Join NJCH’s Director of Programs and past participants on September 22 to learn about our upcoming host site availability for Prime Time Family Reading, a national program serving kids and their families.
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.
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.
NJCH's Community of Practice for Community College Humanities Professionals will meet virtually on October 1, 2026, from 4:00-5:15 p.m.
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).
NJCH's Community of Practice for Books & Reading will meet virtually on October 5, 2026, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. For this gathering, we will we will examine the question: "Can We Separate the Story from the Storyteller?"
New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor will bring its Flagship mobile monument to the Bayshore Center at Bivalve's Second Friday Celebration October 9-10.
Join us for a virtual information session about our Community History Program, in which participants receive instruction on public history practices and community-engagement methods and develop projects in close collaboration with their community members.
New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor will host a fall capstone conference October 15-17.
The application deadline is October 29, 2026 for libraries and youth-serving organizations interested in becoming host sites for Prime Time Family Reading in Spring 2027. Find the application link along with full program information, guidelines, and a recording of the September 22 information session at https://njhumanities.org/programs/prime-time-reading/.
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.
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.
