society: 20th Anniversary Celebration
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Made in Newark: The Newark Industrial Exhibition of 1872
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Dr. Harrison Martland: Newark’s Sherlock Holmes?
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Newark’s Beer Industry: An Environmental History
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Breaking Barriers: African American Businesswomen in Early 20th Century Newark
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Cecil Dorrian: Woman War Correspondent and Columnist for the Newark Evening News, 1914-1926
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Newark After Dark: Sex Work, Gay Bars, Porn Theaters, and the Archives of Illicit Sexuality
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
To Treat War’s Wounded & Diseased: Newark’s Civil War Army Hospital
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The Debate Over Alcohol: Temperance and Prohibition in Newark, 1880-1930
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 6:00pm
Discovering Newark History in Washington, DC: An Update on the Newark Archives Project
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 6:00pm
Forgotten Newark Riot: 1834, 1854, and 1917
Monday, March 1, 2021 at 6:00pm
The Morris Canal and the Business of Newark
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00pm
Monumental Newark: Gutzon Borglum’s “Seated Lincoln” and “The Wars of America”
Monday, November 9, 2020 at 6:00pm
The Battle Over Women’s Suffrage in Newark
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 6:00pm
In the Grip of Terror: The Polio (1916) and Influenza (1918) Epidemics in Newark
Monday, October 28, 2019 at 6pm
The Essex County Parks System: A Solution to Newark’s Struggle for Parkland
Monday, September 16, 2019 at 6pm
The Italians in Newark
Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 6pm
From Sandlot to Stadium: Two Centuries of Newark Baseball
Monday, April 8, 2019 at 6pm
Gardens of Eternity? Three Newark Cemeteries and Efforts to Preserve Them
Monday, March 11, 2019 at 6pm
Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan: the Life and Legacy of Newark’s Own
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 7pm
When Martin Luther King, Jr. Came to Newark
Monday, September 17, 2018
Newark’s Celebrated Cider and the Apples that Made it Famous
Monday, June 18, 2018 at 6pm
The Rise (and Fall) of German Newark
Monday, April 16, 2018 at 6pm
The Activist Collector: An African American Woman’s Journey from Newark to Pre-Apartheid South Africa
Monday, March 5, 2018 at 6pm
15th Anniversary Celebration
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 6pm
Over There: Men and Women from Newark Serve on the Western Front
Monday, September 25, 2017 at 6pm
Pioneering Photographers in 19th Century Newark
Monday, May 8, 2017 at 6pm
Over Here: Newark Mobilizes for World War I
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 6pm
One Stone At A Time: Newark and the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Monday, March 6, 2017 at 6pm
Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Ethnicity and Community in Modern Newark
Monday, October 24, 2016
Innovation and Industrialization in 19th Century Newark
September 19, 2016
Progressives and Reformers: Newark takes the Lead
June 20, 2016
Puritans, Protestors, and Patriots: Newark in the Colonial Period
April 18, 2016
Newark’s Jewish Frontier: Weequahic and its High School
March 14, 2016
Music in Early 20th Century Newark and the Rise of Jerome Kern and Ralph Rainger, Newark’s Academy-Winning Composers
November 16, 2015
Celebrations in Newark: 1916-2016
October 19, 2015
To Heal the Sick: The Evolution and Future of Hospital Medicine in Newark
May 11, 2015
Uncovering More Hidden Treasures: The Newark Archives Project
April 13, 2015
Open Up The Door, I’ll Get It Myself: Migration Stories of Newark’s African American Women
March 16, 2015
William Hayes Ward: Newark’s Unknown Abolitionist
November 10, 2014
Much Has Changed, Much Has Not: The Newark NAACP at 100
September 29, 2014
Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
July 28, 2014
To End Poverty and Racial Injustice: The Great Society in Newark
May 5, 2014
Breaking Barriers: Newark Women in Business in the Early 20th Century
March 24, 2014
From Ballantine to Anheuser-Busch: The Beer Industry in Newark
February 10, 2014
Newark’s Bitter Divide: Patriots and Loyalists During the American Revolution
November 18, 2013
A Question of Loyalty: Newark During The Civil War
September 23, 2013
Mayor Leo P. Carlin and The New Newark
May 13, 2013
Trailblazers in 20th Century Newark:
Mary B. Burch, E. Mae McCarroll, and
Hilda Hidalgo
March 18, 2013
Newark’s New Historians:
Graduate Students in Rutgers-Newark’s
American Studies Program
February 4, 2013
The Newark Communist Party: 1919 to the New Deal
December 3, 2012
Newark in the 1960s: A Decade of Transformation
September 24, 2012
Newark History Society: Tenth Anniversary Celebration
May 2, 2012
Uncovering Newark’s Hidden Treasures: The Newark Archives Project
March 26, 2012
Newark, King of Jewelry: The Rise and Fall of a Great Industry, 1850-1950
February 6, 2012
High School Sports in Newark: 1930-1965
November 15, 2011
When Princeton was in Newark Aaron Burr, Sr. and Newark in the 1750s
September 19, 2011
Lincoln and Newark
June 1, 2011
Newark’s Chinatown: The Mulberry Street Neighborhood
March 21, 2011
Tragedy and Reform: Newark’s Worst Fatal Fire The 1910 High Street Factory Fire
November 16, 2010
Newark’s Justice: William J. Brennan, Jr.
October 20, 2010
A Time of Hope: Newark’s Blacks in the 1950s
September 13, 2010
The Star Ledger: A Proud Past, An Uncertain Future
May 18, 2010
Newark’s Ironbound: An American Experience
March 22, 2010
Newark’s Nazi Spy: Pastor Carl Krepper
January 25, 2010
Godly Government: Puritans and the Founding of Newark
November 9, 2009
“Newark will get there first!” The Legacy of Mayor Ken Gibson
October 6, 2009
Community Organizing in Newark From the Great Society to Today’s Recession
April 20, 2009
Newark in the Great Depression
March 23, 2009
Newark’s Black Hospital The History of Kenney Hospital: 1927-1953
January 29, 2009
Crime Bosses of Newark “Richie The Boot” Boiardo and Longie Zwillman
September 15, 2008
Newark Airport at 80
June 3, 2008
Edison in Newark
April 1, 2008
Newark Evening News: New Jersey’s Newspaper of Record: 1883-1972
January 29, 2008
Miracle on High Street: The Story of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School
October 9, 2007
100 Years Later: Restoring Newark’s City Hall
March 19, 2007
Seeking Common Ground: Interracial Cooperation in 1950’s Newark
November 20, 2006
Newark’s Black Political Leadership: The First Generation
September 28, 2006
Civic Life in Newark: The Legacy of John Cotton Dana
July 13, 2006
The Irish in Newark
May 8, 2006
Urban Economics: What Can It Say About Newark?
March 14, 2006
Harry Dorer: Newark Photographer and New Jersey Chronicler
January 10, 2006
Water, Sewers and Streetlights: How They Shaped Newark
October 11, 2005

Essex County Court House
June 20, 2005
Root Shock: Newark and Urban Renewal
February 28, 2005
Vailsburg in Newark: A Century Later
November 15, 2004
Art Deco in Newark
September 12, 2004
Baseball in Newark: Eagles and Bears
April 13, 2004
Newark Jazz: A Great History
March 11, 2004
Newark Charter Change 50 Years Later: Did it Make a Difference?
November 24, 2003
An Evening in Military Park
August 4, 2003
Queen of Angels: The Search for Black Equality in Newark
May 5, 2003
The Newark Teacher Strikes: 30 Years Later
February 3, 2003
Remembering Newark’s Greek Immigrants
October 28, 2002