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James G. Cusick University of Florida Libraries The P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History is one of the state's most important archives for preserving and documenting Florida's past and present. At the core of the Florida collection is the private library of Julien Chandler Yonge, started in 1892 and donated to the University of Florida in 1945. Yonge named the collection for his father, Philip Keyes Yonge. The P.K. Yonge Library is now part of Special Collections on the second floor of George A. Smathers Library (East). Its book collection is updated with new acquisitions each year and the library adds maps, photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera as they become available through donation or purchase. During the 1980s the Yonge Library began to systematically microfilm the colonial records of Florida held at archives in Spain, Britain, and around the United States. As a result it maintains a comprehensive assemblage of documents pertaining to Florida's colonial history. Microfilm reels are available to researchers at UF and can also be loaned through InterLibrary Loan. |
| Web Page: | http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html |
| List Affiliations: | None |
| Interests: | American History / Studies |
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Bio: James G. Cusick (Ph.D., Florida, 1993) is Curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida (www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/index.html). He is the co-editor, with Sherry Johnson, of The Voyages of Ponce de León: Scholarly Perspectives (Florida Historical Society Press, 2012) and the author of The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2006). In addition to his duties at the university, he is proud to serve as the president of the board of directors for your Florida Historical Society (http://myfloridahistory.org/), as a board member of the St. Augustine Historical Society, and as a judge in the non-fiction category for the State of Florida’s annual book awards (http://floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu/). |
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