In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded ... to a footnote in this chapter of American history. An estimated 70,000 Americans were ...

Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded ... a 1929-1938 Record of Operations book for Beebe Hospital.

The recent discovery and research of a pre-colonial burial site near Rehoboth Beach is rewriting Delaware and early American history, painting a more culturally diverse and complex society than ...

While most were built in traditional Colonial or Colonial ... are very helpful in writing a book about this," Miller says. All that research and history was why Schiffer, a nonfiction publishing ...

His most recent book, The Blood of the Colony, about the rise and ... in European and world history and the history of empires to undergraduate and graduate students. In 2020 he received the ...

In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned ... has often been relegated to a footnote in this chapter of American history.