On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Dr. John Barry webcasted from Queen’s University Belfast, to speak on “Hope, Agency and Transformation: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic and Tackling Our Planetary Emergency.” We have been here before. Massive social and economic disruption. Rapid and massive intervention by states around the world to minimize or prevent […]
Atlantic World
Panel: “Socialisms in Practice: Three Twentieth-Century Cases” (Agency and Action: Chapters in Socialist and Collectivist History Series)
Wednesday March 11, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM From the time the term was coined in the nineteenth century, ‘socialism’ has been a protean concept, and remains so today. This panel will examine socialist activity and practice in three widely different twentieth-century contexts, analyzing the specific historical circumstances that gave rise to each manifestation. Panel […]
Littlefield Lectures With Jack E. Davis
Jack E. Davis is a professor of history and Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2017). Before joining the faculty at UF in 2003, he taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Eckerd College, and in […]
Antonio de Ulloa’s Relación Histórica del Viage a la America Meridional
By Haley Schroer Nineteen-year-old Antonio de Ulloa set sail for the Americas in the spring of 1735. Ulloa was traveling as one of two assistants to a contingency of French scientists appointed to South America. The observations Ulloa and his counterpart, Jorge Juan, made on the excursion culminated in Relación Histórica del Viage a la […]
US Survey Course: Colonial US and the American Revolution
During the summer of 2016, we will be bringing together our previously published articles, book reviews, and podcasts on key themes and periods in the history of the USA. Each grouping is designed to correspond to the core areas of the US History Survey Courses taken by undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. Recommended Books […]
Facing North from Inca Country: Entanglement, Hybridity, and Rewriting Atlantic History
When William Strachey imagined Virginia’s future, he pictured Peru.
Re-Reading John Winthrop’s “City upon the Hill”
The city upon the hill that Winthrop sought to create in New England is a different world from that of his alleged ideological heirs. For Winthrop, the stakes of getting the city right were high (and they continue to be). To build a lasting “city upon the hill” the Puritans needed to create a society held together by charity, mercy, and love.
Naming and Picturing New World Nature
When Cassiano dal Pozzo, the Pope’s personal assistant, returned to the Vatican from Spain in 1626, he brought with him a Mexican manuscript on natural history, the Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis. The “herbal” was a marvelous Mexican manuscript containing illustrations of more than 180 plants. Commonly known as Codice de la Cruz-Badiano, it is considered the first illustrated survey of Mexican nature produced in the New World.