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New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
January 12, 2026 from12pm-1pm
Hybrid
To register for the book club discussion: https://mtpl.libcal.com/calendar?t=d&q=new%20jersey%20book%20club&cid=-1&cal=-1&inc=0
Join NJSAA and the Middletown Public Library for the monthly New Jersey Book Club to discuss "Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine" by Andrew Scull.
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
February 9, 2026 from 12pm-1pm
Hybrid
To register for the book club discussion: https://mtpl.libcal.com/calendar?t=d&q=new%20jersey%20book%20club&cid=-1&cal=-1&inc=0
Join NJSAA and the Middletown Public Library for the monthly New Jersey Book Club to discuss"Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History" by Helene Stapinski.
February Business Meeting and Mappen Award Presentation
February Business Meeting and Mappen Award Presentation
February 23, 2026, 3pm
February 23, 2026, 3pm
Virtual
Zoom Link Registration: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Qql8P5KSRuIcWDxMMHXCA
Please join us at 3pm for our Business Meeting, followed at 4 pm with presentations from our 2025 Mappen Award winner
Author Talk - Katie Singer “Laboring in Obscurity: Louise Epperson and Her Battle Against Urban Renewal.”
Author Talk - Katie Singer “Laboring in Obscurity: Louise Epperson and Her Battle Against Urban Renewal.”
March 3, 2026, 3pm
March 3, 2026, 3pm
Virtual
Zoom Link Registration: https://monmouth.zoom.us/meeting/register/S4bKYyKPS9uWULPlq5CBNQ
Please join us at 3pm for our Business Meeting, followed at 4 pm with presentations from our 2025 Mappen Award winner
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
March 9, 2026 from 12pm-1pm
Hybrid
To register for the book club discussion: https://mtpl.libcal.com/calendar?t=d&q=new%20jersey%20book%20club&cid=-1&cal=-1&inc=0
Join NJSAA and the Middletown Public Library for the monthly New Jersey Book Club to discuss "The Barrens: A Novel of Suspense" by Rosamond Smith (aka Joyce Carol Oates).
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
April 13, 2026 from 12pm-1pm
Hybrid
To register for the book club discussion: https://mtpl.libcal.com/calendar?t=d&q=new%20jersey%20book%20club&cid=-1&cal=-1&inc=0
Join NJSAA and the Middletown Public Library for the monthly New Jersey Book Club to discuss "Paterson" by William Carlos Williams.
Monday, April 13, 2026
3:00 Business meeting/4:00 Stellhorn & Waldron presentations (virtual)
May TBD
In-person event
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
May 11, 2026 from 12pm-1pm
Hybrid
To register for the book club discussion: https://mtpl.libcal.com/calendar?t=d&q=new%20jersey%20book%20club&cid=-1&cal=-1&inc=0
Join NJSAA and the Middletown Public Library for the monthly New Jersey Book Club to discuss "The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore.
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
New Jersey Book Club- Co-Sponsored with the Middletown Public Library
Second Monday of each month from 12pm-1pm
Hybrid
To register for the book club discussion: https://mtpl.libcal.com/calendar?t=d&q=new%20jersey%20book%20club&cid=-1&cal=-1&inc=0
Join NJSAA and the Middletown Public Library for the monthly New Jersey Book Club!
June 8, 2026 - "Three Hundred Years Hence" by Mary Griffith
July 13, 2026 - David Rosenfelt's "Andy Carpenter" series
August 10, 2026 - TBD
September 14, 2026 - "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth
October 12, 2026 - "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
November 9, 2026 - "In the Unlikely Event" by Judy Blume
December 14, 2026 - In celebration of the 239th anniversary of New Jersey statehood (18 Dec. 1787), choose any subject about the great Garden State to discuss!
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. Jen Janofsky, Uncovering History: Red Bank Battlefield and the Discovery of Hessian Remains
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”
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