Professor and former Chair, History Department, Seton Hall University

Education

 

Teaching Experience.

University of Wisconsin, 1963-1964, 1965-1966, 1966-1967 Teaching Assistant.
Marquette University, 1967-1969. Assistant Professor.
Rutgers University. 1969-1994. Adjunct appointments.
Seton Hall University. 1993- present

Teachers Workshops

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Institute for Secondary Teachers. After school seminars and one-day workshops, 1990-2008

New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Weeklong residential courses 2001, 2002.

 

Archival and Records Management Experience.

 

Publications

Books.

Co-editor, Minutes of the East Jersey Proprietors 1764-1794, (New Jersey Historical Society, 1985).

Compiled and edited, A New Jersey Anthology (New Jersey Historical Society, 1994; reprinted Rutgers University Press, 2002).

Co-editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Rutgers University Press, 2004).

 

Forthcoming publication: Co-editor, Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape. (Rutgers University Press Project).

 

Book chapters.

“The State of New Jersey,” in Benjamin F. Shearer, ed., The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States (Greenwood Press, June 2004),v 2

“New Jersey: Radical or Conservative in the Crisis Summer of 1776?” in Barbara Mitnick, ed., New Jersey in the American Revolution  A project of the Washington Association of New Jersey. (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

 

Articles.

Including in: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Journal of Rutgers University Libraries

Maryland Historical Magazine

New Jersey History

American Historical Association's Newsletter Perspectives

Organization of American Historian’s Newsletter.

Docket (Newsletter of the New Jersey Social Studies Council)

American National Biography,

History Teacher

International Association of Media and History

 

Pamphlets. Including:

New Jersey’s Role in the United States Constitution: A Bicentennial Celebration (March, 1987).

New Jersey and the Ratification of the United States Constitution: An Exhibition Catalog (June, 1987).

Resource Guide: Bill of Rights Cases and Issues from New Jersey History

New Jersey and You -- Learning Together. Texts for Teaching New Jersey Studies, 1792-1997 (Exhibit catalog, 1997).

New Jersey’s Three Constitutions: 1776, 1844, 1947 (Exhibit catalog, 1998)

 

Book reviews in:

Wisconsin Magazine of History

Journal of American History

New Jersey Historical Commission Newsletter

Docket (New Jersey Council of Social Studies Teachers Newsletter).

New Jersey History

H-Net

 

Speeches, and Workshops.

At state and national conferences.

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Chair of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance

Member Board of the New Jersey Council for History Education

Member New Jersey State Historic Records Advisory Board.

Member New Jersey Historical Commission

 

Formerly:

Member Executive Committee of the Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Assoc.

Member Teaching Division of the American Historical Association

Chair of the AHA-OAH Committee on Part Time/Adjunct Faculty.