A Conversation in Books and Flowers
Three books inscribed by Helen Keller contain the seeds of a correspondence between America’s most famous advocate for the blind and New York’s “Wizard of Flowers.”...
The Locks and the Lake: Experimental Engineering Pays off in Panama
The construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914) has been called the largest design-build project of the 20th century. And if the scale of the project is not impressive enough, it would have...
Remembering Ama Ata Aidoo, Author and Poet
It has been nearly sixty years since Ama Ata Aidoo’s play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was first performed at the University of Ghana, Legon in March of 1964. After it came...
Creating Otherness: US Investors in Jamaica
As the fruit industry grew in Jamaica, how did American visitors view the island's black citizens?...
“The NBC Peacock Has No Place in Viet Nam”
Putting together the story behind the hundreds of artifacts in the Bob Hope Collection....
Cities of Slaughter
Half a world from the events it describes, this translation of a famous Hebrew poem adds new layers to familiar fears. ...
The Many Images of Alice in Wonderland
When you recall an image of Alice in Wonderland, which Alice do you see? Three new displays in our library spaces show the hundreds of ways that Alice has been imagined in...
Building the University Auditorium
Explore the stages of UF's first multi-purpose building in this post by University Archivist Sarah Coates...
A Meeting in Hell
The engineers and laborers tasked with constructing the Panama Canal in 1904 literally had to move a mountain. The path they cut through the Continental Divide would become known as "Hell's Gorge."...
Chance Encounters: Meeting John Muir in Florida
In October of 1867, a weary and likely malarial John Muir stumbled back into the town of Cedar Key and collapsed in a heap. Just six months prior, the twenty-nine-year-old Muir had...
