William Gillette

This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro-southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives Gillette offers in Jersey Blue, from the recruiting ground, the battlefield, and the home front, cast new light on New Jersey's wartime activities, state identity, and our understanding of the interrelationships between national, regional, and state developments. Gillette takes a broader view of the politics of the Civil War as he touches on the economy, geography, demography, immigration, nativism, conscription, and law. The result is a pioneering history of New Jersey that deepens our understanding of the Civil War.

Incriminating letters written by a young European prince to the English girl he betrayed are in the hands of the dead girl's sister. She is in the clutches of a nefarious man. All this and Moriarty and Dr. Watson too.

Sherlock Holmes, by William Gillette. Within the law, by Bayard Veiller. Seven keys to Baldpate, by G.M. Cohan. On trial, by Elmer Rice. Under cover, by R.C. Megrue. The thirteenth chair, by Bayard Veiller. The cat and the canary, by John Willard. The bat, by Mary R. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. Broadway, by Philip Dunning and George Abbott. Payment deferred, by Jeffrey Dell. Kind lady, by Edward Chodorov. Night must fall, by Emlyn Williams. Angel Street, by Patrick Hamilton.