Between Justice and History

Free and open to the public

Reflecting on a 40-year career teaching and writing, Rutgers historian Howard Gillette will address the ways history can and should be employed as a central tool in renewing civil well-being and advancing social justice.

Howard  Gillette is Professor of History at Rutgers University in Camden and a founding director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH). He is the author of Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-industrial City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), the winner of best book awards from the Urban History Association and the New Jersey Historical Commission; co-author with Fredric Miller of Washington Seen, A Photographic History (Johns Hopkins Press, 1995); and most recently Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).  He has consulted for a number of area cultural institutions, including the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent, Elfreth’s Alley, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and the New Jersey Historical Society, and he is co-leader of a project to create The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.

The annual Miller Lecture on public history honors Fredric M. Miller, whose curatorship of the Urban Archives at Temple University and dedication to the archives profession created resources of enduring value for scholars and the public, especially in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. This year's lecture marks Howard Gillette’s retirement from the faculty at Rutgers-Camden.

Directions to Rutgers-Camden

Rutgers-Camden is easily reached by public transportation, and limited parking will be available on campus.  For those wishing to travel by PATCO as a group from Center City Philadelphia, arrangements will be made to gather at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St., and take PATCO from the adjacent 12th/13th Street Station.

Link to campus map:  http://maps.rutgers.edu/maps/camdenmaps.htm

BY TRAIN:
New Jersey Transit RiverLINE light-rail has a stop on the Rutgers-Camden campus at Third and Cooper Sts.

The PATCO Speedline offers access from southern New Jersey and Philadelphia. The City Hall station at Fifth and Market Sts., one block from campus, is the Rutgers-Camden stop.

BY CAR:

NJ Turnpike: Turn off at Exit 4. After toll booths proceed on Route 73 North approximately one mile to Route 38 West.  Route 38 will merge with Route 30.  Proceed on Route 30 West for approximately one mile where the road forks.  Take the right fork marked "Local Traffic Only, Last Exit Before Toll".  Continue straight ahead to Seventh Street and turn left.  At the foot of the Seventh Street Bridge, turn right onto Cooper Street.  (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

Route 295: Coming from the north:  Turn off at Route 38 West exit at Moorestown.  Route 38 will merge with Route 30 and proceed as you would from the NJ Turnpike, above. (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

Route 295: Coming from the south:  Turn off at exit for North-South Freeway (Route 42).  Follow signs to Camden, exiting at Route 676.  Proceed along Route 676 to Exit 5B marked "Last Exit Before Toll - Benjamin Franklin Bridge.”  Turn left onto Linden Street at the first stop light. Continue one block to Seventh Street and proceed as you would from the NJ Turnpike, (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

From Atlantic City Expressway: Pick-up the North-South Freeway (Route 42).  Follow signs to Camden, exiting at Route 676.  Proceed along Route 676 to Exit 5B marked "Last Exit Before Toll - Benjamin Franklin Bridge and proceed as you would from the NJ Turnpike, above.  (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

From Admiral Wilson Boulevard (Route 30 West):  Proceed approximately one mile from the Airport Circle where the road forks.  Take the right fork marked "Local Traffic Only, Last Exit Before Toll”.  Continue straight ahead to Seventh Street and proceed as you would from the NJ Turnpike, (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

From Benjamin Franklin Bridge:  Entering New Jersey, stay to the right.  Follow signage for "Sixth Street/Broadway" and take that exit.  On the ramp, bear right toward Sixth Street and stop sign.  Once through stop sign at the end of the exit, go one block to Cooper Street and make a right. (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

From Walt Whitman Bridge:  Take the "Camden/Gloucester City" exit.  Proceed in the left lane about 1,000 feet to the Camden Exit.  Turn left and continue on Route 676 to Exit 5B marked "Last Exit Before Toll - Benjamin Franklin Bridge".  Turn left onto Linden Street at the first stop light.  Continue one block to Seventh Street proceed as you would from the NJ Turnpike, above. (Follow Directions under ONCE ON COOPER STREET)

ONCE ON COOPER STREET:

Continue five blocks to Third Street. Make a right onto Third Street. Guests may park in Lot 13 (second lot on left) or Lot 14 (third lot on left). Cross Third Street, enter campus between two brick columns – entrance to Campus Center is straight ahead and to the right (statute of Walt Whitman is front of Campus Center)

NEED HANDI-ACCESSIBLE PARKING?

Please contact Michelle Hughes at 856-225-6137 (direct) or 856-225-6009 (main dispatch- Rutgers University Police Department).   Please visit us on the web http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/