Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded, now known as Stockley Center. Ethel was sterilized and died shortly after.

We all assume that school teaches us the truth … but as time passes, some truths are debunked. Here are a few things that ...

More likely the ferry had to cut through thick layers of ice on the Delaware ... of some U.S. war history questions people never get right. Paul Revere did alert the colonies that the British ...

Pennsylvania, as one of the original 13 colonies where independence was born, has many historic towns that have stood the ...

Delaware is old. Older than the presence of ... The few dozen Dutch in that settlement quickly got into the colonial equivalent of a blood feud over accusations that a Lenape tribesman had stolen ...

Related: The History of the ... Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained.

The University of Delaware women's basketball team dethroned Drexel (26-5) Sunday, March 13, in the 2022 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA ... Hoffecker, Richards Professor emerita of history, this ...

Hours later, Delaware State Police confirmed that Hsia’s injuries didn’t come from a fall. She had been beaten. A fellow resident who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and whom police told the family ...

To benefit the Historic Odessa Foundation, the Odessa Brewfest has beers from across the country, four musical acts, food, ...

Bil is a historian of science and European empires, with specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century botany, anthropology, empire, and Indigenous history. Prior to joining the University of ...

Immerse yourself in the country’s Colonial past and the founding of the nation in America’s first World Heritage City. Step into history at ... mile route traversing Delaware, that includes ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part investigation of the fatal beating of 83-year-old Shyuan Hsia at The Summit senior living and the facility's history with state inspections.