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2020 was a bad year for Woodrow Wilson

February 15, 2021 12:09 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 pm

History hit the reset button on Woodrow Wilson in 2020. Ninety-six years after his death, the 13th president of Princeton University, 34th Governor of New Jersey and 28th President of the United States faced a reckoning with what New Jersey’s...

Wilson helped New Jersey Democrats sweep in 1912, then lost the state in 1916

February 15, 2021 12:08 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 pm

Democrat Woodrow Wilson remains the only New Jerseyan to win the presidency, but the former governor of New Jersey only carried New Jersey in one of his two White House bids. Wilson was elected in 1912, at the end of...

Trailblazer: Alice Paul

February 9, 2021 12:06 amFebruary 7, 2021 5:54 pm

New Jerseyan Alice Paul (1885-1966) was one of the national leaders of the grassroots American suffragist movement that secured passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. Paul spent nearly fifty...

The history of Malinowski’s congressional seat

November 23, 2020 12:01 amJanuary 3, 2021 1:51 pm

The re-election of Tom Malinowski marked the third time in more than 100 years that New Jersey’s 7th district elected and re-elected a Democrat. Before Malinowski unseated five-term Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Clinton Township) in 2018, Republicans had held the 7th...

Morris went blue at the top, remained red in the middle

November 20, 2020 11:39 amNovember 20, 2020 1:44 pm

While the official certification of election results are still a few hours away, it’s clear that Joe Biden won Morris County. Biden leads Donald Trump by 12,747 votes countywide, 51% to 47%. In 2016, Trump won it by 10,822 votes,...

Murphy demurs on Rutgers renaming talks

June 29, 2020 4:34 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy declined to say whether Rutgers University should begin a dialogue about pulling Henry Rutgers name from New Jersey’s flagship university. “I’ve not been asked the question on Rutgers, so that’s something I’m not going to speak to...

Murphy gives up Woodrow Wilson’s desk

June 27, 2020 1:15 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is no longer using the desk Woodrow Wilson used when he was governor of New Jersey. “The governor has a new desk as of Friday,” Mahen Gunaratna, Murphy’s communications director told the New Jersey Globe. The decision...