The Lenape & Revolutionary New Jersey
Two hundred and fifty years ago, North America was torn apart by the violence and chaos of the American Revolution. There’s more to the story we all learned in school. The Revolution didn’t just set Patriot against Loyalist; it was a brutal civil war that also divided America’s I…
Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 7 p.m., historian Henry Crouse comes to walk us through a chapter of the Revolution that didn’t make it into most textbooks. The version most of us learned in school cast it as Patriots versus Loyalists, but Crouse argues it was messier than that: a brutal civil war that also fractured Indigenous nations, including the Lenape, the people who lived right here in what became New Jersey. Crouse finished his dissertation on a prominent Lenape family at Rutgers and currently teaches at West Morris High School, so he knows how to make this land’s deep history land for a real audience.