Index of History Programs

Speakers Bureau topics fall into three main categories: Arts, Culture & Society, and History. Humanities topics often overlap, so please be sure to review our entire listing of topics - you may find your favorite presentation in an unexpected place!

Use the links below to access the details about a topic and to learn who the speaker will be - or go right to the program details page. You can also review our entire list of Speakers Bureau presenters. When you are ready to submit your request for a presentation use our Speakers Bureau Reservation Form.

The African American Experience

  • African/African American Historical Journey
  • America & Slavery: The Reparations Question
  • Black Delaware Participation in the Civil War
  • Delaware Black History: Past & Present
  • Dr. Charles Albert Tindley: Delaware Hymnist Extraordinaire
  • From Africa to the Americas via Music, Song, Dance & Stories
  • George Washington Carver, An Interpretive, Interactive Telling of the Legacy
  • History of the Negro Baseball Leagues
  • Kwanzaa
  • Let's Bookmark Brown
  • Private James H. Elbert, U.S. Colored Troops

Delmarva History & Native Peoples

  • Delaware in the Civil War
  • Delaware in WWII
  • Elkton, Maryland: Marriage Capital of the East
  • Food Lore: Scrapple, Muskrat and More
  • Fort Miles Restoration
  • Lightships: Floating Lighthouses of the Delaware River
  • Oliver Evans, Merino Sheep, and the Industrial Revolution in Delaware
  • Planning For Survival: The Eastern Trail of Lewis and Clark
  • Rails in Delaware
  • The Ciconicin (Sikonese)
  • The Crime and the Time: The History of Criminal Justice in Delaware
  • The Life & Times of Caesar Rodney
  • The Mason-Dixon Line: The Story Behind the Boundary (cross-posted in US History)
  • The Native Peoples of Delaware: Indian Culture and History
  • The People Who Stayed Behind: A History of the Indian People of Delaware, 1630-2008
  • The Tales Tombstones Tell
  • We Suffered to Make You Free: Memories of a Delaware Continental Soldier

Global Issues & World History

  • A Misunderstood Peace: the Treaty of Versailles
  • From Ben Hoa to Bosnia: My 27 Years in Today's Army
  • Vietnam Under Renovation

United States History

  • An Examination of the Presidential Assassination Attempts 1789-Present
  • Dark Days in Dallas
  • Duck & Cover: Remembering the Days of Sputnik, Conalrad & Fallout Shelters
  • Forging the Future: Civil War Military Intelligence
  • George Washington, Stonewall Jackson & Tom Hanks
  • Great Expectations and Dashed Hopes: American Indians and the American Revolution
  • Ladies and Gentlemen: The Presidents of the United States
  • Meet the Presidents
  • On the Home Front, "The War" as Seen through the Eyes of a Young Girl
  • Rediscovering America
  • Tempest in a Teapot
  • "Terrible Swift Sword": Modern Technology in the Civil War
  • The Civil War in History and Memory
  • The Mason-Dixon Line: The Story Behind the Boundary (cross-posted in Delmarva History)
  • The Muzzleloading Pennsylvania Rifle: Its Influence on Colonial Culture
  • The Under the Skirt Tour of the Civil War (cross-posted in Women's Lives)
  • The Welsh in North America: Impact of David Thomas
  • Unlacing the Victorian Woman (cross-posted in Women's Lives)
  • With Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln in Words and Pictures
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