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"Old Abe" Passes Through New Jersey
No full textThe article gives an account of Abraham Lincoln's train ride from Springfield, Illinois to Washington in 1861 after Lincoln's first election as told in "The Daily Fredonian" of New Brunswick
American Almanacs in the Eighteenth Century
No full textDenker makes the case for almanacs as important historical resources. He states that the collection in the library of Rutgers University, one which rivals the best in size, value and importance. In his research for this article, he examined a total of 3,902 almanacs, comprising 302 issues before 1800, 1,350 issues between 1800 and 1850 and 2,250 between 1850 and 1949. The files of the long series of issues—a collection of much value and importance—could well be the subject of special study by students of history, American civilization, economics, art, and journalism
"Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital"
No full textA pamphlet in the Rutgers Library, printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall in Philadelphia in 1754, entitled "Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital; From its first Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, called May, 1754" is of real interest because the Pennsylvania Hospital is the first hospital in what is now the United States to have a consecutive and successful operation from its foundation.The foresight of Franklin and his colleagues as revealed in this pamphlet is utterly amazing. Without previous experience, butwith some knowledge of hospitals in England and on the Continent, these men outlined a plan of organization and adopted rules of procedure which, in spite of the tremendous development in medicine itself, are just as pertinent in the hospital field today as they were two hundred years ago. Their achievement should humble those who have assumed that hospitals are strictly the product of the twentieth century
Notes from the Library in Volume 4:2
No full textRutgers Studies: WILLIAM J . NORTON, JR. Bishop Butler, Moralist and Divine. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1940. (Rutgers University Studies in Philosophy. Number One.) Reviewed by Rene Wellek."Another Presidential Autograph" by Rudolf Kirk. "New Magazine Files" by Rudolf Kirk
The First Century of the New Brunswick Stage: Part 2
No full textThis is part II of Coad's three part series on the history of the New Brunswick, N.J. stage published in this journal. This article covers the period from the civil war to 1871
Freneau's Satire of Rutgers
No full textMarsh discusses and reprints a tale Philip Freneau wrote for the Philadelphia "Aurora" in 1815. It is a satire on Rutgers about the awarding of medical degrees to "students" from New York, where presumably they were unable to obtain a degree
An Introduction to Gerald Sterns' "The Pineys"
No full textHazley describes the historical and cultural background for Gerald Sterns' poem about the New Jersey Pine Barrens and its inhabitants, known as "The Pineys.
New Light on Another Spiegel Affair
No full textTanis provides some insight into a lost work by Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, "Spiegel die Niet Vleyt," "a ghost long known as Frelinghuysen's 'Spiegel'.
Go Ahead, Davy Crockett!
No full textBezanon, who founded an undergraduate major in American Civilzation at Rutgers, investigates the Library's "Crockett's Almanac: Scenes in River Life, Feats on the Lakes, Manners in the Back Woods, Adventures in Texas, &c, &c.," (Philadelphia and New York, 1846), for sources of the Davy Crockett myth
The Paupers of Somerset County: 1760-1800
No full textThis paper is an attempt to examine the lives of a group of early New Jersey poor people—the seventy-one paupers who received assistance from the townships of Franklin and Hillsborough in Somerset County from 1760-1800