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After Winning: The Legacy of the New Jersey Suffragists, 1920-1947
by Felice D. Gordon
Hardcover: 262 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.05 x 8.78 x 5.69
Rutgers University Press; ISBN: 0813511372; (May 1986)

Allentown & Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey (Images of America)
by Randall Gabrielan
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Along The Toms River, NJ
by Ocean County Historical Society
Listed under New Jersey Genealogy

American Art in the Newark Museum: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
by Mary S. Sweeney
Listed under American Art History

The American Colonial Militia: The Colonial Militias of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland
by James Biser Whisker
 
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century
by T. Robins Brown, Schuyler Warmflash, Jim Delgiudice
Hardcover from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: January, 2001
 
Atlantic City's Musical Masterpiece: The Story of the World's Largest Pipe Organ
by Stephen D. Smith
Listed under Organs & Organ Music

Baltusrol, 100 Years: the Centennial History of Baltusrol Golf Club
by Robert S. Trebus

The Battle of Monmouth (The Atlas of Famous Battles of the American Revolution)
by Scott P. Waldman
Listed under Battles of the Revolution

The Battle of Trenton (The Atlas of Famous Battles of the American Revolution)
by Wendy Vierow
Listed under Battles of the Revolution
 
Belleville (Images of America: New Jersey)
by Nicole T. Canfora
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: July, 2002
 
Beneath the Starry Flag: New Jersey's Civil War Experience
by Alan A. Siegel
Listed under Civil War New Jersey

Boston's Red Line: Bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree (Images of America: New Jersey)
by Frank Cheney
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: September, 2002

Burlington County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts: Books A, B and C
by Richard S. Hutchinson
Listed under New Jersey Genealogy

The Boys from New Jersey: How the Mob Beat the Feds
by Robert Rudolph
Listed under Mafia

Camden County, New Jersey: The Making of a Metropolitan Community, 1626-2000
by Jeffery M. Dorwart

Cape May in Vintage Postcards (NJ) (Postcard History Series)
by Don Pocher
Listed under Collectible Postcards

Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence
by Michael Capuzzo
(Hardcover - May 2001)

Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by Mike Capuzzo, Michael Capuzzo
Hardcover from Crown Publishing Group
Book Published: 22 April, 2003

Collector's Guide to Trenton Potteries
by Thomas L. Rago
Listed under Ceramics

The Colony of New Jersey
by Susan Whitehurst

Crossing the Delaware: A History in Many Voices
by Louise Peacock

The Day Is Ours!: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, November 1776-January 1777
by William M. Dwyer

The Delaware Finns Or The First Permanent Settlements in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey and Eastern Part of Maryland
Listed under Delaware History

The Delaware Indians: A History
by Clinton A. Weslager
Listed under Delaware Indians

Dick LaBonte: Paintings of the Jersey Shore and More
by Dick LaBonte

The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story
by Yvonne S. Thornton

Early Taverns and Stagecoach Days in New Jersey
by Walter Hamilton Van Hoesen

Early Woodcut Views of New York and New Jersey: 304 Illustrations from the 'Historical Collections' by John W. Barber and Henry Howe
by John W. Barber

Eighteen Miles of History on Long Beach Island
by John Bailey Lloyd

Encyclopedia of New Jersey
by Scholarly Press

Encyclopedia of New Jersey Indians A to Z: Encyclopedia of Native Peoples
by Scholarly Press
Listed under Native Americans
 
The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest
The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest
by William B. Helmreich
Hardcover from Transaction Pub
Book Published: September, 1998
 
The First New York-Philadelphia Stage Road
by James S. Cawley

Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History
by Helene Stapinski
Hardcover from Random House
Book Published: 20 March, 2001

The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey
by David Steven Cohen

Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
by Henry Charlton Beck
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: December, 1984

Ghosts of the Garden State
by Lynda Lee MacKen
 
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. Amazon.com
Hardcover from Simon & Schuster
Book Published: 01 June, 2001
 
Greetings from New Jersey: A Postcard Tour of the Garden State
by Helen-Chantal Pike
Listed under Travel Postcards

A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail for Families and History Buffs
by Mark Di Ionno
Listed under New Jersey Genealogy

Gustave Stickley's Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia
by Mark Alan Hewitt

The Hall-Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer
by William Moses Kunstler

The Hindenburg
by Patrick O'Brien
Listed under Airships and Zeppelins

A History of New Jersey Libraries 1750-1996
by Edwin Beckerman
Publisher: Clearfield Co; Reprint edition (October 1997)

History of Standard Oil Company: New Jersey
by Ralph W. Hindy
Publisher: Scarecrow Press; (May 8, 1997)

History of the Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
by Alanson A. Haines
Listed under Civil War New Jersey

The History of the New Jersey Nets (Pro Basketball Today)
by Michael E. Goodman
Listed under New Jersey Nets

Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey
by Joseph J. Preil

In the Presence of Nature: The Celery Farm Natural Area, Allendale, New Jersey
by Jerry Barrack, Jim Wright
Paperback from Camino Books
Book Published: October, 2002

Indians of New Jersey Dickon Among the Lenapes
by Jan L. Harrington
Listed under Native Americans

The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution
by Colin Nicolson

Iron in the Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron
by Arthur D. Pierce
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; Reprint edition (July 1984)

Iron Mine Trails: A History and Hikers Guide to the Historic Iron Mines of the New Jersey and New York Highlands
by Edward J. Lenik

Jersey City (Images of America)
by Patrick B. Shalhoub

Jersey City 1940-1960: The Dan McNulty Collection (Images of America)
by Kenneth French

Jersey City Postcards (NJ) (Postcard History Series)
by Randall Gabrielan
Listed under Collectible Postcards

Jersey Diners
by Peter Genovese
Hardcover from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: January, 2003

Jersey Genesis: The Story of the Mullica River
by Henry Charlton Beck
 
The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History
by Patricia M. Ard, Michael Aaron Rockland
Hardcover from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: 15 November, 2001
 
Legends of Long Beach Island: Stirring Tales of Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Pirates, and Much More
by David J. Seibold, Charles J. Adams III
Paperback from Charles J Adams III
Book Published: December, 1985

The Lenape Indians (Junior Library of American Indians)
by Josh Wilker
Listed under Native Americans

The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping in American History (In American History)
by Judith Edwards
Listed under The Linderghs
 
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike
by Michael A. Rockland, Angus Kress Gillespie
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: January, 1993
 
The Lost Legends of New Jersey
(Hardcover)
by Frederick Reiken

The Lost Legends of New Jersey
(Paperback)
by Frederick Reiken

Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town
by Kevin Coyne
Book Description: They left Freehold, New Jersey, for service in World War II as six young men-to the army, the navy, and the air corps, to the Pacific, and to Europe-and they returned home alive. But on their return, they faced a new mission as America took a new shape and their community faced new pressures-farms and factories thriving, then fading; creeping suburbs and withering Main Streets; civil rights struggles and race riots. 

Offering a gripping look at life in wartime, Marching Home follows each of six men overseas into battles where the enemy was clear and then back home where the lines of combat were more uncertain: the black soldier who endured the segregated army only to face race riots back home and the sailor who watched a kamikaze hurtle toward his ship and then tried to keep peace at home as a police officer. 

With the stories of these men, Kevin Coyne presents Freehold, with its mixture of village intimacy and city diversity, as a microcosm of the whole sweep of twentieth-century American history. It is a reminder of what America has faced and overcome and will continue to face as the nation marches forward.
Hardcover from Penguin USA
Book Published: 10 February, 2003

Memoirs of the Reverend David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Border of New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania
by David Brainerd
Listed under Native Americans

A Mission for Justice: The History of the First African American Catholic Church in Newark, New Jersey
by Mary A. Ward
Hardcover from Univ of Tennessee Pr
Book Published: September, 2002

Monmouth (Triangle Histories of the Revolutionary War)
by Lewis K. Parker

More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
by Henry Charlton Beck
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: April, 1993

More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women
by Lynn Wenzel, Carol J. Binkowski
Paperback from Falcon
Book Published: July, 2003

The Movies Begin: Making Movies in New Jersey, 1887-1920
by Paul C. Spehr

Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860: A Study of Musical Activity and Musicians in New Jersey from Its First Settlement to the Civil War
by Charles H., Kaufman
Hardcover from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Book Published: December, 1981
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A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore
by Joanna Burger
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: June, 1996
 
New Jersey and the Revolutionary War
by Alfred Bill Hoyt
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: December, 1992
 
The New Jersey Colony (The Colonies)
by Bob Italia

New Jersey (The Thirteen Colonies)
by Thomas Streissguth

New Jersey Firsts: The Famous, Infamous, and Quirky of the Garden State
by Harry Armstrong, Tom Wilk
Paperback from Camino Books Inc.
Book Published: June, 1999

The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line
by Steve Golin
Hardcover from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: July, 2002

Night of the Devil: The Untold Story of Thomas Trantino and the Angel Lounge Killings
by David Stout

Not for Filthy Lucre's Sake: Richard Saltar and the Antiproprietary Movement in East New Jersey, 1665-1707
by Daniel J. Weeks

Ocean City, New Jersey
by Frank J., Robert J. Esposito, Frank J. Esposito
Paperback from Arcadia Tempus Publishing Group, Inc.
Book Published: 01 November, 1996

Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963
by Joan M. Marter

Old Bridge (Images of America: New Jersey)
by Michael J. Launay
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: June, 2002

Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey: A Guide
by Janice Kohl Sarapin
Listed under New Jersey Genealogy

Organizing Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers: The Experience of Puerto Ricans in New Jersey
by Gloria, Bonilla-Santiago

Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
by Bernard Lefkowitz

Palisades Amusement Park: A Century of Fond Memories
by Vince Gargiulo, Edward Malillo, Richard H. Haufe
Hardcover from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: November, 1995

Papers of Joseph Henry: January 1844-December 1846, the Princeton Years
by Marc Rothenberg

Parole: Quebec; Countersign: Ticonderoga Second New Jersey Regimental Orderly Book, 1776
by Doyen Salsig

The Pascack Valley Line: A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad
by Wilson E. Jones
Paperback from New Jersey Midland Railroad Historical Society, Inc.
Book Published: June, 1996

Patriots, Pirates, and Pineys: Sixty Who Shaped New Jersey
by Robert A. Peterson
Book Description: Southern New Jersey is a region full of rich heritage and yet it is one of the best kept historical secrets of our nation. Many famous people have lived in Southern New Jersey and numerous world renowned businesses were started in this area as well. Patriots, Pirates, and Pineys was written to address the ignorance of the heritage surrounding the Shore and Pine Barrens regions of New Jersey. 

This collection of biographies gives the reader a sense of history about the area through the stories of the people who resided here and a look into their lives. Tales of such famous figures as John Wanamaker, Henry Rowen, and Sara Spenser Washington are all included as well as some lesser known but equally heroic people. Some of the subjects would be considered patriots, some pirates, and some Pineys but they all would be considered people who helped make America what it is today.
Paperback: 155 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 9.25 x 6.00
Publisher: Plexus Publishing; (July 1, 1998)
ISBN: 0937548391

Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman: A Narrative Poem
by Penelope Scambly Schott
Publisher: University Press of Florida; (February 1999)

The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850-1929
by Marc Jeffrey Stern

Proprietors, Patronage, and Paper Money: Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703-1776
by Thomas L. Purvis

Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity
by Meredith Arms Bzdak

The Public Service Trolley Lines in New Jersey
by Edward Hamm

Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles
by James Overmyer
Listed under Negro Baseball League

The Rahway Valley Railroad
by Donald A. Maxton
Listed under American Railroads

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter and the American Justice System
by Paul B. Wice
Listed under Boxing

Rural Hunterdon: An Agricultural History
by Hubert Schmidt
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group; (May 1972)

Scots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
by David Dobson
Listed under Scottish Geneaology

Shipwrecks Near Barnegat Inlet: Long Beach Island, New Jersey
by by David J. Seibold

Shipwrecks of New Jersey: Central
by Gary Gentile
Publisher: Gary Gentile Productions; (March 15, 2001)
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Shipwrecks of New Jersey: North
by Gary Gentile

Shore Ghosts and Other Stories of New Jersey
by Larona C. Homer

Six Miles at Sea: A Pictorial History of Long Beach Island, New Jersey
by John Bailey Lloyd, Margaret T. Buchholz
Hardcover from Down the Shore Pub
Book Published: July, 1990

Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865
by Graham Russell Hodges

Smugglers' Woods: Jaunts and Journeys in Colonial and Revolutionary New Jersey
by Arthur D. Pierce

A Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton
by John T. Cumbler

Somerset County Postcards (NJ) (Postcard History Series)
by A. A. Siegel
Listed under Collectible Postcards

Souper Tomatoes: The Story of America's Favorite Food
by Andrew F. Smith
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; (January 2000)

South Jersey Towns: History and Legend
by William McMahon
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: December, 1990

Stafford Chronicles: A History of Manahawkin, New Jersey
by Lillias F. Brescia (Editor)
Book Description: The stories are based in southern Ocean County, NJ, but they range to high points of New Jersey Shore area history from the 1600s to the present. With histories of lives, families, and landmarks, Stafford Chronicles vividly reconstructs different ways of life in a town that has seen many changes. The profiles of long-term families capture indelibly such happenings as the feel of salt spray that braced men working in the now-defunct pound fishing boat industry on their way through the breakers over on the beach. Or how women made their mark in the local workplace, such as at New Jersey Bell Telephone in the 1940s.

Stangl Pottery
by Harvey Duke
Publisher: Wallace-Homestead Book Co; (December 1992)
 
The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia
by Barry Moreno
Hardcover from Simon & Schuster
Book Published: October, 2000
 
Swing City: Newark Nightlife, 1925-50
by Barbara J. Kukla
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; (April 1, 2002)

Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey
by Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; Reprint edition (December 1983)

Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities
by Jim Waltzer
(hardcover)

Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities
by Jim Waltzer
(paperback)
 
The Tavern at the Ferry
The Tavern at the Ferry
by Edwin Tunis
Paperback from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Book Published: September, 2002
 
These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey
by Brendan J. McConville

Trenton
by Cathleen Crown
A rich history of Trenton in beautiful photographs. Db
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.35 x 9.19 x 6.46
Arcadia; ISBN: 0752409611; (March 2000)

Trenton (Triangle Histories of the Revolutionary War)
by Lewis K. Parker

The Trial of Lt. Colonel Abraham Hunt September 22, 1777, Trenton, New Jersey
by Michael A. Davis
 
Twelve Days of Terror : A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks
by Richard G. Fernicola
Hardcover from The Lyons Press
Book Published: June, 2001
 
Upon This Rock: History of Trenton Diocese
by Joseph Shanrock

Watering Hole: The Colorful History of Booze, Sex & Death at a New Jersey Tavern
by Matt Connor
Paperback from 1stBooks Library
Book Published: September, 2003

When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey
by William B. Gallagher
Listed under Paleontology

When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times
by Thomas Dublin, George Harvan
Paperback from Cornell Univ Pr
Book Published: September, 1998

A Will is Not Enough in New Jersey
by Amelia E. Pohl

The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton
by Richard M. Ketchum

Words That Make New Jersey History: A Primary Source Reader
by Howard L. Green
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
Book Published: November, 1994

Wreck Valley, A Record of Shipwrecks off Long Island's South Shore and New Jersey
by Daniel Berg
(Paperback - June 1990)

Thus United Free: New Jersey in the Age of the Constitution
by New Jersey Historical Society
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'What Can't Brave Americans Endure?': The New Jersey Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment
by Joseph Lee Boyle
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Turnpike Treasures: The Souvenirs and Stuff That Celebrate an American Phenomenon
by Ellen Marie Snyder-Grenier
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2 Years Before the Riot!: Newark, New Jersey and the United Community Corporation 1964-1966
by Cyril Degrasse Tyson
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