A Special Exhibit in partnership with the Chinese American Community Center Guest Curator Barbara Chi Hsiao Silber The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important holiday in many Asian cultures. Written records suggest that the Chinese tradition of celebrating the Lunar New Year is over 2,300 years old. Although […]
Join us in Old Town Hall for a new exhibit, a photographic journey of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway featuring the work of award-winning Delaware photographer, Lynn Dilliplane. Lynn Dilliplane received her first camera at the age of five, igniting a lifelong passion. She later attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and interned […]
Celebrate Harriet Tubman Day at the Delaware Historical Society! In honor of Harriet Tubman, discover the Underground Railroad in Delaware. Discover History Saturdays include hands-on activities, crafts, story time, and more! This month, you and your young historians can handle 19th century educational artifacts that tell the story of the Underground Railroad, try on period […]
A Book Talk with author Mitch Topal Free Event! Registration required. Join the Delaware Historical Society and Huxley & Hiro Booksellers as we celebrate Wilmington's designation as a World War II Heritage City with Mitch Topal, author of Against All Odds: The Ray Firmani Story. Topal’s book is “a true story of combat, heroism, and […]
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Delaware Historical Society's Mitchell Center for African American Heritage! James E. Johnson, PhD. leads a talk shedding light on the remarkable, three decades long journey of Maggie Elias, the first Delaware-born faculty member of color at the Howard School. Born in Wilmington in 1853, Elias was also the choir director […]
