Disaster: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey by Alan A. Siegel

Abstract

Alan A. Siegel’s Disaster: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey, is a fun book suitable for the young scholar or reader of popular history with an interest in New Jersey. It also provides a solid starting point for scholars interested in secondary sources pertinent to examinations of natural and manmade disasters in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New York City.