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For more than fifty years, The Historical Society of Delaware has
published a scholarly journal, Delaware History.
The magazine is mailed to all members of the society as a benefit of
membership. Please
see the membership form on our member information pages of the website. Copies can be
purchased from the library or found at public and university libraries.
If you need more information on Delaware history,
just scroll down the page or click on any of the topics listed below for
brief bibliographies.
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Business
and Industry, general:
Dorman, Charles G. Delaware Cabinetmakers and
Allied Artisans,
1655-1855 (Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1960) Originally published in
Delaware History Vol. IX No. 2
Frebert, George J. Delaware Aviation History
(Dover:
Dover Litho Publishing Company, 1998)
Hindes, Ruthanna. Delaware Silversmiths 1700- 1850
(Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1967) Originally published in
Delaware
History Vol. XII No. 4
Rink, Evald. Printing in Delaware: 1761- 1800
(Wilmington:
Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, 1969)
Williams, William H. Delmarva’s Chicken Industry: 75
Years
of Progress
(Georgetown, DE: Delmarva Poultry Industry, 1988)
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Business and
Industry, individual companies:
DuPont Company: Dutton, William S. DuPont: One
Hundred and Forty
Years (New York:Charles Scribner’s Sons 1942)
Taylor, Graham D. and Sudnik, Patricia E. DuPont and
the
International Chemical Industry (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984)
Zilg, Gerard Colby. DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974)
Harlan and Hollingsworth Company:Harlan and Hollingsworth Company. Semi-Centennial
Memoir of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company (Wilmington: Harlan and Hollingsworth
Company, 1886)
Hercules:Dyer, Davis and Scilia, David. Labors of a
Modern
Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company (Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
1990)
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Churches: *
Silliman, Charles A. The Episcopal Church in Delaware 1785-
1954 (Wilmington: Diocese of Delaware, 1982)
Williams, William H. The Garden of American Methodism The
Delmarva Peninsula 1769-1820 (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1984)
Zebley, Frank R. The Churches of Delaware (Wilmington:
privately published, 1947)
*Note: These books cover general church
history. Please consult a librarian for a history of a specific
church or you can send your inquiry to: hsd@hsd.org
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Civil War:
Essah, Patience. A House Divided: Slavery and
Emancipation in
Delaware, 1638-1865
(Charlottsville: University Press of Virginia, 1996)
Hancock, Harold. Delaware During the Civil War: A
Political
History (Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1961)
Williams, William H. Slavery and Freedom in Delaware,
1639-1865
(Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1996)
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Colonial and
Revolutionary History:
Hancock, Harold. Liberty and Independence: The
Delaware State
During The American Revolution (Wilmington: 1976)
Hancock, Harold. The Loyalists of Revolutionary Delaware
(Newark: University of Delaware Bicentennial Book, 1977)
Munroe, John A. Colonial Delaware: A History (Millwood,
N.J.:
1978)
Ward, Christopher L. The Delaware Continentals,
1776-1783
(Wilmington:Historical Society of Delaware, 1941)
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General Delaware History:
Federal Writers Project. Delaware: A Guide to the First State
(New York:C.A. Windsor Publications, 1985)
Hoffecker, Carol E. Delaware: A Bicentennial History
(New
York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1977)
Martin, Roger A. A History of Delaware through
Its Governors (Wilmington: McClafferty Printing, 1984)
Munroe, John A. History of Delaware (Newark: University
of
Delaware Press, 1984)
Reed, H. Clay. Delaware: A History of the First State, 3
vol.
(New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1957)
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Delaware,1609-1888,
2 vol.
(Philadelphia: L.J. Richards and Company, 1888)
Shalk, Alexander. Delaware: A Trivia
Guide to the First State (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995)
Williams, William H. The First State: An Illustrated
History of
Delaware (Northridge: C.A. Windsor Publications, 1985)
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General history for
young students
Hoffecker, Carol E. Delaware, The First State
(Wilmington:
Middle Atlantic Press, 1988)
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Delaware River and Bay:
Bryant, Tracey L. and Rennock, Jonathan R. The Delaware Estuary:
Rediscovering a Forgotten Resource (Newark:
University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program,
1988)
Gowdy, Jim and Ruth, Kim. Guiding Lights
of the Delaware River & Bay (Egg Harbor City: Laureate Press,
Inc., 1999)
Marvil, James E. MD. Pilots of the Bay and River
Delaware and
Lewes Lore (Laurel, DE: The Sussex Press, 1965)
Tyler, David Budlong. The Bay and River Delaware: A
Pictorial
History (Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1955)
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Early National
History:
Munroe, John A. Federalist Delaware, 1775-1815 (New
Brunswick, N.J.:Rutgers University Press, 1954)
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Education:
Chance, Elbert. One Hundred Years of Delaware Football
(Newark: University of Delaware, n.d.)
Hoffecker, Carol E. Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A
History of Women At the University of Delaware (Newark: University of
Delaware,1994)
Munroe, John A. The University of Delaware: A History
(Newark: University of Delaware, 1986)
Powell, Lyman P. The History of Education in Delaware
(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893) Bureau of Education, Circular
Of Information, No. 3, 1893
Raffel, Jeffrey A. The Politics of School Desegregation:
The
Metropolitan Remedy in Delaware (Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1980)
Satneck, Walter Joseph. The History of the
Origins of and Development of the Delaware State College and It's Role in
Higher Education for Negroes in Delaware New York University,
Dissertation, 1962.
Taggart, Robert J. Private Philanthropy and Public
Education:
P.S. duPont And the Delaware Schools,
1890- 1940 (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988)
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Ethnic History:
Essah, Patience. A House Divided: Slavery and
Emancipation in
Delaware, 1638-1865 (Charlottsville: University Press of Virginia, 1996)
Nutter, Jeanne D., comp. Growing Up Black in
New Castle County, Delaware (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2001)
Thompson, Priscilla M. Arriving in Delaware: The
Italian-American
Experience (Wilmington: History Store and Italo-Americans United, 1989)
Williams, William H. Slavery and Freedom in Delaware,
1639-
1865 (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1996)
Young, Toni, ed. Delaware and the Jews
(Wilmington: Cedar Tree Press, 1979)
Young, Toni Becoming American, Remaining
Jewish: The Story of Wilmington, Delaware's First Jewish
Community, 1879-1924. (Newark: University of Delaware Press,
1999)
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Native Americans:
Custer, Jay F., ed. Late Woodland Cultures of the Middle Atlantic
Region (Newark: 1986)
Porter, Frank W. III In Pursuit of the Past: An
Anthropological and Bibliographic Guide to Maryland and Delaware (Metuchen,
N.J.: 1986)
Porter, Frank W. III Indians in Maryland and
Delaware: A Critical Bibliography (Bloomington, KN: 1979)
Weslager, C.A. Delaware's Buried Past: A Story
of Archeological Adventure (New Brunswick, N.J.: 1944)
Weslager, C.A. Delaware's Forgotten Folk: The
Story of the Moors and Nanticokes (Philadelphia: 1943)
Weslager, C.A. The Delaware Indians: A History (New
Brunswick:Rutgers University Press, 1972)
Weslager, C.A. The Nanticoke Indians—Past and
Present
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983)
Weslager, C.A. Red Men on the Brandywine
(Wilmington, 1953)
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New Sweden:
Acrelius, Israel. A History of New Sweden; or The
Settlements on the Delaware River. Translated by William M. Reynolds
(Philadelphia: Historical Society
of
Pennsylvania, 1874)
Hoffecker, Carol E., et. al. New Sweden in America
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995)
Johnson, Amandus. The Swedish Settlements on the
Delaware:
1638—1664 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1911)
Weslager, C.A. New Sweden on the Delaware: 1638-1655. A Special
Edition for the Swedish-American Celebration (Wilmington: Middle Atlantic Press, 1988)
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Wilmington:
Hoffecker, Carol E. Brandywine Village: The Story of a
Milling
Community
(Wilmington: Old Brandywine Village, Inc., 1974)
Hoffecker, Carol E. Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an
Industrial City 1830- 1910
(Charlotte: University Press of Virginia, 1974)
Hoffecker, Carol E. Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the
Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983)
Hoffecker, Carol E. Wilmington: A Pictorial History
(Norfolk:
Donning Company Publishing, 1982)
Lincoln, Anna T. Wilmington, Delaware: Three Centuries
Under Four Flags 1609- 1937 (Rutland, VT.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc.,
1937)
Thompson, Priscilla and O'Byrne, Sally. Images
of America: Wilmington's Waterfront (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia
Publishing, Inc., 1999)
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Women’s History:
Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Council. A Legacy from
Delaware Women (Wilmington:
Middle Atlantic Press, 1987)
U.S. Department of Labor. Women in Delaware Industries: A Study
of Hours, Wages and Working Conditions (Washington D.C.:
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927) Bulletin of the
Women’s Bureau, No. 58.
Ward, Mary Sam, ed. Delaware Women Remembered
(Wilmington: The
Modern Press, 1977)
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World War II:
Conner, William H. and deValinger, Leon Jr. Delaware’s
Role
in World War II 2 vol. (Dover: Delaware Public Archives Commission, 1955)
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