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

• The Newark Archives Project’s online, keyword searchable guide to descriptions of over 4,000 archival collections with materials related to Newark is available at http://nap.rutgers.edu/
• The John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers-Newark maintains a very useful online resource guide to primary and secondary sources about Newark, called “The Newark Experience”: https://libguides.rutgers.edu/newark.
• The Newark Public Library has created “My Newark Story” with digitized maps, city directories, photographs, and local African American and Latino newspapers at http://digital.npl.org
• The Newark Evening News was Newark’s newspaper of record for decades. The Newark Public Library has developed a searchable site with digitized issues from 1883 into the 1920s, available at: https://newark.historyarchives.online/home
• Charles Cummings’ “Knowing Newark” columns that appeared in The Star-Ledger from March 1996 to December 2005 are available online in a keyword searchable database at http://knowingnewark.npl.org/ [Note that this site still in progress.]
• Ronald L. Becker’s 1995 essay, “History of the Jewish Community in Newark, New Jersey,” is available at https://archive.org/details/GreaterNewarksJewishLegacy/page/n1/mode/2up
• The RiseUpNorth website tells the story of the Civil Rights movement and Black empowerment in Newark using multimedia resources, at http://riseupnewark.com/
• The Old Newark website provides stories and an extensive collection of photographs, at https://oldnewark.com/ Photographs are posted daily on Old Newark’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Old-Newark-566560876726951/
• Beth Zak-Cohen of the Newark Public Library has created a website about Newark women, with photos (when available), a brief account of their accomplishments, and references for finding more information, at https://newarkwomen.com/
• George Musser’s ongoing project to map landholdings in Essex County, ca. 1700 and ca. 1800 is available at https://www.eastjerseyhistory.org/
• Noelle Lorraine Williams’ multimedia public history project, “Black Power 19th Century,” with an interactive map on slavery in Newark as well as other information related to Newark’s Black Liberation history in the 19th and 20th centuries, is available at: https://blackpower19thcentury.secureserversites.net/
• Updates and additions to Guy Sterling’s The Famous, The Familiar and The Forgotten: 350 Notable Newarkers can be found at: https://newarknotables.wordpress.com

Teaching Resources

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

High School

• Jazmin Puicon, Bard High School – Early College, Newark: Innovative Newark:
  Innovative Newark Course Material and Evidence (Bard HS Early College – Pucion)
  Lesson Plan Black Power in 19th Century (Bard HS Early College – Puicon)

College

• Steven Elliott, Rutgers Newark: History of Newark (graduate level):
  Elliott, Syllabus History of Newark – graduate level (Rutgers – Newark)

• Steven Elliott, Rutgers Newark: History of Newark: Peoples and Cultures in an American City (undergraduate):
  Elliott, Syllabus History of Newark Fall 2022 (Rutgers-Newark)

• Mary Rizzo, Rutgers Newark: Place, Community, and Public Humanities:
  Syllabus Place Comm and Pub Hum – (Rutgers Newark Rizzo)

• Kristyn Scorsone, Rutgers Newark: History of Newark (the city’s history through the lens of race, class, gender, and sexuality)
  Syllabus History of Newark – Fall 2022 (Rugers-Newark Scorsone)
  Syllabus History of Newark Online – Summer 2023 (Rutgers-Newark Scorsone)

• Laura Troiano, Rutgers Newark: History of Newark
  Syllabus History of Newark – Spring 2019 (Troiano)

 

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.