Put N.J. in Its Place in American History

Context is everything.

That's a lesson clearly valued at the South Jersey Museum of American History, at 123 East High St. in Glassboro. It has taken into account the particular historical positioning of New Jersey, while at the same time remembering how the state fits into a much broader story.

"The South Jersey Museum of American History has a national scope. We include southern New Jersey history, but our emphasis is on the entire United States,” said museum curator Jeffrey Norcross. "We cover five major areas of history: pre-Columbian, Colonial, political history, antique tools and equipment and farmsteads.”

The range of artifacts that can be seen at the South Jersey Museum of American History is impressive, documenting a natural history record that goes back much farther than America itself, up to the formation of the colonies and the state of New Jersey, and into the modern era with a focus on politics and the materials that are generated from Presidential elections.

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