Hidden History of Newark, New Jersey

Hidden History of Newark, New Jersey

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Publication Date: 19th February 2024

Brick City Past Revealed

Newark's history is as diverse and powerful as the community that continues to call New Jersey's largest city home. The colonial settlement at Four Corners--the Broad and Market intersection--grew into one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the nation. In the nineteenth century, innovations such as the public use of the electric light bulb in Military Park and the discovery of how to make patent leather established Newark as a flourishing industrial hub. Dramatic events including the battle between Nazi sympathizers and city reside... Read More

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Brick City Past Revealed

Newark's history is as diverse and powerful as the community that continues to call New Jersey's largest city home. The colonial settlement at Four Corners--the Broad and Market intersection--grew into one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the nation. In the nineteenth century, innovations such as the public use of the electric light bulb in Military Park and the discovery of how to make patent leather established Newark as a flourishing industrial hub. Dramatic events including the battle between Nazi sympathizers and city reside... Read More

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Brick City Past Revealed

Newark's history is as diverse and powerful as the community that continues to call New Jersey's largest city home. The colonial settlement at Four Corners--the Broad and Market intersection--grew into one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the nation. In the nineteenth century, innovations such as the public use of the electric light bulb in Military Park and the discovery of how to make patent leather established Newark as a flourishing industrial hub. Dramatic events including the battle between Nazi sympathizers and city residents in the 1930s, hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and the event that triggered the infamous 1967 riots, defined a raucous twentieth century in Newark. Today, urban farming can be found in the Ironbound, NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has helped fund the city's first high-rise tower in fifty years and revitalization efforts continue. Author Helen Lippman presents hidden history of Newark, New Jersey.

Details
  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Hidden History
  • Publication Date: 19th February 2024
  • State: New Jersey
  • ISBN: 9781467152617
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / Essays
    HISTORY / Jewish
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Author Bio

Born and raised in Newark, Helen Lippman earned a BA in English from Rutgers University-Newark and an MA in journalism from New York University. After covering health care and medicine for years, she began writing about her hometown. As interest in the city's revitalization grew, Lippman started giving talks and tours as well.

Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including em>GoNomad/em>, em>Hadassah Magazine/em>, em>The New York Times/em>, and em>Wanderlust Journal/em>. She is currently working on a book about Newark's little-known history for The History Press.

Lippman lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with a cat named Barry.

Brick City Past Revealed

Newark's history is as diverse and powerful as the community that continues to call New Jersey's largest city home. The colonial settlement at Four Corners--the Broad and Market intersection--grew into one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the nation. In the nineteenth century, innovations such as the public use of the electric light bulb in Military Park and the discovery of how to make patent leather established Newark as a flourishing industrial hub. Dramatic events including the battle between Nazi sympathizers and city residents in the 1930s, hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and the event that triggered the infamous 1967 riots, defined a raucous twentieth century in Newark. Today, urban farming can be found in the Ironbound, NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has helped fund the city's first high-rise tower in fifty years and revitalization efforts continue. Author Helen Lippman presents hidden history of Newark, New Jersey.

  • Pages: 144
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Hidden History
  • Publication Date: 19th February 2024
  • State: New Jersey
  • ISBN: 9781467152617
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / Essays
    HISTORY / Jewish
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Born and raised in Newark, Helen Lippman earned a BA in English from Rutgers University-Newark and an MA in journalism from New York University. After covering health care and medicine for years, she began writing about her hometown. As interest in the city's revitalization grew, Lippman started giving talks and tours as well.

Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including em>GoNomad/em>, em>Hadassah Magazine/em>, em>The New York Times/em>, and em>Wanderlust Journal/em>. She is currently working on a book about Newark's little-known history for The History Press.

Lippman lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with a cat named Barry.