Florida Historical Quarterly

We interviewed Professor David Jackson Jr. from Florida A & M University, about his article “Industrious, Thrifty and Ambitious”: Jacksonville’s African American Businesspeople during the Jim Crow Era,” which appeared in this issue. It is about the business class of Jacksonville during the Jim Crow Era. We also interviewed Tina Bucuvalas, who was the 2012 Jillian Prescott Memorial Keynote Speaker at the Florida Historical Society Meeting and Symposium in Tampa.

This episode features interviews with the guest editors of the special issue, Julian C. Chambliss and Denise K. Cummings, speaking about their article, “Florida: The Mediated State.” The entire issue is dedicated to an examination of how cultural actors have defined the way that we imagine Florida through popular culture.

This episode features interviews with all of the contributors for this special issue on the West Florida Revolt of 1810: “Introduction: Setting a Precedent for Regional Revolution: The West Florida Revolt Considered,” by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., “Some Thoughts on Spanish East and West Florida as Borderlands,” by James G. Cusick, “The Origins of the Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, the West Florida Revolt, and the No Transfer Policy,” by William S. Belko, and “The Rise and Fall of the Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant in West Florida,” by Cody Scallions. The entire issue is dedicated the global context and impact of the revolt from a variety of different perspectives.

This podcast features an interview with James M. (Mike) Denham, whose article “Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Pensacola” appeared in this issue. Professor Denham is the Director of Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College. In addition, we interviewed Professor Raymond A. Mohl, Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, about the life and legacy of Stetson Kennedy who passed away on August 27, 2011, at the age of 94.

This podcast is about a special issue devoted to literature in Florida. Dr. Connie Lester, Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly, interviewed Rebecca Sharpless, Associate Professor of History at Texas Christian University, about her article titled “The Servants and Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens and African American Life at Cross Creek.”

We interviewed Jessica Clawson, a graduate student at the University of Florida, about her article “Administrative Recalcitrance and Government Intervention: Desegregation at the University of Florida, 1962-1972,” which appeared in this issue. It concerns the racial integration of UF in the 1960s and ’70s.

We interviewed the three authors that contributed to this special issue, all of whom are graduate students finishing their Ph.D.s on Florida history topics. We asked the authors about their experiences researching a Florida topic while early in their scholarly careers. Our guests on this podcast were Deborah L. Bauer, author of “. . . in a strange place”: The Experiences of British Women during the Colonization of East & West Florida,” Nicole C. Cox, author of “Selling Seduction: Women and Feminine Nature in 1920s Florida,” and Peter Ferdinando, author of “A Translation History of Florida.”

We interviewed Gilbert C. Din, Professor Emeritus at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is the author of several books on colonial Louisiana and a frequent contributor to the FHQ. We interviewed him about his work on William August Bowles and about his article that appeared in this issue, titled “William August Bowles on the Gulf Coast, 1787-1803: Unraveling a Labyrinthine Conundrum.”

We interviewed Derrick E. White, Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. He wrote an article that appeared in this issue, titled “From Desegregation to Integration: Race, Football, and "Dixie" at the University of Florida.” It is about Confederate memory and racial integration at Florida universities during the 1960s.

We interviewed Daniel Feller, Professor of History and Editor/Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson. He gave the 2009 Catherine Prescott Lecture for the Florida Historical Society, which became an article in this issue. It is titled “The Seminole Controversy Revisited: A New Look At Andrew Jackson's 1818 Florida Campaign.”