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War On Drugs Legislation In The 1980s: Failed Policies That Created Racial Injustice, Shane Smith

2022 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

For 40 years now, the War on Drugs has continued to damage millions of African American lives around the United States. As a result of failed drug control policies, not only have prisons become extremely overcrowded, but millions of people are still facing consequences such as massive poverty, broken family dynamics, violence, and tensions with law enforcement in their communities. Although this has become a contemporary issue, it is even more important to understand the origins of how this came to be. Digging to the source of the mess is the first step to understanding how we, as a society, …

The Cornbread Country: Cornbread And The Development Of Southern Identity, Ashton Doar

Senior Theses

Following the chronological development of the American South from the pre-colonial era to the present day, this thesis analyzes the importance of cornbread in relation to historical circumstances. Native Americans, British settlers, early Americans, and self-identifying Southerners all related to the land and to its food in unique ways. Narrowing the scope of this broad topic to the specific point of cornbread allows for an analysis of the continuity and change of people's circumstances and life experience, as well as the ways in which people define themselves by their food.

Fair Construction To Living Constitution: Analyzing Constitutional Interpretation Throughout United States History, Joshua Lloyd

Senior Honors Theses

The proper method of constitutional interpretation has been debated throughout the history of the Supreme Court. This debate has been defined by the tension between the originalist and living constitution jurisprudences. Each has been dominant at one point in United States history. A fair construction jurisprudence was almost universally utilized by the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution according to its original meaning until Plessy v. Ferguson. Then, due to an alliance between evangelicals and progressive scholars, a broader, more lenient living constitution jurisprudence developed which allowed justices to interpret the Constitution in light of changing social norms. Finally, …

Ursinus Magazine, Spring 2022, Tom Yencho, Ed Moorhouse, Robyn E. Hannigan, Jennifer Meininger Wolfe, Tommy Armstrong, Doron Taussig, Anthony Nadler

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Thank you, Jill • Best Bears among us • Assisting students in need • A pledge for PhDs • Building on a legacy • BOD POD research • Getting to know: Lauren McCardel • Brew master • New Bear in the den • Bear bites: A Q&A with incoming President Hannigan • Here to help: Combatting a mental health crisis • Welcome Home: A historic partnership • Commencement 2022 • In memoriam • Class notes • Births • Burning question: Do conservatives feel shamed by the media?

The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer

English Theses and Dissertations

The Rise of an Eco-Spiritual Imaginary reveals a shared ecological aesthetic among contemporary U.S. ethnic writers whose novels communicate a decolonial spiritual reverence for the earth. This shared narrative focus challenges white settler colonial mythologies of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism to instantiate new ways of imagining community across socially constructed boundaries of time, space, nation, race, and species. The eco-spiritual imaginary—by which I mean a shared reverence for the ecological interconnection between all living beings—articulates a common biological origin and sacredness of all life that transcends racial difference while remaining grounded in local ethnicities and bioregions. The novelists representing …

Emotions In Work And War: Comparisons Of Emotional-Cultures Of New Deal Ccc Enrollees And Wwii U.S. Army Enlistees, 1933-1945, Maeve Losen

Master's Theses

Though the Great Depression and Second World War were consecutive eras and overlapped in numerous aspects, scholarship often overlooks the commonalities between these periods. To demonstrate these eras’ shared qualities, this thesis examines the relationship in emotional-cultures—the cultural norms that dictated how individuals felt and demonstrated their emotions—among Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees and U.S. Army enlistees during WWII.

The broad intent of this undertaking is to place the cultural history of the Great Depression and WWII in conversation and to show the advantage of inter- and multidisciplinary work by applying anthropological and historical theories of emotion. Though the historical …

The Grizzly, March 31, 2022, Layla Halterman, Brooke Hurley, Amelia Kunko, Erin Corcoran, Marie Sykes, Ava Compagnoni, Liam Geib, Katie Cressman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Mask On, Mask Off: New COVID Regulations • Changes to Disability Services • Honor Your Experience • Philanthropy Week Back Once More • Ursinus Word Search • Opinions: Squatting > Reimert Lottery; Spring Break: The Comeback Kid • The Bears Won't Stop Swinging • Track and Field CCC Recap

Eating Real Mexican: Identity, Authenticity, Americanization, Health, And Food Culture In The United States After 1900, Alexandra H. Ibarra

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the connection between Mexican food and identity in the early to mid-twentieth century (1900-1950). Anglo-Americans created evolving racial/ethnic stereotypes during a period of intense Mexican immigration and nativism that used descriptions of food, hygiene habits, and health to reinforce boundaries of whiteness and citizenship.

By examining Americanization teaching manuals, food articles, as well as personal and corporate cookbooks, I seek to understand how Americanizers and other food writers used food to point to emphasize, unhygienic habits, excess use of spice and grease, as well as the "questionable" nature of immigrate food culture to separate them from Anglo-Americans. …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jerald T. Milanich, Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present, by Amy Turner Bushnell; Mark F. Lloyd, Hale G. Smith, and John W. Griffin, eds., Here They Once Stood: The Tragic End of the Apalachee Missions, by Greg O'Brien; Jay Barnes, Florida's Hurricane History, by Raymond Arsenault; Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, by Todd Estes; Mary Kemp Davis. Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgement: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection, by Larry E. Rivers; Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in …

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam, Conferences, Call for Papers, Local History Projects and Events, Workshops, Fellowships and Awards, New Websites

Taking Out The Trailer Trash: The Battle Over Mobile Homes In St. Petersburg, Florida, Lee Irby

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1953, Fred Wilder, a World War II veteran from Ohio, arrived in St. Petersburg and look possession of four acres of land on Sixth Street South. Wilder intended to open a trailer park and live on site with his family, taking advantage of the second-generation mobile homes that offered modern amenities, especially for retirees. He began clearing the land so that, by 1954, he could take in his first residents. Renting lots of thirty-three by fifty-two feet, Wilder charged twenty dollars per month, which included water, sewer, and garbage collection. By May 1957, Wilder's Trailer park reached full occupancy. …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

David R. Colburn and Lane deHaven-Smith, Government in the Sunshine State: Florida Since Statehood, by William Marina; Virginia Park, eds., Santa Maria de Galve: A Story of Survival, by Blian R. Rucker; John E. Worth, Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Volume 1: Assimilation. Volume 2: Resistance and Destruction, by Brent Wiesman; Cynthia A. Kierner, Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives, by Linda L. Sturtz; Gene A. Smith, ed., Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas, by John K. Mahon; Frank Laumer, ed., Admidst a Storm of Bullets: The Diary …

William B. Barnett And Sons: Florida Banking Pioneers, David J. Ginzl

Florida Historical Quarterly

In January 1998, NationsBank completed its acquisition of Barnett Banks Inc., the last major banking company headquartered in Florida. The bank traced its origins to May 1877, when William Boyd Barnett opened The Bank of Jacksonville. During the next 120 years, with five generations of Barnetts working for the bank that eventually bore the family name, it grew to be a major financial institution with more than six hundred offices throughout Florida and $44 billion in assets. Based upon the writings of the founder's son, Bion, and other extant bank records, this study examines the pioneer banker and the challenges …

Highways To Heaven Or Roads To Ruin, Evan P. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

In December 1949, Ray Strong of Windsor, Canada, came to Starke, Florida, by chance. He had traveled to the Sunshine State to find property to build a motor court, but he missed his appointment in Lake City and, to "kill time," drove to Jacksonville. On his way back to Lake City Strong decided to tak a long route through Starke. He "liked the looks of the town," and, two months later, Strong's El Rancho Motel-"modern in every respect"-opened for business on US Highway 301, one mile south of Starke. The El Rancho was not the only motel built near Starke …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

James J. Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, by Bruce R. Stephenson; Elizabeth Riegler MacManus and Susan A. MacManus, Citrus, Sawmills, Critters, Crackers: Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County, by Charle W. Arnade; Victor Andres Triay, Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program, by William Marina; William P. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, by Meaghan N. Duff; Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Clayton E. Jewett; Joseph Allan Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers, by Canter Brown Jr.; James …

Unmasked: The Author Of Narrative Of A Voyage To The Spanish Main In The Ship "Two Friends", Patrick W. Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1819 John Miller of Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, published the Narrative of a Voyage to the Spanish Main in the Ship "Two Friends" for an anonymous author, a young Englishman.1 The author, calling himself the "Narrator," recounted his earlier voyage to Madeira Island, the Dutch island of St. Thomas, and Spanish East Florida. The Narrative paints a revealing portrait of northeast Florida during the waning years of the Second Spanish Period. In his introduction to the 1978 republication of the Narrative John W. Griffin posed two candidates, both named John Miller, for authorship; however, he concluded "[w]ithal the author …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE APALACHEE INDlANS AND MISSION SAN LUIS, by John H. Hann, reviewed by Ronald Wayne Childers; FLORIDA'S BLACK PUBLIC OFFICIALS, 1867-1924, by Canter Brown Jr., reviewed by Joe M. Richardson, BLACK MlAMI IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Manvin Dunn, reviewed by Paul S. George IMAGINING MIAMI: ETHNIC POLITICS IN A POSTMODERN WORLD, by Sheila L. Croucher, reviewed by William Marina; THE PACESETTER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF CARL G. FISHER, CREATOR OF THE INDY 500, MlAMI BEACH & THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, by Jerry M. Fisher, reviewed by Paul S. George; THE COMPLETE COLONIAL GENTLEMAN: CULTURAL LEGITIMACY IN PLANTATION AMERICA, by Michael …

Cloak And Dagger In Apalachicole Province In Early 1686, John H. Hann

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stories of espionage awake a certain interest by their very nature. The ones presented here provide the bonus of valuable insights into life in Apalachee and along the Chattahoochee River in 1685-86 in the wake of the arrivial of the first Englishmen in the settlements on that river. It was a turning point in the history of the peoples of those two regions. The spies were Yamasee whom Apalachee's deputy-governor left behind when he ended his second invasion of the Chattahoochee River towns early in 1686. Reports that British traders from the recently founded outpost of Charles Town were in …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ROSE COTTAGE CHRONICLES: CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF THE BRYANT-STEPHENS FAMILIES OF NORTH FLORIDA, edited by Arch Fredric Blakey, Ann Smith Lainhart, and Winston Bryant Stephens Jr., reviewed by Brian R. Rucker; THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA AND ITS PREDECESSOR COURTS, 1821-1917, Walter W. Manley II, editor and co-author; E. Canter Brown Jr., contributing editor and co-author; Eric W. Rise, co-author, reviewed by John J. Guthrie Jr.; GLADESMEN: GATOR HUNTERS, MOONSHINERS, AND SKIFFERS, by Glen Simmons and Laura Ogden, reviewed by John J. Guthrie Jr.; BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF NATIVE AMERICAN ADAPTATION IN THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS, edited by reviewed by Dean J. Saitta, …

"Is This What We Came To Florida For?": Florida Women And The Fight Against Air Pollution In The 1960s, Scott Hamilton Dewey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Environmentalism sometimes has been characterized, and criticized, as primarily a men’s movement. Most of the early conservationists were indeed men preoccupied with outdoor recreation and wilderness experiences.2 Yet beginning in the late nineteenth century, women throughout the United States took a leading role in what would become by 1970 one of the most important branches of the environmental movement— the fight against air pollution. Although women reformers were never the only group combating air pollution, they frequently were among the most numerous and radical of such early environmental activists.

"Without Compromise Or Fear": Florida's African American Female Activists, Maxine D. Jones

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his study of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, historian Charles Payne observed that “men led but women organized.“2 With few exceptions the same could be said of African American activists in Florida throughout the twentieth century. Women played a major role in combating racism and discrimination, and in seeking first-class citizenship for black Floridians.

From The Margins To The Center: Southern Women's Activism, 1820-1970, Jean Gould Bryant

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1988, participants in the First Southern Conference on Women’s History lamented the neglect of southern women’s history. Despite the rich research possibilities suggested by Gerda Lerner’s 1967 biography of the Grimké sisters of South Carolina and her documentary history, Black Women in White America (1972), and by Anne Firor Scott’s The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 (1970), only a small fraction of the new scholarship on women’s history dealt with the South.1 Women’s historians focused largely on women in the North, while southern historians examined race, but not gender, and African American historians generally ignored black women …

Florida's Seed Corn: The History Of The West Florida Seminary During The Civil War, David J. Coles

Florida Historical Quarterly

Most students of the Civil War are familiar with the role the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) cadets played in the 1864 Battle of New Market. The young soldiers fought valiantly in that southern victory and suffered more than fifty casualties, including ten dead or mortally wounded. Cadets from the South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston also saw active service, as did those from the Georgia Military Institute and the University of Alabama. Though lesser known than these famous schools, Florida’s Seminary West of the Suwannee was one of only a handful of such schools still operating at the war’s close, …

Grander In Her Daughters: Florida's Women During The Civil War, Tracy J. Revels

Florida Historical Quarterly

"The citizens of the Flowery are determined to maintain their just rights at all hazards; and the fair daughters of Florida are prompt to encourage and cheer their bold defenders,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on February 2, 1861.1 The newspaper not only relayed the latest happenings in the secession movement but prophetically established the trend for the historical view of women’s lives during the Civil War.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ST. AUGUSTINE: THE PEOPLE AND THEIR HOMES, by Albert Manucy, reviewed by Paul E. Hoffman; KNIGHTS OF SPAIN, WARRIORS OF THE SUN: HERNANDO DE SOTO AND THE SOUTH’S ANCIENT CHIEFDOMS, by Charles Hudson, reviewed by John H. Hann; THE HERNANDO DE SOTO EXPEDITION: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND “DISCOVERY” IN THE SOUTHEAST, edited by Patricia Galloway, reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell; FROM PENSACOLA TO BELIZE: AN AMERICAN’S ODYSSEY THROUGH MEXICO IN 1903, by F. F. Bingham, reviewed by William S. Coker; EDISON IN FLORIDA: THE GREEN LABORATORY, by Olav Thulesius, reviewed by Michele Wehrwein Albion; AL BURT’S FLORIDA, by Al Burt, …

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers/Conferences, Awards and Honors, FAU's Harry Kersey Receives Second National History Award, New Publications, Events, Obituary

Pensacola's Medical History: The Colonial Era, 1559-1821, William S. Coker

Florida Historical Quarterly

A number of studies have been written about various aspects of Panzacola’s / Pensacola’s medical history during the colonial era, which encompasses the first Spanish period (1559-1763), the British era (1763-1781), and the second Spanish presence (1781-1821). This essay attempts to synthesize the disparate studies of hospitals, doctors, patients, medicines, illnesses, diseases, and medical practices of colonial Pensacola. The cumulative record indicates that, despite their best efforts, medical practitioners encountered numerous problems, among them a shortage of personnel, funds, and medicine, as well as the prevalent fevers, over which they had no control.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

OSSIAN BINGLEY HART: FLORIDA’S LOYALIST RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNOR, by Canter Brown Jr., reviewed by David J. Coles; W. W. LORING: FLORIDA’S FORGOTTEN GENERAL, by James W. Raab, reviewed by Robert A. Taylor; CUBANS IN PUERTO RICO: ETHNIC ECONOMY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY, by Jose A. Cohas and Jorge Duany, reviewed by Maria Cristina Garcia, THE LESSER ANTILLES IN THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EXPANSION, edited by Robert L. Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman, reviewed by Sidney W. Mintz; JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HIS LIFE AND LEGACY, edited by John C. Inscoe, reviewed by Glenn T. Eskew; BOUNDED LIVES, BOUNDED PLACES: FREE …

Review Essay:--Florida's Heritage Of Diversity: Essays In Honor Of Samuel Proctor, James B. Crooks

Florida Historical Quarterly

It is appropriate that this volume stresses Florida’s heritage of diversity because Samuel Proctor in his many contributions to this state’s history explored, wrote, taught, edited, and celebrated its rich variety of people and institutions. During his fifty-plus-year relationship with the University of Florida and his thirty years editing the Florida Historical Quarterly, Proctor nurtured research and edited histories of Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, women, Jews, and other Floridians ranging from poor crackers to millionaire businessmen. Proctor also pioneered the use of oral history in this region, edited twenty-five facsimile volumes of rare books on Florida for the Florida …

The First Seminole War, November 21, 1817-May 24, 1818, John K. Mahon

Florida Historical Quarterly

The North American Southeast remained a wild borderland where Indian tribes, the United States, Spain, and Great Britain competed fiercely for supremacy. After the War of 1812 Spain kept a tenuous hold on Florida; however, Spanish authorities could not enforce peace on the border and were unable to prevent black slaves from fleeing to Florida and joining the Seminole Indians. Seen from Washington the peninsula was a natural appendage to the United States, and James Monroe’s administration hankered to possess it.