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David Cohen
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Muckraking in the Garden State: Lincoln Steffens and New Jersey During the Progressive Period
This is the third of three talk I gave between 2004 and 2006 at Kean University as part of the New Jersey History Project. The first was "Alexander Hamilton, Patronage, and the Society for the Establishing of Useful Manufactures," and the second was "Robert F. Stockton and Monopoly Politics."
In 1906 the "muckraker" Lincoln Steffens published an article titled "New Jersey: A Traitor State." He was referring to New Jersey's General Corporation Law that allowed large out-of-state trusts, such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, to incorporate in New Jersey and a General Railroad Act that exempted the Pennsylvania Railroad from land taxes along the Jersey City waterfront. He also criticized the "public service crowd," especially the McCarter family that held political office as well as having conflicting interests the Public Service Corporation and the Prudential Insurance Company, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He followed this article in which profiled the "New Idea" Republican reform mayor of Jersey City, Mark Fagan, who fought against the corrupt alliance of political bosses and the banking and business community. The "New Idea" Republicans held power only briefly, and the City Commission form of government enacted by the Progressives under Democratic governor of New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson failed to stop the rise to power of New Jersey's most power political boss, Frank Hague, the mayor of New Jersey, whose political base was the Irish immigrants who were discriminated against by the Protestant establishment.
In 1906 the "muckraker" Lincoln Steffens published an article titled "New Jersey: A Traitor State." He was referring to New Jersey's General Corporation Law that allowed large out-of-state trusts, such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, to incorporate in New Jersey and a General Railroad Act that exempted the Pennsylvania Railroad from land taxes along the Jersey City waterfront. He also criticized the "public service crowd," especially the McCarter family that held political office as well as having conflicting interests the Public Service Corporation and the Prudential Insurance Company, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He followed this article in which profiled the "New Idea" Republican reform mayor of Jersey City, Mark Fagan, who fought against the corrupt alliance of political bosses and the banking and business community. The "New Idea" Republicans held power only briefly, and the City Commission form of government enacted by the Progressives under Democratic governor of New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson failed to stop the rise to power of New Jersey's most power political boss, Frank Hague, the mayor of New Jersey, whose political base was the Irish immigrants who were discriminated against by the Protestant establishment.
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Robert F. Stockton and Monopoly Politics
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This is the second of three talks I presented between 2004 and 2006 at Kean University as part of the New Jersey History Partnership Project. The first was "Alexander Hamilton, Patronage, and the Society for the Establishing of Useful Manufactures," and the third was "Muckraking in the Garden State: Lincoln Steffens and Progressivism in New Jersey." Robert F. Stockton was the grandson of Richar...
The 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory in North Carolina
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In 2019 The New York Times Magazine published "The 1619 Project" edited by Nicole Hannah-Jones, which was an attempt to retell American history from the perceptive of slavery and the African American experience. It considered 1619, the year that the first slave ship arrived in Virginia, rather than 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence, as the birth date of the nation. The report wa...
Indians Are Not Such Fools: Rutgers, the NJ Historical Commission, and the Lenape
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On January 19, 2022, the New Jersey Historical Commission hosted a webcast title “Property and Sovereignty: Native Americans and the United States,” by Professor Jimmy Sweet, an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.Dr. Sweet is a Lakota/Dakota Indian with a Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota. While he is not an expert on the Lenape, he us...
How the Cult of Assessment Has Relegated the Teaching of History to the Dustbin
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David Cohen uses his experience as a research associate of the New Jersey Historical Commission to explain how he attempted to use public television videos and interactive websites to integrate state history into the teaching of American history in the elementary and high schools in New Jersey. His efforts were stymied by the use of standardized tests that had the effect of making history no lo...
Alexander Hamilton, Patronage, and the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
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This was the first of three lectures I delivered between 2004 and 2006 at Kean University as part of the New Jersey History Partnership Project. The second was "Robert F. Stockton and Monopoly Politics," and the third was "Muckraking in the Garden State: Lincoln Steffens and the Progressive Period in New Jersey." Historian Gordon Wood argues that patronage was one aspect of "monarchical society...
The Significance of Ethnicity in American History
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This is a remake of a talk delivered in 1992 at Bard College marking the 100 anniversary of the opening of Ellis Island. In it David Cohen compared significance of ethnicity in American culture to the essay by Frederick Jackson Turner on the closing of the frontier in 1890. Cohen argues that Jackson's frontier thesis that the frontier was the main factor that shaped American culture might bette...
The Limits of Advocacy: The Case of the Lumbee Indians
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This is a remake of a talk originally delivered in 2021. The Lumbee Indians in North Carolina have no reservation, no treaty with the United States, and no Native-American language, customs, or traditions. According to legend, they are said to be the descendants of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, who intermarried with Croatoan Indians. Throughout their history, they have claimed to be Cherokee, Che...
Who's Afraid of Historical Evidence? Rutgers, the NJ Historical Commission, and the Ramapoughs
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This video discusses unwillingness of the New Jersey Historical Commission and three professors and a graduate student at Rutgers University to acknowledge historical facts concerning the three non-federally recognized the Ramapough Lunaape, the Powhatan-Lenni Renape, and the Nanticoke-Lenni-Lenape as well as the Sand Hill Indians.
Biden's Misguided Middle East Policy; Part II-Terrorism in the Holy Land
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The modern definition of the War on Terrorism was developed by Benjamin Netanyahu in an institute he founded in the 1980s named after his brother Jonathan, who was killed on the Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. Netanyahu's father, Benzion Netanyahu, was a follower of the radical Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky who was the founder of the Revisionist Movement and its armed wing the Irgun, la...
Biden's Misguided Middle-East Foreign Policy
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President Joe Biden’s policy of sending arms to Israel during its War Against Hamas, deploying American war ships to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and embracing Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s so-called Abraham Accords is misguided. The Abraham Accords were negotiated during the Trump administration and were Netanyahu's master plan to take advantage of the Sunni-Shi'i...
New Jersey History Kids Intro
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Introduction to the NJ History Kids interactive web site at www.state.nj.state.us/state/historykids/NJHistoryKids.html. Soon to be obsolete because of the demise of Flash in 2020. For a teachers guide go to: www.state.nj.us/state/historykids/teachersGuide.htm
Around and About New Jersey:The Statehouse Tour
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Standing in front of a voting machine, Midge Guerrera, the series host, explains that there are three levels of government: a national government in Washington, a state government in Trenton, and local governments in our counties and towns. All begin with voting. She says that this program is about a visit to the State House in Trenton, which is the home of state government. In the rotunda of t...
Around and About New Jersey-Jersey Homesteads
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Roosevelt, New Jersey, was named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was President of the United States during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The original name of the town was “Jersey Homesteads.” Its purpose was to provide a place in the country for Jewish, immigrant, garment workers in New York and Philadelphia to live and work far from the city slums. The Jewish scientist Albert Einstei...
Around and About New Jersey:Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory in West Orange was called an invention factory for good reason. Edison assembled a team of workers who helped him produce inventions on a regular schedule and for the purpose of making a profit. Today Edison's West Orange laboratory is a national park. Ranger Ben Bolger takes a class on a tour of the site. He explains the steps in the invention process as the cla...
Around and About New Jersey: Still Family Reunion
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Around and About New Jersey: Howell Living History Farm
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Around and About New Jersey: Paterson's Great Falls Historic Park
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Around and About New Jersey: Revolutionary War
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Around and About New Jersey: The Lenape Indians
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New Jersey Legacy: The Progressive Banner
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New Jersey Legacy: A State of Many Nations
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New Jersey Legacy: Monopolies and Mechanics
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New Jersey Legacy: Royal Rule and Religious Revival
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New Jersey Legacy:The Republican Rebellion
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I really appreciate this video thank you. They are usually Plains Indians ceremonies and trying to say their language is Siouan not understanding it the language of the Sioux. Recently the Congress men they paid off blocked a wounded knee memorial. They also held up food and other resources real tribes badly needed.
thanks for posting this!
Sasquatch hiding behind the mask at 1:48
this is boring as hell
The lies being told to children is sick
Not everyone crossed the bering land bridge. Some came in ships. I am a descendant of the Munsee nation. Wolf clan. They lived in Pennsylvania, NY, NJ, Massachusetts and Connecticut. They were forced out not by choice!
Indigenous people were in the Americas 25,000 years
The people should be called by their Nation and Tribal names OR CLANS,they are not Indians .!!! INDIANS ARE FROM INDIA...
White people greed anialating the people killing a people who lived humbly and used natural resouces...it happend all over from north to south America...Real name Great Turtle Island...I have Mongol ancestry I side with the First people of this continent...whites called them dirty Indians...they are and were cleaner than any white man they bathed everyday not like the white settlers who bathed maybe once a month.
The real name is wiquam not wigwam...thats a white peoples word wigwam
There are still Lenni Lenape people Living in Southern New Jersey..I met some in years past at Pow Wow in Pennsylvania
The Lenape name for NJ was ...Shie ich bie
Thats for articulating my thought and feelings at this time. The Knesset voted to end the possibility of a two state solution. However that opposes the U N recongition of Israel, two states was the deal struck by the west. To bad Americans are fairly clueless about anything that isnt in the TMZ universe as so supports Israel. I demonstrated against Netanyahu this week. It was 1970s anti war all over again. Fun times.
The English do make a mess of things,
DNA is 96% African/European. 4% is Asian, Polynesian mix with unknown NA. Please I really wish they play the DNA card! Please!
CARL SHUT UP QUIT TALKING SHIT
Any tribe accusing the Cherokee as bad guys are suspicious. 1) Lumbee are stealing culture from other real tribes. Hint: medicine wheel does not belong on the lumbee banner, it's a northern plain tribe sacred tradition. 2) lumbee DNA is 96% African/European. 4% is Asian, Polynesian mix with unknown NA. Please I really wish they play the DNA card! Please! 3) Cherokee had been calling to out fake tribe before casino were giving to tribe. 4) lumbee changed their stories & name so many times at one point being called the Cherokee of Roberson County. 5) Biggest tribe east of the Mississippi? How they were NOT involved in the Indian Removal Act? Because they were *NEVER* even Native Americans to begin with! Come on, the east is highly populated & the frontier of Europeans settler w/ Africans salves. Even the Cherokee were the U.S. most allied tribe compare to other tribe & they were sent off to Oklahoma for prosecution. 6) 141 tribes also petition against the Lumbee as fakes. Not just the Cherokee. 7) Not one treat w/ the U.S. gov. When tribes had over thousands broken treaties. -The freedom of speech from real tribe is being taking away. This comment here will be removed while the lies of the lumbee prospers. This is discrimination, as the Cherokee are protecting the last of the indigenous people.
Highest property tax in the country
I can't imagine how it could be any more boring or visually unappealing.
it's a shame what the english did in north america, unlike spanish people.. We built churches which stand nowadays, we built universities and preserved the native tribes who today they are in their governments. we killed many yes, like any other conquering nation in the past (or in the present) but you can feel the native culture anywhere in Peru, Mexico, and so on...in USA you con only see fat white people thinking they are the belly of the world not even speaking a word of spanish which was the first european language spoken when we arrived 500 years ago
Jersey is alright I guess.
Interesting and not surprising...Realignment, 194 years late, it was owed to them... ❤💛🖤🤍
Wow no comments Mic drop
Im just trying to understand… so when these europeans came here and “spread their germs and they managed to kill many of them in a short time” That is interesting terminology. Did the europeans “manage to kill”? That seems to imply intent. Wouldn’t it be more realistic and less politically motivated propaganda that the Lenape died from the diseases. i don’t think europeans liked having small pox and were not immune and had suffered many deaths from disease before and after migrating to north America. I would imagine many european’s died from new diseases that were not experienced in europe as well. It is fairly apparent that european settlers suffered from very high death rates from disease. Its sad how these topics get boiled down to good vs evil and one innocent group was intentionally killed by disease by another malicious group that conveniently doesn’t mention that the diseases killed europeans and removes basic logical context and then presents it to impressionable children
This is such a a beautiful and informative video.
To this very day there are two New Jerseys.... the Dirty North and the beautiful green , lush South. the line is around Trenton. We speak differently, we behave differently, but we are both Jersey Proud.
Clearly you know nothing about north jersey. Odd that someone from jersey doesnt recognize that there is a north, central and south jersey. Sounds like a transplant to me
@@ericwieboldt7042 Born and raised in Burlington. I know that North Jersey is dirty. Central Jersey divides to the North or South. Cranberry is beautiful. So is Spring Lake and Ocean Grove. Oh and so is Hackettstown... very pretty town.
@@wanagi006 again you know absolutely nothing about north jersey. You think hackettstown is pretty bit the rest of north jersey is a dump, when hackettstown is a dump compared to the rest of north jersey😂. You cant even admit that you have no clue what you're talking about. That's called ignorance.
@@ericwieboldt7042 I can only speak about what I know. When I was in Hackettstown to drop a friend off at her auntie's back in '99...it was very quaint looking. It was also like midnight. But hey, I know that we are not rude like you people up north.
@@ericwieboldt7042 I know that you people up north are rude...and don't know how to make a decent pizza....or a hoagie.
Great show i grew up watching njn
wtf with that intro?
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thanks for publishing this talk!
Shucks, that's some heavy stuff. Thanks for keeping track of all this. My guess is this is far more deliberate than it may seem. A perfect slave class; Stupid, controlled, uncouth- No past to worry about. Condemned, Doomed... *_Damned to repeat._* This isn't by accident either, it's by design. The course we're on was set deliberately by the evil- & the complacent shipped us here. But I'm no fortune teller- Maybe this dangerous trajectory ricochets & shakes us out of this death spiral. Pfffft... (ノʘヮ၀)ノ ︵⌨
Nah, we're fucked. Simple as.
@@poopmachine71Indeed mr poop- agreed. i was the 1st comment so i didn't wanna be the only one to comment my doomerisms on this guys video. What a sad state of affairs. I 'll feign my near nonexistent forever broken glass is half empty optimistic sunny outlook and say: *We'll never get outta this mess... Well, **_not with that attitude we wont.._*
Thank you for your work Mr Cohen!
Good News from A-Z facts about the war!
Jack Cresson?
this is boooorrrriiiinnnngggg
It would be interesting to know who the Quakers were that sold out to the Anglicans in West Jersey, thereby undermining their values and practices. The impression is greed was involved.
I am a descendant of this tribe. Currently a turtle clan tribal member
They ain’t give a damn about Indians 1920 Jackson made that letter and sent them packing . Now they curious after the fact
Marvelous information
Why did they steal the Native Americans homeland 😢😢😢😢😢
Colonizers.... I'm indigenous and a South Jersey Born and bred native...The Swiss, and English were colonizers and the coast was ...well.. the coast ,easy to access, and lush with vegetation. The Lenape were kind and welcoming to their peril. Any reasonable thinking person can understand why the colonized NJ.....oh I'm a Lakota, we didn't feel the European sting for another 150 yrs. But when they did, they destroyed the tribe's existence.
and do you think the native american tribes didnt take the land in the same way?
Why does anyone steal anything? What kind of question is that? Have you watched any nature films or actually gone out and watched animals feeding??? Stealing is survival!
The medowlands in Hackensack NJ was a million dollar trapping musk rats all NJ was rich with furs
I automatically don’t watch any videos where they called natives Indians. It’s the fucking future get it together.
Growing up, my mom & grandma & aunts would say things about our female Native grandmother that went back several generations. We had those thick old cardboard pictures from the 1800s of some of the family members who had native features, but the name of the tribe had been lost in time. For quite a few generations, my ancestors and myself grew up not knowing which tribe our native ancestor had come from. She was always a mystery to us. We didnt even know her name, or time era or anything else about her other then "....she had a story". Well when I was age 50 I was working on my family tree like I had been doing for many years. I had bought a temporary subscription to an online genealogy site to have access to the old records. It was then that I found the old documents that gave the history of the people of her section of Pennsylvania. It said she was mixed with Lenape & Pekowi-Shawnee. Once I found out that information I said outloud: "I found you. I finally found you. You are no longer lost to us." I found out about her 2 weeks before my Mom died. She was happy to finally find out that information. I imagine that when she got to Heaven 2 weeks later she got to meet our Lenape/Shawnee ancestor and told her that finally her living descendants know about her. It is nice to watch educational videos about the Lenape. 💜 Thank you for posting this 🙂
12:33 I live in Macungie, located in PA, which means "Bear Swamp" in Lenape. Thank you for this video. I admire how Native Americans were in tune with nature. Sad that the culture was wiped out.
I would like to have a conversation with you one day.. Im a descendant of the natives and the first English
Did they really move out???? Tell the true story!
The blacks and jews cry and whine about victimhood.but nobody got screwed over as bad as the native inhabitants of north america.people like church Washington,jefferson,william henry harrison,john sullivan,etc commited crimes against the indians that make hitler,stalin and mao look like the welcome wagon.
Think named after him no relation though. Was a great preacher in Methodist church.
Notes for myself: 13:10
1000s of villages, all wiped out, then a recreated village was made to show how they lived? That’s sad and embarrassing to the world.. respectfully. 🙏🏽
Straight out of the late 80's early 90's lol
I don't think they where here for more than 1000 years.If so they didn't develope much.We had trains,planes,boats,and automobiles in 200 years??
😢 Maybe the Indegenous Natives way of life disturbed Nature way less than the "advanced" European cultures and that is why it was in pristine conditions.
It is still two New Jerseys, but now it is South Jersey & North Jersey.
they just added central jersey, officially. weird times
@@tuoy1 What they, there is two Jerseys, anything else is BS. North Jersey may as well be a huge suburb of NYC. South Jersey has about a dozen fewer cities and lots of wooded areas. Central Jersey is that nebulous area on RT. 70 where you go from one Jersey to the other.
@toddparke8535 I didn't make the law. I don't agree with it either, as we have always been two entities. having a third in our small state is nonsensical. I blame new York, somehow.
@@toddparke8535the words of someone born and raised in the shadow of Philadelphia😂 You can keep south jersey and your bastardized philly accent✌
@@toddparke8535clueless