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Florida History Lecture Series
2006-2007 Florida Lecture Series Schedule
Listen to this year's lectures via Podcast, provided by WUSF.
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September 28
Gov. Bob Graham
"Conversation with Gov. Bob Graham"
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Bob Graham, one of Florida's most
important political figures of the twentieth century, is the
fourth child of south Florida pioneer, mining engineer,
cattleman and legislator Ernest "Cap" Graham. Graham excelled at
the University of Florida and Harvard Law School, and began his
celebrated career in public service with ten years in the
Florida Legislature. Graham's next eight years as Florida
governor (1978-1986) were among the most important in the
state's history, and Florida's impressive strides in higher
education and environmental protection were largely attributable
to Graham's leadership. During his subsequent three terms in the
United States Senate, Graham was admired as one of the Senate's
most thoughtful and respected voices. Perhaps his finest hour in
that body came in October 2002 when, as chair of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, he sounded the alarm against al Qaeda,
Hezbollah, and Hamas as the greatest threats to American
security. These sentiments were expressed in his book,
Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the
Failure of America's War on Terror (2004, with Jeff
Nussbaum). Since his 2004 retirement from the Senate and
unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party's nomination for
president, Graham has served as an Institute of Politics Fellow
at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He
lives in Miami with his wife of 47 years, Adele. They have four
daughters and many grandchildren.
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November 16
Jim Cusick
P. K. Yonge Library, University of Florida
"East Florida's Other War of 1812" |
James Gregory Cusick, a
specialist in the study of the Spanish colonial period in
Florida, holds degrees in journalism (B.S.) and anthropology
(M.A., Ph.D.). He has lived in Florida since high school and is
a long-time resident of both St. Johns County and Alachua
County. For the past eight years, Cusick has been a curator and
archivist for the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History in the
department of special collections at the University of Florida's
George Smathers Library. He serves on the board of directors for
the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, the St.
Augustine Archaeological Association and the Florida Historical
Society. Cusick also serves as president of the Seminole Wars
Historic Foundation and is a research associate at the St.
Augustine Historical Society. His first book, The Other War
of 1812 (2003), was published by the University Press of
Florida and is being reissued in paperback by the University of
Georgia Press.
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October 12
Kathryn Holland
Professor of History, Auburn University
"Living off the Land: William Bartram's Description of
Late Eighteenth-Century Florida Foodways" |
Alabama native Kathryn Holland-Braund, a
specialist in southern colonial history, holds degrees from
Auburn University (M.A.) and Florida State University (Ph.D.). A
professor of history at Auburn University, her primary research
focuses on the ethno-history of the Creek and Seminole Indians
in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She is the
author or editor of four books including Deerskins and
Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815
(1993) and William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians
(1995, with Gregory A. Waselkov). Her articles and reviews have
appeared in many journals including the Journal of American
History, the American Historical Review, the
Journal of Southern History, the American Indian
Quarterly and the Alabama Review. Braund serves as
president of the Bartram Trail Conference, an organization
dedicated to celebrating the travels of William Bartram. She
lives in Dadeville, Ala., with her husband Kyle.
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January 25
Steve Engle
Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University
"Struggle for the Heartland: The Civil War in the West" |
A native of West Virginia,
Engle holds degrees from Shepard College (B.A.) and Florida
State University (Ph.D.), and has been chair of the Florida
Atlantic University Department of History since 2001. He
specializes in nineteenth century American history with an
emphasis in the Civil War and Reconstruction era. More
specifically, his research focuses on civil-military relations
and ethnic dimensions of the Civil War. He is the author of
several books, including Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz
Sigel (1993), Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All
(1999), Struggle for the Heartland (2001), and The
American Civil War in the West (2001). He co-authored (with
Gallagher, Krick and Glatthaar) The American Civil War: This
Mighty Scourge of War (2003). Engle has presented several
papers at professional conferences in the United States and
Germany, and his articles and reviews have appeared in the
Journal of American History, American Historical Review,
Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, and the
AHA Perspectives. The winner of numerous teaching awards,
Engle was named Distinguished Teacher of the Year in 2000. He
was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and in 2003 was named a
Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American
Historians. Engle serves as the executive treasurer for the
Society of Civil War Historians.
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February 8
Rosalyn Howard
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Central
Florida
"From Tampa Bay to Red Bays: Florida's Black Seminole
Diaspora" |
Dr. Howard is an assistant
professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida,
specializing in cultural anthropology. She earned her Ph.D. from
the University of Florida in 1999. Much of Howard's current
research focuses on how the interrelationships of African and
indigenous peoples in the Americas and the Caribbean relate to
cultural identity. Her book, Black Seminoles in the Bahamas
(2002) explores both the historical relationships of Seminole
Indians and Black Seminoles, and their present-day descendants
in Florida. Her latest research involves an interdisciplinary
project, "Looking for Angola," about a maroon community formerly
located near Sarasota, Fla., that could have direct connections
to the Bahamian Black Seminole descendants on Andros Island. Her
research about the existence of the Black Seminoles' pathway to
freedom in the Bahamas will become part of "The Slave Route," a
project mapping the African Diaspora that is being conducted by
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) in Paris.
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March 15* - Book Talk and Signing
Ace Atkins
Writer, Oxford, Mississippi
The White Shadow
*The Robert and Rose Stahl Criminal Justice Lecture |
Born in Troy, Ala., Ace
Atkins attended Auburn University where he honed his skills as
both a writer and a defensive end on the undefeated 1993 Auburn
University football team. Before turning to writing full time,
Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The
Tampa Tribune, earning a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his
seven-part series on the 1955 unsolved murder of Tampa socialite
and gambling king pin Charlie Wall. Atkins wrote two crime
novels set in the South, Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers
Mystery (1998) and Leavin' Trunk Blues (2001) while
working as a reporter. Commercial success as a novelist and an
offer to become a visiting journalism professor at the
University of Mississippi convinced him to concentrate on
writing full time. He wrote the highly acclaimed Dark End of
the Street (2002), Dirty South (2004), and White
Shadow (2006). The latter is based on his five years of
research on the Wall slaying, including sealed court and police
records, countless interviews with players of that period, and
even an extended research trip to Havana. Atkins resides near
Oxford, Miss., with his wife Angela and their dogs Elvis and
Polk Salad Annie.
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