Presentations from the Teaching Revolutionary New Jersey Symposium, including discussions by Richard Veit, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs and professor of anthropology, and Melissa Ziobro, curator for the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music and adjunct professor of public history, are now available to watch online.
Veit discussed archeological techniques used to study and teach the American Revolution in his presentation “Unearthing Revolutionary New Jersey through Archaeology: A Hands-On Approach to the Past,” while Ziobro explored the shared history of the United States and music, with an emphasis on New Jersey artists, during her discussion, “What America Sounds Like: Exploring History Through Music.”
“It was an honor to have the opportunity to discuss Monmouth University’s National Park Service sponsored archaeological excavations and how they are providing new information about the American Revolution,” Veit said.
The event, created in preparation for the 250th anniversary signing of the Declaration of Independence, featured 11 of New Jersey’s top historians and educators who discussed New Jersey’s role in the Revolutionary Era, an important period in the United States.
“We at the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music hope that America’s 250th birthday will spark a renewed interest in not just the revolutionary era, but in all American history, and we believe that music is one of the most accessible prisms through which we can engage folks with our shared past—whether at a symposium like this, or in our Music America traveling exhibit, or in our new building, set to open next year,” Ziobro said.
An e-book of the symposium is scheduled to be released.