Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911,
2021
University of Central Florida
Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911, Durward Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historican have yet to devote the thought and research to urbanization in the South that the subject deserves. Coulter’s brief attention to the growth and role of cities and towns in the Reconstruction era, Van Woodward’s similarly brief concern with cities in his Origins of the New South, Ezell’s short treatment in his textbook survey, Park’s interpretative chapter in Couch’s Culture in the South, and Vance’s edited work on the recent South nearly exhaust the list of serious histories which offer even slight leads about southern urbanization. A survey of the Journal of Southern History and state historical journals is …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 49, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Knotts, See Yankeetown: History and Reminiscences by Ernest H. Jernigan; Clausen, Morrell, and Jones, Florida Department of State, Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties: Bulletin No. I, by Eugene Lyon; Ritcheson, Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States, 1783-1795, by Robert R. Rea; Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation by Michael Kammen; Martin, The Amistad Affair, by Martin M. LaGodna; Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South by Joe M. Richardson; Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made, by Roger D. Bridges; Parker (ed.), The Structure of the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South, by Julia F. Smith; …
Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Justice Samuel Douglas As Governor Marvin Remembered Him,
2021
University of Central Florida
Justice Samuel Douglas As Governor Marvin Remembered Him, Bertram H. Groene
Florida Historical Quarterly
In February of 1896 forty-seven year old Bettie Douglas Lewis of Tallahassee, Florida, wrote a letter to aging William Marvin, former governor of the state of Florida. Mrs. Lewis’ mother was “Lizzie” Brown, oldest of former Governor Thomas Brown’s four daughters. Bettie’s father was Judge Samuel James Douglas, once Florida’s territorial judge of the middle district, located in Tallahassee, and later an associate justice of the Florida supreme court. Douglas died in 1873, and twenty-three years later, Bettie (Mrs. George Lewis) sought to preserve his history. Aside from her mother, Lizzie, there were few people then living who knew the …
Tamiami Trail Blazers: A Personal Memoir,
2021
University of Central Florida
Tamiami Trail Blazers: A Personal Memoir, Russell Kay
Florida Historical Quarterly
Prior to the construction of the Tamiami Trail connecting the east and west coasts of Florida, the only cross-peninsular highway ran from Tampa to Daytona Beach. With the advent of automobiles in Florida shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the possibility of constructing a highway across the Everglades was considered. It was a very controversial issue, however, and opponents argued that the giant cost and the great engineering problems would make the project impossible. Businessmen and chamber of commerce representatives on both coasts, however, insisted that it could be done. Shortly after the end of World War I …
History Of The Blockhouse On The Withlacoochee,
2021
University of Central Florida
History Of The Blockhouse On The Withlacoochee, Tom Knotts
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Animosity between the Florida Seminoles and the American settlers moving in from Georgia and the Carolinas which had been brewing for decades erupted into bloody conflict on December 28, 1835, when Major Francis L. Dade’s command was massacred near Wahoo Swamp, while enroute from Fort Brooke to Fort King. Osceola and a detachment of warriors murdered Wiley Thompson, Indian agent at Fort King, and Constantine Smith the same day as Dade’s massacre. Brigadier General Duncan L. Clinch, commander of the regular forces in Florida, clashed with the Indians three days later as he attempted to cross the Withlacoochee River. …
Intervention And Reaction: Florida Newspapers And United States Entry In World War I,
2021
University of Central Florida
Intervention And Reaction: Florida Newspapers And United States Entry In World War I, C. Peter Ripley
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida newspapers largely ignored the war in Europe until 1917. In early January there was only an occasional mention of the international situation except for brief reports on the fighting. But by mid-February the possibility, and in some cases the inevitability, of United States involvement in the war was a major editorial topic. A month later a majority of the papers favored America’s joining the crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”
Thirty Cent Cotton At Lloyd, Florida 1916-1919,
2021
University of Central Florida
Thirty Cent Cotton At Lloyd, Florida 1916-1919, Clifton Paisley
Florida Historical Quarterly
Not since the Reconstruction Era had the price of cotton reached the heights that it did during the period of the first World War. Very few cotton farmers of 1916-1919 could remember personally the 44 cent cotton of 1865, or even the 20 cent cotton, for after 1872 and until the beginning of the war in Europe in 1914, the price remained below 20 cents. Much of this time southern cotton brought less than 10 cents a pound, in 1914 it was only 8.9 cents. From this low price however, cotton advanced to 19.3 cents in 1916, 29.6 cents in …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 49, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
War Averters: Seward, Mallory, And Fort Pickens,
2021
University of Central Florida
War Averters: Seward, Mallory, And Fort Pickens, Ernest F. Dibble
Florida Historical Quarterly
In January 1861, the scene was set in Pensacola and the curtain almost drawn for the first major military confrontation of the Civil War. A crisis over federal property developed in Florida, and except for Fort Pickens at Pensacola and Fort Taylor in Key West, all government installations were seized. In Pensacola, both sides expected hostilities to begin immediately. The navy yard at Warrington, Barrancas barracks, and Fort McRee were taken peacefully, but Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer, in command of the Pensacola forts, removed all of his men and as much equipment as possible from the other locations into the …
Proceedings Of The Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society,
2021
University of Central Florida
Proceedings Of The Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities
Book Notes,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Florida Frontier Incidents During The 1850s,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Frontier Incidents During The 1850s, George C. Bittle
Florida Historical Quarterly
From a military viewpoint Florida’s frontier at the beginning of the 1850s was relatively quiet. There was no significant warfare, but the Indian question was far from settled. Governor Thomas Brown’s message to the Florida legislature in 1850 repeated many previous statements and complained about the almost total disorganization of Florida’s militia. Governor Brown typically blamed this situation on the current militia law’s unwieldy nature. However, it should be noted, that Florida military officials had not made the militia returns required by the federal government since 1845. There would seem to be some question therefore, concerning the state’s desire to …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Redford, Billion-Dollar Sandbar: A Biography of Miami Beach, by Kathryn Hall Proby; Dean, The Tampa of My Childhood, 1897-1907, and On St. Andrews Bay, 1911-1917: A Sequel, by John D. Ware; Ford, A Comparison of Formative Cultures in the Americas: Diffusion or the Psychic Unity of Man, by William R. Bullard, Jr.; Huck and Moseley (eds.), Militarists, Merchants, and Missionaries, by Donald E. Worcester; McDermott, Frenchmen and French Ways in the Mississippi Valley, by William S. Coker; Brown, The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution, by Robert M. Calhoon; Owsley (ed.), The South: Old and New …
Sidney J. Catts: The Road To Power,
2021
University of Central Florida
Sidney J. Catts: The Road To Power, Wayne Flynt
Florida Historical Quarterly
The South produced a bumper crop of political demagogues between 1890 and 1920. This unparalleled but dubious array of luminaries included James E. Ferguson of Texas, Huey Long of Louisiana, James K. Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, Tom Heflin of Alabama, Tom Watson of Georgia, Cole Blease, “Cotton” Ed Smith, and Ben Tillman of South Carolina, as well as many others. These politicos broke the back of conservative Bourbonism with their emotional appeals to the religious and racial intolerance of the newly powerful masses of voters. Once in office they frequently championed social and economic reform such as the …
Chateaubriand's Florida And His Journey To America,
2021
University of Central Florida
Chateaubriand's Florida And His Journey To America, E. P. Panagopoulos
Florida Historical Quarterly
The American writings of Chateaubriand have nearly been forgotten. Despite the beauty of their poetic prose and the power of their descriptions, historians now consider them obsolete. In 1968 the bicentennial year of his birth was celebrated in other parts of the world with special conferences and impressive publications, but in the United States no periodical commemorated the event, and no paper re-evaluating Chateaubriand’s contribution was read in any of the numerous historical meetings. And yet, Chateaubriand was not just another author. During the first half of the nineteenth century his writings played a great part in shaping French, if …
Nazi Invasion Of Florida!,
2021
University of Central Florida
Nazi Invasion Of Florida!, Leon O. Prior
Florida Historical Quarterly
The United States has been invaded only twice by enemy military forces since the War of 1812. Both invasions were by small parties of German saboteurs during World War II. On June 13, 1942, four men came ashore by boat from a submarine at Amagansett, Long Island, New York. Four days later, four other Germans landed along the isolated beach some four miles south of Ponte Vedra, a luxurious resort on the upper east coast of Florida near Jacksonville. These German invasions were a part of the Abwehr’s Operation Pastorius.
