Al Frazza

Historian Al Frazza is a proud lifelong resident of North Jersey, who has had a passion for history for much of his life. AL began his history work by creating of the Award-Winning website, RevolutionaryWarNewJersey.com, the Ultimate Field Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Historic Sites.

In 2022, AL published his first book, State of Revolution: My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey Through Revolutionary War New Jersey. The book allows the reader to relive AL’s extensive journeys throughout the state, and the interesting and sometimes humorous experiences he had along the way. It also contains historic Revolutionary War stories and reflections on the importance of history. State of Revolution is part history, part memoir, part travelogue,

Historian Al Frazza is a proud lifelong resident of North Jersey, who has had a passion for history for much of his life. AL began his history work by creating of the Award-Winning website, RevolutionaryWarNewJersey.com, the Ultimate Field Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Historic Sites.

In 2022, AL published his first book, State of Revolution: My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey Through Revolutionary War New Jersey. The book allows the reader to relive AL’s extensive journeys throughout the state, and the interesting and sometimes humorous experiences he had along the way. It also contains historic Revolutionary War stories and reflections on the importance of history. State of Revolution is part history, part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the state of New Jersey.

His second book The Past Still Present: Revolutionary War New Jersey in Photos is a coffee table book of his photos of Revolutionary War historic sites in his home state. It consists of large-scale reproductions of many of AL’s favorite photos he took for the Revolutionary War New Jersey website, along with historic anecdotes chosen to accompany them.

For the past several years, AL has embarked on a new area of historic research. He is currently doing extensive research for a book which will be about Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1964.

AL’s history work and photographs have been featured in many New Jersey publications, including The Record, The Herald News, The Star-Ledger, New Jersey Monthly, NorthJersey.com, Passaic Valley Today, The Home News Tribune, The Courier News, The Asbury Park Press, The Burlington County Times, The Vorhees Sun, The New Jersey Herald, Patch Across New Jersey, The Advertiser-News, The Paramus Post, The Sicklerville Sun, The Township Journal, Pascack Press, The Sparta Independent, The River View Observer, The Berlin Sun, The Atlantic Highlands Herald, Jersey Shore Online, The Beverly Bee, The West Milford Messenger, The Brick Times, The Howell Times, The Southern Ocean Times, The Toms River Times, and The Hunterdon Review.

AL's history work has won awards from the Chinkchewunska Chapter of the New Jersey D.A.R. “in recognition of his outstanding dedication to the preservation and sharing of New Jersey History,” and from the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for his work to inform his “fellow citizens of New Jersey’s role in the American War for Independence.”