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References: References

This guide contains a list of many bibliographic references about the history of Jersey City and Hudson County, NJ.

References

Jersey City Past and Present Bibliography and References

The following references were used in the composition of entries on Jersey
City. References specific to single entries and to quotations are listed with the individual entries.

Bailey, Rosalie Fellows. Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Homes and Their Families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York. New York: Dover Publications, 1908.

Barr, Stephen. New Jersey: Setting the Pace for the Twenty-First Century. Encino, CA: Cherbo Publishing Group, 1998.

Bishop, Gordon. Gems of New Jersey. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1985.

Caldes, Charles P. Jersey City's Journal Square with McGinley and Bergen Squares. Ridgefield, NJ: Journal Square Publishing, 2007.

Connors, Richard. A Cycle of Power: The Career of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1971.

Cunningham, John T. New Jersey: America's Main Road. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.

Cunningham, John T. This Is New Jersey. Fourth Edition. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Dowd, Gregory Evans. The Indians of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.

Eaton, Harriet Phillips. Jersey City and Its Historic Sites. Jersey City, NJ: Women's Club of Jersey City of Jersey City, 1899.

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. New Jersey: A Guide to Its Present and Past. New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

Fiske, John. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America. Vol. I. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903.

Fleming, Thomas. New Jersey: A History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984.

Fleming, Thomas. Mysteries of My Father. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005.

French, Kenneth. Jersey City, 1940-1960: The Dan McNulty Collection. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.

French, Kenneth. Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2002.

Genevose, Peter. New Jersey Curiosities. Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003.

Gabrielan, Randall. Jersey City in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.

Gabrielan, Randall. Jersey City: A Monumental History. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2007.

Gowaskie, Joseph. Workers in New Jersey History. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1996.

Graham, Florence Pond. Jersey City: As I Remember It. Jersey City, NJ: Owl Printing Co.,Inc., 1964.

Grundy, J. Owen. The History of Jersey City, 1609-1976. Jersey City, NJ: Progress Printing Co., Inc. 1976.

Hand, Susanne C. New Jersey Architecture. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1995.

Harvey, Cornelius B., ed. Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey. New York: The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Co., 1900.

Johnson, James P. New Jersey: History of Ingenuity and Industry. Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1987.

Leach, Robert, ed. Jersey City Landmarks Brochure. Jersey City, NJ: Jersey City Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs, 2000.

Lovero, Joan Doherty. Hudson County: The Left Bank. Sun Valley, CA: American Historical Press, 1999.

Lurie, Maxine N. and Marc Mappen, eds. Encyclopedia of New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ, 2004.

Mappen, Marc. Jerseyana: The Underside of New Jersey History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

McLean, Alexander. The History of Jersey City, N.J. Jersey City, NJ: F.T. Smiley and Co., 1895.

McCormick, Richard P. New Jersey: From Colony to State, 1609-1789. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1981.

Menendez, Albert and Shirley Menendez. New Jersey Trivia. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1993.

Pepper, Adeline. The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

Resnick, Abraham. A Panorama of New Jersey. Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1991.

Robinson, Walter F. Old Bergen Township (Now Hudson County) in the American Revolution. Bayonne, N.J.: Keystone Printing Company, 1978.

Robinson, Walter F. Bayonne Centennial Historical Revue, 1861-1961. Bayonne, N.J.: Progress Printing Co., 1961.

Salmore, Barbara G. and Stephen A. Salmore. New Jersey Politics and Government: Suburban Politics Comes of Age. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Savelle, Max and Darold D. Wax, A History of Colonial America. Hinsdale, Illinois: Dryden Press, 1973.

Schnitzer, Henry R. As They Were: Bayonne and Jersey City. New York: Vantage Press, 1973.

Schwartz, Joel and Daniel Prosner. Cities of the Garden State: Essays in the Urban and Suburban History of New Jersey. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1977.

Shalhoub, Patrick B. Images of America: Jersey City. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1995.

Shaw, Douglas V. Immigration and Ethnicity in New Jersey History. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1994.

Shaw, William H. History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey. 2 Vols. Philadelphia, PA: Everts and Peck, 1884.

Smith, Thomas F.X. The Powerticians. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1982.

Stapinski, Helene. Five Finger Discount. New York: Random House, 2001.

Tobin, Eugene M. George L. Record and the Progressive Spirit. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1979.

Van Winkle, Daniel. History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, New Jersey: 1630-1923. 3 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publication Co., 1924.

Vernon, Leonard F. Jersey City Medical Center. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2004.

White, Margaret E. The Decorative Arts of Early New Jersey. Van Nostrand, 1964.

Winfield, Charles H. History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey. New York: Kennard
& Hay Printing Company, 1874.

Winfield, Charles H. History of the Land Titles in Hudson County, New Jersey, 1609-1871. New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, Printers, 1872.

Wright, Giles R. Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History. Trenton: NJ: Historical Commission, 1968.

Year Book of the Holland Society of New York: 1914 Bergen Book. Vol. II. New York: Executive Office, 1915.

Newspapers:

Evening Journal
Hudson Dispatch
Jersey Journal
New York Times