With May 29th marking Memorial Day this year, it only made sense to take a look at the history of the celebration through New Jersey’s newspapers. The holiday, often known as Decoration Day prior to the First World War, emerged…
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The Trial of the Century: The Sentencing of Leopold and Loeb
99 years ago, on May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb committed what they believed would be the “perfect crime.” The two teenagers, in a desire to commit a high-profile, unsolvable crime and inspired by Nietzsche’s concept of the…
Absolutely Electrifying: Bringing Electricity to New Jersey’s Homes and Businesses
Most of us don’t give a second thought to the role electricity plays in our lives, but as shocking as it is to remember, we only have to go back 100 years to find a time when electricity was not…