The New Jersey Digital Highway -

The New Jersey Digital Highway is your "one stop shop" for New Jersey history and culture, from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives and historical societies.

Interest Areas for Different Audiences:

Everyone can find information about New Jersey and about documenting your own family history and culture.
Educators will also find information, tools and activities for teaching about the immigrant experience in New Jersey.
Students will find information about New Jersey, resources to help them learn and prepare school projects, and activities to explore their own family history.
Librarians & Curators will find information about creating and managing their collections, as well as opportunities to participate in New Jersey Digital Highway.

Visit the area that interests you most to begin your adventure on the New Jersey Digital Highway.

The NJDH Collection

NJDH's inaugural collection is The Changing Face of New Jersey - The Immigration Experience from Earliest Times to the Present. This collection presents materials and information about the rich, diverse peoples and culture of New Jersey. Photographs, letters, documents, books and oral histories tell the story of New Jersey through the stories of people who brought new cultures, languages and ideas with them to New Jersey.

Learn more about the collection
Search the collection
What was life like for a young Irish immigrant in 1850?

NJDH News
NJDH Final Report to Institute for Museum and Library Services
Click here to view the final report.

Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center Collection contributes to NJN's WWII Stories
See the Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center contribution to the NJN's tribute here.
Search NJDH for more of the story of Japanese American interned in wartime detention camps and relocated to Seabrook as agricultural workers

History Events Calendar

Keep up with history and cultural events throughout the state, and contribute your own!

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