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Henry S. Sanford And Labor Problems In The Florida Orange Industry, Richard J. Amundson 2021 University of Central Florida

Henry S. Sanford And Labor Problems In The Florida Orange Industry, Richard J. Amundson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Henry Shelton Sandord, direct descendant of Thomas Sanford who had come to Massachusetts in the 1630’s, made many contributions to the economic welfare of the United States and particularly to Florida, his “adopted state.” Sanford’s foresight and his sizable investments promoted the growth and prosperity of the orange culture in central Florida. His adoption of modern equipment and scientific methods of cultivation, including selective cross-breeding of citrus stocks and the use of irrigation, speeded the so-called “orange revolution” which occurred in the post-Civil War period. Progress and change, however, often are opposed, and so it was with Sanford’s efforts to …


Confederate Railroad Construction: The Live Oak To Lawton Connector, Jerrell H. Shofner 2021 University of Central Florida

Confederate Railroad Construction: The Live Oak To Lawton Connector, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the Confederacy’s most perplexing problems involved combining the disconnected southern railroads into a system of transportation between the various parts of the South. Lack of equipment and enemy action were major reasons for the failure to solve the problem. The Confederate government also pursued the disastrous policy of relying as much as possible on private initiative to supply its needs.


The Battle Of Olustee: Its Meaning For The British, Lawrence E. Breeze 2021 University of Central Florida

The Battle Of Olustee: Its Meaning For The British, Lawrence E. Breeze

Florida Historical Quarterly

Early in February 1864, Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, commanding the Federal Department of the South with headquarters at Hilton Head, South Carolina, ordered Brigadier General Truman Seymour, commander of the District of Hilton Head, to prepare his forces for a seaborne expedition. Subsequent orders, issued after the embarkation of the troops, directed the expedition to the east coast of Florida. On February 7, Seymour’s forces reached the mouth of the St. Johns River. They ascended the river to Jacksonville and soon took possession of the town. Meeting only token resistance in the area, they began raiding operations outward from …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 43, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Twistin’ The Night Away: Perverted Nostalgia In How I Learned To Drive, Coco McNeil 2021 Skidmore College

Twistin’ The Night Away: Perverted Nostalgia In How I Learned To Drive, Coco Mcneil

English Honors Theses

This paper situates Paula Vogel's 1997 play How I Learned to Drive as an American memory play that is representative of 1990s cultural and political discourses rooted in nostalgia for the 1960s. By examining each character--the Greek Chorus, Peck, and Li'l Bit--within Lauren Berlant's 'intimate public sphere,' 1960s iconography, and memory practices, I argue that Vogel offers an allegory in Drive that characterizes this nostalgia as perverted and traumatizing rather than idyllic.


Contributors, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


Historical News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local and area societies and commissions


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Treacy, Prelude to Yorktown, by George C. Rogers, Jr.; Tucker, Dawn Like Thunder, by Alexander DeConde; Eaton (ed.), The Leaven of Democracy, by Robert Seager II; Catton, Terrible Swift Sword, by George Elliott Wolff; Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, by William E. Highsmith; Diamond (ed.), The Nation Transformed, by Robert C. Cotner; Pease and Pease, Black Utopia, by Theodore B. Wilson; Bennett, Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, by Michael V. Gannon; Foner, A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, by Richard K. Murdoch


New Members, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A listing of new members of FHS


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Gaibrois, La idea colonial de Ponce de Leon, by Donald E. Worcester; Sofen, The Miami Metropolitan Experiment, by William W. Young; Grantham, The Democratic South, by Francis B. Simkins; Simkins, The Everlasting South, by Kathryn Abbey Hanna; Carter, Doomed Road of Empire, by Burr C. Brundage; Callahan, Royal Raiders, by Cecil Johnson; Greene, The Quest for Power, by Michael G. Kammen


Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Annual Meeting, May 7-9, 1964, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

The Annual Meeting, May 7-9, 1964, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The officers and directors of the Florida Historical Society held its annual meeting at 8:00 p.m., May 7, 1964, in the conference room of the Everglades Hotel in Miami. The following board members were in attendance: Frank B. Sessa, James R. Knott, Lucius B. Ruder, Thelma Peters, Margaret Chapman, H. J. Doherty, Jr., Adam G. Adams, Charles W. Arnade, Mrs. John T. Bills, Mrs. Ralph Davis, Mrs. John R. Dubois, Walter R. Hellier, James H. Lipscomb, III, Ben C. Willis, and Samuel Proctor.


David Sholtz: New Deal Governor Of Florida, Merlin G. Cox 2021 University of Central Florida

David Sholtz: New Deal Governor Of Florida, Merlin G. Cox

Florida Historical Quarterly

David Sholtz, New Deal governor of Florida, was not of the familiar cloth from which Florida governors are made. He believed when he began his campaign in 1932, that only a candidate who was cut from an unfamiliar pattern could be elected governor. Alfred Green and Roger West, who were associated with him in the practice of law in Daytona Beach, at first ridiculed Sholtz’ plan to run without the support of the “courthouse ring” in Volusia County. But David Sholtz wanted to be governor, and so he paid the filing fee, entered the race, and convinced a majority of …


Republicans, Bull Moose, And Negroes In Florida, 1912, G. N. Green 2021 University of Central Florida

Republicans, Bull Moose, And Negroes In Florida, 1912, G. N. Green

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the early weeks of 1912, President William Howard Taft became ruefully aware that a former White House occupant, Theodore Roosevelt, would be his major opponent when the Republican Party held its presidential nominating convention at Chicago in June. Taft’s political aides were scouring the southern states, searching out Roosevelt Republican office-holders and dismissing them whenever found. Local postmasters were advised that if they did not bring a pro-Taft delegation to their state convention, they would no longer be deemed available for reappointment. Another Taft strategem was to hold the southern state conventions ahead of the usual time and before …


State-Supported Higher Education Among Negroes In The State Of Florida, Leedell W. Neyland 2021 University of Central Florida

State-Supported Higher Education Among Negroes In The State Of Florida, Leedell W. Neyland

Florida Historical Quarterly

State-supported higher education among Negroes in Florida had its beginning during the decade of the 1880’s. The initial step in this new educational venture was taken by Governor William D. Bloxham who, during his first administration, vigorously set forth a threefold economic and social program. In his inaugural address he declared that in order to promote the interest, welfare, and prosperity of the state, "we must invite a healthy immigration; develop our natural resources by securing proper transportation; and educate the rising generation." He promulgated this combination as "the three links in a grand chain of progress upon which we …


Aftermath Of Military Reconstruction, 1868-1869, Ralph L. Peek 2021 University of Central Florida

Aftermath Of Military Reconstruction, 1868-1869, Ralph L. Peek

Florida Historical Quarterly

The military reconstruction of Florida ended on July 4, 1868, with ratification of a new constitution and the election of Harrison Reed as governor, William Gleason as lieutenant governor, and Charles Hamilton as congressman. A state legislature with a large Republican majority in both houses was also elected.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 43, 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


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Lincoln and the Emperors. By A. R. Tyrner-Tyrnauer. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1962. xvi, 176 pp. Introduction, Illustrations, bibliography, index. $4.50.); Civil War Naval Chronology, Part III: 1863. Edited by E. M. Eller. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963. iv, 196 pp. Illustrations. $1.00.); The Cabinet Diaries of Josephus Daniels, 1913-1921. Edited by E. David Cronon. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. x, 630 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $8.50.); The Man Bilbo. By A. Wigfall Green. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. xiii, 150 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $5.00.); Recent Southern Economic Development as …


Historical News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local and area societies and commissions


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