For my upcoming research paper, I am investigating the John Gorrie and Ice Trade of the 1850’s. For this blog I thought it would be pertinent stay on the ice theme but expand my research until 1935. This led me into unexpected territory of Jacob Ruppert, beer making, baseball and the Ice Trade
Greetings, Presented here is a short video on Institutional Racism within the American Medical Establishment which I made during a graduate class at John Hopkins. It was a powerpoint which I converted converted to an mp4. At times you may need to pause the video at...
Institutional Racism within the American medical society promoted fear in oppressed and impoverished black communities. This fear was established through unethical medical procedures performed by unprincipled white doctors who used their image of respectability and healing to gain patients’ trust. I supported my argument by researching and reviewing scholarly articles, books, and internet research. The areas of concentration: the socially constructed view of the doctor, the Antebellum period, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the lack of black participants in the study, and the health disparities of blacks in the 1990’s.
Greetings, This is my first attempt to make a graduate level lecture. Lecture 1 of 8 on Pre-Civil War: Religious thought on Death and Burial, Training of Doctors and Early Medicine. Two-thirds of the Civil War’s 600,000 plus deaths were...
Greetings, This week I created a new video book review program called Why Should We Care? Here I will discuss a book and why I believe it has merit in today's society. This week's the book, published in 1979, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, Dr. George...
Greeting to all, This week’s discussion is on researching slave markets in Northern Florida counties of Leon, Wakulla, and Franklin, with interest in possible markets in Apalachicola and St Marks Florida. https://youtu.be/sWNDXcwKdpI Thanks for stopping by Kev...
Greetings, For this week’s assignment in using Oxford Historical Scholarship website, I searched another one of my interest, lynching of veterans and lynchings in Northern Florida. In this presentation you will hear a bit about the 1919 lynching of black World War One...
Morphing of Don Quixote Kevin Bair “Don Quijote de la Mancha is the second most translated book after the Bible.” - Alfredo Moro Four Hundred Years of Don Quixote The twenty-first century marks the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. According to...
This assignment was the quest for additional content which could be used to improve the Liberty’s Standard American History course, HIUS 221. My topic is the 1778 creation of the First Rhode Island Regiment, which was the first black regiment, created on February 14,...