Flagler College Lecture Series

Flagler College and the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute will present a two-part lecture series We've Been Here Before! Battling Disease and Epidemics in St. Augustine on February 10 and March 3, 2022.

Susan Richbourg Parker, Ph.D., will kickstart the series with her lecture titled They Die Here as Elsewhere: Epidemics in Colonial Florida on Thursday, February 10, 2022, in the Flagler Room at Flagler College.

Parker earned a masters and doctorate degree from the University of Florida. Her research interests included the colonial United States, colonial Latin America and anthropology. She is currently historian for the St. Johns County Clerk of the Court and a former executive director of the St. Augustine Historical Society. Her edited book Oldest City: History of St. Augustine won the 2020 William L. Proctor Award from the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute. Her weekly column, "Oldest City," is published in The St. Augustine Record.

Thomas Graham, Ph.D., will present From Yellow Jack to Spanish Flu on Thursday, March 3, 2022.

Professor Emeritus of History in the Humanities Department at Flagler College, Graham received his doctorate degree in history from the University of Florida in 1973. His research interest is in nineteenth century United States history.

Graham's books include Flagler's St. Augustine Hotels (Pineapple Press, 2004), The Awakening of St. Augustine (St. Augustine Historical Society, 1978), Charles H. Jones, Journalist and Politician of the Gilded Age (University Presses of Florida, 1990) and Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine (University Press of Florida, 2014). He is a past president and honorary life member of the St. Augustine Historical Society and has served on the Board of Directors of the Florida Historical Society.

The Historic St. Augustine Research Institute is a collaborative project of Flagler College and the University of Florida, supported by the St. Augustine Foundation, Inc. Its purpose is to encourage, coordinate and disseminate active academic research related to the history, archeology and historical architecture of St. Augustine, Florida, and to apply this research in support of historic preservation in the city.

For more information, call (904) 829-8481 or visit here.

Admission: Free

When: 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10 and Thursday, March 3, 2022.

Where: The Flagler Room is located at Flagler College, 74 King St., St. Augustine, FL