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New Jersey Archival Film Festival
New Jersey Archival Film Festival
November 1, 2025
November 1, 2025
Monmouth University's Great Hall
The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance (NJSAA), the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) New Jersey Caucus, and the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM) are thrilled to announce the first-ever NJ Archival Film Festival—a celebration of the stories preserved in your vaults and the vital work you do.
For more information: 2025 Film Festival
Author Talk with Dr. Jen Janofsky's Uncovering History: Red Bank Battlefield and the Discovery of Hessian Remains
Author Talk with Dr. Jen Janofsky's Uncovering History: Red Bank Battlefield and the Discovery of Hessian Remains
November 13, 2025 at 3pm
November 13, 2025 at 3pm
Virtual
Zoom Link Registration: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/0WtG8wD2QsigiKq13nUkgg
Join us for a compelling presentation on the Revolutionary War history of Red Bank Battlefield and the remarkable discovery of human remains believed to be those of Hessian soldiers who fought and died during the Battle of Red Bank in 1777. This talk explores the historical significance of the battlefield, the archaeological investigation that led to the discovery, and what ongoing research is revealing about the lives and identities of the soldiers. Learn how archaeology, history, and community engagement are coming together to deepen our understanding of this pivotal moment in American history.
Acorn Hall’s (Restoration) Journey of a Thousand Miles
Acorn Hall’s (Restoration) Journey of a Thousand Miles
Co-Sponsored talk with the Princeton Preservation Group
Co-Sponsored talk with the Princeton Preservation Group
December 3, 2025, 3pm
December 3, 2025, 3pm
Virtual
Zoom Link Registration: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/eG5BkuIZT9epXERj6QeJpQ
Join Morris County Historical Society Executive Director Amy Curry as she provides insight, highlights successes, notes occasional misses, and spotlights the discoveries made as part of returning the Acorn Hall property to its proper 1860-1880 appearance. Nearly a dozen years in the making, and still not complete, the restoration of Acorn Hall, its carriage house, and accompanying historic landscape has been lauded by historic preservation professionals as one of the most consequential restorations in Morris County. Prior restoration attempts and their permanent mark on the property will also be discussed. Ms Curry is excited to sharing the journey and lessons learned, as well as the ways space and opportunity were used to engage the community in our work.
December Business Meeting and Author Award Presentation
December Business Meeting and Author Award Presentation
December 4, 2025, 3pm
December 4, 2025, 3pm
Virtual
Zoom Link Registration: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/Te3ZsQBdTGOGae-H5ER81Q
Please join us at 3pm for our Business Meeting, followed at 4 pm with presentations from our 2025 Author Award winners:
Non-fiction Scholarly Category:
Patricia Chappine for New Jersey Women during World War II: On the Home Front and Abroad
Non-fiction Popular Category:
Eric G. Bolen for Beaches, Bays, and Barrens: A Natural History of the Jersey Shore
Edited Works:
Aldo A. Lauria Santiago and Ulla D. Berg. Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, and Cultures
Monday, February 23, 2026
3:00 Business meeting/4:00 Mappen Award (virtual)
March TBD
Author talk
Monday, April 13, 2026
3:00 Business meeting/4:00 Stellhorn & Waldron presentations (virtual)
May TBD
In-person event
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”
Author Talk with Dr. Jen Janofsky's Uncovering History: Red Bank Battlefield and the Discovery of Hessian Remains
Author Talk with Dr. Jen Janofsky's Uncovering History: Red Bank Battlefield and the Discovery of Hessian Remains
November 13, 2025 at 3pm
November 13, 2025 at 3pm
Virtual
Zoom Link Registration: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/0WtG8wD2QsigiKq13nUkgg
Join us for a compelling presentation on the Revolutionary War history of Red Bank Battlefield and the remarkable discovery of human remains believed to be those of Hessian soldiers who fought and died during the Battle of Red Bank in 1777. This talk explores the historical significance of the battlefield, the archaeological investigation that led to the discovery, and what ongoing research is revealing about the lives and identities of the soldiers. Learn how archaeology, history, and community engagement are coming together to deepen our understanding of this pivotal moment in American history.
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