by lindaoppenheim | Nov 2, 2022
The New Jersey History Conference is an annual program that highlights the importance of studying and sharing state and local history and invites established and emerging scholars, educators, public historians, and a broad spectrum of social science and humanities...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 7, 2019 | Events, Video
The Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System will be celebrating Black History Month by hosting two programs by presenter Al Corbett, The Life and Legacy of Jack Sherrod ,and The Education of Fannie Sherrod, as well as the showing the...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 29, 2019 | Events, history, Video
There will be a free viewing of the film “Sweet George Brown; Impact, Courage, Sacrifice and Will” on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church 142 Sand Hill Rd., Monmouth Junction (732) 297-4607 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Seating is limited...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 20, 2018 | Events
Commemorate African American soldiers who helped shape America’s history with historians and reenactors representing the Harlem Hellfighters of WWI, 6th Regiment USCT of the Civil War, 369th Regiment portrayed by Ebony Doughboys, and others at the Old Barracks...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 6, 2018 | Events
On Thursday-Saturday, February 8, 9 + 10, 2018, at 8:00 p.m., in the Marie & Edward Matthews ’53 Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St., there will be a performance of “Fly,” which dramatizes the historic contributions made by the Tuskegee Airmen to the...