Mark E. Dixon

The 'Spirit of Invention' exhibition, currently on display at Tsinghua University in Beijing, aims to inspire young entrepreneurs—no easy task in a country still bound by the principles of communism.

Wilmington-born Joe Rosevich​ played an interesting role in this 1942 operation.

Hotels and amusement parks of decades past were grand affairs that served people with limited means, limited mobility or limited access to most public facilities.

Writer Theodore Dreiser came to the First State in 1900 to observe prisoners being punished.

When Revolutionary soldiers were dying of disease, Delawarean James Tilton made a difference.

Rank didn't get him very far.

The founder of Zwaanendael imagined it as a utopia. His ultimate fate remains a mystery.

Seneca Indians thought Benjamin Ferris was there to help, but he had an agenda.

If you think politics is an inherently corrupt business, well, your great-grandparents might have thought so, too. Or not.

A perennial truth: Crowds of twenty-somethings get rowdy.