STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY

We’re getting off New Jersey’s iconic highway and onto lesser-known byways to explore the Garden State’s rich cultural traditions. From sporting events in Jersey City to agricultural history in the Pinelands, from our very own “Music City” in Orange to the maritime folkways of Tuckerton, join partners across the state for a series of exhibitions, interviews, and performances as vibrant and diverse as New Jersey itself.

Prime Time Family Reading is a national program serving 6- to 10-year-old kids and their families. Participating families build early literacy skills, engage in critical thinking, and connect with each other through literature and discussion.

NJCH and Journalism + Design at the New School are partnering with a set of community colleges around the state in 2023-24 to create and deliver free noncredit community journalism certificate offerings, to equip people with tools to better understand and articulate what's happening in their communities.

Funding, creating, and amplifying humanities-grounded programming that raises media literacy and expands support for local journalism—particularly in communities and places that are seldom covered by traditional media outlets.

Via both an online form and "ballot boxes" located at partner sites throughout the state, NJCH collected hundreds of responses from New Jerseyans in response to pressing questions about our democracy. Responses and creative works based on them can be explored here.

In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program, NJCH brought the exhibit "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America" to six community colleges around New Jersey and supported a host of democracy-related public humanities programs at nonprofit organizations.