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Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 45, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the annual Board of Directors' meeting


Historical News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Arthur W. Thompson Prize; Florida Library Association; local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Carpenter, Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard, by Ralph Peek; Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965, by Maurice M. Vance; Wynes (ed.), The Negro in the South Since 1865: Selected Essays in American Negro History, by Joe M. Richardson; Shadgett, The Republican Party in Georgia: From Reconstruction through 1900, by Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.; Wilensky, Conservatives in the Progressive Era: the Taft Republicans of 1912, by George Norris Green; Bailey, Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century, by James H. Smylie; Batista, The Growth and Decline of the Cuban Republic, by …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Gannon, The Cross in the Sand, by Gerald J. Goodwin; Catholic Historical Review, by Luis R. Arana; McMurray, The Impeachment of Circuit Judge Richard Kelly, by Ben Krentzman; Hartsfield and Roady, Florida Votes: 1920-1962, by John M. DeGrove; Bradford, The Wind Commands Me: A Life of Sir Francis Drake, by James W. Covington; Cave, Jacksonian Democracy and the Historians, by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; Gates, Agriculture and the Civil War, by James C. Bonner; Horn (ed.), Tennessee’s War, by Adam Adams; Higdon, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd, by Merlin G. Cox.


An Episode In The Third Seminole War, James W. Covington 2021 University of Central Florida

An Episode In The Third Seminole War, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Third Seminole War covers the period from December 1855 to the spring of 1858. Although this war brought to a complete standstill nearly all economic growth in central and southern Florida and involved a large expenditure of money and men by national and state forces, it has been virtually ignored by writers who have preferred to pay more attention to the much more famous conflict which lasted from 1835 to 1842. The Second Seminole War attained national attention because the Indians were not crushed and because such well-known figures as Thomas Jesup, Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Richard K. Call, …


Historical Beginnings Of Ybor City And Modern Tampa, Durward Long 2021 University of Central Florida

Historical Beginnings Of Ybor City And Modern Tampa, Durward Long

Florida Historical Quarterly

The story of the revitalization of Tampa, Florida at the end of the nineteenth century is illustrative of many developments accompanying the expansion of cities in that era. Part of the story concerns the attempt to build Ybor City, separate from but adjacent to Tampa, based on immigrant capital and immigrant labor. While Ybor City failed to retain its separateness from Tampa, its cigars - “Hav-A-Tampa, ” “Tampa Nuggets,” “Tampa Straights,” and many others - widely advertised this Florida city. Tampa became famous for cigars even though production began in Ybor City in 1886, and her reputation continues. As late …


American Seizure Of Amelia Island, Richard G. Lowe 2021 University of Central Florida

American Seizure Of Amelia Island, Richard G. Lowe

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1817 the United States took actions at a small island off the northeast coast of Florida which aroused protests from the Spanish government. A band of South American adventurers had occupied Spanish-owned Amelia Island in June and had been using their base as a smugglers’ gateway into Georgia and the southern states. In December 1817, the United States purged the island of its invaders, apparently trying to get rid of this group of troublesome ruffians and smugglers that were agitating along the southern border. A closer examination of this event, however, reveals an additional motive as well.


The Narrow Waters Strategies Of Pedro Menendez, Paul E. Hoffman 2021 University of Central Florida

The Narrow Waters Strategies Of Pedro Menendez, Paul E. Hoffman

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a letter to Philip II from Cadiz on December 3, 1570, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Adelantado of Florida and Captain General of the Armada for the Guarding and Security of the Coasts, Islands, and Ports of the Indies, said that he planned to “place myself in the Bahama Channel where he [Jacques Sores, considered to be one of the best French corsairs and at the time at large in the Caribbean] could not come out without my seeing him.” Menendez recognized that the control of the Bahama Channel was essential for the security of the Caribbean. He said that …


This Was Fort Dade, Frank Laumer 2021 University of Central Florida

This Was Fort Dade, Frank Laumer

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fort Dade was born on the twenty-third of December 1836. The announcement read: “A fort will be erected. . . on the Big Withlacoochee, at the point where the Fort King road crosses it, which will bear the name of the gallant and lamented Dade.”


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 45, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xlv, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Contents Of Volume Xlv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 45


Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices Through Chicana Intervention In Children's Literature, Andrea Putala 2021 Kennesaw State

Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices Through Chicana Intervention In Children's Literature, Andrea Putala

Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones

Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices through Chicana Intervention in Children’s Literature offers critical reflection on an applied research project: the writing of a children’s book that interrogates how introducing a complex theoretical concept would take form. Children’s media introduced in the home and the school are some of the biggest influences when it comes to identity and societal expectations. Unfortunately for students who are bi or multiracial, there has been a lot of erasure of their voices and experiences that do not help cultivate positive identity formations. Chicana feminists situated their voices, histories, and experiences within their …


Endless Scrolling: Technology, (Dis)Connection, And Place In Times Of Covid-19, Felecia Glover 2021 Kennesaw State University

Endless Scrolling: Technology, (Dis)Connection, And Place In Times Of Covid-19, Felecia Glover

Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones

The COVID-19 pandemic created sudden ruptures in the ways many people connected with one another in their day to day lives. Though experiences differed, many turned to communication technology as a means to continue to connect despite COVID restrictions. For some this meant learning to collaborate with coworkers through a screen, while for others it allowed for a sense of closeness with those at a great geographical distance. For many, the seemingly separate spheres of the work, home, and social life all began to take place in one physical, and many virtual, spaces. Though it allows for a smoother transition …


Kinstitution: A Topia Between Archive And Proposal, Christopher Lineberry 2021 CUNY Hunter College

Kinstitution: A Topia Between Archive And Proposal, Christopher Lineberry

Theses and Dissertations

Situating Topher Lineberry's work, this paper offers a primer on institutional critique, preliminary developments of "kinstitutional critique," and the cultivation of family-derived art history through the work of the artist's grandmother, Helen Lineberry. Feeding into a working understanding of family-and-kin-as-institution, the paper ultimately locates Topher Lineberry's work between relations to place, historical archives, and speculative proposals.


Some (Im)Material Girls, Living In (Im)Material Worlds, With Seeds, Stars, And Shit, Matthew Weiderspon 2021 CUNY Hunter College

Some (Im)Material Girls, Living In (Im)Material Worlds, With Seeds, Stars, And Shit, Matthew Weiderspon

Theses and Dissertations

This writing situates material and gestural vocabularies cultivated in my artwork in relation to my lived experience; primarily my rural upbringing in Colorado. Scattered floor dispersals, calling sounds, and bodily movements desire reconsiderations of hope in precarity through a disorientation of place, association, scale, and language.


Final Master's Portfolio, Jonathan Correa 2021 Bowling Green State University

Final Master's Portfolio, Jonathan Correa

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Jonathan G. Correa's Master's Portfolio


Historical News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, National Library Week, local historical societies, contributors to this issue


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Levine, Defender of the Faith, William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915-1925, by C. K. Yearley, Jr.; Freidel, F.D.R. and the South, by Wayne Flynt; Miller, Mr. Crump of Memphis, by William G. Carleton; Bonner, A History of Georgia Agriculture, by T. Conn Bryan


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