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Provides an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events involved in the pioneering first moon landing of July 20, 1969.

The origin story of a groundbreaking albumThe 1971 Allman Brothers Band albumAt Fillmore Eastwas a musical manifesto years in the making. InPlay All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations and musical background of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album not just a smash hit, but one of the most important live rock albums in history. Featuring insights from bootleg tapes, radio ads, early reviews, never-before-published photos, and the memories of band members, fans, and friends, Beatty chronicles how Allman rejected the traditional route of music business successhit singles and record salesand built a band that was at its best jamming live on stage, feeding off the crowds energy, and pushing each other to new heights of virtuosic improvisation. Every challenge, from recruiting a group of relatively unknown but established musicians like Jaimoe and Dickey Betts, touring the American South as an interracial band, and the failure of their first two studio albums, sharpened Allmans determination to pursue the bands truly unique sound. He made a bold choiceto record their next album live at Bill Grahams famous concert hall in New Yorks Lower East Side, a gamble that launched a new strand of American music to the top of the charts. Four days after the album went gold, Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident. He was 24. This book explores howAt Fillmore Eastcemented Allmans legacy as a strong-willed, self-taught visionary, giving fans of Southern rock and all readers interested in the role of rock music in American popular culturea new appreciation for this pathbreaking album.

Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture.

Provides an overview of the natural and human history of one of the world's most intriguing commodities: chocolate. This title explores its ecological niche, tracing cacao's journey out of the rain forest, into pre-Columbian gardens, and then onto plantations adjacent to rain forests. It also presents a history of the use of cacao.

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This revised edition is updated with information about new research and initiatives that are restoring native plants and wildlife populations in the twenty-first century.

Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most storied cities of the American South. Well known for its historic buildings and landscape, its thriving maritime culture, and its role in the beginning of the American Civil War, many consider it the birthplace of historic preservation. In Charleston, Martha Zierden and Elizabeth Reitz-whose archaeological fieldwork in the city spans more than three decades-reveal a vibrant, densely packed city, where people, animals, and colonial activity carried on in close proximity. Examining animal bones and the ruins of taverns, markets, townhouses, and smaller homes, the authors consider the residential, commercial, and public life of the city and the dynamics of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services that linked it with rural neighbors and global markets.From early attempts at settlement and cattle ranching to the Denmark Vesey insurrection and efforts to improve the city's drinking water, Zierden and Reitz explore the evolution of the urban environment, the intricacies of provisioning such a unique city, and the urban foodways and cuisine that continue to inspire Charleston's culinary scene even today.

Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting rights to free persons of color. Paradoxically, his fortune came from the purchase, sale, and labor of enslaved Africans.In this penetrating biography, Daniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley's evolving thoughts on race and slavery, exploring his business practices and his private life. Kingsley fathered children by several enslaved women, then freed and lived with them in a unique mixed-race family. One of the women--the only one he acknowledged as his "e;wife"e; though they were never formally married--was Anta Madgigine Ndiaye (Anna Kingsley), a member of the Senegalese royal family, who was captured in a slave raid and purchased by Kingsley in Havana, Cuba.A ship captain, Caribbean merchant, and Atlantic slave trader during the perilous years of international warfare following the French Revolution, Kingsley sought protection under neutral flags, changing allegiance from Britain to the United States, Denmark, and Spain. Later, when the American acquisition of Florida brought rigid race and slavery policies that endangered the freedom of Kingsley's mixed-race family, he responded by moving his "e;wives"e; and children to a settlement in Haiti he established for free persons of color.Kingsley's assertion that color should not be a "e;badge of degradation"e; made him unusual in the early Republic; his unique life is revealed in this fascinating reminder of the deep connections between Europe, the Caribbean, and the young United States.

A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived for decades in the southernmost city of the United States, Castro worked as a lector reading to cigar factory employees, a newspaper editor, a printer, and a writer. He published Lágrimas y flores, a collection of his poetry, in 1918. Translated here by Rhi Johnson, Castro's poems provide a window into an overlooked literary culture.Johnson and Joy Castro open this bilingual edition with an introduction detailing the writer's biography, literary context, and cultural milieu. Tears and Flowers highlights questions of national identity, migration, belonging, and courtship in Cuban émigré society, connects Florida to the Spanish-speaking communities of the Caribbean and Spain, and recovers the literary archive of a rich moment in US and Latinx history for a contemporary audience. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A newly discovered manuscript believed to be the first known novella written by a woman in Florida In 2015, an unsigned and undated 98-page manuscript was donated to the University of Florida. This work, titled The Storm, is published here for the first time, transcribed and annotated by Keith Huneycutt. Huneycutt presents evidence attributing its authorship to Ellen Brown Anderson, a writer who came to Florida and lived with family members before the Civil War. This book makes widely available what may be the first novella written by a woman in the state.Likely written between 1854 and 1862, The Storm is set in Key West during the hurricane year of 1846. It is narrated by a young bride who tells the story of her first marriage, her struggle to make sense of a loveless and hopeless domestic situation, and the restrictions placed on women in her society. The story also presents a woman's viewpoint on mid-nineteenth-century Key West, including the island's shipwreck salvage industry and the town's get-rich-quick economy, constituting one of the first fictional treatments of the Keys' wrecking business.Huneycutt's introduction compares the text with other examples of women's literature and works by Florida authors from the period. The appendixes include essays on the writings of Anderson and her sister Corrina Brown Aldrich, who may have also played a role in the tale's creation. Huneycutt argues that The Storm is groundbreaking in many ways and that it deserves serious consideration as part of antebellum American literature.

An indispensable resource for learning about the freshwater wonders of Florida Florida is home to over 1,000 freshwater springs, natural wonders that have drawn people to enjoy and interact with them over the course of millennia. This book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the geography, history, science, and politics of the springs, informing readers about the deep past and current issues facing these treasures of the Florida landscape. Christopher Meindl explains the unique physical features of Florida's springs, including the "Swiss cheese" structure of the state's aquifers and the complexities of its groundwater hydrology, providing helpful maps, graphs, and photos. Meindl discusses how ancient and modern people have used the springs--as centers of communities, therapeutic spas, roadside attractions, parks, and more. He addresses contemporary threats to the springs in areas such as water flow, water quality, and overcrowding. Finally, he explores recent state policies, the activism of environmentalists, and current and potential restoration projects that seek to prevent springs degradation. Meindl brings to light a struggle for truth among scientists, politicians, and businesspeople about the causes of problems the springs face today. Challenging oversimplified answers and looking at multiple hypotheses, Meindl raises intriguing questions that will inspire readers to join the ongoing discussion about how best to protect and restore Florida's iconic freshwater sanctuaries.

Photographs that meditate on thevanishing place of mobile home parks in the landscape of Miami In a collectionof images that are both quiet and telling, Sunset Colonies portrays thevulnerabilities experienced by residents of South Florida's mobile homecommunities amid rapid urban transformation and the threat of economic displacement.Photographer Diego Waisman captures a fractured sense of place in Miami-area neighborhoodsthat once flourished but are now increasingly forgotten. Essays by scholars Amy Galpin, LouisHerns Marcelin, and Alpesh Kantilal Patel give context to the current situationof these trailer parks, which at first promised their occupants stability, affordable housing, and for many, a comfortable retirement. But developmentinitiatives, surging rent prices, and environmental hazards have disrupted thisdream. Waisman's images, collected over seven years, ruminate on worn corrugatedexteriors, cracked ceramic tile, and the looming construction of luxuryapartment buildings nearby. Anhomage to a way of life that is quickly slipping away, Sunset Coloniesraises urgent questions about the invisibility of mobile communities, theirhistories, and their potential futures. Waisman also emphasizes the strengthand resilience of people whose definition of home lies in the balance betweenmemory and encroaching reality. Together, the images and essays in this bookcreate a multilayered meditation on place, community, and dignity.

An immersive journey into the stunning beauty, rich biodiversity, and fragile ecosystems of Dry Tortugas National Park, this book combines captivating photographs with insightful narratives to highlight a remote archipelago that has profound ecological significance.

This bookexplores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian Riverarea on Florida's Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenouspeoples and rewriting its history to market the land to investors and tourists.

In this cookbook, Ana Quincoces reimagines traditional Cubanrecipes for today's home chefs, helping readers make timeless dishes thatshowcase the distinctive flavors of classic Cuban cuisine while crafting mealsthat are accessible to everyone.

"Explaining why the state is more than the "Florida Man" stories and other stereotypes, this book celebrates what makes Florida worth a deeper understanding in a lively trip through the state's natural beauty and fascinating history."--

Ceramics serve as one of the best-known artifacts excavated by archaeologists. They are carefully described, classified, and dated, but rarely do scholars consider their many and varied uses. Breaking from this convention, Myriam Arcangeli examines potsherds from four colonial sites in the Antillean island of Guadeloupe to discover what these everyday items tell us about the people who used them. In the process, she reveals a wealth of information about the lives of the elite planters, the middle and lower classes, and enslaved Africans.By analyzing how the people of Guadeloupe used ceramics-whether jugs for transporting and purifying water, pots for cooking, or pearlware for eating-Arcangeli spotlights the larger social history of Creole life. What emerges is a detail rich picture of water consumption habits, changing foodways, and concepts of health. Sherds of History offers a compelling and novel study of the material record and the "e;ceramic culture"e; it represents to broaden our understanding of race, class, and gender in French-colonial societies in the Caribbean and the United States.Arcangeli's innovative interpretation of the material record will challenge the ways archaeologists analyze ceramics.