{"title":"Benevolent Patriot: The Life and Times of Henry Rutgers—Introduction","authors":"David J. Fowler","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V68I1.1954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V68I1.1954","url":null,"abstract":"The life of Henry Rutgers has been the subject of a few brief biographical treatments. This essay introduces the articles narrating the story of Henry Rutgers in this issue and in the next issue devoted to the 250th Anniversary of Rutgers University.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134080803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface to the Special Issue on the 250th Anniversary of Rutgers University Part One: The Life and Times of Henry Rutgers","authors":"R. Sewell","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V68I1.1950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V68I1.1950","url":null,"abstract":"This preface discusses some of Rutgers' unusual history and summarizes the articles of this issue.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131316542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover and Table of Contents for Volume 67","authors":"R. Sewell","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1892","url":null,"abstract":"The cover image is De Saturno (Saturn on a chariot eating children) from Arati Solensis Phenomena et Prognostica (1569, 1570), which is part of the 345 books from the Fairweather Collection in Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives, described and analyzed in Erika Gorder’s article “Occult Collections and Mysterious Coincidences At Rutgers” in this volume.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122140549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface to Volume 67: Editing The Journal of the Rutgers University Liraries for Twenty Years","authors":"R. Sewell","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1893","url":null,"abstract":"Sewell discusses his his experiences editing the journal since 1995, taking if from an all print journal to an open access journal and a print journal.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130267929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Wine in Old Bottles: Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Development of Scholarly Publishing in America—A Bibliographic Essay","authors":"H. Edelman","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1896","url":null,"abstract":"The history of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary and its various editions and revisions charts the course of a publishing enterprisethat began in 1788 in England and continued in various formsfor 200 years. According to Edelman, “the publication history ofthe book ... parallels that of a considerable number of Britishbooks that were used in post-revolutionary America as vesselsfor the introduction of new knowledge and scholarship in thetime that the indigenous book industry evolved from a cottage industry to a truly national enterprise.\"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115484610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forbidden Words: Taboo Texts in Popular Literature and Cinema","authors":"S. Whitty","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1894","url":null,"abstract":"In his essay “Forbidden Words: Taboo Texts in Popular Literature and Film,” Whitty investigates the occult in popular fiction beginning in the nineteenth century and in film since the twentieth century. He discovers a recurring theme in these works: the discovery of an esoteric text containing “forbidden words,”that reveal knowledge of secrets that unleash powerful evil. His broad survey of forbidden words ranges from the Garden of Eden, the Kabala, to the Victorian penny dreadful, to the “Weird Tales” magazine, and the vampire novels of Anne Rice, to name a few.He takes us through myriad films including Nosferatu(1920), The Mummy (1932), The Seventh Victim(1943), Rosemary’s Baby (1968),TheExorcist(1973), and Ruby Sparks (2012) to demonstrate thissame phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115715296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who was Elizabeth Dodderidge Thorp Powell and Why is the Fact She Took Her Former Father-in-Law to Court in 1693 Important?","authors":"M. Lurie","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1897","url":null,"abstract":"This article began with a retirement gift from Lurie's department in 2010. Knowing of her special interest in New Jerseycolonial history, the department gave her a 1693 court writ from theEast Jersey colony. Lurie found this an intriguing but challengingdocument. Who were the people involved in this suit? Why wasa woman suing a man over a property dispute? The article revealsmuch about equity and fairness in the colonial courts and socialmatters of inheritance and property during colonial times. Lurietakes us along on a historical journey that shows us how initialquestions lead to dead-ends because of lack of documentationand how new lines of research developed as she uncovered ne","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122294960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occult Collections and Mysterious Coincidences at Rutgers","authors":"Erika B. Gorder","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V67I0.1895","url":null,"abstract":"Gorder’s article is based on her experience as the curator of the exhibition and as a articipant in the June 23, 2014 internationalcolloquium held in the Alexander Library, “The Soldier and theSeer: J. F. C. Fuller, Aleister Crowley, and the British Occult Revival\" related to the occult collections at Rutgers. The conference was appropriately held in the Alexander Library, the home of SpecialCollections and University Archives. Her article also reflects her keen knowledge of the archives at Rutgers from which she unearthed information about Fairweather, J. F. C. Fuller, and John Hammond, who was an assistant dean at Rutgers, a contemporary of Fairweather, and a notorious wild child of a famous occultcommune. Gorder speculates on a series of mysterious coincidences that has made Rutgers an inadvertent source for occult studies.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124104685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover and Table of Contents for Volume 66","authors":"Caryn Radick","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V66I0.1867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V66I0.1867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131674502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lincoln, Slavery, and Race in Civil War New Jersey: The Documentary Evidence and Treatments in Film","authors":"L. Greene","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V66I0.1862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V66I0.1862","url":null,"abstract":"“struggle without end” is an appropriate title for a war that took more american lives than all other american wars combined and a conflict that both sides expected to be over in a matter of months. Recent recalibrations have increased the death toll from 620,000 to nearly 750,000. the then apparent unending nature of the war and its horrific casualties gave it an appearance of a war without end. But the war came to an end with the emancipation of four million slaves, the nation reunited, and a president whose stewardship of america through the most tumultuous four-and-one-half years of its young history marked him as one of america’s greatest presidents.1 certainly, this is the view of lincoln that emerges in steven spielberg’s recent movie, Lincoln (2012). it is a view that is difficult to disagree with, yet is irritatingly incomplete. the enduring legacy of lincoln as the consummate politician, one of our greatest wartime presidents with a keen untutored military acumen and a humanitarian sensibility earning him the appellation, the “great emancipator,” are all perceptions of lincoln foregrounded in the film. yet, what is missing from the film is lincoln’s ambivalence on the issue of racial equality, his inability to envision america as a multiracial democracy even well into the war, and his early reticence to support emancipation despite his eventual issuance of the emancipation Proclamation. in not addressing these issues, the film thereby fails to explore lincoln’s capacity for transformative growth away from some of these early restrictive and conservative views. in short, lincoln’s conservatism and yet his capacity for growth are also that of the nation, the north, and new Jersey. two other films released just before and after Lincoln in 2012 and 2013 raise important questions concerning this turbulent era. directors steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Quentin","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126143691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}