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Catalog
Number: SNJL-0100
Subject: New
Jersey History
Produced: 1992
- 2003
Running
Time: 30 minutes each
VHS
Box Set Price: $75.00
DVD
Box Set Price: $85.00
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Includes
Fortunes in Furs, a look
back at New Jersey's first inhabitants, the Lenape Indians; The
Two New Jerseys,
the history of New Jersey after the English conquest over the Dutch
in the area; Royal Rule and Religious Revival,
the reunion of East and West Jersey; The
Republican Rebellion,
which looks at the role which the colony of New Jersey and its
colonists played in one of the most important events in this
country's history;
Monopolies and Mechanics,
a look at manufacturing in New Jersey during revolutionary times; Vistas
in Democracy,
a look at early struggles with civil rights conflicts in New Jersey;
A State of Many Nations, describing
the struggles resulting from early ninteenth century immigration; Technology
in the Garden, showing the progress and problems resulting
from technological progress; The
Progressive Banner, examines
the attempts at political reform by Governor Woodrow Wilson;
and
The Suburban State, which
chronicles the shift of political power from urban to suburban
areas, the Constitution of 1947, and the establishment of the
New Jersey Supreme Court.
Fortunes in Furs
Narrated by Celeste Holm
Catalog Number: SNJL-0101
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 1992
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS
Price: $19.95
DVDPrice: To Be Announced |
For centuries, the Lenape Indians lived on the land that would become New Jersey. However, their way of life began to change in 1609 when Henry Hudson explored the Atlantic shoreline. Anticipating potential fortunes from the fur trade, the Dutch established the colony of New Netherland. They soon came into conflict with the Lenape, and then with the English and the Swedes, who also sought control of the region. The program ends with the 1664 English conquest of New Netherland.
Two
New Jerseys, The
Narrated by Celeste Holm
Catalog Number: SNJL-0102
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 1993
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
After the English conquest of New Netherland, King Charles II of Britain granted the former Dutch territories to his brother James, Duke of York, who divided the colony into New York and New Jersey. James gave New Jersey to his friends, John, Lord Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, who sold their shares to other investors, known as proprietors. In 1676, the colony was divided into East and West Jersey. From the outset, the two New Jerseys were beset with problems. In 1702, the proprietors asked the crown to take over the government, reuniting New Jersey.
Royal
Rule and Religious Revival
Catalog Number: SNJL-0103
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 1993
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
The third
episode covers the reunion of East and West Jersey. The reunion
did not solve New Jersey's problem. New Jersey still shared a governor
with New York, and the governor aroused the ire of many New Jerseyans.
Additionally, land ownership continued to be disputed, resulting
in widespread rioting. At the same time, a religious revival, known
as the Great Awakening, spread throughout the British colonies,
resulting in the founding of Rutgers and Princeton universities.
In challenging established church authorities, the revival helped
pave the road to the American Revolution.
Republican
Rebellion, The
Catalog Number: SNJL-0104
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 1996
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
For the
English, the war which began in 1775 on the American continent was
a Civil War. For the American Colonists, only loosely joined in
union, it was a rebellion of Republican principles against an oppressive
and distant dictator - King George III. This long-awaited documentary
continues NJN's best-selling series on New Jersey history, by looking
at the role which the colony of New Jersey and its colonists played
in one of the most important events in this country's history.
Monopolies
and Mechanics
Catalog Number: SNJL-0105
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 1996
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
Alexander
Hamilton's vision of a manufacturing center at the Falls of
the Passaic River lays the groundwork for a discussion of the
founding of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
in Paterson in 1791. We discuss the chartering of corporations
and the granting of transportation monopolies to steamboat and
railroad companies, and we see how these monopolies became a
major political issue during the Jacksonian period in New Jersey.
We also see how the so-called Market Revolution resulted in
a fissure in the unified world of masters, journeymen and apprentices
of the colonial period. In Newark, we see the early organization
of unions and even a short-lived Workingmen's Party, and in
Paterson, we witness women and children working in the spinning
mills. Finally, we examine how the Market Revolution changed
homelife as well as worklife, resulting in a new definition
of women's roles.
Vistas
of Democracy
Catalog Number: SNJL-0106
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 1998
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
The American Revolution
unleashed a flurry of new ideas about freedom and equality. But
not everyone in the early nineteenth century enjoyed these rights.
New Jersey had gradually abolished slavery in 1804, but while women
and free blacks who owned property could vote under New Jersey's
1776 constitution, that right was taken away from them in 1807.
African Americans and Quakers helped slaves from the South escape
through New Jersey on the Underground Railroad. After the Civil
War, the women's movement split over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the U. S. Constitution, which guaranteed the right
to vote to African American men, but not to women.
A State
of Many Nations
Catalog Number: SNJL-0107
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 2000
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
New
Jersey had been ethnically and religiously diverse since colonial
times. However, the colonial religious denominations were almost
all Protestant. In the early nineteenth century immigration shifted
to Germany and Ireland, and many of these newcomers were Catholic.
They settled in New Jersey's industrializing cities, and they also
brought with them traditions of drinking beer and wine on the Sabbath,
which shocked the Protestant establishment. Middle-class reformers
attempted to "Americanize" the German and Irish immigrants
by promoting temperance. They also sought to use the newly created
public schools to make the immigrants into good Americans (meaning,
Protestants). Not surprisingly, the German and Irish immigrants
resisted these attempts to use the public schools for religious
proselytizing. In response, they created their own parochial school
system and requested that the state provide funds for their schools
as well.
Technology
in the Garden
Catalog Number: SNJL-0108
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 2001
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
In 1876, Thomas Alva
Edison opened his so-called “invention factory” on a hill
in Menlo Park overlooking the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. Between
1876 and 1882 Edison filed more than 300 patents, including the
phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the electric light. There
were, however, social implications for technological development.
When Paterson broad-silk manufacturer Henry Doherty increased the
work assignments from two to four looms, his weavers went on strike
with the support of the radical Industrial Workers of the World.
This program features historians Robert Friedel of the University
of Maryland, Delight Dodyk of Drew University, and Steve Golin of
Bloomfield College.
The
Progressive Banner
Catalog Number: SNJL-0109
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 2002
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
In the gubernatorial election
of 1910 the Democratic Party nominated the president of Princeton
University, Woodrow Wilson. As governor, Wilson proposed reforms,
including direct primary elections, banning of ballot box stuffing,
an authority to regulate public utilities, and a workmen’s
compensation act. Despite his reputation as a reformer, as president
of Princeton Wilson continued policies that denied admission of
African Americans; and as governor of New Jersey Wilson was also
reluctant to support woman’s suffrage. Featured in this program
are historians Thomas Fleming, Delight Dodyk of Drew University,
and Clement Alexander Price of Rutgers University.
The
Suburban State
Catalog Number: SNJL-0110
Subject: New Jersey History
Audience: High School and Adult
Produced: 2003
Running Time: 30 minutes
VHS Price: $19.95
DVDPrice:To Be Announced |
The second half of the
twentieth century witnessed a major shift in political power in
New Jersey. In the early 1900s a coalition of rural Republicans
and urban Democrats controlled state politics. In the second half
the century political power shifted to the suburbs. The new state
constitution of 1947 established a powerful Supreme Court, which
became a flashpoint for controversy in the last half of the twentieth
century. Kenneth Jackson of Columbia University and the New York
Historical Society, Jameson Doig of Princeton University, Lizabeth
Cohen of Harvard University, and Stephen Salmore of Fairleigh Dickinson
University are the featured historians.
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