Hidden History of New Jersey at War is published!

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The First Shot

2. Kieft’s War

3. Monmouth Court House

4. Paulus Hook and Camp Jersey City: New Jersey’s War of 1812 Command Center

5. The Jersey Boys Take California

6. A “Peculiar” History: The Tenth New Jersey Infantry in the Civil War

7. Jersey Boys to the Rescue

8. The New Jersey National Guard Grows Up: 1895–1921

9. Black Tom and Kingsland: The Jersey Mosquitoes Were Not to Blame

10. “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken”

11. On the Road to War Once More

12. “The Finest Thing I Have Seen”: The Immortal Chaplain from Newark

13. The Greatest New Jersey War Myth

14. A Jersey Girl Goes to War

15. The War at Home

16. Senator McCarthy Pays a Visit to New Jersey

17. New Jersey’s Nikes

Appendix. New Jersey Historic Military Sites and Museums Worth Visiting

Bibliography