NJCH is proud to sponsor "Places, Please, Act One" at Ocean County Library. Actress Michèle LaRue will perform selections from four volumes by Warren Kliewer, including his "Poems around and about theatres."
NJCH is proud to sponsor County College of Morris's CommUNITY Festival on April 15 to promote campus unity and culture.
NJCH is proud to sponsor a presentation of music of early America at the intersection of Africa and Europe to be held at the the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage on April 27.
NJCH is proud to sponsor the Annual Tour de Elizabeth, a 15-mile bicycle tour that explores the diverse cultural communities of New Jersey's 4th-largest city, featuring a variety of contemporary and historical landmarks that showcase Elizabeth’s rich history, art, and culture.
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday in 2026, NJCH is proud to sponsor a free event featuring 11 of the best New Jersey historians and educators as they present new research into how to teach our state’s role in the Revolutionary Era.
As part of the Montclair Public Library’s Community History Project, this workshop invites participants to tell their own families’ stories, focusing on the emotional and practical realities of settling in Montclair over the last several decades.
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities is proud to support the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage's presentation of "Emily Roebling 'Bridge Builder in Petticoats' for Children & Families" on June 17, 2025. Event Description Emily Roebling of New Jersey, who led the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, was an early preservationist of the […]
NJCH is proud to sponsor this panel discussion hosted by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, a Proud Partner of Revolution NJ, which will introduce the New Jersey lives of Civil War nurses Clara Barton, Cornelia Hancock and Somerville’s Arabella Barlow.
NJCH is proud to sponsor this living history event portraying the remarkable James Forten, presented by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ, and the Heritage Trail Association.
Join storyteller David MacCaffrey, the "Shannachie of Glenndunbun Ballybegg," as he tells traditional and modern Celtic tales of terror.
The Practitioners of Musick ‘resolve’ the musical ‘bands which have connected’ Scotland, Philadelphia and New Jersey, following John Wallace from Scottish Lowlands to Somerset County through "A Scots Musical Celebration of the Wallace House's 250th Birthday".
Celebrate the “Christmas Day Crossing Reenactment,” arranged by the Washington Crossing Historic Park of PA, as we commemorate the 249th anniversary of General George Washington’s famous Christmas night crossing of the Delaware.
