A new edition of the eyewitness account that introduced readers to the experience of the Continental army  “About sunset we made a stand, when I was wounded, having a Ball with the Wad shot through my left forearm & the fuse set my coat and shirt on fire.” So wrote Major Joseph Bloomfield in his journal on September 11, 1777, describing his experiences during the hard-fought battle of Brandywine. Bloomfield was an officer in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment from 1776 to 1779. His service took him from Fort Stanwix to Fort Ticonderoga in New York, to the battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania, and to the battle of Monmouth in his native state. He later served as governor of New Jersey from 1801 to 1812. A compassionate officer admired by his men, Bloomfield carefully recounted the hardships of military campaigns—the swings of morale, the shortage of supplies, the ever-present illnesses—and the intensity of combat. Of special interest are Bloomfield’s important notes on the culture and behavior of the Iroquois tribes known collectively as the Six Nations, which played a crucial role in revolutionary New York.    Unpublished and all but unknown when the first edition—skillfully edited by historians Mark Edward Lender and Joseph Kirby Martin—appeared, Bloomfield’s wartime journal was praised for providing both scholars and general readers with new information on the Continental soldier; the revolution’s impact on society; warfare in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and the motives and actions of the revolutionary generation. Soldiers and civilians, Patriots and Tories, come alive in this fascinating eyewitness narrative. This new edition of Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield—the first in thirty-five years—includes a new introduction and bibliographic essay by the editors.   

Citizen soldier: The Revolutionary War journal of Joseph Bloomfield (Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society)

History

Lender, Mark E. And James Kirby Martin, Editor

Americas

New Jersey Historical Society

Facsimile reprint of "Locomotives and Locomotive Building, Being a Brief Sketch of Various Improvements in Locomotive Building During the Last Century, Together with a History of the Origin and Growth of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, New Jersey, from 1831 to 1876."

The Rogers locomotive catalog, 1876

Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works

<p>"Wacker and Clemens assemble a wealth of informnation that traces spatial and temporal patterns of agriculture in this very diverse state. Diaries, probate and tax records, store ledgers, and other sources detail cultural and economic factors that interacted with the natural landscape to produce complex patterns of land use. While perhaps of greatest interest to historians and historical geographers interested in teasing out the role of markets in shaping agriculture systems, this book will also informanyone who wants to gain a more nuanced and intimate understanding of life in this region in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moreover, the copious documentation in the maps and tabular summaries makes this a unique and valuable source in itself."<br> --Emily W.B. Russell, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University-Newark</p>

Land Use in Early New Jersey: A Historical Geography

Peter O. Wacker

Paul G.E. Clemens

Travel

This collection of essays is one of the first comprehensive studies of the emergence of teenagers as an independent sector of society, alienated from the adult world and in pursuit of their own life-style. Teenage New Jersey explores the origins of this phenomenon during the Depression, when the scarcity of jobs forced an increasing number of teens into school, and through the World War II years, when teens acquired additional responsibilities and their own sources of income. The postwar suburban explosion, increasing affluence, and the changing racial composition of high schools pushed teens further from the older generation's values and led them to forge a unity of their own. Contributors to the volume examine the identities assumed by teenagers during the 1950s and 1960s when music (Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, the Beatles), movies (Rebel Without a Cause), and mobility influenced their lives. Ignored and condemned, alienated and defiant, New Jersey teenagers have been both the cause and result of societal and cultural changes. This is their story.Teenage New Jersey was produced to complement the inaugural exhibition mounted in the new headquarters of the New Jersey Historical Society.

Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975

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Citizen soldier: The Revolutionary War journal of Joseph Bloomfield (Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society)

The Rogers locomotive catalog, 1876

Land Use in Early New Jersey: A Historical Geography

Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975