Programs and Events
Author talk with Dr. Hettie Williams. Thursday April 2, 2026, 2:30pm-4:00pm at Stockton University's Multicultural Center. Join Dr. Hettie V. Williams as she discusses her book, The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey. Dr. Williams is Professor in African American History at Monmouth University. She is the author and editor of seven books and several essays, articles and book chapters. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Guests to campus, please register for a parking pass. For questions, please email thomas.kinsella@stockton.edu.
Author Stephanie D. Hinnershitz will be leading this virtual program on Zoom. Dr. Hinnershitz specializes in civil-military relations on the American home front during WWII. She is a former Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans and currently is an assistant professor at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. She is the author of three books, including her most recent, Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor, that won the 2022 Taft Labor History Award. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For questions, please email thomas.kinsella@stockton.edu.
Join us for the First Annual New Jersey Archival Film Festival in Monmouth University's Great Hall on Saturday November 1, 2025 from 10:00am to 4:00pm.
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Join us for a free book discussion on Promised Lands by Professor Sharon Musher. The event will be held on October 21, 2025 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm at Stockton University room L112.
Join us for a free author talk with Melissa Ziobro. Professor Ziobro will discuss her book, The Battlin' Bastards of Bravo, and discuss her work with the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music. The event will be held on Wednesday October 29, 2025 from 6:00pm until 7:30pm in Stockton University's Campus Center Meeting Room 5.
Join us for the opening of the newly renovated Alliance Chapel exhibit. Free and open to the public.
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Join us for a free program, Future-proofing the Library presented by Jess Martorano and Luke O'Connor. Light refreshments will be served. The event takes place on Wednesday April 30, 2025 from 5:00pm until 6:30pm at Stockton University room F111.
Screening of Susan Kehnemui Donnelly's Documentary, Alliance-Monday March 17, 2025
The Katz JCC's Film Festival will open with the documentary, Alliance, followed by a panel, featuring the film’s director, Susan Kehnemui Donnelly, and the cinematographer, Ted Salins. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Thomas Kinsella, the Elizabeth and Samuel Levin Director of Stockton University’s Alliance Heritage Center.
Light snacks will be available along with a traveling exhibition on the history of the Alliance Colony.
Join us for a free snack and learn on Best Practices in Oral History with Melissa Ziobro. The event will be held on Thursday February 27, 2025 from 12:30pm to 2:20pm at Stockton University room F206.
Join us for a free event, Photo Restoration at Historical Societies with Norm Goos. February 18, 2025 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm at Stockton University room F111.
Join us for a free online book discussion. Dr. Sandra Fox discusses her book, The Jews of Summer. The event takes place online on November 5, 2024 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
Join us for a free event, Grant Funding in Archival Studies, Heritage Projects and our Communities with Shilo Previti. The event will be held on Tuesday October 22, 2024 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in Stockton University's Campus Center, Meeting Rom 5.
Join us for a free presentation, Archives Aware: Demystifying Special Collections and Archives with Heather Perez. The event takes place on Friday November 22, 2024 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm in Stockton University's Campus Center, Meeting Room 5.
Join Brooke Salvanto, executive director of the Tuckerton Seaport, for a lunch-and-learn on the process of capturing and amplifying community voices as she shares her work. The event takes place on Saturday September 14, 2024 from 11:00am to 2:00pm in the Stockton University Campus Center, Meeting Room 5. This event is free and open to the public. For questions, email thomas.kinsella@stockton.edu.
Join us for a free lecture. Dr. Michael Hayse will discuss the Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey project on Thursday August 15, 2024 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm in Stockton University's Campus Center. This lecture is free and open to the public. For questions, please email thomas.kinsella@stockton.edu.
Join us for a free webinar with author Seth Stern who will discuss his book Speaking Yiddish to Chickens. This work chronicles how roughly 1,000 Holocaust survivors, including Stern's grandparents, found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives as poultry farmers in southern New Jersey.
Oral History: Best Practices
Join Melissa Ziobro for a lunch-and-learn on oral history best practices and procedures. This interactive workshop is geared towards those just starting out in the field of oral history, though it will surely also serve as a stimulating refresher for more experienced practitioners.
Melissa Ziobro is the Director of Public History at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ; as well as the curator of the University’s Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. She is the immediate past-president of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, and has conducted over 200 interviews over the past 20 years.
Lunch will be provided.
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 11am-2pm
Stockton University, Campus Center, Meeting Room 5
Galloway, NJ 08205
This program is free thanks to a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation.
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Building Your Family Tree: A Genealogy Lunch-and-Learn
The program will begin with a brief history of Atlantic City and then detail the ways researchers have utilized the collections to find their families. We will then explore genealogy, and how to use the archive in search of family history using example material from the collections. The second half of the program will include an interactive activity using a Genealogy Tool Kit where participants can begin their own genealogy journey.
Jacqueline Silver-Morillo is the Senior Librarian and Library Archivist for Atlantic City Free Public Library and the Library's AC Heritage Collections, a unique archive that includes information and research materials about Atlantic City's cultural, economic, social, and historical development. She has been the Archivist for the last 7 years. During those years, she has been able to work with a diverse group of researchers around the world on the subject of Atlantic City as well as create a digital repository for the archives. She was promoted to Senior Librarian in 2023. She received her MA in Museology from Johns Hopkins University in 2012 and MS in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University in 2019. While getting through this pandemic, she became a Certified Archivist with The Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA) in 2020.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
11am-2pm
Stockton University
Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room
John F. Scarpa Academic Center
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
This program is free thanks to a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation.
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Memory, Imagination & History
A memoir discussion, reading & lunch-and-learn
Saturday, November 18, 2023
11am-2pm
Stockton University
Campus Center, Board of Trustees Room
101 Vera King Farris Dr.
Galloway, NJ 08205
Forget those who say that history is irrelevant. History is, was, and always will affect our lives in more ways than we may understand. Join Peter Murphy as reads he from his forthcoming memoir Once Upon a Time You Lived in a Castle and discusses how the gas-poisoned trenches of World War I and the blood-soaked sands at D-Day in World War II led to his birth, and how the Troubles in Northern Ireland just before Bloody Sunday almost led to his death. Peter will also ask you to consider your own life through the lenses of history and culture in an optional take-home writing prompt.
The day will also include a lunch-and-learn session. Participants will enjoy a meal while engaging in a conversation surrounding local history and personal narrative. Dr. Thomas Kinsella, the Elizabeth and Samuel Levin Director of the Alliance Heritage Center and the Director of the South Jersey Culture & History Center, will join this conversation.
Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he managed a nightclub, operated heavy equipment, and drove a taxi. His writing has appeared in hundreds of outlets on both sides of the Atlantic including The New Welsh Reader and The Sun Magazine. He is the founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University where he runs workshops for writers and teachers in the U.S. and abroad.
This event is free but space is limited. Learn more and reserve your spot here.
Join us for a free and open to the public presentation on 75 Years of Jewish Agriculture in South Jersey: Alliance Colony to Jewish Poultry Farms. Held at Kesselman Hall on Stockton University's Atlantic City Campus on Thursday August 10, 2023 at 7:00pm. For questions call 609-652-4699.