Conference: "Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina" (St. Augustine, April 17-18)
The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina
April 17-18, 2015
Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
H-Florida is designed to connect scholars within all academic disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, to serve as a discussion space, and to further research in one of the most ethnically and socioeconomically diverse areas of the United States.
Recent Content
Reviewer:
Christine Rizzi
Rizzi on Thompson, 'Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery'
Katrina Dyonne Thompson. Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 256 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03825-9; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07983-2.
Reviewed by Christine Rizzi (University of Mississippi)
Published on H-Florida (March, 2015)
Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Professional Development Workshops with the Florida Humanities Council
Teaching Florida, a program of the Florida Humanities Council, conducts professional development workshops across the state of Florida. This summer, we plan to continue exploring a number of interesting themes:
2nd Seminole War Dead
"After the war's conclusion in 1842, the remains of Dade, his men, and more than 1,300 other soldiers who died during the war, were reinterred in three large funerary vaults at what was then the St. Francis Barracks Cemetery and topped with a coquina stone pyramid."
Leland Hawes Undergraduate Prize in Florida Studies
The Tampa Bay History Center and University of South Florida Libraries’ Florida Studies Center invite undergraduate student submissions for the Leland Hawes Undergraduate Prize in Florida Studies.
Undergraduate students working toward a bachelor’s degree are encouraged to apply. Subjects must cover Florida Studies ranging from Florida’s pre-colonial past through the twentieth century. Proper citations must be included.