• NJMML – Carriers of Light and Labor: Painting Together Community Memories

    Paterson City Hall 155 Market Street, Paterson, United States

    Join Join Monument Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz and the NJMML team for a textile-painting workshop, where participants will have the chance to design and create their own fabric segments, to be added to NJMML's "Carriers of Light and Labor" installation.

  • “This Sacred Soil” with Nancy B. Kennedy

    Mahwah Museum 201 Franklin Tpk, Mahwah, NJ

    Past NJCH Grantee the Mahwah Museum will celebrate the Nation’s 250th anniversary year with Nancy B. Kennedy, whose illustrated talk, “This Sacred Soil,” tells the often overlooked story of women in Revolutionary times.

  • Clinton Hill Community Action Book Talk with Rutgers Law Professor David D. Troutt

    Gilbert-Gant Arts Collective 505 Clinton Ave, Newark, NJ, United States

    Join Clinton Hill Community Action, a past NJCH Community History program participant and grantee, for a community conversation on Housing Affordability and Displacement in Newark with Professor David Dante Troutt, Distinguished Professor of Law and Derrick Bell Scholar at Rutgers Law School and Director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME).

  • Oral History Community of Practice: Ethical and Legal Issues in Oral History

    Virtual Event

    NJCH's Community of Practice for Oral History and Storytelling will meet virtually on November 2, 2026, from 12:30-1:45 p.m. For this meeting, we are thrilled to welcome Jeongeun Park and Shaun Illingworth of the Rutgers Oral History Archives for a discussion about ethical and legal issues in oral history.

  • Newark Public Library Philip Roth Lecture: Author George Packer

    Newark Public Library - Main Library 5 Washington St, Newark, NJ, United States

    George Packer, award‑winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Newark Public Library’s Philip Roth Lecture for an evening exploring the intersections of literature, politics, and free expression.