Florida State College at Jacksonville's new local history class makes plans beyond its first semester to expand to community access.
is well underway, and so are its plans to eventually open it up online for anyone who wants to learn more about the city's past, which is richer and more tangled than some might expect.Scott Matthews is teaching the course, with research by Jennifer Grey, public services coordinator for FSCJ's library. She's found firsthand accounts and photographs of historical Jacksonville in archives across the country — including these images included with this story.
The course kicked off this fall in time to mark Jacksonville's bicentennial, although its subject matter goes much further back to theMaine has made every June 17 James Weldon Johnson Day, noting state's link to his death Students are doing research projects as part of the studies, and those works will be included in later editions of the class, as will research by other historians.
Matthews said his goal is to make it"a community history of Jacksonville" able to be accessed by anyone who's interested in it. That leads to the plans to one day expand it online to make it available far beyond just the handful of students who can enroll in person. There's also a partnership with WJCT to create a podcast called"Bygone Jacksonville." Other possibilities could include dual enrollment opportunities for Duval County Public Schools students and seminars for teachers who could then introduce elements of the city's history into their classes.
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