Come to the 2026 History Book Festival
The History Book Festival is the only book festival dedicated to history through story, showcasing new historical fiction and narrative nonfiction from multiple subjects, eras, and voices.
The History Book Festival is the only book festival dedicated to history through story, showcasing new historical fiction and narrative nonfiction from multiple subjects, eras, and voices.
Black Summit 2026 will bring Black Delawareans together to at Delaware State University to develop an agenda that identifies our shared bonds and produces strategies, action steps, and measurable outcomes to help prevent further setbacks in the pursuit of a truly democratic America.
On Friday, July 17, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Epworth United Methodist Church (19285 Holland Glade Road, Rehoboth Beach) will host a screening of the documentary “The Sins of our Fathers: Race, Religion, and the Rise of Trump.” The film follows a white Evangelical whose assumptions are upended by a hard look at the history of Charleston, South Carolina — leading him to examine how partisan strategy has exploited white Christian identity and to reckon with our nation’s history of racial injustice.
What does it take to build a movement from scratch? A recent episode of Blue Coast Talk answers that question by tracing the origin of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice, founded in 2015 and now celebrating a decade of work.
In 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society and posed a question that still echoes: what does Independence Day mean to those who were never free to celebrate it?