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Event commemorates the 339th anniversary of Penn’s disembarkment at New Castle, his first landing in the New World.
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Audio programs explore a wide variety of topics related to Delaware history and the programs and services of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs.
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Recently accessioned collections items reflect the calls for racial justice that surged across the nation in 2020.
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Archaeology and landscape-design projects to help tell the stories of African Americans who lived and died at the John Dickinson Plantation.
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Three history majors in the University of Delaware’s E. Lyman Stewart Internship Program worked for the division during the summer of 2021.
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Programs explore the experiences of the enslaved and free African Americans who lived, labored and died on the John Dickinson Plantation.
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Events include a wetland walk and campfire, a program on Colonial Delaware crime and punishment, and a wide variety of activities associated with “The I’s Have It: Industry, Innovation, and Invention,” Delaware’s 23rd annual Chautauqua.
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American enterprise and ingenuity will be brought to life in “The I’s Have It: Industry, Innovation, and Invention.”
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Programs to explore the wreck of the DeBraak and War of 1812 hero Commodore Thomas Macdonough.
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