Dave Tabler
@davetabler.bsky.social
Historian, writer, photographer. Author, 3 books on Delaware history. Moderate Democrat. Twitter exile. NO. I am never going to call it "X." davetabler.com
My first "publication" was December 1958, age 3: a letter to Santa read on the radio. I asked for a fire truck and doll buggies for my sisters. The thrill of having strangers hear your words? That feeling never gets old.
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My first "publication" was December 1958, age 3: a letter to Santa read on the radio. I asked for a fire truck and doll buggies for my sisters. The thrill of having strangers hear your words? That feeling never gets old.
Pull up a cozy chair by the fire, dog at your feet, cocoa in hand. You supply those. I'll supply "Delaware at Christmas," packed with centuries of First State holiday traditions. Available now online & at Delaware bookstores.
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Pull up a cozy chair by the fire, dog at your feet, cocoa in hand. You supply those. I'll supply "Delaware at Christmas," packed with centuries of First State holiday traditions. Available now online & at Delaware bookstores.
🎄 An Evening with Dave Tabler at Huxley & Hiro
Mon, Dec 9 | 6-8 PM
601 N Market St, Wilmington
Join us for a festive conversation about Delaware at Christmas: The First State in a Merry State — plus complimentary eggnog!
📚 Book signing | All ages | Free w/ registration at tinyurl.com/89bjkfv3
Mon, Dec 9 | 6-8 PM
601 N Market St, Wilmington
Join us for a festive conversation about Delaware at Christmas: The First State in a Merry State — plus complimentary eggnog!
📚 Book signing | All ages | Free w/ registration at tinyurl.com/89bjkfv3
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎄 An Evening with Dave Tabler at Huxley & Hiro
Mon, Dec 9 | 6-8 PM
601 N Market St, Wilmington
Join us for a festive conversation about Delaware at Christmas: The First State in a Merry State — plus complimentary eggnog!
📚 Book signing | All ages | Free w/ registration at tinyurl.com/89bjkfv3
Mon, Dec 9 | 6-8 PM
601 N Market St, Wilmington
Join us for a festive conversation about Delaware at Christmas: The First State in a Merry State — plus complimentary eggnog!
📚 Book signing | All ages | Free w/ registration at tinyurl.com/89bjkfv3
Thrilled to be featured in Coastal Style Magazine discussing 'Delaware at Christmas'! From our state's role supplying plum pudding to British royalty to Milton's holly wreath boom—our history lives in the decorations and memories we bring out every year. Available at Amazon, B&N
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thrilled to be featured in Coastal Style Magazine discussing 'Delaware at Christmas'! From our state's role supplying plum pudding to British royalty to Milton's holly wreath boom—our history lives in the decorations and memories we bring out every year. Available at Amazon, B&N
Frankenstein's monster isn't just a Halloween costume.
UD Professor Persephone Braham: Shelley's creature is deliberately multiracial—what colonizers feared most.
Indigenous cultures had it right: Monsters aren't how you LOOK, but how you ACT.
tinyurl.com/yc5c9uh9
UD Professor Persephone Braham: Shelley's creature is deliberately multiracial—what colonizers feared most.
Indigenous cultures had it right: Monsters aren't how you LOOK, but how you ACT.
tinyurl.com/yc5c9uh9
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Frankenstein's monster isn't just a Halloween costume.
UD Professor Persephone Braham: Shelley's creature is deliberately multiracial—what colonizers feared most.
Indigenous cultures had it right: Monsters aren't how you LOOK, but how you ACT.
tinyurl.com/yc5c9uh9
UD Professor Persephone Braham: Shelley's creature is deliberately multiracial—what colonizers feared most.
Indigenous cultures had it right: Monsters aren't how you LOOK, but how you ACT.
tinyurl.com/yc5c9uh9
Gatekeepers love to claim that using an em dash means AI wrote the text. False. I’ve been transcribing my mother’s 1950s letters—full of em dashes. Writers used them for rhythm and breath long before algorithms existed. AI learned them from us.
October 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Gatekeepers love to claim that using an em dash means AI wrote the text. False. I’ve been transcribing my mother’s 1950s letters—full of em dashes. Writers used them for rhythm and breath long before algorithms existed. AI learned them from us.
Meet me at the Delaware Author Fair, Oct 26 at The Queen in Wilmington.
I’ll be signing Delaware at Christmas—your guide to four centuries of holiday traditions. 🎄📖
I’ll be signing Delaware at Christmas—your guide to four centuries of holiday traditions. 🎄📖
September 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Meet me at the Delaware Author Fair, Oct 26 at The Queen in Wilmington.
I’ll be signing Delaware at Christmas—your guide to four centuries of holiday traditions. 🎄📖
I’ll be signing Delaware at Christmas—your guide to four centuries of holiday traditions. 🎄📖
Join me on the virtual book tour for my new book, Delaware at Christmas / The First State in a Merry State! From October 20 to November 7, follow along for book reviews, author interviews, and giveaways. #Delaware #Christmas #BookTour #HolidayTraditions tinyurl.com/rs2zk8dp
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Join me on the virtual book tour for my new book, Delaware at Christmas / The First State in a Merry State! From October 20 to November 7, follow along for book reviews, author interviews, and giveaways. #Delaware #Christmas #BookTour #HolidayTraditions tinyurl.com/rs2zk8dp
📸 Research day at the Delaware Public Archives—digging into historic photos of Delaware’s lighthouses for my next book. Every image is a story waiting to be told.
#DelawareHistory #Lighthouses
#DelawareHistory #Lighthouses
August 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📸 Research day at the Delaware Public Archives—digging into historic photos of Delaware’s lighthouses for my next book. Every image is a story waiting to be told.
#DelawareHistory #Lighthouses
#DelawareHistory #Lighthouses
🎄📚 Thrilled! "Delaware at Christmas" accepted into @DelawareArchives permanent collection - joining my other Delaware history books in the official record!
📖 Get it: Barnes & Noble (print) or Amazon (ebook) #DelawareHistory #FirstState
📖 Get it: Barnes & Noble (print) or Amazon (ebook) #DelawareHistory #FirstState
August 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🎄📚 Thrilled! "Delaware at Christmas" accepted into @DelawareArchives permanent collection - joining my other Delaware history books in the official record!
📖 Get it: Barnes & Noble (print) or Amazon (ebook) #DelawareHistory #FirstState
📖 Get it: Barnes & Noble (print) or Amazon (ebook) #DelawareHistory #FirstState
Working on a new Civil War book and just discovered "cross-writing" - where 19th-century soldiers wrote vertically OVER their horizontal text to save paper! 🤯 As Lewis Carroll said: "Cross writing makes me cross." Thank God for AI transcription tools! #CivilWar #HistoricalResearch
July 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Working on a new Civil War book and just discovered "cross-writing" - where 19th-century soldiers wrote vertically OVER their horizontal text to save paper! 🤯 As Lewis Carroll said: "Cross writing makes me cross." Thank God for AI transcription tools! #CivilWar #HistoricalResearch
"Delaware at Christmas" earned a stellar 4-star review from Clarion Reviews! Ryan Prado calls it a "robust cornucopia" exploring Delaware’s unique holiday traditions, packed with vivid imagery and rich historical insights.
📖 Pre-order now: www.amazon.com/Delaware-Chr...
📖 Pre-order now: www.amazon.com/Delaware-Chr...
June 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Delaware at Christmas" earned a stellar 4-star review from Clarion Reviews! Ryan Prado calls it a "robust cornucopia" exploring Delaware’s unique holiday traditions, packed with vivid imagery and rich historical insights.
📖 Pre-order now: www.amazon.com/Delaware-Chr...
📖 Pre-order now: www.amazon.com/Delaware-Chr...
🎄 Coming July 1!
"Delaware at Christmas" by Dave Tabler
A festive, richly illustrated dive into 400 years of holiday history in the First State.
Kirkus: “Well-researched… diverse… joyous… beautifully crafted.”
📘 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/delaware-a...
📱 Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NJ2KTZ
"Delaware at Christmas" by Dave Tabler
A festive, richly illustrated dive into 400 years of holiday history in the First State.
Kirkus: “Well-researched… diverse… joyous… beautifully crafted.”
📘 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/delaware-a...
📱 Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NJ2KTZ
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎄 Coming July 1!
"Delaware at Christmas" by Dave Tabler
A festive, richly illustrated dive into 400 years of holiday history in the First State.
Kirkus: “Well-researched… diverse… joyous… beautifully crafted.”
📘 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/delaware-a...
📱 Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NJ2KTZ
"Delaware at Christmas" by Dave Tabler
A festive, richly illustrated dive into 400 years of holiday history in the First State.
Kirkus: “Well-researched… diverse… joyous… beautifully crafted.”
📘 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/delaware-a...
📱 Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NJ2KTZ
April 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m deep into my next book—an anthology of true crime in Delaware.
Asked ChatGPT to analyze today’s top 10 bestselling true crime covers, then design one for Delaware Behaving Badly to match the style.
Here’s what it came up with. Interesting, right?
Asked ChatGPT to analyze today’s top 10 bestselling true crime covers, then design one for Delaware Behaving Badly to match the style.
Here’s what it came up with. Interesting, right?
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m deep into my next book—an anthology of true crime in Delaware.
Asked ChatGPT to analyze today’s top 10 bestselling true crime covers, then design one for Delaware Behaving Badly to match the style.
Here’s what it came up with. Interesting, right?
Asked ChatGPT to analyze today’s top 10 bestselling true crime covers, then design one for Delaware Behaving Badly to match the style.
Here’s what it came up with. Interesting, right?
🎭✨ Mardi Gras Magic! 🎭✨
While y'all were catching beads, I caught an HONORABLE MENTION in the 2024 Digital Book Today Literary Awards! 💜💚💛
Like finding the baby in king cake - what a blessing! Creative gumbo for the win!
#MardiGrasLiteraryWin #DigitalBookTodayAwards2024
While y'all were catching beads, I caught an HONORABLE MENTION in the 2024 Digital Book Today Literary Awards! 💜💚💛
Like finding the baby in king cake - what a blessing! Creative gumbo for the win!
#MardiGrasLiteraryWin #DigitalBookTodayAwards2024
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🎭✨ Mardi Gras Magic! 🎭✨
While y'all were catching beads, I caught an HONORABLE MENTION in the 2024 Digital Book Today Literary Awards! 💜💚💛
Like finding the baby in king cake - what a blessing! Creative gumbo for the win!
#MardiGrasLiteraryWin #DigitalBookTodayAwards2024
While y'all were catching beads, I caught an HONORABLE MENTION in the 2024 Digital Book Today Literary Awards! 💜💚💛
Like finding the baby in king cake - what a blessing! Creative gumbo for the win!
#MardiGrasLiteraryWin #DigitalBookTodayAwards2024
Delaware’s literary heritage runs deep, from Howard Pyle’s swashbuckling tales to Christopher Castellani’s explorations of Italian-American life. Dive into the state’s rich storytelling tradition, discover its literary landmarks, and learn about the Delaware Book Festival.
Read more: rb.gy/05pohx
Read more: rb.gy/05pohx
February 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Delaware’s literary heritage runs deep, from Howard Pyle’s swashbuckling tales to Christopher Castellani’s explorations of Italian-American life. Dive into the state’s rich storytelling tradition, discover its literary landmarks, and learn about the Delaware Book Festival.
Read more: rb.gy/05pohx
Read more: rb.gy/05pohx
A wildcat from KY roared,
As TN’s hopes got floored.
RFK took a stand,
Trump’s firings were planned,
While the Pope’s warning got ignored.
The Hall of Fame named its best,
JFK files put myths to test.
A plane took a dive,
The sub lost its life,
And Chiefs gave refs some unrest.
As TN’s hopes got floored.
RFK took a stand,
Trump’s firings were planned,
While the Pope’s warning got ignored.
The Hall of Fame named its best,
JFK files put myths to test.
A plane took a dive,
The sub lost its life,
And Chiefs gave refs some unrest.
February 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A wildcat from KY roared,
As TN’s hopes got floored.
RFK took a stand,
Trump’s firings were planned,
While the Pope’s warning got ignored.
The Hall of Fame named its best,
JFK files put myths to test.
A plane took a dive,
The sub lost its life,
And Chiefs gave refs some unrest.
As TN’s hopes got floored.
RFK took a stand,
Trump’s firings were planned,
While the Pope’s warning got ignored.
The Hall of Fame named its best,
JFK files put myths to test.
A plane took a dive,
The sub lost its life,
And Chiefs gave refs some unrest.
Hard at work on Delaware Behaving Badly, a true crime collection ripped from the headlines:
⚓ Oyster pirates looting the bay
💰 A bank teller who vanished with $107K
🖼️ A gang that stole Wyeth paintings
🔮 Witchcraft hysteria & fortune tellers
🚂 A railroad man’s deadly scheme
⚓ Oyster pirates looting the bay
💰 A bank teller who vanished with $107K
🖼️ A gang that stole Wyeth paintings
🔮 Witchcraft hysteria & fortune tellers
🚂 A railroad man’s deadly scheme
February 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hard at work on Delaware Behaving Badly, a true crime collection ripped from the headlines:
⚓ Oyster pirates looting the bay
💰 A bank teller who vanished with $107K
🖼️ A gang that stole Wyeth paintings
🔮 Witchcraft hysteria & fortune tellers
🚂 A railroad man’s deadly scheme
⚓ Oyster pirates looting the bay
💰 A bank teller who vanished with $107K
🖼️ A gang that stole Wyeth paintings
🔮 Witchcraft hysteria & fortune tellers
🚂 A railroad man’s deadly scheme
Thrilled to share that Delaware from Freeways to E-ways won the 2025 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award in Nonfiction - Historical/Cultural! Grateful for this honor and for all my readers. Check out the full list of winners on the PenCraft website! 📖✨ www.pencraftaward.com/winners/2025...
January 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thrilled to share that Delaware from Freeways to E-ways won the 2025 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award in Nonfiction - Historical/Cultural! Grateful for this honor and for all my readers. Check out the full list of winners on the PenCraft website! 📖✨ www.pencraftaward.com/winners/2025...
Treasure! Only open certain times for tours; call before you go.
January 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Treasure! Only open certain times for tours; call before you go.
🎉 Exciting news! Delaware from Freeways to E-Ways just earned a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from Chanticleer! They called it “an à la carte tour of Delawarean history, clearly supported by thorough research.” Honored by this recognition! Read the full review: www.chantireviews.com/2025/01/08/d...
January 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🎉 Exciting news! Delaware from Freeways to E-Ways just earned a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from Chanticleer! They called it “an à la carte tour of Delawarean history, clearly supported by thorough research.” Honored by this recognition! Read the full review: www.chantireviews.com/2025/01/08/d...
🎄 Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah! 🎄
Coming in 2026: "Delaware Behaving Badly: The First State’s First Crimes." Discover the stories behind Delaware’s first theft, witchcraft trial, act of piracy, and more!
May your holidays be merry, bright, and filled with great reads!
December 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
🎄 Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah! 🎄
Coming in 2026: "Delaware Behaving Badly: The First State’s First Crimes." Discover the stories behind Delaware’s first theft, witchcraft trial, act of piracy, and more!
May your holidays be merry, bright, and filled with great reads!
If I could, I’d have the Ghost of Christmas Present hand you my book now. But the editors are still polishing it to perfection.
Good news? By next Christmas, 2025, Delaware at Christmas will bring holiday cheer to your bookshelf.
Some gifts are worth the wait!
Good news? By next Christmas, 2025, Delaware at Christmas will bring holiday cheer to your bookshelf.
Some gifts are worth the wait!
December 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
If I could, I’d have the Ghost of Christmas Present hand you my book now. But the editors are still polishing it to perfection.
Good news? By next Christmas, 2025, Delaware at Christmas will bring holiday cheer to your bookshelf.
Some gifts are worth the wait!
Good news? By next Christmas, 2025, Delaware at Christmas will bring holiday cheer to your bookshelf.
Some gifts are worth the wait!
Looking for great nonfiction reads or gifts this Christmas? 🎄📚 Check out EBookfairs! Discover Dave Tabler’s Delaware: From Freeways to E-Ways & more. Unique reads, thoughtful gifts, all in one stop! 🎁✨ #HolidayReads #SupportAuthors ebookfairs.com/Fair/Book?id...
December 11, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Looking for great nonfiction reads or gifts this Christmas? 🎄📚 Check out EBookfairs! Discover Dave Tabler’s Delaware: From Freeways to E-Ways & more. Unique reads, thoughtful gifts, all in one stop! 🎁✨ #HolidayReads #SupportAuthors ebookfairs.com/Fair/Book?id...