More Books - Black Cultural Mythology. By Christel N. Temple. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020; 370 pp. $95.00 cloth, $33.95 paper, e-book available. - The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals. Edited by Ric Knowles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; 368 pp. $84.99 cloth, $24.99 paper, e-book available. - Contemporary European Playwrights. Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease, and Dan Rebellato. London: Routledge, 2020; 432 pp.; illustrations. $128.00 cloth, $34.36 paper, e-book available. - Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun. By Clifford Mason. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020; 246 pp.; illustrations. $32.95 cloth, e-book available. - Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation. By Marissa K. López. New York: New York University Press, 2019; 208 pp.; illustrations. $89.00 cloth, $28.00 paper, e-book available. - Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context. Edited by Magda Romanska and Kathleen Cioffi. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020; 344 pp.; illustrations. $120.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available.

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-180
Author(s):  
Jim Short
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Frusciano

<p class="Default">Why is Rutgers University named for a wealthy bachelor who resided in New York City? What was his involvement with the institution of higher learning we now call Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey? To understand why this lifelong New Yorker supported a small denominational college in New Brunswick, we must examine what took place following the American Revolution and during in the early years of the 19th century.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>


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