Communities all around Delaware make excellent learning laboratories for classes that are seeking to increase historial-thinking and understand the evolution of our 21st century environment. With that in mind, I often take undergraduates out for fieldwork, especially this time of year as autumn gets underway on the Peninsula and the days are ideal for strolling. The focus of these experiential learning…
Category: Delaware
Teaching New Delaware History Course at Wilmington University This Fall
Wilmington University has asked me to teach a new course in Delaware History. It runs during the Fall Semester and I’m excited to be the professor for this recent addition to the University catalog.This is going to be an active learning course. As we examine the transformations that have taken place in First State, from the period…
Voters at Last: Battling for the Ballot — A New Program Available From the Delaware Humanities Forum
This is a new program available from the Delaware Humanities Forum ———————— This program examines the struggle to extend voting rights to most adult citizens in Delaware and the nation. Using archival photographs, newspapers, cartoons, letters and speeches the organizing, petitioning, picketing, leafleting, educating, and politicking that went on is presented in a lively way. …
Pass the Rum: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition — A New Program Available from the Delaware Humanities Forum
This is a new program available from the Delaware Humanities Forum ————————— This program looks at historical attempts to regulate the consumption of alcohol over the centuries. While most people are aware of prohibition in the 1920s, during the so-called Noble Experiment, attempts to regulate this behavior extend far back into our past. While the…