By Rachel Laue and James Cusick – For Veterans Day 2021 we highlight those who served in the 868th Engineer Aviation Battalion of the U.S. Air Force during World War II. This African-American unit supported the 5th Air Force in the Pacific Theater between 1940 and 1945.
By Rachel Laue – William E.B. Hayman was born in 1837 in Devon, England. It is unclear when Hayman emigrated to the United States, but by 1880 he resided in Newport, Rhode Island, with his wife Rebecca, and his three children, Willie, Clara, and Emma. He owned a business in…
By Rachel Laue, Graduate Research Assistant, 2021 The stories we hear of pioneer lives conjure a certain set of images. Often they are of hardy men breaking new ground, planting new groves, and going off to war. The contributions of women in these stories are typically depicted as domestic,…
By Rachel Laue, Graduate Research Assistant (2020-2021) What do the letters of an orange-grove obsessed young man named Pliny Reasoner and an unknown woman’s handwritten romance novel have in common? More than you might think, as I have learned. I am a fourth year PhD candidate at UF,…
Dormitories at the Dozier Boys School, Marianna, Fla. Photograph from Florida Memory. The Florida Industrial School for Boys, established near Marianna, Florida, in 1900, became infamous for abusive treatment of youth sent to live and work there. Set up as what was essentially a juvenile delinquent detention center…
Álvaro Armada Barcaiztequi, Conde de Revilla-Gigedo The Archive of the Condes of Revillagigedo is made available for research through a contractual…
The Library of Congress has begun the process of converting its 175-reel microfilm set of the colonial papers about…
The P.K. Yonge Library is helping out in a research project about the early Bourbon Reforms and their impact on the Spanish Empire. Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History (University of…
