Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...a Librarian" feature, the Florida Electronic Library contains two principal divsions: Florida Memory and Florida on Florida. Florida on Florida Florida on Florida is "a comprehensive digital collection of Florida's...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” —Toni Morrison Introduction At ten years old, visual artist Forrest Lawson remembers being bullied on the playground of his Fort Myers, Florida,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...in 1845 Florida became the twenty-seventh US state. Thus, there has been a Spanish presence since the "discovery" of Florida by Europeans. In these discourses, however, Florida is constructed as...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...enslaved labor contributed substantially to the city's economy and the Confederate war effort. Slaves in Atlanta carried out non-agricultural tasks, including iron forging, cabinet making, carpentry, brick masonry, blacksmithing, and—most...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...peonage trials, see Daniel, The Shadow of Slavery. On Quackenbos, see Jerrell H. Shofner, "Mary Grace Quackenbos, a Visitor Florida Did Not Want," Florida Historical Quarterly 58, no. 3 (January...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...New History of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996). Fortified on Matanzas Bay by the stalwart Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine withstood centuries of conflict between Spanish, British,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...of Florida Memory: State Library and Archives of Florida. I first stumbled upon my problem quite by accident, as an extension of my job as an English professor at the...