Draft:Carol E Hoffecker

Dr. Carol E. Hoffecker was born in Wilmington, Delaware on December 29, 1938. She attended the Mount Pleasant School District from 1944 to 1956.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=667A74A6-A093-4E5A-AF77-5AB6EC9782F0|title=Video (U.S. National Park Service)|website=www.nps.gov}} Hoffecker attained her undergraduate degree at the University of Delaware, graduating with honors in 1960.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/owaa/artwork/carol-e-hoffecker|title=Carol E. Hoffecker from the collection of The Delaware Women's Hall of Fame|website=Artwork Archive}} She wrote her senior thesis on the siege of Lewes, Delaware during the War of 1812. Her teaching career began at Sweet Briar College in 1963 and she later taught at Northeastern University.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/00/1/carol.html|title=Carol Hoffecker named state professor of the year|website=www1.udel.edu}}

Hoffecker earned her master's degree in history at Radcliffe College, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967.{{Cite web|url=https://guides.lib.de.us/c.php?g=127465&p=10110602|title=LibGuides: Delawareana: Books by Dr. Carol Hoffecker|first=Delaware|last=Libraries|website=guides.lib.de.us}} She returned to her home state of Delaware in 1968 as a junior resident scholar at the Hagley Museum and Library, where she began work on a history of Delaware. She completed her fellowship program at the Hagley Museum and Library in 1970.https://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2009/may/images/HoffeckerCitation.pdf That year, she also returned to UD, when she became coordinator of the Hagley Graduate Program and taught courses on Delaware history and urban history. In 1973, she became a full-time faculty member.

For the next 30 years, Dr. Hoffecker devoted herself to teaching and the study of history, with focus on the State of Delaware. Her students, both undergraduate and graduate, respected her knowledge and passion for history and benefited from her commitment to their education.

From 1983 to 1988, Dr. Hoffecker chaired the history department. Then she was asked to assist in the provost's office on an interim basis. This became formalized when she was named associate provost for graduate studies from November 1988 until June 1995. She was awarded the Del Tufo Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Humanities (1988); and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Goldey-Beacom College (1993); and was awarded the University of Delaware Medal of Distinction (1998).

Dr. Hoffecker was named 1999 Delaware Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

During her three-decade tenure at the University, Dr. Hoffecker completed terms as vice president and then president of the Faculty Senate, was Chair of the Department of History (1983 – 1985), and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies (1988 – 1995). She led the Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Education, chaired the University's Commission on the Status of Women, and served on the board of the University of Delaware Press.

Dr. Hoeffecker was the author of 19 books and numerous journal articles.

Dr. Hoffecker's significant efforts and accomplishments have been recognized with several awards, including a named professorship, induction in the Alumni Wall of Fame, the Francis Alison Faculty Award, the E.A. Trabant Award for Women's Excellence, a University of Delaware Medal of Distinction.

Dr. Hoffecker was the first ever College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lifetime Service Award in 2003. She was honored with inclusion in the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women in 1993.

At the time of her retirement in 2003, Dr. Hoffecker was the Richards Professor Emerita of History.

Dr. Hoffecker served as an exhibit curator or consultant to a number of historical institutions, including the Historical Society of Delaware, the Delaware Public Archives, and the Rockwood Museum. She was a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, where she collaborated on the writing of the entry on Delaware.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/contributor/Carol-E-Hoffecker/4818|title=Carol E. Hoffecker | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}} She was editor of the magazine Delaware History, has spoken frequently on Delaware history to organizations throughout the state, and was a historian of her own school - the University of Delaware.{{cite web | url=https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2018/february/275-anniversary-year-hoffecker/ | title=Celebrating 275 Years }} She donated her papers and a collection of 71 bookplates to the University of Delaware Special Collections.{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.lib.udel.edu/repositories/2/resources/2165|title=Collection: Carol Hoffecker papers | Finding Aids for Archival Collections|website=findingaids.lib.udel.edu}}{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.lib.udel.edu/repositories/2/resources/1661|title=Collection: Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection | Finding Aids for Archival Collections|website=findingaids.lib.udel.edu}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Old Brandywine Village Inc.| asin = B0006CHIM0| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Brandywine Village, The Story Of A Milling Community| location = Wilmington, Delaware| date = 1974}}Reviews of Brandywine Village

• {{Cite journal |last=Snyder |first=Charles M. |date=1975 |title=Review of Brandywine Village: The Story of a Milling Community |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2936232 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=670–671 |doi=10.2307/2936232 |issn=0021-8723}}
• {{Cite journal |date=1975 |title=Review of Brandywine Village, the Story of a Milling Community |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20090991 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=99 |issue=3 |pages=394–395 |issn=0031-4587}}

{{Cite journal| volume = XVI| issue = 1| pages = 60–72| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = The Politics of Exclusion: Blacks in Late Nineteenth-Century Wilmington, Delaware| journal = Delaware History| date = 1974}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Published for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia| isbn = 978-0-8139-0519-8| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Wilmington, Delaware: portrait of an industrial city, 1830-1910| location = Charlottesville, Virginia| date = 1974}}Reviews of Wilmington, Delaware

• {{Cite journal |last=Bayor |first=Ronald H. |date=1975 |title=Review of Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an Industrial City, 1830-1910 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3103448 |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=639–640 |doi=10.2307/3103448 |issn=0040-165X}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Madison |first=James H. |date=1975 |title=Review of Wilmington, Delaware: Portrait of an Industrial City, 1830-1910; San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112972 |journal=The Business History Review |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=118–120 |doi=10.2307/3112972 |issn=0007-6805}}

{{Cite journal| volume = XVI| issue = 3 Spring - Summer, 1975| pages = 184–243| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = The Diaries of Edmund Canby : a Quaker Miller, 1822-1848| journal = Delaware History| date = 1975}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Norton| isbn = 978-0-393-05620-4| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Delaware: a Bicentennial history| location = New York, New York| series = The States and the Nation series| date = 1977}}Reviews of Delaware

• {{Cite journal |last=Sehr |first=Timothy J. |date=1980 |title=Review of Delaware; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1855073 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=705–707 |doi=10.2307/1855073 |issn=0002-8762}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Gray |first=Ralph D. |date=1978 |title=Review of Delaware: A Bicentennial History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888186 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=156–157 |doi=10.2307/1888186 |issn=0021-8723}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Baumann |first=Roland M. |date=1978 |title=Review of Delaware: A Bicentennial History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2208294 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=150–151 |doi=10.2307/2208294 |issn=0022-4642}}

{{Cite book| publisher = University of Delaware Press| isbn = 978-0-87413-107-9| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Readings in Delaware History| location = Newark, Delaware| date = 1979}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Public Works Historical Society| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Water and sewage works in Wilmington, Delaware, 1810-1910| location = Chicago, Illinois| series = Essays in public works history| date = 1981}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Temple University Press| isbn = 978-0-87722-305-4| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Corporate Capital: Wilmington In The 20th Century| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania| date = 1983}}Reviews of Corporate Capital

• {{Cite journal |last=Lotchin |first=Roger W. |date=1985 |title=Review of Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20091954 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=109 |issue=3 |pages=421–422 |issn=0031-4587}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Hancock |first=John |date=1984 |title=Review of CORPORATE CAPITAL: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40641892 |journal=American Studies |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=88–89 |issn=0026-3079}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Teaford |first=Jon C. |date=1984 |title=Review of Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1901805 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=410–411 |doi=10.2307/1901805 |issn=0021-8723}}

{{Cite journal| volume = XX| issue = 3| pages = 49–167| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Delaware's Woman Suffrage Campaign| journal = Delaware History| date = 1983}}

{{Cite book| publisher = University of Delaware| last1 = Hoffecker| first1 = Carol E.| last2 = Munroe| first2 = John A.| title = Books, Bricks & Bibliophiles: The University of Delaware Library| location = Newark, Delaware| date = 1984}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Middle Atlantic Press| isbn = 978-0-912608-47-1| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Delaware, The First State| location = Wilmington, Delaware| date = 1988}}

{{Cite book| publisher = The Middle Atlantic Press| isbn = 978-0-912608-66-2| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = A teacher's guide to Delaware, the first state| location = Wilmington, Delaware| date = 1988}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Donning| isbn = 978-0-89865-057-0| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Wilmington: A Pictoral History| location = Norfolk, Virginia| date = 1990}}

{{Cite book| publisher = The Historical Society for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Federal justice in the first state : a history of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware| location = Wilmington, Delaware| date = 1992}}

{{Cite book| publisher = University of Delaware| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Beneath Thy Guiding Hand : A history Of Women At The University of Delaware| location = Newark, Delaware| date = 1994}}Review of Beneath Thy Guiding Hand

• {{Cite journal |last=McCandless |first=Amy Thompson |date=1995 |title=Review of Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of Women at the University of Delaware |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/369761 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=316–317 |doi=10.2307/369761 |issn=0018-2680}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Unidel Foundation, Inc| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Unidel : A Foundation For University Enrichment| location = Wilmington, Delaware| date = 1995}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Univ. of Delaware Press [u.a.]| isbn = 978-0-87413-520-6| others = Carol E. Hoffecker (ed.)| title = New Sweden in America| location = Newark, Delaware| date = 1995}}Review of New Sweden in America

• {{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=John G. |date=1997 |title=Review of New Sweden in America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27774007 |journal=Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies |volume=64 |issue=3 |pages=439–440 |issn=0031-4528}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Kaups |first=Matti E. |date=1996 |title=Review of New Sweden in America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2944962 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=592–592 |doi=10.2307/2944962 |issn=0021-8723}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Nordstrom |first=Byron J. |date=1997 |title=Review of New Sweden in America |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20093168 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=121 |issue=4 |pages=390–392 |issn=0031-4587}}

{{Cite book| publisher = University of Delaware| isbn = 978-0-9656848-1-1| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Familiar relations: the Du Ponts & the University of Delaware| location = Newark, Delaware| date = 2000}}

{{Cite book| publisher = University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses| isbn = 978-0-87413-713-2| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator From Delaware| location = Newark, Delaware| series = Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore| date = 2000}}Reviews of Honest John Williams

• {{Cite journal |last=Hilty |first=James W. |date=2001 |title=Review of Honest John Williams U.S. Senator from Delaware |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20093443 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=125 |issue=1/2 |pages=150–151 |issn=0031-4587}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Holloway |first=Pippa |date=2002 |title=Review of Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3069755 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=227–228 |doi=10.2307/3069755 |issn=0022-4642}}

{{Cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Cedar Tree Books| isbn = 978-1-892142-23-8| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Democracy in Delaware: The Story Of The First State's General Assembly| location = Wilmington, Delaware| date = 2004}}

{{Cite journal| volume = XXXI| issue = 3| pages = 135–136| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = John Andrew Munroe 1914-2006| journal = Delaware History| date = 2006}}

{{Cite book| publisher = Gibbs Smith| isbn = 978-1-58685-747-9| last1 = Benson| first1 = Barbara E.| last2 = Hoffecker| first2 = Carol E.| last3 = Mires| first3 = Peter B.| title = The Delaware Adventure| location = Salt Lake City, Utah| date = 2006}}

{{Cite journal| volume = XXXII| issue = 3| pages = 155–170| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = Abraham Lincoln and Delaware| journal = Delaware History| date = 2008}}

{{Cite journal| volume = XXXII| issue = 2| pages = 61–104| last = Hoffecker| first = Carol E.| title = The Compact of 1905 and its role in the United States Supreme Court Cases : New Jersey v. Delaware I, II, III| journal = Delaware History| date = 2008}}

{{Cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Oak Knoll Press| isbn = 978-1-58456-296-2 | last1 = Benson| first1 = Barbara E.| last2 = Hoffecker| first2 = Carol E.| title = New Castle, Delaware: a walk through time| location = New Castle, Delaware| date = 2011}}

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