David E. Goldberg ’07, is a graduate student in the History program at Villanova University. He received his B.A. in History in 2005 from Elizabethtown College (PA). His paper, “Greetings from Jim Crow, NJ” was written under the advisement of Dr. Judith Giesberg, and recently won the prize for the best paper presented at a graduate student conference at Penn State University. The conference, held on Feb. 9, 2007 at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State, was on "New Perspectives on the Civil War Era: Beyond Fragmented History."
Greetings from Jim Crow, New Jersey: Contesting the Meaning and Abandonment of Reconstruction in the Public and Commercial Spaces of Asbury Park, 1880-1890*