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Views: 335 PREVIEW RELEASE to Subscribers: For centuries, historians have relied on books, letters, artifacts, and exhibits to tell the stories of the past. But what if visitors could do something more? What if they could actually sit down and… Read More »Meet HistOracle AI: New Jersey Team Brings History’s Voices Back to Life
Views: 7,122 Communicating Life Stories and Digital Storytelling For generations, family stories and personal memories were preserved through handwritten letters, photo albums, and conversations around the kitchen table. Today, those same stories can be recorded with a smartphone, shared across… Read More »Communicating Life Stories – Digital Storytelling Oral History
Views: 274 The iron rail that brought the steel horse to the Somerset Hills.This story is as much about the railroads that were built as it is about the railroads that weren’t. Railroad Companies of the Time Before we begin,… Read More »Railroad Men of The Somerset Hills
Views: 1,693 Word is out that David Burke, Chef and operator at the Red Horse Steakhouse at the Bernards Inn, will be transitioning “The Station” to one of his new restaurant ventures down the street at the historic Clarmont Hotel… Read More »Bernardsville’s Claremont Hotel & The Station History – and a New Chapter
Views: 1,350 At first, we thought it had to be a joke. It felt too absurd, too unthinkable, the kind of headline you only see on April Fool’s Day. But then reality hit. It was April 2. This was not… Read More »The Day the Bernardsville News Died
Views: 586 There’s something genuinely exciting happening right now for historians. For the first time, we have tools that can read, aggregate, and synthesize massive amounts of information in seconds, helping us connect sources, test ideas, and even visualize the… Read More »AI and History: Lessons Learned – Pluckemin Cantonment Edition
Views: 2,367 UPDATE:For 1 day only on Sunday, May 17, visitors can experience the “Millionaires Express” at the Whippany Railway Museum by riding in restored 1900s era luxury club cars once used by wealthy railroad travelers on New Jersey’s famed… Read More »The Millionaires Express Train – Luxury Between Hoboken & the Somerset Hills
Views: 2,913 The iron rail that brought the steel horse to the Somerset Hills.This story is as much about the railroads that were built as it is about the railroads that weren’t. As our researchers identify new pertinent information, this… Read More »The West Line Railroad: Fate That Created a Community Instead of an Industry
Views: 41,106 Update:On October 16, 2025, Michael Lewis celebrates the 15th anniversary of The Big Short with a series of live events in New York and Los Angeles, a new author-narrated audiobook release, and companion podcast episodes reflecting on the… Read More »The REAL Characters of The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Views: 2,529 Picture it: a warm afternoon on the water, a flash of colorful sail skimming across the waves. Chances are, it’s a Sunfish, the little boat that became a global phenomenon. By 1977, a year after OpSail in NYC… Read More »The Sunfish Sailboat – Fortune Magazine’s Top 25 Best Designed Products
Views: 3,855 The First Pocono Boathouse The story of the Pocono Boathouse retail establishment begins when, in 1965, Frank and Carolyn Betz built a chalet on the north side of Lake Naomi and opened a small but ambitious boating business… Read More »Pocono Boathouse History – A Lake Naomi Institution
Views: 30,726 Start This Journey with 2 minutes of #burgerporn. Enjoy as we did! UPDATE:March 2026 – This Arch is a problem to the crappy chain burger wars….. Who doesn’t love a good burger? Ah, yes, even the statement opens… Read More »The History of Burgers and Mapping the Best Burgers in America
Views: 22,875 UPDATE: After decades of sitting in a pile of rubble behind Warren’s DPW, the iconic and sole surviving Egg-O-Mat has been restored and dedicated to the residents of Warren Township, New Jersey. The Egg-O-Mat, a beloved and unique… Read More »NOW SAVED – The EggOmat in Warren Township, New Jersey
Views: 13,600 Here’s an idea. How about a fresh air compound? Great open space. Historic homes, beautiful rolling, open fields, and a canal. Yes, a canal. Let’s throw in an infamous outdoor concert series while we’re at it. Just off… Read More »ROADTRIP: Historic Waterloo Village Concept Works
Views: 6,154 Some ask, “Why am I seeing an article about food on a history website?” History often reveals itself in unexpected places. As I sat in a new food court in Toronto, Canada, I realized that this concept was… Read More »The Food Hall – Modernizing the Food Court Concept