Living History: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories

A series developed by IRSC Professor Robert Farley and continued by Professor David Yankwitt. Open to the public and free of charge for IRSC students and community guests.

SHIPWRECK AND SURVIVAL IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FLORIDA

Dr. Jason Daniels explores his new book, Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal or God’s Protecting Providence: An Early American Castaway Narrative. This new edition contains a transcription of a previously unknown manuscript version of Dickinson’s journal that differs considerably from the published account, adding a significant amount of new ethnographic material regarding the indigenous peoples of Southeast Florida.