Oral History Training, Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio)

Kenyon College hosts

Frank Dunkle, of the Ohio Humanities Council, announced on H-Net (Humanities and Social Services Online), "If you are doing an oral history project or are thinking about doing one, you should apply to attend this year's Oral History Institute, June 8-10 on the beautiful campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The program trains participants in planning and conducting successful oral history projects. Emphasizing hands-on experience, topics covered in the two-and-a-half-day schedule include interviewing techniques, transcribing and archiving, and devising public programs based on oral history. To develop these skills, participants will work on a practice project that encompasses all stages of oral history and will also have time to consult with experts about planned projects. Sessions will also be available on using technology in oral history and on fundraising."

Kenyon College alumnae include President Rutherford B. Hayes, Defense News writer and former CNN anchor Kris Osborn, and Swedish Prime Minister (1969-1986) Olof Palme.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Once available on CD ROM from the University of Cambridge, this database of over 30,000 Trans-Atlantic slave voyages is available online from Emery University, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Harvard University). Partners include The University of Hull (UK), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Victoria University of Wllington (New Zealand).

Search by voyage outcome (for instance, slave embarked in the Americas), captain name (for instance, Kingsley) and main point of embarkation (say, Caribbean or mainland North America).

Once you open a listing detailing the regions of Africa from whence the slaves arrived, and the mortality figures for slaves and crew (data not available for every voyage), please remember to click "search" again. Otherwise, the same entry opens even if you click another.

Make a note of which entry, on which page, and return to your search results. Good luck with good research.

http://slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Quarterly is online.

You can browse issues, starting with Volume 1, Issue 1 (April 1908), or you can search the volumes for keywords.

The service is provided by Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM), a cooperative effort by the public universities of Florida.

East Florida

For twenty years, Britain claimed claimed Florida (1763-1783). The British divided Florida into two provinces. Pensacola was the capital of West Florida (basically, Panhandle). St. Augustine, the capital of Spanish Florida, remained the capital of East Florida (essentially, Peninsular Florida). The British designated the Apalachicola River as the boundary between East Florida and West Florida.

Britain obtained Florida from Spain according to the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years War, or French and Indian War. The formal transfer occurred in 1764. Britain returned Florida to Spain according to the Treaty of Paris (1783), by which Britain also recognized the independence of the United States of America. The formal transfer of Florida from Britain to Spain occurred in 1784.

The following titles remain informative works on British East Florida.

Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr., Fromajadas and Indigo: The Minorcan Colony in Florida (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006). This book was Beeson's Master of Arts thesis at the University of Florida (1960).


James W. Covington, The British Meet the Seminoles: Negotiations Between British Authorities in East Florida and the Indians, 1763-68 (Gainesville: University of Florida, 1961)

Patricia C. Griffin, Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788 (Gainesville: University of North Florida Press, 1991)

Joseph Byrne Lockey, East Florida, 1783-1785: A File of Documents Assembled and Many of Them Translated by Joseph Byrne Lackey (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949)

Charles Loch Mowat, East Florida as a British Province, 1763-1784 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943)

Daniel L. Schafer, "'...Not So Gay a Town in America as This...:' St. Augustine, 1763-1784," in Jean Parker Waterbury, ed., The Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival (St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1983), 91-123

Daniel L. Schafer, "'Yellow Silk Ferret Tied Round Their Wrists:' African Americans in British East Florida, 1763-1784," in David R. Colburn and Jane L. Landers, eds., The African American Heritage of Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995), 79-85

James Leitch Wright, Florida in the American Revolution (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1975)