There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos

Suggestions for Further Reading

197 suggestions for further reading This section is for readers who want to find more information about the subjects covered in this book. I have included books, articles, and Web sites that are readily available, as well as hard-to-find sources, such as out-of-print books and old newspapers. For those obscure sources, readers are advised to visit archival collections such as the Special Collections division of Rutgers University Libraries, the New Jersey State Archives, and the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library. Readers with questions or comments are also welcome to contact me at my e-mail address, mmappen @gmail.com. And readers who wish to delve deeper into the history of the great state of New Jersey or who have questions are cordially invited to join HNew -Jersey, a computer discussion network that can be found at h-net.org. introduction Many of the jokes can be found in the entry on “Jersey Jokes” written by Peter Genovese and Marc Mappen and the entry on “Image” written by Michael Rockland in the Encyclopedia of New Jersey (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004). 1. how we got to where we are Michael Rockland’s essays about New Jersey, including his fine entry on “Image” in the Encyclopedia of New Jersey, have informed this chapter. The following two books also delve into enduring characteristics of our state: Alan Karcher, New Jersey ’s Multiple Municipal Madness (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998) and Angus Gillespie and Michael Rockland, Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989). 2. when prehistoric elephants roamed new jersey Two publications discuss mammoths and mastodons in the Garden State: A New Jersey Mastodon, Bulletin 6 (Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1964) and William Gallagher et al., “Quaternary Mammals from the Continental Shelf off New Jersey,” The Mosasaur: The Journal of the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society 14 (October 1989): 101–110. The definitive book on New Jersey’s Native Americans, which also has information on prehistoric animals and on the Lenape stone and the Holly Oak pendant hoaxes, is Herbert Kraft, The Lenape: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1986). 198 Suggestions for Further Reading 3. new jersey was paradise A fine compendium of early travelers’ accounts is Miriam V. Studley, Historic New Jersey Through Visitors’ Eyes (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1964). Accounts by the first Dutch settlers can be found in John Franklin Jameson, ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609–1664 (1909; reprint, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967). 4. move over, betsy ross A discussion of Hopkinson’s role is in Earl P. Williams, “The ‘Fancy Work’ of Francis Hopkinson: Did He Design the Stars and Stripes?” Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives 20 (Spring 1988): 42–52. An informative book that covers the flag’s origins is William Rea Furlong and Byron McCandless, So Proudly We Hail: The History of the United States Flag (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981). For Betsy Ross’s place in history, see Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “How Betsy Ross Became Famous: Oral Tradition, Nationalism, and the Invention of History,” Common-Place 8, no. 1 (October 2007) at www.common-place.org. 5. good golly, miss molly The hands-down best book on this subject is David G. Martin, A Molly Pitcher Sourcebook (Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 2003). 6. the caldwell murder case The pamphlet written by the Reverend Caldwell about the death of his wife is James Caldwell, Certain Facts Relating to the Tragic Death of Hannah Caldwell, Wife of Rev. James Caldwell (Elizabeth, NJ: reprinted in 1934). Captain DeHart’s critique has been collected in a pamphlet: The Caldwell Controversy (Elizabethtown, NJ: Essex Standard , 1846). A biography that brings together information from many sources is Norman F. Brydon, Reverend James Caldwell, Patriot, 1734–1781 (Caldwell, NJ: Caldwell Centennial Committee, 1976). Thomas Fleming, The Forgotten Victory: The Battle for New Jersey—1780 (New York: Readers Digest Press, 1973) is a rousing account of the military struggle that drew in James and Hannah Caldwell. 7. “the cow chace” A well-written book about Major André is James Flexner, The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John André (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953). Another is John Evangelist Walsh, The Execution of Major André (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001). A book about the Jersey battle that inspired André’s poem is Charles H. Winfield, The Block House at Bull’s Ferry...