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2019
Alachua County’s African American ancestry contributed significantly to the area’s history. Once enslaved pioneers Richard and Juliann Sams settled in Archer as early as 1839. They were former slaves of James M. Parchman, who journeyed through the wilderness from Parchman, Mississippi. They and others shaped the county’s history through inventions, education, and a work ethic based on spirituality. Lizzie Jenkin’s book, Alachua County, Florida (Black America Series), shows people working together from the early 1800s rural farm life, when racial violence was routine, until African Americans broke the chains of injustice and started organizing and controlling civic affairs.
2019
Alachua County’s African American ancestry contributed significantly to the area’s history. Once enslaved pioneers Richard and Juliann Sams settled in Archer as early as 1839. They were former slaves of James M. Parchman, who journeyed through the wilderness from Parchman, Mississippi. They and others shaped the county’s history through inventions, education, and a work ethic based on spirituality. Lizzie Jenkin’s book, Alachua County, Florida (Black America Series), shows people working together from the early 1800s rural farm life, when racial violence was routine, until African Americans broke the chains of injustice and started organizing and controlling civic affairs.
2019
The role of El Salvadorans and others in providing sanctuary to Jewish refugees from Germany in the years leading up to World War II.
Produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
2019
The role of El Salvadorans and others in providing sanctuary to Jewish refugees from Germany in the years leading up to World War II.
Produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
2019
From Colored to Black explores the intersections between public health education, oral history performance, and community arts activism, and functions as a multi-modal platform to communicate health data, historical research, and the lived experience of the Black community to the public.
Created by emerging African American playwright and UF graduate Ms. Brittney M. Caldwell, and Jeffrey Pufahl, Lecturer in the Center for Arts in Medicine, this groundbreaking play incorporates dramatized Civil Rights era oral histories excavated from the UF archive into an analytical framework designed to educate audiences and provoke critical dialogue.
The play exposes the origins and mechanisms of systemic racism on the Black community and traces these mechanisms through history, revealing their impact on current health and social issues. Themes include:
women’s roles in the Civil Rights Movement
the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement
epigenetics and intergenerational stress and trauma
the significance of redlining and racist public policies on education and community health
the lasting effects of integration on Black education
Black identity and the portrayal of Blackness in the media
2019
From Colored to Black explores the intersections between public health education, oral history performance, and community arts activism, and functions as a multi-modal platform to communicate health data, historical research, and the lived experience of the Black community to the public.
Created by emerging African American playwright and UF graduate Ms. Brittney M. Caldwell, and Jeffrey Pufahl, Lecturer in the Center for Arts in Medicine, this groundbreaking play incorporates dramatized Civil Rights era oral histories excavated from the UF archive into an analytical framework designed to educate audiences and provoke critical dialogue.
The play exposes the origins and mechanisms of systemic racism on the Black community and traces these mechanisms through history, revealing their impact on current health and social issues. Themes include:
women’s roles in the Civil Rights Movement
the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement
epigenetics and intergenerational stress and trauma
the significance of redlining and racist public policies on education and community health
the lasting effects of integration on Black education
Black identity and the portrayal of Blackness in the media
2019
Beginning in 2019, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere — with the support of the Director Barbara Mennel’s Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship — supports Ph.D. students in UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for intensive one-week themed residencies and institutes at the National Humanities Center that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
2019
Beginning in 2019, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere — with the support of the Director Barbara Mennel’s Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship — supports Ph.D. students in UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for intensive one-week themed residencies and institutes at the National Humanities Center that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
2019
Celebrating the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American History at UF: A 3 Day Symposium.
2019
Celebrating the Opening of the Joel Buchanan Archive of African American History at UF: A 3 Day Symposium.
2019
The Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History contains over 700 oral history interviews with African American elders throughout Florida and the wider Gulf South. These interviews and the overall projects associated with them have resulted in numerous public programs, university seminars on African American history and Ethnic Studies, and community-based oral history workshops. The archive contains interviews from numerous different projects at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, including the African American History Project (AAHP) which began in 2009 through the efforts of Paul Ortiz, Marna Weston, and Joel Buchanan; the Fifth Avenue Blacks collection (FAB) created by Joel Buchanan in 1981; the Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) which derives from SPOHP’s annual trip to the Mississippi Delta to interview Civil Rights Movement veterans; the Oscar Mack Project (OMP), detailing the remarkable story and legacy of Oscar Mack and his family; the Underground Railroad collection (URR) which includes interviews with Black Seminoles and Gullah-Geechee elders and leaders; the Civil Rights in St. Augustine collection begun by David Colburn in the late 1970s; the St. Augustine African American History collection (SAAH), begun by Raja Rahim and Annemarie Nichols in 2016; and many more. Click on the project logos below to learn more.
2019
The Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History contains over 700 oral history interviews with African American elders throughout Florida and the wider Gulf South. These interviews and the overall projects associated with them have resulted in numerous public programs, university seminars on African American history and Ethnic Studies, and community-based oral history workshops. The archive contains interviews from numerous different projects at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, including the African American History Project (AAHP) which began in 2009 through the efforts of Paul Ortiz, Marna Weston, and Joel Buchanan; the Fifth Avenue Blacks collection (FAB) created by Joel Buchanan in 1981; the Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) which derives from SPOHP’s annual trip to the Mississippi Delta to interview Civil Rights Movement veterans; the Oscar Mack Project (OMP), detailing the remarkable story and legacy of Oscar Mack and his family; the Underground Railroad collection (URR) which includes interviews with Black Seminoles and Gullah-Geechee elders and leaders; the Civil Rights in St. Augustine collection begun by David Colburn in the late 1970s; the St. Augustine African American History collection (SAAH), begun by Raja Rahim and Annemarie Nichols in 2016; and many more. Click on the project logos below to learn more.
2019
A workshop presented in Elaine, Arkansas at the Elaine Legacy Center by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Each year the program makes an annual trip to the Mississippi Delta and surrounds to collect Civil Rights interviews.
SPOHP Presenters are Chris Duryea and Paul Ortiz. During this workshop there is a group discussion on Reparations.
2019
A workshop presented in Elaine, Arkansas at the Elaine Legacy Center by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Each year the program makes an annual trip to the Mississippi Delta and surrounds to collect Civil Rights interviews.
SPOHP Presenters are Chris Duryea and Paul Ortiz. During this workshop there is a group discussion on Reparations.
2020
Working as a historian keeps Dr. Sean Adams in climate-controlled atmospheres — air-conditioned classrooms, comfortable offices, academic panels in staid hotel conference rooms and carefully maintained archives. In the summer of 2018, however, Dr. Adams purposely ventured out into the blast furnace that is western Florida and southern Alabama to see history firsthand, taking 36 teachers of elementary, middle and high school with him, plus a colleague.
The reason for this venture was a joint workshop by the Florida Humanities Council and the Alabama Humanities Foundation titled “The Civil War in the American South.” For the past five years, Dr. Adams has led teacher workshops that combine lectures and field trips to the site of the 1864 Battle of Olustee at Fort Clinch and the haunting slave cabins at Kingsley Plantation in Fernandina Beach.
The idea is to put teachers in the places where history happened so they can bring that experience back to their classrooms, where students might gain a new perspective on the past.
2020
Working as a historian keeps Dr. Sean Adams in climate-controlled atmospheres — air-conditioned classrooms, comfortable offices, academic panels in staid hotel conference rooms and carefully maintained archives. In the summer of 2018, however, Dr. Adams purposely ventured out into the blast furnace that is western Florida and southern Alabama to see history firsthand, taking 36 teachers of elementary, middle and high school with him, plus a colleague.
The reason for this venture was a joint workshop by the Florida Humanities Council and the Alabama Humanities Foundation titled “The Civil War in the American South.” For the past five years, Dr. Adams has led teacher workshops that combine lectures and field trips to the site of the 1864 Battle of Olustee at Fort Clinch and the haunting slave cabins at Kingsley Plantation in Fernandina Beach.
The idea is to put teachers in the places where history happened so they can bring that experience back to their classrooms, where students might gain a new perspective on the past.
2020
Student-produced documentary featuring UF alumni, students, faculty and staff discussing the origins and importance of the Institute of Black Culture at UF. Funded by the Office of the Provost.
The Making of IBC is a documentary film produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and funded by the UF Office of the Provost. This film draws on oral history interviews conducted by students, staff and volunteers at the Proctor Program to chronicling the history of the Institute of Black Culture, Black students and faculty at the University of Florida.
The Making of IBC examines the student movements that led to the creation and preservation of the Institute of Black Culture. This film draws on oral history interviews conducted by students, staff and volunteers at the Proctor Program.
Juliette Barbera, who initially proposed that we develop this documentary, led the student teams in all aspects from interviewing efforts to the direction of the film itself.
These accounts demonstrate that the fight to maintain the historical integrity of these cultural spaces is inextricably linked to the struggle for ethnic studies and cultural programing throughout campus. Exploring the recurring waves of student activism surrounding this cultural center reveals that this struggle is ongoing and that it will be up to future generations of students to reclaim spaces such as the Institute of Black Culture as their own.
2020
Student-produced documentary featuring UF alumni, students, faculty and staff discussing the origins and importance of the Institute of Black Culture at UF. Funded by the Office of the Provost.
The Making of IBC is a documentary film produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and funded by the UF Office of the Provost. This film draws on oral history interviews conducted by students, staff and volunteers at the Proctor Program to chronicling the history of the Institute of Black Culture, Black students and faculty at the University of Florida.
The Making of IBC examines the student movements that led to the creation and preservation of the Institute of Black Culture. This film draws on oral history interviews conducted by students, staff and volunteers at the Proctor Program.
Juliette Barbera, who initially proposed that we develop this documentary, led the student teams in all aspects from interviewing efforts to the direction of the film itself.
These accounts demonstrate that the fight to maintain the historical integrity of these cultural spaces is inextricably linked to the struggle for ethnic studies and cultural programing throughout campus. Exploring the recurring waves of student activism surrounding this cultural center reveals that this struggle is ongoing and that it will be up to future generations of students to reclaim spaces such as the Institute of Black Culture as their own.
2020
An ongoing project of the Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Storms of the Past, Stories for the Future investigates the relationship between memories of past storms and perceptions of storms yet to come. Although the ultimate objective of this project is to provide policy-relevant information for planning purposes, its method is not to forecast the future but rather to document the “futures past” of historic storms. How do memories of past storms inflect the histories of post-storm recovery and rebuilding? The project started with the 1896 hurricane that impacted the cedar mill industry of Atsena Otie on Florida's northern Gulf Coast and continues with a Gulf-wide survey of other victims of devastating storms.
2020
An ongoing project of the Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, Storms of the Past, Stories for the Future investigates the relationship between memories of past storms and perceptions of storms yet to come. Although the ultimate objective of this project is to provide policy-relevant information for planning purposes, its method is not to forecast the future but rather to document the “futures past” of historic storms. How do memories of past storms inflect the histories of post-storm recovery and rebuilding? The project started with the 1896 hurricane that impacted the cedar mill industry of Atsena Otie on Florida's northern Gulf Coast and continues with a Gulf-wide survey of other victims of devastating storms.
2020
Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn discusses the founding of African American Studies at the 50th Anniversary of African American Studies at the University of Florida symposium. A frank discussion of the frequent failure of UF to address issues of systemic racism.
2020
Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn discusses the founding of African American Studies at the 50th Anniversary of African American Studies at the University of Florida symposium. A frank discussion of the frequent failure of UF to address issues of systemic racism.
2020
With support from the Jerome A. Yavitz Fund, CHPS has awarded one grant in a pilot program for untenured, tenure-track faculty members to receive feedback on their complete draft book manuscript from one external and one internal specialist in a virtual workshop setting. CHPS will reissue the call for proposals in spring semester 2021.
2020
With support from the Jerome A. Yavitz Fund, CHPS has awarded one grant in a pilot program for untenured, tenure-track faculty members to receive feedback on their complete draft book manuscript from one external and one internal specialist in a virtual workshop setting. CHPS will reissue the call for proposals in spring semester 2021.