Historical Affairs celebrates Women’s History Month 2022
Activities honor and celebrate women’s lives and historic achievements.
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‘Segregated Sands’: Delaware Beaches During Jim Crow
Virtual exhibit explores the history and stories of the Indigenous and African American experience at Delaware’s beaches during the segregation era.
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History Division Celebrates Black History Month 2022
Five free programs celebrate the invaluable contributions that the Black community has made to the culture and history of the United States.
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Zwaanendael Museum seeks volunteers for “Recapturing Black Beaches,” an oral history initiative
Oral history initiative designed to gather, memorialize and share stories about historically segregated Black and Indigenous beaches in Delaware.
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Historical and Cultural Affairs programs in January 2022
Events include a virtual program on the blizzard of 1888 and a live concert by Musically Generated Organism.
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Historical Affairs programs for the holidays
Festive holiday-décor, historical Dutch cookery and mountain music among programs to be featured.
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Historical Affairs Programs in November 2021
A folk music concert, and programs celebrating Dutch American Heritage Day and National Native American Heritage Month among events/topics to be explored.
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‘William Penn Day’ in New Castle on Oct. 23, 2021
Event commemorates the 339th anniversary of Penn’s disembarkment at New Castle, his first landing in the New World.
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Historical Affairs programs in October 2021
18th century trades, true crime in song and walking tours of a historic cemetery among programs/topics to be explored.
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Historical Affairs programs in September 2021
Activities include, among others, a wetland walk and campfire, and a program on Colonial Delaware crime and punishment
Delaware’s 23rd annual Chautauqua from Sept. 9–12, 2021
Entitled “The I’s Have It: Industry, Innovation, and Invention,” programs will explore American enterprise and ingenuity.
Guided visitation to the African burial ground at the John Dickinson Plantation
Programs explore the experiences of the enslaved and free African Americans who lived, labored and died on the John Dickinson Plantation.
Historical Affairs to sponsor 2 programs in August 2021
Programs to explore the wreck of the DeBraak and War of 1812 hero Commodore Thomas Macdonough.
Historical Affairs to sponsor 5 programs during July 2021
Programs explore the sinking of the DeBraak, readings of the Declaration of Independence, a historical trivia event and different perspectives on the American Revolution.
Historical Affairs sponsors 6 programs in May
The archaeology series “History Unearthed,” “Trivia Night” and “The Wreck of the DeBraak” will be explored.