Submitted by Celeste Velazco, 2020 Smathers Library Undergraduate Student Fellow Nowadays, people of all ages enjoy comics and blockbuster comic book-inspired movies. However, in the 1930s, comic books were written mostly for...
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca Jefferson, Head of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica and Jim Liversidge, Curator of Popular Culture Collections Among the hundreds of theater bills, flyers and programs...
Cookbooks often hold mementos & memories in addition to recipes- & one cookbook in our collection includes a lived connection to the Holocaust....
One of the most iconic advertising campaigns of the 1970s featured singer Anita Bryant and a silent cartoon Orange Bird. What happened to it?...
Latin American Epidemic statistics that were once hidden in old publications are now digitally available for researchers worldwide....
We discourage patrons from writing in our books. But some come to us that way-like our copy of Horace’s collected works belonging to James Russell Lowell....
This essay was written in 2003, but seems more relevant than ever. How did the University of Florida respond to an epidemic in the early 20th century?...
My first acquaintance with the plight of Mary Godfrey came a few years back when I was researching literature produced during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Her story is a “captivity narrative,”...
A look at the five artists' books that were created between 2015 and 2019 as part of the Coffey Residency in Book Arts program at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the...
Among bilingual educators in the US, the name “Coral Way” is a virtual household word. But what do we know about the real stories, people, and energy that went into opening this...
