Events

Tuesday Talks
A monthly speaker series of fascinating people in our neighborhoods.

Patricia Roos
Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
Author of “Surviving Alex: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction”

Tuesday, January 21 (2025) at 7:00 PM

Book signing at 6:30 pm

In person at the Cleveland Park Library
3400 11th St. NW Suite 200 Washington, DC. 20010

Register for free at:

www.tuesdaytalksdc.com
https://districtbridges.org/tuesdaytalks/

Talk followed by a presentation by DC’s Dept. of Behavioral Heath on harm reduction.
Free Naloxone available.

LOCATION CHANGE: Event has moved to Labyrinth Books. 

Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state’s rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all contributed to attracting, retaining, and setting the stage for Latin American and Caribbean immigrants and secondary-step migrants from New York City. Since the 1980s, however, Latinos have developed a more complex presence in the state’s political landscape and institutions. The emergence of Latino-majority towns and cities and coalition politics facilitated the election of Latino mayors, council persons, and many social and community leaders, as well as the election of statewide officers. This collection brings together innovative and empirically grounded scholarship from different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields of study and addresses topics including the demographic history of Latinos in the state, Latino migration from gateway cities to suburban towns, Latino urban enclaves, Latino economic and social mobility, Latino students and education, the New Jersey Dream Act and in-state tuition act organizing, Latinos and criminal justice reform, Latino electoral politics and leadership, and undocumented communities. 

Join authors Ulla Berg and Aldo Lauria Santiago as they discuss their recent publication Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, and Cultures.

For more information: https://spia.princeton.edu/events/latinasos-new-jersey-histories-communities-and-cultures

Join us to welcome author Maxine N. Lurie as she discussed her book, “Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey.”

2 PM on Sunday, January 26, 2025

Corson Poley Center
Burlington County Historical Society
454 Lawrence Street
Burligton, NJ 08016

Tickets: $10 per person

Light refreshments and Q&A to follow.

More information and to RSVP:
burlcohistsoc@verizon.met
609-386-4773

The American Revolution in New Jersey lasted eight long years, during which many were caught in the middle of a vicious civil war. "Taking Sides" uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution’s complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all.