Online Exhibits

artwork

Feminism in Puerto Rico

Yo misma fui mi ruta

This exhibit seeks to create meaningful conversations about Puerto Rican feminism and Puerto Rican women’s fight against systematic oppression

Sa Juventud y el Comunismo cover illustration

Student Revolution in Central America

Estudiantes Conscientes

Central America in the 20th century saw a variety of civil conflicts as citizens began to demand and organize around struggles for labor, land, and political rights. Scholarship has primarily focused on the role of peasant, labor, and guerilla groups during Cold War conflicts of the 1940s-1990s. Yet, university students were an important sector of popular discontent. Their actions turned them into important political actors in their countries. For this reason, they were also targets for repression. This exhibition focuses on student movements and revolutionaries in Central America and their role throughout the region’s 20th century Cold War conflicts.

Map of Haiti

The Haitian American Dream Timeline

The Haitian American Dream examines the events and the forgotten stories of Haitian immigrants in the United States. In so doing, it explains the reasons behind the different waves of Haitian migration, its ongoing impacts, and upheavals so that, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot states, the stories of “the actors who participate in the production of history or any of the sites where that production” transpired are told.

Cover of Puck Magazine featuring illustration of Grim Reaper above Panama

Health & Medicine at the Panama Canal

The Digging is the Least Thing of All

Over 235 million tons of rock and dirt were excavated to create the Canal. Yet, Chief Engineer John Stevens saw sanitation efforts and workers’ health as the greatest challenge when he remarked, “the digging is the least thing of all.” Examines the tremendous public health infrastructure necessary before and during Canal construction, which evolved into an equally monumental system designed to keep the people operating it safe from injury and disease. For the people of the Canal Zone and Panama who lived at the crossroads of global trade community care, medical studies, vaccines, and quarantine were a part of their everyday life and work.

Cover of The Pearl Key, or Midnight and Dawn in Cuba by Aurora de Mena (1896)

The Cuban American Dream: A Timeline

A timeline of events that explore the reasons behind the immigration of Cubans to Florida from the 16th to the 21st century, the pressure that such immigration brought to local and state governments, the reactions of Floridian communities to Cuban immigrants, the ways in which Cuban immigrants adapted to their new reality, and the contribution of Cuban immigration to Florida.

  Map from Autos establecidos entre los dueños de las Haciendas Santa Ana Tenango y Santa Clara de Montefalco. 1823.  George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

The Expression and Legacy of Landownership in Mexico

The Expression and Legacy of Landownership in Mexico explores documents and maps from the Luis Pimentel Collection. The collection, shows transactions of ownership and management of sugar mills in Mexico in the state of Morelos, and in other haciendas in the state of Puebla from the 16th to the 20th century.

Jamaican Interlude by Karl Parboosingh (c.1958)

About Face: Revisiting Jamaica’s First Exhibition in Europe

About Face which is only available online, celebrates Jamaica's 50th Anniversary of Independence by revisiting the country's first post-independence exhibition to tour Europe. Curated by Dr. Petrine Archer and Claudia Hucke, designed by Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler. Funding provided by the George Smathers Libraries Mini Grant Program.

Poster for Médico de guardia

Carteles: The Efraín Barradas Collection of Mexican and Cuban Film Posters

A timeline of events that explore the reasons behind the immigration of Cubans to Florida from the 16th to the 21st century, the pressure that such immigration brought to local and state governments, the reactions of Floridian communities to Cuban immigrants, the ways in which Cuban immigrants adapted to their new reality, and the contribution of Cuban immigration to Florida.