Kevin Kokomoor

Course Description: This is a course on Foodways and American History. In other words, it looks at American history by investigating food traditions, their context, the formation of the traditions associated with them, their legacies, etc. It is a nontraditional course that is designed around a mix of popular culture multimedia and popular culture readings to do that.

Course Description: This is a digital course on Foodways and American History. In other words, it discusses events in American history by investigating food traditions. It a nontraditional course that is designed around a mix of popular culture multimedia and popular culture readings to do that.

We will not attempt to talk about everything that happened over the course of this roughly halfcentury. Instead we will go into detail about several ideas and develop several threads, including changing ideas about the responsibilities and structure of government, the role of Native Americans, and the development of race and slavery. Dates are not as important in this class as larger ideas. Together the lectures, discussions, multimedia, and assignments are designed to get you thinking critically about people, about processes, and about sources, in the broadest-yetsharpest ways that honor history's role as a social science. Student Learning Objectives: This class will expose you to different interpretations, perspectives, and approaches to the past.

Course Description: This course is part of a general survey of the United States from discovery through the present. This half covers the period from discovery to the Civil War. Course Objectives: About a century ago the study of history became a social science. In that hope this class, although it is a survey, is designed not only to open your eyes to your past, but help you better understand the present. Dates are not as important in this class as larger ideas. Together the lectures, discussions, multimedia, and assignments are designed to get you thinking critically about people, about processes, and about sources, in the broadest-yet-sharpest ways. So, by semester's end, together we will develop our abilities as scholars by:

Course Description: This is a digital course on Foodways and American History. It discusses events, processes, and peoples in American history by investigating food traditions. This is a nontraditional course that is designed around a mix of popular culture multimedia and popular culture readings.

Course Description: This course is part of a general survey of the United States from discovery through the present. This half covers the period from discovery to the Civil War. Course Objectives: About a century ago the study of history became a social science. In that hope this class, although it is a survey, is designed not only to open your eyes to your past, but help you better understand the present. Dates are not as important in this class as larger ideas. Together the lectures, discussions, multimedia, and assignments are designed to get you thinking critically about people, about processes, and about sources, in the broadest-yet-sharpest ways. So, by semester's end, together we will develop our abilities as scholars by:

Course Description: This is a course on Foodways and American History. In other words, it looks at American history by investigating food traditions, their context, the formation of the traditions associated with them, their legacies, etc. It is a nontraditional course that is designed around a mix of popular culture multimedia and popular culture readings to do that.

Course Description: This is a course on Foodways and American History. In other words, it looks at American history by investigating food traditions, their context, the formation of the traditions associated with them, their legacies, etc. It is a nontraditional course that is designed around a mix of popular culture multimedia and popular culture readings to do that.

This paper examines and discusses Progressive notions of masculinity through the outdoor pursuit of tarpon angling. While more popular Progressive Era sports including baseball and football have long been the focus of sporting historians, adventures including hunting and fishing draw similarly clear connections between Progressive notions of manhood, competition, and fellowship. Similar to hunting in the Far West, the battle with a large tarpon off the coast of Florida appealed to sporting men because of the brute force it took to subdue one; the sport drew these prospective outdoorsmen away from major Northern cities and towards a sporting target singular in its size and presence. Sporting men reveled in the competition as well as the congeniality of the hunt, drawing themselves together on the fishing grounds and in the region’s lodges, while simultaneously attempting to distance themselves from all others through extraordinary catches.

Tarpon fishing offers the opportunity to pursue a narrative of environmental and sport history that focuses on the mutuality between ecology and development. Angling for tarpon illustrates the capacity of an offshore, sporting species to alter the landscape and growth of an entire region. Tarpon fishing reshaped the southwest coast of Florida. In the Charlotte Harbor region, the confluence of human and nonhuman species catalyzed a sporting enterprise that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fishing for tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico was almost exclusively a sporting pursuit, because the unpalatable tarpon had little commercial value. The convergence of the sporting and environmental histories of southwest Florida, the demographics of fishermen and fish, and the development of sporting industries regionally and nationally all provide evidence of the close ecological mutuality that defined tarpon angling during its peak years. On account of features o...

IN 1796 AMERICAN AUTHORITIES INVITED CREEK HEADMEN TO A TREATY council at Coleraine, a federal post in southern Georgia. A great deal was riding on these negotiations to bring stability to the Southeast, where animosity between Creek communities and Georgia settlers had been festering for over a decade. The Creek delegation would be asked to endorse a compact that a handful of them had signed six years earlier, the Treaty of New York. Getting the old treaty legitimated, however, would be no easy task. Only a few Creek headmen had signed it, and when word spread of what they had done, the treaty deeply fractured Creek politics, spread instability through the region, and then went largely ignored. (1) Any effort to have a much larger Creek delegation validate the agreement, which had proved so contentious in the past, was sure to meet with renewed opposition. Further complicating the prospective conference was an antagonistic Georgia commission that was also en route. Georgia lawmakers argued that federal authorities had overstepped their bounds in New York, compromising with the Creek delegation in ways that were offensive to the state's interests. The George Washington administration had bargained for only a portion of the lands, for instance, that state commissioners had already claimed through their own previous negotiations. "[Nineteen out of twenty" Georgians were pressing for those lands anxiously, Governor George Mathews complained to the U.S. secretary of war, and he pushed hard to see the state's claims honored at Coleraine. (2) Three commissioners from Georgia were on their way south to state their demands, mostly for land, while reluctant Creek headmen began their journey only after vowing they would not cede an inch of it. The situation was reminiscent of confrontations that had already generated years of sporadic violence along the frontier, and without considerable intervention the upcoming negotiations promised only more of the same. How Federalist authorities like President George Washington and Secretary of War Timothy Pickering approached Coleraine, however, differentiated this meeting from those previous attempts. They made arrangements for the conference, at Georgia's request, with explicit conditions, warning their state counterparts aggressively. "The Creeks have been, with difficulty, restrained from open war," Pickering made clear, and "any movement which may hazard that event, must be cautiously made." The United States was interested in stability, and not necessarily land, Pickering warned, and Georgia would not be permitted to drag the entire region into war. (3) James Seagrove, who for years was the United States' temporary agent in the Southeast, shared that attitude. When asking Creek headmen to attend the meeting at Coleraine, he issued strong promises. "You have often met me on the frontiers of this country," he wrote, "and I have always sent you home safe and well pleased, and I can venture to assure you, it will be the same now." (4) It was clear from whom Seagrove thought he would be keeping the Creek delegation safe--Georgians. His assurances, along with Pickering's warnings, constructed a conference where Creeks' needs were as important as, if not more important than, state ones. Undeterred, the state commissioners soon arrived at Coleraine. They wasted little time, generating days of tense interactions with the three federal commissioners appointed by Congress. The state commissioners' talks at the conference reflected on the righteousness of Georgia's past treaties while downplaying the Treaty of New York, and, not surprisingly, they made aggressive demands for land and remuneration for past Creek raids. When the Creek delegation began to worry aloud that the state of Georgia would intervene with force, which had most certainly happened in the past, federal commissioner Benjamin Hawkins interjected. "The people of Georgia cannot take your lands from you," he declared to the chiefs, in front of his state counterparts, because the lands "are guarantied to you by the treaty of New York. …

Tarpon fishing offers the opportunity to pursue a narrative of environmental and sport history that focuses on the mutuality between ecology and development. Angling for tarpon illustrates the capacity of an offshore, sporting species to alter the landscape and growth of an entire region. Tarpon fishing reshaped the southwest coast of Florida. In the Charlotte Harbor region, the confluence of human and nonhuman species catalyzed a sporting enterprise that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fishing for tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico was almost exclusively a sporting pursuit, because the unpalatable tarpon had little commercial value. The convergence of the sporting and environmental histories of southwest Florida, the demographics of fishermen and fish, and the development of sporting industries regionally and nationally all provide evidence of the close ecological mutuality that defined tarpon angling during its peak years. On account of features of the fish's annual and life cycle, the region, and the sport, this fishing seemed not to overtax populations of the fish themselves.(Online publication April 16 2012)