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Event commemorates the 339th anniversary of Penn’s disembarkment at New Castle, his first landing in the New World.

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.

Recently accessioned collections items reflect the calls for racial justice that surged across the nation in 2020.

Archaeology and landscape-design projects to help tell the stories of African Americans who lived and died at the John Dickinson Plantation.

Three history majors in the University of Delaware’s E. Lyman Stewart Internship Program worked for the division during the summer of 2021.

Programs explore the experiences of the enslaved and free African Americans who lived, labored and died on the John Dickinson Plantation.

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.

American enterprise and ingenuity will be brought to life in “The I’s Have It: Industry, Innovation, and Invention.”

Application deadline: Aug. 6, 2021

Programs to explore the wreck of the DeBraak and War of 1812 hero Commodore Thomas Macdonough.