Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

University of Central Florida

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 2581 - 2610 of 32385

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Constructing Indians In The Colonial Floridas: Origins Of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573, Daniel S. Murphree Apr 2022

Constructing Indians In The Colonial Floridas: Origins Of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573, Daniel S. Murphree

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1599, Garcilaso de la Vega published his account of Hernando de Soto's journey through what is today the southeastern United State. Based on th author's romantie perceptions of North America and dubious evidence provided by expedition members, the work's factual validity is questionable in many regards.1 Nevertheless, Garcilaso's interpretation provides valuable information pertaining to the imagee of the Florida created and perpetuated by European visitors during the sixteenth century.2 In particular, one passage attributed to Hernando de Soto encapsulated general colonist opinions regarding native peoples. The explorer concluded that "all of the land of this realm is practically identical …

Go to article

History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers, Conferences, Awards, Fellowships and Awards, Statement of Errata

Go to article

Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1994 the original watercolor of Mark Catesby, housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, were cIeaned and conserved. At the same time, facsimiles of the 263 original watercolors were prepared using a process called stochatic lithography, resulting in copies almost indistinguishable from the original . Fifty sets were produced before the plates were detroyed. One set belongs to the Special and Area Studies Collection of th George Smathers Libraries at th University of Florida. Forty of those prints make up the current exhibition traveling through Florida.

Go to article

Historic Notes And Documents: A Late Seventeenth-Century Journey To Tampa Bay, Ronald Wayne Childers Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: A Late Seventeenth-Century Journey To Tampa Bay, Ronald Wayne Childers

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the close of th War of the League of Augsburg in 1697, Louis XIV of France found himself with enough free resources to make a fresh effort to colonize the Gulf Coasst. He had already tried this in 1684 when the Sieur de La Salle had departed France and founded a colony at Matagorda Bay in Texas.1 The colony lasted from 1685 to 1686, ending in disaster for the French. Louis, prevented from further expansion in Europe, again tried to expand his overseas possessions eleven years later.

Go to article

Forgotten Sacrifice: Native American Involvement In The Construction Of The Castillo De San Marcos, Jason B. Palmer Apr 2022

Forgotten Sacrifice: Native American Involvement In The Construction Of The Castillo De San Marcos, Jason B. Palmer

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the past, historians have been quick to praise the remarkable hardships endured by Spanish soldiers and colonists in the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos.1 Their pay, food, and other supplies were siphoned off to help complete the construction. But seemingly lost in discussions of deprivation and hardship are the Native Americans who lived in the Spanish colony of La Florida. Apalachees, Timucuans, and Guales toiled for over twenty-four years under grueling condition to construct the first European-style stone fortress on North America's east coast.

Go to article

Climate, Community, And Commerce Among Florida, Cuba, And The Atlantic World, 1784-1800, Sherry Johnson Apr 2022

Climate, Community, And Commerce Among Florida, Cuba, And The Atlantic World, 1784-1800, Sherry Johnson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In late June 1791, St. Augustine captain Don Antonio de Alcantara sailed into Havana harbor at the helm of his schooner, the Santa Catalina. As the captain and master of his own vessel, he was held in high esteem, and Spanish customs officials acknowldged his status by prefacing his name with the honorifie title "Don" (Sir).1 A decade earlier, his arrival would have been unthinkable. His port of origin was in British hands in the early 1780s, and Britain was at war with Spain. Even after the conflict ended in 1783, commerce with Cuba remained restricted.2 More important, Alcantara would …

Go to article

Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane Apr 2022

Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane

Florida Historical Quarterly

In th fall of 1943, Farrar and Rinehart announced the publication of The St. Johns: A Parade of Diversities by James Branch Cabell and A.J. Hanna, the twenty-fourth volume in its prestigious Rivers in America series.1 The series was the brainchild of Constance Lindsay Skinner, prominent poet, novelist, journalist, writer of children's literature, and literary critic. Her idea, which Farrar and Rinehart adopted in 1935, was to produce a history of America and its people through the stories of its major rivers. The first woman to hold a major editorial position in American adult publishing, Skinner edited six volumes before …

Go to article

"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras Apr 2022

"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras

Florida Historical Quarterly

The British colonies in East and West Florida and the Bahamas were frontier outposts. They were not central to European colonial ventures in the same way as Jamaica and Veracruz. British imperial perspective considered these settlements little more than "buffers," separating the established colonies of mainland North America from hostile group of Amerindians (principally Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws), as well a from Spanish imperial outposts in Cuba Santo Domingo, and remote Louisiana.1 The importance of such border societies to British officials in Westminster ought to be measured in terms of national security rather than in terms of economic productivity (i.e., …

Go to article

Religion On Florida Territorial Frontiers, Ernest F. Dibble Apr 2022

Religion On Florida Territorial Frontiers, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In reviewing works on Florida territorial history, well-known scholar Herbert J. Doherty Jr. noted in 1958 that many individual church histories had been written but most were "not good history." Even though he later conceded that Catholic and some Protestant denominations were "adequately treated" in denominational history survey, a true religious history-one that synthesizes church histories- remain unavailable. The role of religion on Florida's territorial frontiers is largely hidden from history.

Go to article

Hydrodynamic Signatures Of Recreational Boat Wakes And Their Influence To Sediment Entrainment Along The Shoreline Of A Shallow Estuary, Kelly M. Kibler Apr 2022

Hydrodynamic Signatures Of Recreational Boat Wakes And Their Influence To Sediment Entrainment Along The Shoreline Of A Shallow Estuary, Kelly M. Kibler

Predicting Boat Wake Bank Erosion Risk

Wave energy from recreational boat wakes is associated with erosion and degradation of shoreline ecotones. However, wake effects are often assumed to be negligible when boating lanes are located far from shore. In this study, field experiments were conducted to characterize hydrodynamics of recreational boat wakes at the shoreline of a shallow estuary as offshore sailing-line distance varied from 50 to 200m. Results indicate that wake events were considerably more energetic than ambient conditions, with an average 20% increase in wave height, 190% increase in near-bed orbital velocity, and 110% increase in wave-induced shear stress. Wake events generated farther from …

Go to article

Please Keep Plastics Out Of My Lagoon!, Linda Walters Apr 2022

Please Keep Plastics Out Of My Lagoon!, Linda Walters

CEELAB Children's Books

Everyone is talking about plastic pollution. In this book for young audiences, we provide information on plastic pollution, including microplastics. We describe some of the many animals found in our favorite estuary, the Indian River Lagoon, that are impacted by plastics. This book asks young readers to pick the items they want to see in their lagoon, "This animal friend or that harmful piece of plastic?"

Go to article

Seminole County Dei Survey: Brief Overview, Amy Donley Phd, Caroline Austin, Julio Montanez Apr 2022

Seminole County Dei Survey: Brief Overview, Amy Donley Phd, Caroline Austin, Julio Montanez

Institute for Social and Behavioral Science (ISBS)

The University of Central Florida’s Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences (ISBS) partnered with Seminole County to conduct a 2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) survey of county employees.

Go to article

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lander, Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Virginia Gould; Mann, Art in Florida, 1564-1945, by Valerie Anne Leeds; McCarthy, Native Americans in Florida, by Patricia Wickman; Bense, ed., Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola, by Paul E. Hoffman; Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, by Adonijah Bakali; Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816, by Greg O'Brien; Weddle, Wilderness Manhunt: The Spanish Search for La Salle, Foter, ed., The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687, by Julianna Barr; Leibiger, Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of …

Go to article

History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Call for Papers, Fellowships and Grants, Websites, Minutes of the Florida Historical Society, New Business, Committee Reports, Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

Go to article

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

David McCally, The Everglades: An Environmental History, by R. Bruce Stephenson; Brent Richard Weisman, Unconquered People: Florida's Semilole and Miccosukee Indians, by Theda Perdue; John T. Foster and Sarah Whitmer Foster, Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida, by George B. Ellenberg; Virginia Bernhard, Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, by Colleen Vasconcellos; Thomas N. Ingersoll, Mammon and Mallon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819, by Sarah Russell; Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, by Lorrie Clover, Timothy S. Huebner, The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges …

Go to article

Proposal Management – Dashboard Template, Joshua Roney Apr 2022

Proposal Management – Dashboard Template, Joshua Roney

Office of Research Documents

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Proposal Management – Large, Nsf Proposal Checklist, Sarah Lardizabal Apr 2022

Proposal Management – Large, Nsf Proposal Checklist, Sarah Lardizabal

Office of Research Documents

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Human, Hybrid, Or Machine? Exploring The Trustworthiness Of Voice-Based Assistants, Lisa Weidmüller Apr 2022

Human, Hybrid, Or Machine? Exploring The Trustworthiness Of Voice-Based Assistants, Lisa Weidmüller

Human-Machine Communication

This study investigates how people assess the trustworthiness of perceptually hybrid communicative technologies such as voice-based assistants (VBAs). VBAs are often perceived as hybrids between human and machine, which challenges previously distinct definitions of human and machine trustworthiness. Thus, this study explores how the two trustworthiness models can be combined in a hybrid trustworthiness model, which model (human, hybrid, or machine) is most applicable to examine VBA trustworthiness, and whether this differs between respondents with different levels of prior experience with VBAs. Results from two surveys revealed that, overall, the human model exhibited the best model fit; however, the hybrid …

Go to article

The Symptom Of Ethics: Rethinking Ethics In The Face Of The Machine, David J. Gunkel Apr 2022

The Symptom Of Ethics: Rethinking Ethics In The Face Of The Machine, David J. Gunkel

Human-Machine Communication

This essay argues that it is the machine that constitutes the symptom of ethics— “symptom” understood as that excluded “part that has no part” in the system of moral consideration. Ethics, which has been historically organized around a human or at least biological subject, needs the machine to define the proper limits of the moral community even if it simultaneously excludes such mechanisms from any serious claim on moral consideration. The argument will proceed in five steps or movements. The first part will define and characterize “the symptom” as it has been operationalized in the work of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj …

Go to article

Episode 22: Chung Park: How Music Enhances Your Life, University Of Central Florida Apr 2022

Episode 22: Chung Park: How Music Enhances Your Life, University Of Central Florida

Knights Do That Podcast Transcripts

In episode 21 — the seventh of season two of Knights Do That — we speak with Chung Park, director of UCF’s Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and a professor in the College of Arts and Humanities. He shares his breadth of knowledge and deep passion for the arts, music and happiness — yes happiness. He also discusses his gift and passion for teaching, insight on UCF Celebrates the Arts and how you can learn to purposefully integrate music into your life.

Go to article

Butterflies In The Sky, Michaela M. Epi Apr 2022

Butterflies In The Sky, Michaela M. Epi

LAE 4314 Writes

Marie is a little girl experiencing the tough journey of losing her Daddy. Her Mommy shares a story about how she always sees butterflies around which reminds her of loved ones. Will Marie find a special butterfly?

Go to article

Boats For Papa, Reilly Reinhold Mar 2022

Boats For Papa, Reilly Reinhold

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

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 …

Go to article

History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

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

Go to article

Fort Mitchell And The Settlement Of The Alachua Country, Chris Monaco Mar 2022

Fort Mitchell And The Settlement Of The Alachua Country, Chris Monaco

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fort Mitchell, the former capital of the "Republic of East Florida" during the Patriot War, has never attained distinction. Erected in January of 1814, the twenty-five-foot square, two-story blockhouse was reported to hav been abandoned in May of the same year. When viewed in either military or political terms, the fort was a failure. However this small outpost on the Alachua frontier was originally intended as the nucleus of a self-sustaining, long-term agricultural colony.2 While short-lived Fort Mitchell is especially noteworthy because it was the first substantial Anglo-American settlement in the interior of Spanish East Florida.3 By 1821, seven year …

Go to article

Bert Fish: From Volusia County Courthouse To American Embassy, Sidney Johnston Mar 2022

Bert Fish: From Volusia County Courthouse To American Embassy, Sidney Johnston

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1940, Cairo's Al-Ahram observed that Volusia County lawyer and American diplomat Bert Fish had "gained the love of Egyptians for his frankness and ability to become the friend of Egyptians, and because of his great love for Egypt he is proud to call himself 'half-Egyptian'"-strange praise for a man of humble origins who began in the courtrooms of central Florida, rose to prominence in the state supreme court and the national Democratic Party, and eventually became a significant member of America's diplomatic corp. Indead, few early twentieth century Volusia County residents achieved the level of distinction enjoyed by DeLand …

Go to article

Cartoons In Paradise, Donna Dial Mar 2022

Cartoons In Paradise, Donna Dial

Florida Historical Quarterly

Disney World may reign as Florida's most dazzling connection to the world of animated cartoons, but long before Disney there was Fleischer. Thirty-five year before Walt Disney packed Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck off to central Florida, his biggest competitor, Max and Dave Fleischer, built their own magic kingdom a couple of hundred miles farther south.

Go to article

A Choctaw Academy Education, Ella Wells Drake Mar 2022

A Choctaw Academy Education, Ella Wells Drake

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ten weary travelers from Florida-eight Apalachicola Indian boys, an agent, and a servant-paused in the chill a Choctaw Academy came into view. The Indian school, standing on an elvated ridgetop overlooking the Kentucky countryside, appeared imposing. The Academy represented an institution of promise and potential, a school where young Indian boys could acquire the English language and Anglo-American values and custom for tribal benefit. In 1830, ninety-eight boys attended the Academy which, despite the name, was an intertribal school. Choctaws, Creeks, Potawatomies, Miamies, and Quapaws directed their education funds and promising students to Choctaw Academy. On Christmas Day, the eight …

Go to article

Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts And The Settlement Of Florida, Ernest F. Dibble Mar 2022

Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts And The Settlement Of Florida, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the history of American continental and overseas expansion, sometimes the lone hunter and trapper went first, or the isolated farmer. Other timese the missionary or the businessman or the railroad line arrived in advance of settler. However, sometimes the navy or the army preceded settlement and occasionally even preceded the legal possession of the territory. Military forts have played a role in the settlement of many American frontier, but on scarcely any frontier did forts play such a pervasive and significant role as they did in Florida. The United States Army preceded settlement into most sections of the territory. …

Go to article

Unmasked: The Author Of Narrative Of A Voyage To The Spanish Main In The Ship "Two Friends", Patrick W. Doyle Mar 2022

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 …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last