Newark History Society program at the Newark Public Library, April 6, 2017. George Robb, the exhibit curator, speaks about the exhibit and his research on Newark in WWI.
Spokesman-review May 16, 1918. "Hundreds of German-Americans who have displayed strong enemy sympathies soon will have their citizenship questioned in federal courts by United States attorneys, as a result of the action of the district court in Newark, N. J." Newspaper clipping.
Marilyn Pfaltz reads from the wartime letters of Hugo Menzel Pfaltz (1896-1989), who grew up in Newark, attended Rutgers College, and served in France during World War I. Union Public Library, July 21, 2020.
George Robb. New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(1), 2019, pp.101-126
"During the war public libraries were usually the most important information centers in their communities...Newark’s chief librarians, John Cotton Dana and Beatrice Winser, oversaw many such patriotic initiatives, but they also became involved in more controversial campaigns to employ women librarians at military camps and to resist wartime calls for censorship of unpatriotic literature."