Professor
Phone: (239)590-7176
E-Mail: iwinsbor@fgcu.edu
Office: Library - 333

Professor, U.S. history
iwinsbor@fgcu.edu

Ph.D., History, University of Akron, 1983
M.A., Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 1973
B.S., Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 1971

Research and teaching interests: African American Studies, U.S. social and cultural, state and local, Florida and Southwest Florida

Courses offered:

AFH 3554 The Africans
AMH 2010 U.S. History to 1877
AMH 2020 U.S. History since 1877
AMH 3172 The Civil War
AMH 3201 U.S. History, 1877-1929
AMH 3252 U.S. History, 1929 to Present
AMH 3421 Early Florida History
AMH 3423 Modern Florida History
AMH 3571 African-American History to 1865
AMH 3572 African-American History since 1865
AMH 4428 Southwest Florida History
AMH 6424 Modern Florida
AMH 6576 African-American History to 1865
AMH 6577 African-American History since 1865
AMH 6915 Research in American History
AMH 6939 Graduate Seminar in American History
HIS  4936 Pro-Seminar in History

Selected Publications
In press: Irvin D.S. Winsboro, editor, Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement (West Virginia University Press, 2009)

Irvin D.S. Winsboro, editor, Florida's Civil War: Exploration into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory (Florida Historical Society Press, 2008)

"Religion, Culture, and the Cold War: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and America's Anti-Communist Crusade of the 1950s," with Michael Epple, The Historian, Vol. 71, no. 2 (2009), pp. 209-233.

"Dr. Cyrus R. Teed of Chicago and the National Mind-Cure Movement," with Donald K. Routh,  Journal of Illinois History, Vol. 11, no. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 74-94.

"Paradigms from the Past: Radical Feminism and the Contemporary Movement in North America," McNeese Review, vol. 44 (Winter 2007), pp. 1-21.

"Give Them Their Due: A Reassessment of African Americans and Union Military Service in Florida During the Civil War," Journal of African-American History, Vol. 92, no. 3 (Summer 2007), pp. 327-346.

"The Koreshan Communitarian Experiment in South Florida, 1894-1961," South Florida History, Vol. 34. no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 12-18.

"The Koreshan Communitarians," Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 83, no. 2 (Fall 2004), pp. 173-190.

"The New Life is Here: The Koreshan Unity and Its Commercial Enterprises in South Florida, 1894-1961," Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association, Vol. 22 (2002), pp. 45-66.

"Lead Us Not into Temptation: Race, Rhetoric, and Reality in Southern Populism," with Moses Musoke,  The Historian, Vol. 65, no. 6 (December 2003), pp. 1354-1374.

Thomas Edison: The Fort Myers Connection. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001.

"Race and Gender Conflict in Ann Petry's The Street:  Lessons in Symbolic Interactionism from the 'Middle Period' of Black Literature," with Marty Ambrose, The McNeese Review, Vol. 37 (1999), 1-13.

"Race and Civil War in South Florida," with Grace Erhart, Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Winter 1999), 320-341.  (This article was awarded the Florida Historical Society's Arthur W. Thompson Award in Florida History for the best scholarly article)

"South Florida and the Hollow Earth Experiment," South Florida History Vol. 27, No. 4 (Fall 1999), 10-17.

"Deep Dive Into the Past: Warm Mineral Springs Yields Hot Archeological Controversy," South Florida History, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1996), 18-22.

"The Peculiar War:  Civil War Naval Operations at Charlotte Harbor, Florida, 1861-1865," with Grace Erhart, Gulf Coast Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Fall 1995), 59-78.

"Latin American Woman in Literature and Reality:  Garcia Marquez's One Hundred  Years of Solitude,"  The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Winter 1993), 192-205.

"Southern Extremities:  The Significance of Fort Myers in the Civil War," Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 2 (October 1993), 129-152.

"Shared Spheres:  The Public Policy of Contemporary Feminism and Civil Rights," in David B. Mock, ed. History and Public Policy. Melbourne, FL:  Krieger, 1991, 193-212.

Feminism and Black Activism in Contemporary America:  An Ideological Assessment. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989; second printing, 1994.

"Blacks in the Military," The Crisis, Vol. 94, No. 2 (1987), 14-26.

"Minority Status, Pluralistic Education and the Asian American:  A Teacher's  Perspective and Agenda," Education, Vol. 106, No. 1 (1985), 88-93.

Make It Happen.  Orlando, FL:  Impact Communication, 1985.

"The Grass Roots Appearance of a National Party:  The Formation of the Republican Party in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1852 1856."  Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 3 (1983), 209-222.

"Erie County and the Know Nothings."  The Journal of Erie Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1974), 54-62.

Conference Presentations
"Blacks, Populism, and Outreach Versus Necessity:  A Comparative Study," The U.S. Senator Rush Holt History Conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 2007.

"With a Little Help from Our Friends: State Mandates and Local Application in the Desegregation of Fort Myers, Florida Public Schools, 1954-1969." Presented at the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute's "Patterson Research Conference," Washington, D.C., September 2004.

"History and Technology: Lessons in Reality from Florida's Newest University." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (combined with the American Association for History and Computing), Washington, D.C., January 2004.

Service
Member, Advisory Board, Uncommon Friends Foundation
Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions/American History (McGraw-Hill)
Member, State of Florida Historical Marker Council, 2000-2002 term
Member, Board of Editors, Florida Historical Quarterly
President, Florida Conference of Historians, 1999-2000