USF Heritage Research Lab | Preserving and Promoting Heritage

Antoinette Jackson talks with former president Jimmy Carter

September 20, 2011

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site

Working with the National Park Service and the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site team to make sure the community of Archery, Georgia near President Carter’s boyhood home establishes its place in history, Dr. Jackson’s work has Carter’s personal attention. The nation’s 39th president is both excited and supportive of the project and our research efforts in heritage studies.

View a 5-minute video about our lab’s mission which includes an excerpt of President Carter’s interview. View Video

September 16, 2011

Sulphur Springs Heritage project

The Sulphur Springs Heritage project is part of an ongoing commitment by the University of South Florida designed to address the rising interest in, and need for, heritage management by communities, civic organizations, and other groups focused on preserving the past as a key cultural resource. The project includes collecting oral histories using a range of ethnographic techniques and audio visual options; creating multimedia educational materials; participating in community heritage preservation meetings &activities; website design; collecting and preserving historic photographs; participating in historic building designation fieldwork, and doing library & archival research in support of the Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center.

September 16, 2011

Posters

E. McCoy, Rethinking Florida’s State Parks: Strategies for Surviving the “New Normal” Economy.

M. Allsopp, Gaining the Attention of Youth in Heritage Research and Preservation: Integrating Anthropology, Education, and Technology

I. Lowman, Recreational Segregation: Examining the effects of Jim Crow on the community identity at Homestead Bayfront Beach

View more Heritage Research posters.

September 16, 2011

Nicodemus National Historic Site

This project is meant to increase the understanding and appreciation by the National Park Service for the people, places and organizations that contributed materially to the creation and continued existence of Nicodemus as the only remaining western town established by African-Americans during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, and to assist the NPS in the preservation of related resources and in the interpretation of Nicodemus for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.This project originated from the desire of the NPS to better understand the history of the Nicodemus community and the legislative requirement for the NPS to work cooperatively with the affiliated Nicodemus-founders’ descendants.

September 10, 2011

Our Services

Consulting
Document Review
Ethnographic Assessment and Overview and Traditional Use Studies
Ethnographic Interviews
Ethnohistorical Studies
Oral History
Mapping (asset mapping; cemetery mapping; ethnographic mapping, GIS)
Project Management and Technical Assistance
REAP — Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Procedures
Training (Diversity workshops, oral history workshops, heritage and technology, cemetery mapping, cultural resource management, collaborative anthropology and engaging community, youth and heritage research)

Archival Research

September 9, 2011

Oral History

Oral histories provided by community residents preserve a part of history for future generations that may otherwise be lost. Pictured is Nicodemus, Kansas descendent Thomas Wellington II in front of the Old Washington Homestead near Speed, Kansas in June 2010.

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Iyshia Lowman’s Homestead Beach report published by the National Park Service!

Posted by HERITAGE RESEARCH LAB on February 14, 2013 Leave a comment

Congratulations to USF graduate student, Iyshia Lowman, for her recently published report by the National Park Service entitled, Jim Crow at the Beach: An Oral and Archival History of the Segregated Past at Homestead Bayfront Park. Charles Lawson, NPS Cultural Resource Manager, Biscayne National Park, Florida, who funded the study about this previously undocumented aspect [...]