This lively romp through history, from the primitive past to the present day, provides a lens by which to view American history through lively prose and more than 25 illustrations.
This lively romp through history, from the primitive past to the present day, provides a lens by which to view American history through lively prose and more than 25 illustrations.
Marc Mappen is the coeditor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of New Jersey and author of Jerseyana: The Underside of New Jersey History (both Rutgers University Press). He has written articles for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rutgers Magazine,New Jersey Heritage, and otherpublications and has appeared on the History Channel and National Public Radio.
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Introduction 1 How We Got to Where We Are 2 When Prehistoric Elephants Roamed New Jersey 3 New Jersey Was Paradise 4 Move Over Betsy Ross 5 Good Golly, Miss Molly 6 The Caldwell Murder Case 7 "The Cow Chace" 8 Classical Gas 9 The Congressman's Cold 10 The First Flight 11 John Adams's Ass 12 Man Eats Tomato and Lives! 13 Explosion on the USS Princeton 14 Two New Jersey Soldiers in Confederate Prisons 15 General Grant Skips the Theater 16 The Jersey General and the Secret of Custer's Last Stand 17 Poor Mary Smith 18 Mrs. Stanton Steps Out in Tenafly 19 It's About Time 20 Leprosy in the Laundry 21 Stephen Crane Gets into Trouble 22 The Ghostly Sphynx of Metedeconk 23 Annie Oakley Lived in Nutley, New Jersey 24 Scandal at the Girls' Reform School 25 Alice Goes for a Drive 26 Billy Sunday Came to Trenton on Monday 27 Ezra Pound Insults Newark 28 Cher Ami 29 The Poet, the Athlete, and the War to End All Wars 30 The Applejack Campaign 31 Swan Song for Shoeless Joe 32 The Tragic Fall of the Mexican Lindbergh 33 On the Boardwalk with Al Capone 34 The Morro Castle Mystery 35 The Rise and Fall of a Great Detective 36 Mommy Was a Commie 37 The Martian Invasion 38 When New Jersey Was a Nazi Target 39 Teleporting Penguin Lands in New Jersey 40 The Serpent in the Garden State: A Brief History of Corruption 41 Postscript: How to Write an Encyclopedia of New Jersey in Nine Easy Years
Introduction 1 How We Got to Where We Are 2 When Prehistoric Elephants Roamed New Jersey 3 New Jersey Was Paradise 4 Move Over Betsy Ross 5 Good Golly, Miss Molly 6 The Caldwell Murder Case 7 "The Cow Chace" 8 Classical Gas 9 The Congressman's Cold 10 The First Flight 11 John Adams's Ass 12 Man Eats Tomato and Lives! 13 Explosion on the USS Princeton 14 Two New Jersey Soldiers in Confederate Prisons 15 General Grant Skips the Theater 16 The Jersey General and the Secret of Custer's Last Stand 17 Poor Mary Smith 18 Mrs. Stanton Steps Out in Tenafly 19 It's About Time 20 Leprosy in the Laundry 21 Stephen Crane Gets into Trouble 22 The Ghostly Sphynx of Metedeconk 23 Annie Oakley Lived in Nutley, New Jersey 24 Scandal at the Girls' Reform School 25 Alice Goes for a Drive 26 Billy Sunday Came to Trenton on Monday 27 Ezra Pound Insults Newark 28 Cher Ami 29 The Poet, the Athlete, and the War to End All Wars 30 The Applejack Campaign 31 Swan Song for Shoeless Joe 32 The Tragic Fall of the Mexican Lindbergh 33 On the Boardwalk with Al Capone 34 The Morro Castle Mystery 35 The Rise and Fall of a Great Detective 36 Mommy Was a Commie 37 The Martian Invasion 38 When New Jersey Was a Nazi Target 39 Teleporting Penguin Lands in New Jersey 40 The Serpent in the Garden State: A Brief History of Corruption 41 Postscript: How to Write an Encyclopedia of New Jersey in Nine Easy Years
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