Introduction [excerpts] This paper will pick up where other scholars have left off by exploring the history of the North Jersey Shore and the history of New York City as is relates to the North Jersey Shore during the thirty years preceding the prohibition era, as well as the years during the prohibition era, 1920-1933. The paper will focus specifically on the social and political events that transpired during the era. The main argument to which every other argument is designed to support is: the North Jersey...

Abstract Railroad history, as a discipline, is usually explored avocationally by enthusiast historians on specific railroads or locations or by career historians who interpret the subject on the national scale. When used separately, the techniques often leave out context or chronology that detracts from interpretation and narrative. An interdisciplinary approach, combining elements of local, avocational, historical study and scholarly interpretation, reconciles the differences in research and...