LibGuides: Glimmer of Hope: Knight Reading (Reading in Common), 2019-2020: Activist, Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
1890-1998

conservationist, journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate

Marjory Stoneman Douglas" by Jim Bowen is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Drunk History Rendition

Why Comedy Central Will Give Marjory Stoneman Douglas the ‘Drunk History’ Treatment
WARNING: Strong language

Comedy Central. [Screen name]. (2019, January 22). Marjory Stoneman Douglas fought for the Everglades (feat. Jayma Mays) - Drunk History.[Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnVdurs15A.

Archive Collections

Everglades Digital Library: A Tale of Two Women: Marjory Stonmean Douglas and Marjorie Harris Carr
"The recordings in this collection bring to life the stories, the ideals, and the memories of these two remarkable women. The source of this media are broadcast videos held in the Special Collections Department of the FIU Libraries."
Florida Memory: The Everglades in the Time of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"These photographs from the Florida Photographic Collection document the nature, culture, development and conservation of the Florida Everglades, a massive wetland ecosystem that has been the focus of much human activity and as well as debate throughout the 20th Century."
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Papers
"In 1987, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who had established strong ties with the University of Miami, donated her papers to the library's Special Collections. These primary source materials--a portion of which is represented in this exhibit--have since been used extensively by students, scholars, activists and all who have an interest in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the complex cultural milieu of Florida."

Stoneman Douglas' Words

The Everglades by Thomas E. Lodge
Call Number: 574.526325 L821
Publication Date: 1994
This comprehensive text offers photographs and commentary on the Everglades by biologist, Thomas E. Lodge. It opens with words by renowned conservation activist, Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

American Earth by Bill McKibben (Editor); Al Gore (Foreword by)
Call Number: 810.8036 Am35
Publication Date: 2008
This beautifully curated anthology includes an excerpt from Marjory Stoneman Douglas's The Everglades: River of Grass .

Excerpt from Voice of the River
Douglas, M. S. (1987, Aug 30). Voice of the River Marjory Stoneman Douglas now is linked to the cause of the Everglades. But it wasn't always so. So in these excerpts from her new autobiography with John Rothchild, she tells how luck and commitment conspired to create a cause and its symbol. Orlando Sentinel . Retrieved from https://ezproxy.wartburg.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/277054021?accountid=37903

Writings about Stoneman Douglas

Davis, J. E. (2003). 'Conservation is now a dead word': Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the transformation of American environmentalism. Environmental History, 8(1), 53-76.
Davis profiles environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Kneeshaw, S. (2006). Biography as environmental "herstory." Magazine of History, 20(1), 20-24.
"In bringing environmental history into the American survey course, Kneeshaw calls attention to three women who were clearly articulate in one sense, but whose names are unknown to most students such as: Rosalie Edge, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Rachel Carson."
Sierra, H. (2006). Marjory Stoneman Douglas's River of progress: Modernism, feminism, regionalism, and environmentalism in her early writings (Master's thesis). University of Florida, Gaomesville, FL.
"Douglas’s early writings for both The Miami Herald and various popular magazines, particularly The Saturday Evening Post, merit a closer examination in order to understand how Douglas exemplifies a distinctive role in the realm of early twentieth-century American literature: a stylistically conservative author with progressive themes."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas. (2008). In A. Becher, & J. Richey, American environmental leaders: From colonial times to the present (2nd ed.). Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing.
"Variously referred to as the Everglades’ “patron saint,” “empress,” “champion,” and “one of the true guiding lights,” writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas started the movement to save the Florida Everglades from development with her best-selling The Everglades: River of Grass, published in 1947."
Lipske, M. (2000, Apr). She helped Americans fall in love with Florida's Everglades. National Wildlife, 38, 8-9.
"Floridian Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) fought hard to save the Everglades and wrote the book "The Everglades: River of Grass." Although the Everglades was declared a national park in 1947, assaults against it have continued."

America's National Parks Podcast

The Grand Dame of the Everglades
"At the southern tip of Florida lie the Everglades, a crucial ecosystem to America and the world. Everglades National Park has spent its entire life under siege, with Marjory Stoneman Douglas out front as its chief warrior."