The Florida Historical Quarterly

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¶¶ Joining us now is Connie Lester, associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida, director of the Ridges Digital Archiving Project and editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

Connie, in 2012, the United States District Court of the Middle District of Florida celebrated its 50th anniversary with a two-day symposium organized by attorneys Richard S. Dellinger and T. Michael Woods of the Federal Law Association.

The conference papers focused on significant cases in three areas, segregation and integration, civil law, and criminal law.

The following year, the Florida Historical Quarterly published the papers, along with introductions by federal judges in each of the covered areas, an historical overview by James M. Denham, and an introduction by Dellinger and Woods.

In all, 26 authors contributed to the special issue, the largest issue in the quarterly's then 92-year history.

In today's episode, we will focus on what came to be the most controversial issue associated with school desegregation and the role of Judge Ben Krintzman and the Middle District Court in determining the legal status for implementing busing as a means to achieve desegregation.

Thanks, Connie.

That's myfloridahistory.org.

Joining us now is Connie Lester, Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, Director of the Riches Digital Archiving Project, and Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

Connie, in 2013, as Florida commemorated the 500th anniversary of the landing of Juan Ponce de León on the peninsula, many historians and celebratory event planners struggled with the question of how to present the explorer who is often caricatured as the searcher for the mythical Fountain of Youth.

If the inclusion or exclusion of Juan Ponce de León from college-level textbooks is any indication, he is generally allotted only a sentence or two or ignored entirely In a 2015 article titled Throwing the Explorer Out with the Fountain, Roger Chapman surveyed college American history textbooks spanning a date range from the 1870s to 2013 and notes that despite Ponce's impressive list of accomplishments, quote, when compared with the other explorers of his day, he is admittedly less well-known, end quote.

Thanks, Connie.

You're welcome.

Connie Lester is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, Director of the RICHES Digital Archiving Project, and Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

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