The New Jersey History Day program is an affiliate of National History Day (NHD), started in 1974 to promote the teaching and learning of history. Volunteer judges are needed for this program!
NJCH is a proud sponsor of Seton Hall University's upcoming Ella Triunfa event featuring guest speaker Lt. Col. Marisol Chalas, the first Latina National Guard Black Hawk pilot.
At this first meeting of the community of practice in 2025, we will be joined by Professors Stephanie Gomes (Rowan College of South Jersey) and Daniel Sheehan (Bergen Community College), who will offer short presentations about their experiences as participants in Princeton’s Community College Faculty Program.
The Mahwah Museum, an NJCH grantee, presents “A Cradle of the National Pastime: New Jersey Baseball 1855-1880” a lecture led by independent historian John Zinn. The program will discuss how organized baseball got started and the important role that New Jersey played in the game’s early days.
At this first-ever meeting of the community of practice, new members are invited to gather virtually to get to know one another, share challenges and successes from their respective organizations, and to establish common ground for future discussions and group meetings.
Join us on Wednesday, March 26th at 2PM to learn more about best practices for applying for a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities!
Check out the SOMOS NJ Poetry & Culture Festival for a celebration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latinx poetry and culture!
Join us on Thursday, March 27th at 12:30PM to learn more about best practices for applying to the Prime Time Family Reading program! NJCH is proud to join the national network of Prime Time affiliates in 2025, and we are looking for two public libraries in different parts of the state to serve as host sites as we pilot this program in the coming year.
NJCH is proud to sponsor a performance by Las Guaracheras, a powerful Latin Music sextet from Cali, Colombia that performs Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as salsa, as well as music from the Pacific region of Colombia, at the Grunin Center for the Arts.
NJCH is a proud sponsor of the 2nd New Jersey USA CID World Dance Festival, featuring dance, vendors, arts and crafts, food and cultural celebrations.
NJCH grantee Vietnamese Boat People will host a screening and Q&A of an award-winning documentary that captures the reinvention and resilience of the Vietnamese diaspora.
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."
