Digital Initiatives

The people of the Caribbean islands, survivors of brutal slave regimes had to carve out new economic, political, and personal identities for themselves. Dr. Edward Baptist, professor of history at the University of Miami, and another section of his History 300/Caribbean Studies class collaborated with the Special Collections faculty and staff, to create this educational web site. Students used for their research many rare Caribbean materials from Special Collections. These historical materials are used to vividly describe and illustrate this period of great change in the Caribbean.

This web site provides a guide and curriculum activities for teachers and students interested in using the photographs taken by the Farm Security Administration (an American "New Deal" Federal government agency). It is based, in part, on a curriculum guide developed for the Southeast Museum of Photography and the exhibition Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida, which was based on the book by Michael Carlebach and Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.. Farm Security Photographs of Florida (Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 1993).

The Imagebase Collection supports teaching across a variety of disciplines at the University of Miami. The images in the collection support the study of both Architecture and Art and Art History. The images were selected in consultation with faculty and slide curators. The goal of the collection is to support the teaching and studying of Architecture and Art and Art History, with an emphasis on images that faculty use on their teaching and research. Some specialized collections in the slide rooms of both schools are also part of the Imagebase collection.

The Sixties site was developed to support an interdepartmental (History, English, American Studies) course taught by Professors Bowen and Spivey. It features oral history presentations by UM faculty, a sixties chronology, and a selected bibliography of books held in the University of Miami Libraries.

A fascinating and scholarly account of the trials and lifestyles of Caribbean slaves. Dr. Edward Baptist, professor of history at the University of Miami, and his History 300/Caribbean Studies class collaborated with the Special Collections faculty and staff, to create this unique and educational web site. Many rare Caribbean maps from Special Collections, plus illustrations and engravings in rare books, were chosen as visual accompaniments to essays written by students on this infamous historical period.

This archive contains selected images from eight collections in the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections Division and narrative that examine the variety of elements that have shaped travel, tourism, and urban growth in Greater Miami. It was developed by Dr. Robin Bachin, Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor in the University of Miami History Department, in collaboration with the University of Miami Libraries.

This web site provides an online archive of approximately seventy oral history interviews with people who not only lived through Hurricane Andrew, but also experienced the subsequent recovery process in the first months after the storm. The interviews were conducted by undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Miami under the supervision of Professor Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Department of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, University of Miami. The web site includes not only the full text of interviews, as well as selected digital audio files.

Late in January of 1896, Jesse Sumner Wooley, a well-known photographer from Ballston Spa, New York, took passage to Florida on the S.S. Algonquin. Equipped with a hand-held Eastman Kodak Bulls-Eye camera, Wooley used his trip to St. Augustine to create a stereopticon or lantern-slide lecture about Florida. Wooley subsequently returned to Florida in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs and text which make up this web site are the result of both his trips in 1896 and three decades later.