Delaware Information about many aspects of Delaware may be found in Delaware Federal Writers' Project, Delaware: A Guide to the First State (1938, reissued 1973), also available in a new and revised edition by Jeanette Eckman (1955, reissued 1976); and in Delaware Today (monthly). DeLorme Mapping Company, Maryland, Delaware Atlas & Gazetteer (1993), focuses on topography. Tracey L. Bryant and Jonathan R. Pennock (eds.), The Delaware Estuary: Rediscovering a Forgotten Resource (1988), treats a major part of the state's ecology. Paul Dolan and James R. Soles, Government of Delaware (1976), is a useful introduction. H. Clay Reed and Marion Björnson Reed (comps.), A Bibliography of Delaware Through 1960 (1966), is supplemented by University of Delaware Library Reference Department, Bibliography of Delaware, 1960-1974 (1976). Overviews of state history are found in John A. Munroe, History of Delaware, 3rd ed. (1993); and Carol E. Hoffecker, Delaware: A Bicentennial History (1977). Specific periods are treated in C.A. Weslager, The Delaware Indians: A History (1972, reissued 1990), and The English on the Delaware: 1610-1682 (1967); John A. Munroe, Colonial Delaware: A History (1978), and Federalist Delaware, 1775-1815 (1954); William Henry Williams, Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865 (1996); Patience Essah, A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865 (1996); Harold Bell Hancock, Delaware During the Civil War: A Political History (1961); and Bernard L. Herman, Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900 (1987). Ongoing research is reported in Delaware History (quarterly). (J.A.Mu./Ed.) Bright Star