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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

LUMBERMEN AND LOG SAWYERS: LIFE, LABOR, AND CULTURE IN THE NORTH FLORIDA TIMBER INDUSTRY, 1830-1930, by Jeffrey A. Drobney, reviewed by Edward F. Keuchel; AN AMERICAN BEACH FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, by Marsha Dean Phelts, reviewed by Donald Spivey; ALLIGATORS, PREHISTORIC PRESENCE IN THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE, by Martha A. Strawn, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia; JANNUS, AN AMERICAN FLYER, by Thomas Reilly, reviewed by George Vergara; CONQUISTADOR IN CHAINS: CABEZA DE VACA AND THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS, by David A. Howard, reviewed by José B. Fernández; GOOD WIVES, NASTY WENCHES, AND ANXIOUS PATRIARCHS, by Kathleen M. Brown, reviewed by Sally …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Call for Papers, Lecture Series, Awards, Exhibits and Tours


Florida History Through Photographs: The Civil War, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida History Through Photographs: The Civil War, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

All photographs courtesy of the Florida State Archives, Tallahassee


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list represents those institutions and individuals that responded to our query based on last year’s list. Those individuals who are conducting research in Florida history and would like to be included in next year’s issue, please send your name, affiliation (if applicable), and research topic and status to our editorial office, or send us an e-mail message at [email protected].


Florida's Seed Corn: The History Of The West Florida Seminary During The Civil War, David J. Coles 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida's Seed Corn: The History Of The West Florida Seminary During The Civil War, David J. Coles

Florida Historical Quarterly

Most students of the Civil War are familiar with the role the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) cadets played in the 1864 Battle of New Market. The young soldiers fought valiantly in that southern victory and suffered more than fifty casualties, including ten dead or mortally wounded. Cadets from the South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston also saw active service, as did those from the Georgia Military Institute and the University of Alabama. Though lesser known than these famous schools, Florida’s Seminary West of the Suwannee was one of only a handful of such schools still operating at the war’s close, …


Race And Civil War In South Florida, Irvin D. Solomon 2022 University of Central Florida

Race And Civil War In South Florida, Irvin D. Solomon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Two Floridas shared one state in 1860, and the racial demographics and the mechanics of race relations differed significantly between the two regions. Most studies of slavery and race in Florida directly before and during the Civil War have dealt with the state’s more densely populated and economically developed northern plantation region. Race relations in antebellum and wartime South Florida have received relatively little attention. From the outbreak of the Civil War through the early years of Reconstruction, however, the issues of race, slavery, and freedom profoundly shaped events from Tampa to Key West, developments compounded by the extensive Union …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 77, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Grander In Her Daughters: Florida's Women During The Civil War, Tracy J. Revels 2022 University of Central Florida

Grander In Her Daughters: Florida's Women During The Civil War, Tracy J. Revels

Florida Historical Quarterly

"The citizens of the Flowery are determined to maintain their just rights at all hazards; and the fair daughters of Florida are prompt to encourage and cheer their bold defenders,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on February 2, 1861.1 The newspaper not only relayed the latest happenings in the secession movement but prophetically established the trend for the historical view of women’s lives during the Civil War.


Business Meeting Of The General Membership, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Business Meeting Of The General Membership, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the business meeting of the general membership of Florida Historical Society


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1998 Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society


Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Board of the Florida Historical Society met in Cocoa on May 28, 1998. In attendance were: Nancy Buckalew, Mary Ann Cleveland, Lindsey Williams, Sandy Johnson, Niles Shuh, J. Allison DeFoor III, William S. Coker, Pam Hall, Clyde Field, Louise Gopher, Ada Williams, Tom Graham, Marinus Latour, George Franchere, Robert Taylor, Ted Van Itallie, Kari Frederickson, Patti Bartlett, Milton Jones, and Nick Wynne. Dick Powell was visiting.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ST. AUGUSTINE: THE PEOPLE AND THEIR HOMES, by Albert Manucy, reviewed by Paul E. Hoffman; KNIGHTS OF SPAIN, WARRIORS OF THE SUN: HERNANDO DE SOTO AND THE SOUTH’S ANCIENT CHIEFDOMS, by Charles Hudson, reviewed by John H. Hann; THE HERNANDO DE SOTO EXPEDITION: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND “DISCOVERY” IN THE SOUTHEAST, edited by Patricia Galloway, reviewed by Amy Turner Bushnell; FROM PENSACOLA TO BELIZE: AN AMERICAN’S ODYSSEY THROUGH MEXICO IN 1903, by F. F. Bingham, reviewed by William S. Coker; EDISON IN FLORIDA: THE GREEN LABORATORY, by Olav Thulesius, reviewed by Michele Wehrwein Albion; AL BURT’S FLORIDA, by Al Burt, …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers/Conferences, Awards and Honors, FAU's Harry Kersey Receives Second National History Award, New Publications, Events, Obituary


Pensacola's Medical History: The Colonial Era, 1559-1821, William S. Coker 2022 University of Central Florida

Pensacola's Medical History: The Colonial Era, 1559-1821, William S. Coker

Florida Historical Quarterly

A number of studies have been written about various aspects of Panzacola’s / Pensacola’s medical history during the colonial era, which encompasses the first Spanish period (1559-1763), the British era (1763-1781), and the second Spanish presence (1781-1821). This essay attempts to synthesize the disparate studies of hospitals, doctors, patients, medicines, illnesses, diseases, and medical practices of colonial Pensacola. The cumulative record indicates that, despite their best efforts, medical practitioners encountered numerous problems, among them a shortage of personnel, funds, and medicine, as well as the prevalent fevers, over which they had no control.


Countdown To College: Launching Florida Institute Of Technology, Gordon Patterson 2022 University of Central Florida

Countdown To College: Launching Florida Institute Of Technology, Gordon Patterson

Florida Historical Quarterly

East central Florida underwent a revolution in the 1950s as an army of 75,000 technicians, engineers, and scientists poured into the sleepy fishing communities stretching from Titusville to Melbourne along the Atlantic Coast.1 The year 1958 was one of significant change for the country and for Florida. In January, the United States launched its first satellite into orbit. In July, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the bill creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A month later the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) called for the creation of a new super-rocket code-named Saturn.2 Less attention …


Jacksonville Before Consolidation, James B. Crooks 2022 University of Central Florida

Jacksonville Before Consolidation, James B. Crooks

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the inauguration of the new Jacksonville city-county consolidated government in October 1968, Local Government Study Commission Chairman James Jacqueline Daniel wrote that “Jacksonville had experienced a political renaissance.” Ten years later, Jacksonville mayor Hans Tanzler declared that consolidated government was “the salvation” of the city. In 1993, at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of consolidated government, then-Mayor Ed Austin called for rekindling “the spirit that drove the consolidation effort . . . because our form of government is the envy of cities around the world.” Tanzler, chairing that celebratory occasion, agreed, adding, “[c]onsolidation has been described as Jacksonville’s ‘Greatest Moment.’“


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 77, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes, Florida Historical Society Board of Directors Meeting


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Calls for Papers/Conferences, Awards and Honors, Exhibitions and Fairs


Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and other institutions. Anyone interested in particular collections should correspond with the organization in question.


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