The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance is presenting a special talk on Saturday, June 18 at 2:00 p.m. at the Trenton Free Public Library. Robert McGreevey, PhD, Associate Professor of History at The College of New Jersey, will discuss his current research on Trenton’s early civil rights movement in the 1940s.
Dr. McGreevey was the 2011 recipient of NJSAA’s Teaching Award for his work presenting an undergraduate research seminar on the History of Trenton, in which he taught historical research methods by encouraging his students to become deeply engaged in primary source materials at the New Jersey State Archives and the Trenton Free Public Library. This award honored his commitment to local history learned in the context of state and national history. Several of his students have also been winners of NJSAA’s undergraduate paper awards.
A specialist in the political, social, and cultural history of the United States from 1877-1945, he teaches courses on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, America in the Twentieth Century and the history of the United States in the World. His research focuses on the intersection of foreign policy and migration in the twentieth century and has been supported by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and the Organization of American Historians. He is currently completing a book entitled Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Law and Migration, 1898-1948. He is also co-authoring a textbook entitled Global America, which explores the twentieth-century history of the United States in the global arena.
This is a special presentation of NJSAA and will not be preceded by a business meeting. It is free and open to the public. The Trenton Free Public Library is located at 120 Academy Street, and has a small parking lot at the side of the building, as well as metered street parking. For more information, go to www.njsaa.org or www.trentonlib.org.
From: H-New Jersey