CAROL E. HOFFECKER is a former Richards Professor of History at the University of Delaware, where she taught classes in U.S history, urban history, and women’s history. During her time at the University of Delaware, she helped to shape and promote university goals by serving as the president of the Faculty Senate in the 1980s, chair of the Department of History (1983–1985), and as associate provost for graduate studies (1988–995). She retired after three decades in 2003. In addition to Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware, Hoffecker has written a number of other books on Delaware history, including Wilmington: A Pictorial History, Delaware: A Bicentennial History, Federal Justice in the First State, and Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of Women at the University of Delaware.
