Book Discussion: Coming of Age in Mississippi
As part of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 2019-20 Speaker Series Rethinking the Public Sphere Part I: Race and the Promise of Participation and in preparation […]
Book Discussion: Coming of Age in Mississippi
As part of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 2019-20 Speaker Series Rethinking the Public Sphere Part I: Race and the Promise of Participation and in preparation […]
The Archaeology of Maroon Communities in Colonial Florida – Liz Ibarrola
Archaeology On Tap presents: Liz Ibarrola, M.A. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, University of Florida. During the colonial era, Spanish Florida built a reputation as a refuge for […]
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True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality – Film Screening
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality examines the personal journey of Bryan Stevenson, a public defender in Alabama and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who is working to […]
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Mississippi Freedom Project Panel
Join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) as students share their experiences from the 12th Mississippi Freedom Project trip. A team of student researchers road tripped to the Mississippi […]
Anne Moody and Voting Rights in the Era of Black Power: After Coming of Age in Mississippi – Leigh Ann Wheeler
Anne Moody is best known for her civil rights activism and her acclaimed memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). Until now, no one has known what happened in Moody’s […]
UF Synergies: Women in the Context of State Violence
The UF Synergies series features informal talks by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Rothman Faculty Summer Fellows, Tedder Doctoral Fellows, and Rothman Doctoral Fellows. Fellows will […]
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UF Synergies: Rethinking Marginal Identities
The UF Synergies series features informal talks by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Rothman Faculty Summer Fellows, Tedder Doctoral Fellows, and Rothman Doctoral Fellows. Fellows will […]
The Letters of George Long Brown: A Yankee Merchant on Florida’s Antebellum Frontier
In 1840, twenty-three-year-old George Long Brown migrated from New Hampshire to north Florida, a region just emerging from the devastating effects of the Second Seminole War. This volume presents over […]
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