Delaware's role in the country's eugenics movement, from which Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany used as a model, has often been relegated to a footnote in this chapter of American history.

In late September 2021, I received an email about a woman named Ethel Benson. Ethel, her granddaughter wrote to me, was a young Black woman who was sent to Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded ...

In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned home. She was about 20 years old, Black and illiterate. Her great sin, in ...

DSU and Delaware Historical Society's Center for African American Heritage are partnering on the event. Registration is required by calling (302) 655-7161 or visiting www.dehistory.org , where ...

In 2020 he received the University of Delaware’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He holds the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities and this year is serving as interim chair of the Department of History ...

Delaware's role in the country's eugenics movement, from which Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany used as a model, has often been relegated to a footnote in this chapter of American history. An estimated ...

In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned home. She was about 20 years old, Black and illiterate.