This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more. The contributors are Michal R. Belknap, Lynn W. Dorsett, Gregory Evans Dowd, Charles E. Funnell, Steve Golin, Maxine N. Lurie, Richard P. McCormick, Gary Mitchell, Simeon F. Moss, Marie Marmo Mullaney, Mary R. Murrin, Gerald M. Pomper, Clement A. Price, Thomas L. Purvis, Daniel Schaffer, Warren E. Stickle III, Maurice Tandler.

Contributions by: Michal Belknap, Patricia Bonomi, Lyle Dorsett, John P. Dwyer, Steve Golin, Bradley M. Gottfried, Jim Fisher, Charles Funnell, Paul Johnson, David L. Kirp, Mark Edward Lender, Richard P. McCormick, Mary Murrin, Larry A. Rosenthal, Amy Shapiro, Warren Stickle, Lorraine Williams, Giles Wright