Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
New Jersey:
War and New Jersey
General
Lender, Mark Edward.
One State in Arms: A Short Military History of New Jersey.
Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, Department of State, 1991.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ F134.L5 1991
ALEXANDER DOCNJ F134.L5 1991 [2 copies]
CAMDEN STACKS F134.L5 1991 [2 copies]
DANA DOCNJ F134.L5 1991
DOUGLASS STACKS F134.L5 1991
Rutgers Oral History Archives (Rutgers University History Department)
"The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, […]is an enterprise to record the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the home front and overseas. It is based on in-depth interviews of individuals who lived through these conflicts, beginning with an initial target group of Rutgers College alumni and Douglass College alumnae (formerly New Jersey College for Women)."
Rutgers Oral History Archives.
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
University Archives manuscript collection R-MC 025, comprised of transcripts of oral history interviews with alumni and alumnae of Rutgers College and Douglass College, conducted as part of the Rutgers Oral History Project. Also includes transcripts of interviews with several non-Rutgers affiliated individuals.
Finding aid available online:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/ww2eadf.html
American Revolution
Sinclair, Donald Arleigh and Grace W. Schut.
The American Revolution and New Jersey: A Bibliography.
New Brunswick, NJ: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 1995.
ALEXANDER REF E263.N5S61 1995
CAMDEN STACKS E263.N5S61 1995
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ E263.N5S61 1995
Beck, Clark.
Revolutionary War Manuscripts in Special Collections and Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, [1995?]
SPCOL SNCLNJ E209.R87 1995
CAMDEN X E209.R87 1995
New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project.
Index of the Official register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War.
Newark, NJ, The Historical Records Survey, 1941.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ CS25.N532AO index
New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office.
Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars, 1791-1815.
Trenton, NJ, State Gazette Publishing Co., 1909.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ CS25.N532R 1791-1815
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJF E359.5.N4N3
ALEXANDER STACKS CS25.N532R 1791-1815
Civil War
Bilby, Joseph G.
Forgotten Warriors: New Jersey's African American Soldiers in the Civil War.
Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1993.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ E540.N3B55 1993
DANA STACKS E540.N3B55 1993
Gillette, William.
Jersey Blue: A Reappraisal of Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Special Collections also has a 2 volume set of the manuscript of this work, which consists of, "mainly the uncut, uncorrected, unedited version of the running text, notes and index." The manuscript was subsequently cut down to meet the publisher's stipulations.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ F138.G55 1995
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ F138.G556 1995 v.1 & 2
ALEXANDER STACKS F138.G55 1995
CAMDEN STACKS F138.G55 1995
DANA STACKS F138.G55 1995
DOUGLASS STACKS F138.G55 1995
New Jersey Historical Society.
Civil War Newspapers.
[New Jersey?: New Jersey Historical Society, 1986?]
SPCOL/UA SNCNJF E464.N55 1986 v. 1-3
Sellers, John R., comp.
Civil War Manuscripts: A Guide to Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Compiled by John R. Sellers.
Washington: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 1986.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ E468.L48 1986
ALEXANDER STACKS Z1242.L48 1986
ALEXANDER REF Z1242.L48 1986
Siegel, Alan A.
Beneath the Starry Flag: New Jersey's Civil War Experience.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ E521.S54 2001
ALEXANDER STACKS E521.S54 2001
DANA STACKS E521.S54 2001
Sinclair, Donald Arleigh.
A Guide to New Jersey and Other Civil War Manuscripts in the Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University.
New Brunswick, NJ: Special Collections and University Archives, 2003.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ Z1313.S56 2003
ALEXANDER STACKS Z1313.S56 2003
Spanish-American War
McNally, Bernard, comp.
Soldiers and Sailors of New Jersey in the Spanish-American War, Embracing A Chronological Account of the Army and Navy.
Newark, NJ, B. McNally, 1898.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ E726.N4Ml
Monmouth County and the Spanish-American War: Newspaper Clippings from the Monmouth Democrat, Freehold, New Jersey.
Lincroft, NJ: Monmouth County Genealogy Society, 2001.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ F142.M7M65 2001
World War I
Campbell, Charles A.
Women and the War: A Sermon Prelude.
[Elizabeth, NJ: s.n., 1918].
SPCOL/UA SNCLY D639.W7.C36 1918
Engineers Club of Trenton, NJ.
Trenton's Own Company of Engineers: Its Experiences and Exploits With Some Facts About Its Organization and Personnel.
[Trenton, NJ], [1919?].
SPCOL/UA SNCLY D570.13 104th.A6
Letters of Thanks to the Princeton Red Cross from Nurses and Patients in European Hospitals and Accounts of Work by Distributing Agents.
[Princeton, NJ]: Princeton University Press, [1916].
SPCOL/UA SNCLY D638.U5L47 1916
Meehan, Thomas Francis.
History of the Seventy-Eighth Division in the World War, 1917-18-19.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D570.3.78th.M4
New Jersey. Commission on Military Training in High Schools.
New Jersey Says: "No!" Report of the Commission on Military Training and Instruction in High Schools to the New Jersey Legislature, Session of 1917. Reprinted in Full by the American Union Against Militarism.
Washington, DC, 1918.
SPCOL/UA SNCLY U437.N53
Raritan Arsenal.
A History of the Activities at Raritan Arsenal During the World War.
[Metuchen, NJ], 1919.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ UF544.N5R2H
Tenney, Marion Louise (ed.)
War Activities of the Borough of Roselle, Union County, New Jersey.
Roselle, NJ: The Borough, 1920.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ F144.R865T46 1920
Wall, John P.
New Brunswick, NJ in the World War, 1917-1918.
[New Brunswick, NJ: S.M. Christie Press, 1921].
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D570.85.N31N35
ALEXANDER STACKS D570.85.N31N35 [2 copies]
ANNEX STACKS D570.85.N31w
World War II
American Red Cross.
The Oranges and Maplewood Chapter. The War Years, September 1, 1939-September 2, 1945.
West Orange, NJ: Midland Press, [1945].
SPCOL/UA STACKS D809.U6A43 1945
DANA STACKS D809.U5A43 1945
Brown, J. Douglas.
The Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University in World War II: A Personal Account.
Princeton, NJ: Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 1976.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ HD5724.B73
ALEXANDER STACKS HD5724.B73
DANA STACKS HD5724.B73
Coyne, Kevin.
Marching Home: To War and Back With the Men of One American Town.
New York: Viking, 2003.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D769.85.N31F743 2003
ALEXANDER STACKS D769.85.N31F743 2003
CAMDEN STACKS D769.85.N31F743 2003
An account of World War II as experienced by the men of Freehold, NJ.
Dawidoff, Nicholas.
The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg.
New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
D810.S8B4693 1995
Born in Newark, NJ and educated at Princeton, major-league baseball player Moe Berg became a spy for the OSS during World War II.
Edge, Walter E.
The New Jersey State Government's Share in Reconversion From War to Peace.
Trenton, NJ: [s.n.], 1945.
SPCOL/UA SNCLY D769.85.N3E33 1945
Johnson, Melissa A.
Princeton, Forward March!: A Guide to World War II Collections at Princeton University.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1992.
SPCOL/UA SNCLY2 D735.P75 1992
ALEXANDER STACKS Z6207.W8P746 1992
CAMDEN STACKS D735.P75 1992
Kindre, Tom.
The Boys from New Jersey.
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing Co., 2004.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D769.85.N3B69 2004
Experiences of New Jersey men in World War II.
Martucci, William C.
To Secure These Rights: A Study of the Political Concerns and Development of the Black Community in Newark, New Jersey During the Second World War, 1941-1945. (Thesis).
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1974.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ F144.N6M38
McBride, William, Carl Ek and Rodney L. Odell.
Anybody Here from Jersey?: The Collected Stories of the Herald-News War Correspondents.
Passaic, NJ: The Herald-News, 1945.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D769.85.N3H4
CAMDEN STACKS D769.85.N3H4
Micheletti, Laura A.
Carrying On: Students at New Jersey College for Women and World War II.
New Brunswick, NJ: 1999. ("A thesis submitted to the History Honors Program and the Women's Studies Honors Program at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey...")
SPCOL/UA R-PUBS D810.E45N49 1999
Mischlich, Marston A.
Atlantic City Answers the Call to World War II: How It and the Surrounding Area Contributed to the War Effort.
California: California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1998. (Thesis).
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D769.N5.M678
Preil, Joseph J. (ed.)
Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ D804.195.H74 2001
ALEXANDER STACKS D804.195.H74 2001
CAMDEN STACKS D804.195.H74 2001
NEWARK STACKS D804.195.H74 2001
Rutgers Defense Council.
Records, 1941-1945.
"The Rutgers Defense Council was initiated in response to the threat of enemy action against U.S. coastal residents during World War II. Creation of the council was authorized by university President Robert C. Clothier on December 7, 1941 to safeguard life and property on Rutgers' New Brunswick campuses."
SPCOL/UA ARCHIV RG 41/H0/01
Finding aid online:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/rutgers_defense_councilf.html
Schmidt, George P.
Proposals for Post-War Education of Returning Service Women at New Jersey College for Women.
[New Jersey: s.n., 1943].
SPCOL/UA R-PUBS LD7251.N25332S3 1943
Vietnam War
Douglass College. Office of the Dean. Records (Group II), 1965-1981.
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
SPCOL/UA ARCHIV RG 19/A0/02
Collection includes material on student protests over the Vietnam War.
Finding aid available online:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/douglass_deans_2f.html
Leifer, Neil and Robert F. Dorr.
USS New Jersey: The Navy's Big Guns: From Mothballs to Vietnam.
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1988.
SPCOL/UA SNCLNJ VA65.N5L44 1988
New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial: Dedication, May 7, 1995: To Remember, To Heal, To Honor.
Trenton: New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation, [1995].
SPCOL/UA SNCLY2 DS559.84.N5N49 1995
Rutgers University. Office of Public Information.
Records on the Vietnam War Teach-Ins, 1965-1966.
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
SPCOL/UA ARCHIV RG 07/A2/01
Finding aid available online:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/teachinsf.html
Rutgers University. Office of the President.
Records of the Rutgers University Office of the President (Mason Welch Gross), 1936, 1945-1971.
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
SPCOL/UA ARCHIV RG 04/A16
Includes material on student protests.
Finding aid available online:
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/grossf.html
US Military Personnel Who Died: (Including Missing and Captured, Declared Dead) in the Vietnam War, 1957-1986.
Washington, DC: Office of Secretary of Defense, [1986?].
SPCOL/UA SNCLY2 DS559.U5 1986