Save Ellis Island

This organization aims to rehabilitate, restore, and put to use currently deteriorated buildings on historic Ellis Island. There are currently thirty unrestored structures, primarily on the island's southern side. Save Ellis Island is working to establish the Ellis Island Institute and Conference Center as a facility for civic engagement and lifelong learning. Working with both private and public sector partners, the organization's staff educates the public on the island's history as an immigration facility, highlighting themes of diversity, human health, and public history.

THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION WINS NATIONAL RECOGNITION! NJHC was named recipient of a 2007 Merit Award from the American Association for State and Local History, "for excellence in programming and outreach." The Commission's work, the AASLH noted, is distinguished by "its exemplary high standards of scholarship fostered within the public sphere. Through conferences, symposia, publications, a grants program, and programs for teachers, the commission has set the very highest standards for all who benefit from its work." Click here to view the award.

New Jersey History, founded as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society in 1845 and published under the direction of the Society until 2005, will be re-launched under the editorial direction of historians at the New Jersey Historical Commission, Kean University, and the Society. This peer-reviewed journal will be published twice annually. The editorial staff invites scholars, students, and writers to submit scholarly articles aimed at a non-specialized audience for its forthcoming issues. We welcome papers from all disciplines—for example, law, literature, political science, anthropology, archaeology, material culture, cultural studies, and social and political history—bearing on any aspects of New Jersey’s history. We are also interested in documents, photographs, and other primary source material that could be published with annotations. Click here for further details or email peter.mickulas@sos.state.nj.us

Looking for a quick look at New Jersey's rich history? Here's a version that will give you some of this state's most significant events. Click here: A Brief History of New Jersey, by Professor Paul  G. E. Clemens of Rutgers University.

September 4, 1931 - James Doolittle establishes aviation record - California to Newark - in 11 hours, 6 minutes

September 6, 1921 - 1st Miss America contest held in Atlantic City

September 17, 1883 - William Carlos Williams born in Rutherford

Septtember 23, 1949 - Bruce Springsteen born in Freehold