NJSAA Events

In-Person Event - Meet the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music

MAY 22, 2024 at 3 PM

Great Hall at Monmouth University

The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) at Monmouth University preserves the legacy of Bruce Springsteen and celebrates the history of American music and its diversity of artists and genres. The collection holds approximately 35,000 items dating from 1927 to the present. Monmouth University recently announced a new 30,000 square foot building to house the Archives, related exhibition galleries, and a 230 seat, state-of-the-art theater. Join the BSACAM Curator Melissa Ziobro for an overview of the collection's history, programmatic and exhibition efforts to date, and an inside look at ongoing efforts to stage a major traveling exhibit while planning for a museum opening in 2026.

If you are working in New Jersey studies and would like to present your current research, please contact program coordinator Melissa Ziobro (mziobro@monmouth.edu).

Past Lectures

Dr. David Blake, Department of English at The College of New Jersey, "Liking Ike: Eisenhower, Advertising, and the Rise of Celebrity Politics"
Gordon Bond, author, “My Patron: The Friendship of James Parker and Benjamin Franklin”
Carla Cielo, historic preservation consultant, "Domestic Outbuildings of Northwest Central New Jersey”
John Delaney, Princeton University Library, “Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888”
Eleonora Dubicki, reference and instruction librarian at Monmouth University, "Carnegie Libraries in New Jersey, 1900-1923" (co-hosted with the Union County Cultural & Heritage Commission)
Frank J. Esposito & Donald Lokuta, authors, "Victorian New Jersey - Photographs by Guillermo Thorn from the Kean University Collection"
Brad Fay, filmmaker and board president of the Millstone Valley Preservation Coalition, "Farming in the Millstone Valley"
John Fea, Messiah College, “Philip Vickers Fithian: An 18th Century Jersey Boy”
Raymond Frey, Centenary College, “The History of Centenary College in Hackettstown”
Catherine Hudak, educator at Morris Hills Regional District, "The Ladies of Trenton: Women's Political and Public Activism in Revolutionary New Jersey" (co-hosted with the Alice Paul Institute)
William Kroth, president of the Sterling Hill Mine Museum in Sussex County, "Great Zinc Mines of Sussex County"
Maxine N. Lurie, Seton Hall University, "17th Century New Jersey"
Maxine H. Lurie & Richard Veit, authors, "Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrative History of the Garden State" (co-sponsored with the Trenton Free Public Library)
Bill Marsh, Monmouth University, “Why Lincoln Lost New Jersey Twice”
Robert McGreevey, The College of New Jersey, "Trenton's Early Civil Rights Activists" (co-hosted with the Trenton Free Public Library) and "Borderline Citizens: The U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration"
Lucia McMahon, William Paterson University, “Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic”
Sandra Moss, M.D., past-president of the Medical History Society of New Jersey and the American Osler Society, "1916 Polio Epidemic"
Phillip Papas, Union County College, "Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee”
Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi, author and former journalist, "Northern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War" (co-hosted with the Monmouth County Library Headquarters) and “The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion”
Brian Regal, Kean University, "The Jersey Devil: The Real Story"
Gary Saretzky, Monmouth County Archives, "Photographers of Middlesex County" and “New Jersey’s Civil War Photographers”
Jean Soderlund, Lehigh University, "The Lenape Indians and Colonial West Jersey"
Bob Vietrogoski, Rutgers University’s George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, “How New Jersey’s Governors Created the State Medical Education System”