The Florida Cracker Before The Civil War As Seen Through Travelers' Accounts,
2022
University of Central Florida
The Florida Cracker Before The Civil War As Seen Through Travelers' Accounts, James M. Denham
Florida Historical Quarterly
Lieutenant Colonel John Wilder of the Union occupation force was stationed for most of the Civil War in Key West. A week after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox he visited Cedar Key. Located near the mouth of the Suwannee River, Cedar Key was an important rendezvous point for refugees, Union troops, Confederate deserters, and Unionist sympathizers. On April 20, 1865, Wilder wrote his mother that when he arrived there were about 2,000 white refugees, a “great curiosity; crackers most of them— that is poor whites, not more intelligent or virtuous than the negroes.” He described them as “pale, cadaverous, …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 72, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Where Palm And Pine Are Blowing: Convict Labor In The North Florida Turpentine Industry, 1877-1923,
2022
University of Central Florida
Where Palm And Pine Are Blowing: Convict Labor In The North Florida Turpentine Industry, 1877-1923, Jeffrey A. Drobney
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1912 journalist Marc Goodnow visited the pine forests of north Florida seeking information for an article he was writing on the turpentine industry. Goodnow’s findings, which appeared in an exposé entitled “Turpentine: Impressions of the Convicts’ Camps of Florida,” shocked the nation. In the article Goodnow described how he stood in horror and watched as a black convict was forced to be a “runner” in a deadly game of hide and seek. In this weekly occurrence, which trained camp dogs to track down escaped convicts, the man was given a five-minute head start and then required to lead the …
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
News, Frank Lloyd Wright and Florida Southern College, Call for Papers, Meetings, Awards
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE SPANISH FRONTIER IN NORTH AMERICA, by David J. Weber, reviewed by Jerald T. Milanich; THE PEOPLE WHO DISCOVERED COLUMBUS : THE PREHISTORY OF THE BAHAMAS, by William F. Keegan, reviewed by John F. Scarry; FRANCISCO BOULIGNY: A BOURBON SOLDIER IN SPANISH LOUISIANA, by Gilbert C. Din, reviewed by William S. Coker; CALUMET & FLEUR-DE-LYS: ARCHAEOLOGY OF INDIAN AND FRENCH CONTACT IN THE MIDCONTINENT, edited by John A. Walthall and Thomas E. Emerson, reviewed by Bennie C. Keel; THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY, edited by Jay K. Johnson, reviewed by Judith A. Bense; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY: SUPPLEMENT, 1793-1852, …
Review Essay--Reexamining The Early Career And Thought Of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume I Of The King Papers,
2022
University of Central Florida
Review Essay--Reexamining The Early Career And Thought Of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume I Of The King Papers, David R. Colburn
Florida Historical Quarterly
Few figures in American history have inspired such an extraordinary amount of historical and biographical literature as Martin Luther King, Jr. Since his death in 1968, innumerable books have been written about King specifically or about his role in the civil rights movement. Four years ago David Garrow edited a series of eighteen volumes on King and the civil rights movement. 1 This past year witnessed the much anticipated publication of the first volume of a projected fourteen volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Florida History Research In Progress,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Against Corruption: Fred Karl And The Senate Select Committee On Suspensions And Removals, 1968-1974,
2022
University of Central Florida
Against Corruption: Fred Karl And The Senate Select Committee On Suspensions And Removals, 1968-1974, Peter D. Klingman
Florida Historical Quarterly
Suspending or removing public officials from office at any level of government and at any point in time always has provided cause for serious concern. Impeachments, suspensions, and removals of municipal, county, or federal officers cause two major constitutional issues to surface which must be resolved to the populace’s satisfaction. The first is the right of citizens, through the electoral process, to be guaranteed their legitimate representation and to remain the ultimate judge of all elected officials’ tenure in office. Even today, as term limitations are debated, perhaps leading to another constitutional amendment, this republican cornerstone remains fundamental. The basic …
Carpetbagger Intrigues, Black Leadership, And A Southern Loyalist Triumph: Florida's Gubernatorial Election Of 1872,
2022
University of Central Florida
Carpetbagger Intrigues, Black Leadership, And A Southern Loyalist Triumph: Florida's Gubernatorial Election Of 1872, Canter Brown, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
Carpetbagger reputations suffered greatly for most of the century following the end of Reconstruction. Within the past few decades, however, historians have reexamined the careers of many of these individuals and discovered that they made more positive contributions to southern life than previously thought.1 On the regional level this trend was exemplified by the 1988 publication of Richard N. Current’s Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation. In Florida, revisionist study was launched in the 1960s and 1970s when Joe M. Richardson and Jerrell H. Shofner offered new and comprehensive treatments of the period.2 Sarah Whitmer Foster and John T. Foster, Jr., …
The Initiative And Referendum In Florida, 1911-1912,
2022
University of Central Florida
The Initiative And Referendum In Florida, 1911-1912, Stephen Kerber
Florida Historical Quarterly
On April 13, 1911, Representative Thomas F. West of Santa Rosa County introduced a joint resolution in Florida’s House of Representatives intended to amend the state constitution. 1 West’s proposal, designated as House Joint Resolution (HJR) 222, called for the adoption of two popular progressive-era reforms, the initiative and the referendum.2 Although strenuously opposed by a conservative minority in both legislative houses, HJR 222 achieved the necessary votes to gain passage with relative ease. The strongest opposition to these two innovations in direct democracy manifested itself several months later, during the summer and fall of 1912, when influential reactionaries successfully …
Samuel Proctor, Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, 1963-1993: A Tribute,
2022
University of Central Florida
Samuel Proctor, Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, 1963-1993: A Tribute, Michael Gannon
Florida Historical Quarterly
In any enumeration of American historians of Florida who have significantly advanced the craft and expanded the field, one would name George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820-1906), our state’s first serious historian in the English language and charter member of the Historical Society of Florida in 1856; Thomas Buckingham Smith (1810-1871), first American scholar to collect and copy documentary materials for the history of Florida from archives in Spain; Woodbury Lowery (1853- 1906), whose two volumes, The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States,1 first placed Florida historiography on a professional footing and established standards of research and citation …
Editor's Foreword,
2022
University of Central Florida
Editor's Foreword, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
After thirty years of service Dr. Samuel Proctor stepped down from the editorship of the Florida Historical Quarterly in June 1993. This event marked a special point not only in his long and distinguished career but also in the history of the Florida Historical Society. Accordingly, this issue of the Quarterly is dedicated to Samuel Proctor— “Sam” to his many friends— and to the many years that he has faithfully and effectively guided the journal’s fortunes.
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 72, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Annual Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Ninety-first Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and the Florida Historical Confederation Workshop 1993
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
News, Meetings, Trips, Awards
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
FLORIDA: A SHORT HISTORY, by Michael Gannon, reviewed by Paul S. George; ATLAS OF FLORIDA, edited by Edward A. Fernald and Elizabeth Purdum, reviewed by John R. Dunkle; HERNANDO DE SOTO AND THE INDIANS OF FLORIDA, by Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson, reviewed by Ignacio Avellaneda; MISSIONS TO THE CALUSA, edited and translated by John H. Hann, reviewed by Robert A. Matter; CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE DOMAIN OF THE CALUSA, edited by William H. Marquardt, reviewed by Brent R. Weisman; COLUMBUS WAS LAST: FROM 200,000 B.C. TO 1492, A HERETICAL HISTORY OF WHO WAS FIRST, by Patrick Huyghe, …
Some Observations From And About The Luna Papers,
2022
University of Central Florida
Some Observations From And About The Luna Papers, William S. Coker
Florida Historical Quarterly
Several articles written in the last few years about the hurricane of 1559 that hit Pensacola Bay, then the Bahía Filipina del Puerto de Santa María, have inadvertently given the wrong date, August 19, 1559, when the hurricane struck. It seems appropriate to correct this error to prevent it from perpetuating, and the Luna Papers provide the necessary information.1 This note also provides an opportunity to mention several other noteworthy aspects of the Luna Papers.
"Florida And The British Investor Revisited": The William Moore Angas Papers At The University Of Florida,
2022
University of Central Florida
"Florida And The British Investor Revisited": The William Moore Angas Papers At The University Of Florida, Frank Orser
Florida Historical Quarterly
In his 1954 article Alfred P. Tischendorf discussed briefly the role of fifteen British-owned companies in Florida around the turn of the century. 1 He concluded that these enterprises were devoted to development and attracting British immigrants. Generally little is known about British business practices in Florida since very few records exist in the United States. Details about two of the larger English companies, the Land Mortgage Bank and the Florida Syndicate, can now be examined through their business files, recently acquired by the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida and accessioned as the William Moore Angas …
The Advance Of Florida's Frontier As Determined From Post Office Openings,
2022
University of Central Florida
The Advance Of Florida's Frontier As Determined From Post Office Openings, Morton D. Winsberg
Florida Historical Quarterly
The geographical diffusion of human habitation throughout the United States has long interested social scientists. Unfortunately a paucity of detailed data has always hampered accurate cartographic representation of the advance of the frontier in the nation. Although the United States has conducted a decennial population census since 1790, meaningful cartographic displays of the advancing settlement frontier that might otherwise be derived from census data in the nineteenth century are obscured by changes in the number, area, and shape of counties. Florida provides an excellent example of such cartographic problems as well as one possible solution.
Southern Extremities: The Significance Of Fort Myers In The Civil War,
2022
University of Central Florida
Southern Extremities: The Significance Of Fort Myers In The Civil War, Irvin D. Solomon
Florida Historical Quarterly
Although critical to American military operations in the Third Seminole War, Fort Myers would have probably faded into history after its abandonment in 1858 if not for the Civil War. Towards the end of that bloody conflict the post took on a new significance for both sides. Not only did the Union reactivate the fort in the very midst of a presumed Confederate stronghold, but it staffed the garrison with black troops— the ultimate insult to those Southerners who stubbornly remained true to the Stars and Bars. Consequently, the recommissioning of Fort Myers resulted in the largest military action of …
