Women in Kentucky

In more than two hundred years of statehood, most Kentucky women have been invisible to history. Yet from the first settlement, women have been prominent contributors to Kentucky history and culture. Women in Kentucky tells the stories of the ordinary women of lonely frontier farms, the women both black and white whose lives were shaped by slavery, and the laboring women of the factories and shops in rising urban centers. Helen Deiss Irvin also profiles the exceptional Kentucky women whose lives became more visible: abolitionist Delia Webster, suffragists Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, philanthropists Mary Breckinridge and Linda Neville, reformer Carry Nation, scholar and educator Sophonisba Breckinridge, and physician Louise Gilman Hutchins. Women in Kentucky casts a new light on the active and full participation of women in Kentucky\u27s long and storied history. Helen Deiss Irvin is Chairman of the Division of Humanities at Transylvania University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_womens_history/1002/thumbnail.jp

Blue Water, Brown Water, and Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar and Personal Naval Conflict in South Florida during the Civil War

As Florida\u27s political leaders voted on January 10, 1861, to follow the secessionist lead of South Carolina and Mississippi, former Florida Territorial Governor Richard Keith Call observed the multiple and shifting solidarities of the state and warned the winning faction that you have opened the gates of Hell. Call\u27s premonition swayed few power-brokers in Tallahassee, yet his words proved prophetic. Only in recent decades have historians of Florida\u27s Civil War probed past the traditional interpretations of the state\u27s experience as a trifling affair to establish how disruptive and hellish the conflict was on and to the home front. Indeed, scholars such as George E. Buker, Robert A. Taylor, and Tracy J. Revels have opened new and critical windows onto the internally disruptive aspects of the conflict, especially upon those men and women seeking to preserve their limited opportunities in life and the wellbeing of their families. As a result of the war\u27s miseries, numerous Floridians, particularly those in the backcountry far removed from the power and privilege of Middle Florida (the plantation belt), remained Union men or for other personal reasons abandoned the Confederates and cooperated with or sought the protection of local Union forces. By focusing on the peculiar blue-brown water naval operations in south Florida, the following study seeks to add new insight into how the personal disaffections of various groups of hardscrabble Floridians in that region influenced the course and conduct of Florida\u27s own war within a war.

Race, Education, and Regionalism: The Long and Troubling History of School Desegregation in the Sunshine State

In 1845, as Florida joined the Union, the state legislature promulgated a law which stated that any assemblies ... by free negroes and mulattoes, slave or slaves, shall be punished ... with a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or stripes, not exceeding thirty-nine. This measure, along with extensive and punitive slave codes, virtually eliminated opportunities to establish African American schools in the newest slaveholding state. Florida, true to the code of the white South, wanted to eliminate opportunities for slaves and free blacks to congregate and to pursue education for their children. Although based on the pervasive racial norms of the antebellum South, white Floridians\u27 efforts to deprive African Americans of equal-opportunity education would last through the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This study will chronicle that educational inequality and explore how the Sunshine State\u27s reputed exceptionalism in the Deep South, as reported in the press, the media, and the literature, may not, in fact, match its actual record

Epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases in eastern, central and southern Africa. Proceedings of a workshop

The first part of this report comprises country reports that deals with epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The second part of the report covers topics on assessing the efficacy of immunization against tick-borne diseases, evaluating delivery systems for the control of tick-borne diseases and measuring the impact of immunization on livestock productivity. The paper ends with a discussion on coordination, collaboration and planning

Ursinus College Bulletin Vol. 11, No. 7, April 1895

A digitized copy of the April 1895 Ursinus College Bulletin.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/ucbulletin/1104/thumbnail.jp