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An Account of Queen Victoria
No full textEdumond Gosse wrote an anonymous portrait of Queen Victoria shortly after her death in the April, 1901 issue of the "Quarterly Review." The article became notorious because it was somewhat critical of the Queen. It was based on notes and conversations with Mary Ponsonby. Several letters in the Symington Collection reveal the extent of their communications
George Bushe and the "Rutgers Medical Faculty"
No full textCowen tells the tale of of the life of George Bushe (1799-1837) and his career at the short-lived "Rutgers Medical College" that was located in New York. The college's affiliation with Rutgers only lasted from 1828 to 1830. Bushe was a Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the college
Book Reviews
No full textGerald G. Eggert reviews Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution by John Bezís-Selfa.David M. Stameshkin reviews The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present by James AxtellHerbert Ershkowitz reviews Mysteries of My Father by Thomas Flemin
Slavery in New Jersey: A Roundtable
Get PDFAbstract: Slavery in New Jersey offers scholars a rich, untapped source for new scholarship about the meaning of freedom and liberty from the Founding Era to the Civil War. Kean University recently sponsored a panel discussion featuring three scholars and their research into the story of slavery in the Garden State. This opening essay offers a summation of the Kean panel’s findings, and offers encouragement to other scholars of slavery in the state
Experiences with the Iron Curtain Press
No full textMassing's article reports on a research project which the Rutgers Department of Sociology was conducting that called for a continuous analysis of Iron Curtain reactions to the broadcasts of the Voice of America. The source material studied is a specified sample of Soviet and Satellite newspapers, periodicals, and radio broadcasts
