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Welcome to The New Jersey History Podcast. Please join me on a voyage through the rich history of the Garden State, the most densely populated and misunderstood state in the Union. Accompany me as I discuss the rich history of the Garden State.
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What Is a Ghost in New Jersey? (opens the original)
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What makes a place haunted? Inspired by a passage from Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , this episode explores the connection between ghost stories and continuity: the people who remember a place and pass its stories on. We travel through New Jersey’s colonial settlements, Revolutionary battlefields, Cape May and Asbury Park, the Morro Castle and other shipwrecks, and the story of Tillie Smith in Hackettstown. We also consider why Lenape spiritual traditions cannot simply be fold
New Jersey Witches: The Devil, the Law, and the Legends (opens the original)
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Forget Salem. New Jersey had its own witchcraft law, accusations, legends—and even a supposed witch trial reported in Benjamin Franklin’s newspaper. In this episode of The New Jersey History Podcast, we enter the unseen world of colonial New Jersey, where an iron horseshoe guarded a barn against witches, demons and the Devil—and a dry udder could be interpreted as evidence of a curse. We examine the biblical and European beliefs behind New Jersey’s 1668 witchcraft law; the story of Abigail Sharp
Medieval New Jersey Part One: The Unseen Kingdom (opens the original)
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Knights, horses, jousting, falconry, and royal feasts are usually associated with medieval Europe. But this is a New Jersey story. Step beyond the castle walls and discover the history, animals, training, and unseen work that keep a medieval world alive in the Garden State. Be on the lookout for the follow-up episode on New Jersey around 1100-1400. I'm actively seeking podcast guests, so if you think you're interesting, email me- njhistorypodcast@gmail.com Episode thumbnail generated using ChatG
Bicentennial Summer Season Finale: 1776, 1976, 2026 (opens the original)
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Two summers, two hundred years apart, finally come together. In 1776, a Loyalist merchant’s son and a Lenape boy cross the Delaware into revolutionary Philadelphia, where the words of Thomas Paine and the promise—and contradictions—of American liberty change them both. In 1976, two friends planning to sneak off to Asbury Park in search of Bruce Springsteen discover something even more compelling inside Indian Joe’s bay-front home. Featuring the Lenape, Common Sense , colonial New Jersey, the Bat
Bicentennial Summer, Episode 3, Part 1: Engelbert vs. Bruce (opens the original)
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The summer of 1976 settles into its rhythm at the Jersey Shore. A morning walk, an old family pizzeria, a grandfather's house frozen in another era, and a conversation between two new friends begin revealing histories neither boy fully understands. As the Kid learns that his friend's family can trace its New Jersey roots through slavery in Newark, he shares the story of his own Campobasso immigrant family, whose story in Newark began in the 1880s before they built a life from the stone of the Pa
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