Voices of Hillsborough

Useful Websites

Local Sites & Historical Societies

• Hillsborough Township: Our Towns

• Somerset County History & Historic Sites

• Somerset County Historical Society NJ

• Stoutsburg Cemetery Association

• Van Harlingen Historical Society
  History of the neighboring town of Montgomery

• The Changing Landscape of Hillsborough
  Map site from Rutgers- dated, so some of the links may not work.

• Heritage Trail Association

Blogs on Hillsborough History

• The View from Hillsborough
  A Blog on Hillsborough

• Gillette on Hillsborough
  Another blog about Historical Hillsborough

Duke Estate

• Duke Farms Past and Present
  US EPA Archive document from 2013

• Doris Duke Photograph Collection

• Doris Duke Exhibit at Duke Libraries

• Deperately Seeking Doris- The Remaking of Duke Farms
  Blog about Duke Farms

Government Sites

• The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries
  Government document that contains information on how many towns were formed. Use Ctrl+F to search for Hillsborough.

• NJ State Archives

• U.S. Census Information

• NJ Office of Vital Records

Other Sites

• New York Times article about Hillsborough

• In Our Village
  Inspiration for this project.

Public Library

Citing Sources

MLA 9 Handbook - online style guide

OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab - a reliable online source for MLA information

HHS MLA 9 Citation Sheet - examples how to to cite print and online sources

Sources for Research

How to cite interviews:

Personal Interviews (Oral or E-mail): Personal interviews refer to those interviews that you conduct yourself. List the interview by the name (last name first, first name.) of the person being interviewed include the descriptor Oral interview or E-mail interview. By the person conducting the interview and the date of the interview.

Pronko, Lisa. Oral interview. By Connie Swanzer. 20 Mar. 2019.

Published Interviews (print): As in the above example list the interview by the name of the person being interviewed. If the interview is part of a book, place the title of the interview in quotation marks. Place the title of the book in italics and include the author or editor name after the book title. If the interview appears as an independent title, italicize the title.

Images or Photographs (online): Start your works-cited-list entry with a description of the image, since you are not citing the actual image but a reproduction of it. Then list the title of the article that contains the image as the title of the container, the author of the article in the “Other contributors” slot, and the publication date of the article. In a second container, list the name of the Web site and the URL:

MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America 2016.

MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America 2016.style.mla.org.

Purdue OWLFamily of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U. 2008

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. 23 Mar. 2019.