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Us Against Them: How the Irish Ruled Jersey City
Get PDFAbstract: Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming grew up in Jersey City during the heyday of Mayor Frank Hague, and Fleming’s father, Teddy, was a close aide to Hague. In this talk presented at Drew University’s Casperson School of Graduate Studies in 2009, Fleming recalled the ethos of Jersey City’s Irish-dominated political organization.
Notes from the Library in 7:1
No full text"The Bible in the Wilderness" is based on "Recollections of an Emigrant's Family" about William Waith, a nineteenth century pastor who emigrated from England in 1832 and became a pastor in upstate New York. Article written by Monroe M. Sterans. "Whitman as Parent" by Oral Sumner Coad. One of the familiar problems in Walt Whitman's biography is that of the alleged children. An unpublished letter (May 4, 1895 by Richard Maurice Bucke) in the Rutgers library shelds some light on the matter
The Associated Friends in Volume 1:2
No full textThe Library has, through the efforts of the Associated Friends, gathered to itself a widely distributed and coherent association of men and women who believe in its work and who are brought together to help it increase its resources and its usefulness. InDecember we reported the number of members of the AssociatedFriends as eighty-three, but between the time the Decemberissue of The Journal went to press and April i, the totalnumber of members reached two hundred and thirty-nine, anincrease of one hundred and fifty-six new members
The Withering Away of the American Labor Party
No full textWolfe examines the American Labor Party (1936-56) papers in Rutgers Special Collections to shed light on the latter years of the party's existance from 1948 to 1956, which had not been extensively covered in scholarly literature
Notes from the Library in Volume 8:1
No full text"The Stratagem of the Virgin" by Peter Charanis."Eighteenth-Century Uniquities" by Rudolf Kirk