How did the RISE Program challenge perceptions of underrepresented students in engineering?
By: Alan Parkes and Pamela Ahern | Posted: 5-1-2024
… Continue Reading Engineering Success and Empowering Communities: The RISE Program
How did enslavers prevent the school’s proposed dissolution?
By: Ryan Bachman | Posted: 3-26-2024… Continue Reading Slavery, Scholarships, and the Survival of Delaware College
“History Matters: University of Delaware Research Project Examines UD’s History with Slavery,” The Green (Delaware Public Media, May 12, 2023)… Continue Reading Interview on “The Green,” Delaware Public Media
What was life like for African Americans at UD and in Newark in the 1950s-1980s?… Continue Reading Oral History Interviews: African Americans & the University of Delaware Collection
What did freedom look like for the Chase family?
By: Ruth Decosse
Posted: 7-7-2022
… Continue Reading To be Young, Black, and Manumitted: The Case of the Chase Family in Delaware
How did a wealthy Newark family secure and exploit Black laborers?
By: Maureen Iplenski
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading “Neither Free Nor Slave”: The Bondage of Free Blacks in the Lewis Family Household
What were Rathmell Wilson’s connections to slavery and oppression in antebellum Delaware?
By: Collin Willard
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Enslavement, Exploitation, and Upholding Unfreedom
Mapping Black existence in White Clay Creek Hundred
By: Britney Henry
Posted on 7-7-2022… Continue Reading “Sights and Sites of Memory”
How did free Blacks use legislative petitions to protest racial oppression in antebellum Delaware?
By: Krishanna Prince
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Free Black Petitioning in Antebellum Delaware
How did Delaware College benefit from the exploitation of Black labor in student family households?
By: Tara Lennon
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Students, Delaware College, and the Exploited Labor of Black People
