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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 of the May 25, 1996 Florida Historical Society Business Meeting of the General Membership Cocoa Beach, FL


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

Board Of Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the May 23, 1996 Florida Historical Society Board of Directors Meeting


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society 94th Annual Meeting


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Awards and Honors, Call for Papers,


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

JOSE MARTI IN THE UNITED STATES: THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE, by Louis A. Perez, Jr., reviewed by Leland Hawes; FLORIDA’S PIONEER NATURALIST: THE LIFE OF CHARLES TORREY SIMPSON, by Elizabeth Ogren Rothra, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia, PANIC IN PARADISE: FLORIDA’S BANKING CRASH OF 1926, by Raymond B. Vickers, reviewed by John J. Guthrie, Jr.; THE FLORIDA LAND BOOM: SPECULATION, MONEY AND THE BANKS, by William Frazer and John J. Guthrie, Jr., reviewed by Raymond B. Vickers; FEMINA PERFECTA: THE GENESIS OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, by Robin Jeanne Sellers, reviewed by Tracey J. Revels; THE NAKED WARRIORS: THE STORY OF THE …


"We Could Have Sent The Old Barbarian Back To The Hermitage": Joseph M. White And Anti-Jacksonianism In Territorial Florida, 1821-1839, Ernest F. Dibble 2022 University of Central Florida

"We Could Have Sent The Old Barbarian Back To The Hermitage": Joseph M. White And Anti-Jacksonianism In Territorial Florida, 1821-1839, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In early territorial Florida, two political groups emerged with allegiances to national presidential leaders. One group was led by Richard Keith Call and other friends of Andrew Jackson.1 The second was led by Joseph M. White, friend of James Monroe and the Adamses. As a symbol of these early antebellum allegiances, Andrew Jackson’s “cronies” in Florida occasionally visited Jackson’s home, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee. For similar reason, Joseph M. White journeyed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1831, to pay homage to his presidential circle by attending a Harvard commencement. Both John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams thought it opportune …


Skilled Slave Labor In Florida: 1850-1860, Christopher E. Linsin 2022 University of Central Florida

Skilled Slave Labor In Florida: 1850-1860, Christopher E. Linsin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Writing of the two weeks she had just spent in “oppression and misery” in Florida, Mary Chestnut, the opinionated South Carolina aristocrat, saw her trip through Fernandina to Charleston in 1860 as a return “to the world”— her world of the civilized South.1 While Florida towns such as Fernandina did not offer the fine cultural characteristics of Charleston, the peninsular state— especially the five counties comprising “Middle Florida”— was as much a part of the political, social, and economic world of the South as was South Carolina. Like the older state, Florida became one of the first members of the …


Company Towns And Social Transformation In The North Florida Timber Industry, 1880-1930, Jeffrey A. Drobney 2022 University of Central Florida

Company Towns And Social Transformation In The North Florida Timber Industry, 1880-1930, Jeffrey A. Drobney

Florida Historical Quarterly

The history of industry and labor in the Post-Civil War South for many historians is a story of coal mining and textile manufacturing. Both industries have generated hundreds of historical monographs and represent a very visible part of Southern labor history, when the South’s largest industry, lumbering, has been virtually ignored. Historian Edward Ayers has reminded us, however, that the lumber industry “captures the full scope of economic change in the New South, its limitations as well as its impact.“1 A few monographs, such as Nollie Hickman’s study of Mississippi and Robert Maxwell and Robert Baker, and Ruth Allen’s work …


Railroads, Farmers And Senatorial Politics: The Florida Commission In The 1890s, Tracy E. Danese 2022 University of Central Florida

Railroads, Farmers And Senatorial Politics: The Florida Commission In The 1890s, Tracy E. Danese

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 1887 Florida Legislature created the state’s first Railroad Commission to curb monopoly abuses by railroad companies. 1 The legislation, which vested regulatory jurisdiction in a three-person commission appointed by the governor, was popular and suited to the reform tenor of the times. It had passed unanimously in the house and with only three dissenting votes in the senate. 2 Yet, in a peculiar twist of Florida political history, the commission’s statutory basis was abruptly repealed only four years later. Florida’s intrastate rail service was left once again unfettered by regulatory constraints.3 Then, six years later, the legislature reestablished the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 75, 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 of the Florida Historical Society Board of Directors, January 20, 1996


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Obituary


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SPANISH TREASURE. FLEETS, by Timothy R. Walton, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; FLORIDA IN POETRY A HISTORY OF THE IMAGINATION, edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice J. O’Sullivan, reviewed by Kevin M. McCarthy; THE COLUMBIA RESTAURANT SPANISH COOKBOOK, by Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco, reviewed by Martin Favata; HISTORY OF BREVARD COUNTY, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by Gordon Patterson; A HISTORY OF ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by William Warren Rogers; FLAGS ALONG THE COAST; CHARTING THE GULF OF MEXICO, 1519-1759: A REAPPRAISAL, by Jack Jackson, reviewed by William S. Coker; TIDECRAFT: THE BOATS OF …


Wife-Killers And Evil Temptresses: Gender, Pardons And Respectability In Florida, 1889-1914, Vivien Miller 2022 University of Central Florida

Wife-Killers And Evil Temptresses: Gender, Pardons And Respectability In Florida, 1889-1914, Vivien Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida's State Board of Pardons, created by the state constitution of 1868, was a necessary component of the state’s criminal justice system in the late 19th and 20th centuries due to the general inadequacy of the penal arrangements,1 the frequency with which judges imposed death penalties on those convicted of firstdegree murder, and the absence of any probation or parole facilities. Letters to the pardoning board, to successive governors and to newspapers such as the Florida Times Union and the Tampa Tribune, indicate accord among diverse sections of Florida society on the need for harsh punishment for those who committed …


Florida History In Periodicals, James A. Schnur 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida History In Periodicals, James A. Schnur

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archaeology, geography, political science, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1995. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume.


Finding Freedom In Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, And Colonists, 1670-1816, Patrick Riordan 2022 University of Central Florida

Finding Freedom In Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, And Colonists, 1670-1816, Patrick Riordan

Florida Historical Quarterly

The entry of the lower south into a world marketplace wrought transformations on its European, native, and African American populations. As production demands increased after the turn of the 18th century, African laborers began to escape their European masters in greater numbers and more frequently sought permanent freedom. When they entered “Indian country,” African Americans confronted native peoples with a difficult choice. Native Americans could assist them in escape, incorporate them into native groups, or return them to the Europeans with whom Native Americans maintained a delicate balance of diplomacy and trade.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 75, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Landlords And Tenants: Sharecropping And The Cotton Culture In Leon County, Florida, 1865-1885, Clay Ouzts 2022 University of Central Florida

Landlords And Tenants: Sharecropping And The Cotton Culture In Leon County, Florida, 1865-1885, Clay Ouzts

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1875 the poet Sidney Lanier visited Leon County, bordering Georgia in northern Florida. Lanier left a favorable account of the red-hill countryside surrounding Tallahassee, the state capital. He described the area as having long fences which marked off pastures, ancient live oaks and other hardwoods spread across the rolling hills where "ample prospects, [came] before the eye."1 Almost ten years later a northern observer remarked that the region was "exceptionally attractive" and that it was one of the "most desirable localities imaginable for several characters of farm industry."2 Promotional literature in the 1890s continued to depict Leon County as …


Index To Volume Lxxiv, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Index To Volume Lxxiv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MIAMI BEACH: A HISTORY, by Howard Kleinberg, reviewed by Paul S. George; WILLIAM BARTRAM AND THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS, edited and annotated by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund, reviewed by Paul Wehr; HAD I THE WINGS: THE FRIENDSHIP OF BACHMAN AND AUDUBON, by Jay Shuler, reviewed by Steven Valdespino; STEPPING OUT OF THE SHADOWS: ALABAMA WOMEN, 1919-1990, edited by Mary Martha Thomas, reviewed by Sarah P. Vickers; THE STRUGGLE FOR THE GEORGIA COAST: AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SPANISH RETROSPECTIVE ON GUALE AND MOCAMA, by John E. Worth, reviewed by Richard Durshlag; AFTER APPOMATTOX: How THE SOUTH WON THE WAR, …


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