Foster, John T. Jr.

John Foster is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is the author of At the Dawn of Tourism in Florida (FHS Press, 2019) and of three monographs with his wife, Sarah Whitmer Foster: Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers (UFP, 2nd Printing, 1999); Contentment and the Pursuit of Ambition (Rose Digital Publishing, 2011); and Calling Yankees to Florida (FHS Press, 2nd Edition, 2019). The pair also served as editors for two additional books. John Foster has published extensively in the Florida Historical Quarterly as well as several other prestigious scholarly journals. His work includes topics on Reconstruction-era Florida, Africa, African Americans, and instructional design. He is the leading expert on the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher family in Florida.- UFL Finding Aid