History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, National Register of Historic Places, Southern Jewish Historical Society, Announcements and Activites
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
LOUIS WILLIAM DUBOURG: BISHOP OF LOUISIANA AND THE FLORIDAS, BISHOP OF MONTAUBAN, AND ARCHBISHOP OF BESANÇON, 1766-1833. Volume one, SCHOOLMAN, 1766-1818; volume two, BISHOP IN Two WORLDS: 1818-1833, by Annabelle M. Melville, reviewed by Michael J. McNally; MELBOURNE VILLAGE: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1946-1971), by Richard C. Crepeau, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; LA DEFENSA DE LAS INDIAS, 1764-1799, by Julio Albi, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; INTIMACY AND POWER IN THE OLD SOUTH: RITUAL IN THE LIVES OF THE PLANTERS, by Steven M. Stowe, reviewed by William Henry Longton; THE EMERGENCE OF THE COTTON KINGDOM IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST: MISSISSIPPI, …
William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South,
2022
University of Central Florida
William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
William Alexander Blount, as a child, had experienced the frustrations of poverty and disorder resulting from the Civil War. While steeped in many of the values and traditions of the Old South, Blount was one of the new generation of southern leaders who, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877, strove to modernize the South through industrialization and closer cooperation with northern capitalists. His keen intellect and sharp legal mind served him well as a corporate lawyer for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Florida. Blount’s legal career in Pensacola spanned the Bourbon period, roughly from 1877 to 1900, when …
Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries and archives, and other institutions. Anyone interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archive in question.
"A Gang Of Pirates": The Confederate Lighthouse Raids In Southeast,
2022
University of Central Florida
"A Gang Of Pirates": The Confederate Lighthouse Raids In Southeast, Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In July of 1861, three months after Confederate gunners opened fire on Fort Sumter igniting the Civil War, a distinguished group of United States Army, Navy, and civilian officials met in Washington, DC. These men, Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, Commander Charles H. Davis, Major John G. Barnard, and Superintendent Alexander D. Bache of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, had been appointed by the Navy Department as a blockade board to study the geography and topography of the southern coastline, the state of Federal naval resources and manpower, and the strategic and tactical plans necessary to make President …
Settlement Patterns In Alachua County, Florida, 1850-1860,
2022
University of Central Florida
Settlement Patterns In Alachua County, Florida, 1850-1860, Everett W. Claudle
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1773, the English botanist William Bartram traveled through north-central Florida. Impressed with the richness of the soil in the Alachua region, he commented on the variety and quantity of crops that the Indians who lived there seemed to grow with ease. Despite Bartram’s favorable report, and later comments like it, few settlers arrived in the area to establish farms and plantations when Florida became an American territory in 1821. Indeed, more than just fertile soil would be needed to lure farmers into the Florida wilderness. In this regard, the account of plantation agriculture’s arrival in Alachua County, Florida, will …
John Wallace And The Writing Of Reconstruction History,
2022
University of Central Florida
John Wallace And The Writing Of Reconstruction History, James C. Clark
Florida Historical Quarterly
John Wallace, who rose from slavery to become a leading black politician in Florida during Reconstruction, has been nearly forgotten, while other black leaders have received overdue recognition for their accomplishments. Unlike those who are remembered for advancing the cause of blacks, Wallace left behind a different legacy— a book that was critical of his fellow blacks and Radical Republicans, and frequently complimentary of white conservation Democrats. The book, Carpetbag Rule in Florida: The Inside Workings of Civil Government in Florida After the Close of the Civil War, published in Jacksonville in 1888, became a major source for a generation …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 67, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Historical Society, Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Festival, Prizes, Awards, and Recognition, Announcements and Activites, Seeking Information, Obituary
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS: SOJOUNER AT CROSS CREEK, by Elizabeth Silverthorne, reviewed by Edna Saffy; CREEKS AND SEMINOLES: DESTRUCTION AND REGENERATION OF THE MUSCOGULGE PEOPLE, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr., reviewed by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; APALACHEE: LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS, by John H. Hann, reviewed by Robert A. Matter; NAVY GRAY : A STORY OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY ON THE CHATTAHOOCHEE AND APALACHICOLA RIVERS, by Maxine Turner, reviewed by George E. Buker; TROPICAL SPLENDOR: AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA, by Hap Hatton, reviewed by Herschel E. Shepard; THE EVOLUTION OF THE CALUSA: A NONAGRICULTURAL CHIEFDOM ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF FLORIDA, …
Tom Moreno: A Pensacola Creole,
2022
University of Central Florida
Tom Moreno: A Pensacola Creole, William S. Coker
Florida Historical Quarterly
A recently published volume about the Moreno family of the Gulf coast contained a picture and brief note about Tom Moreno who died in Pensacola, September 23, 1942. Tom reportedly was over 100 years old at the time of his death, but he could have been as young as eighty-three or as old as 105 depending upon which source one used (see table). An article by Gary R. Mormino, which was published in the Florida Historical Quarterly, called attention to an interview with Moreno conducted by Modeste Hargis in 1937 as part of the Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project. …
Florida History Research In Progress,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1987 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archaeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.
From Can't To Can't: The North Florida Turpentine Camp, 1900-1950,
2022
University of Central Florida
From Can't To Can't: The North Florida Turpentine Camp, 1900-1950, Robert N. Lauriault
Florida Historical Quarterly
The dark slides like a tight glove over the solitary woods camp, and no man’s light affronts the majesty of the night sky. An insipid stirring of the warm evening air sets a single pine bough to swaying. Overall, stillness reigns— silence but for the monotony of a distant chuck-wills-widow and the earnest chant of frogs from some distant bog beyond the gloomy line of slash pines— the trees that make of the camp an island in a shadowy, evergreen sea.
"Give Us Twenty-Five Years": Florida Seminoles From Near Termination,
2022
University of Central Florida
"Give Us Twenty-Five Years": Florida Seminoles From Near Termination, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the years immediately following World War II, the nation experienced an ultra-conservative reaction to the social and economic policies fostered during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unprecedented four-term presidency. Beginning in the late 1930s a coalition of conservative Republicans and southern Democrats set out to scuttle those aspects of the New Deal which they found most inimical to their ideology. When the Republicans regained control of the Congress in 1946, it signaled the beginning of a concerted effort to dismantle all but the most essential governmental spending programs. One of the federal bureaucracies singled out for annihilation— it did not enjoy …
Sibling Stewards Of A Commercial Empire: The Innerarity Brothers In The Floridas,
2022
University of Central Florida
Sibling Stewards Of A Commercial Empire: The Innerarity Brothers In The Floridas, Thomas C. Kennedy
Florida Historical Quarterly
Marquis James, in his biography of Andrew Jackson, alluded to John Forbes and Company, a firm which had succeeded Panton, Leslie and Company in 1804, and asserted that members of the Forbes enterprise “remained the actual rulers of Florida.” Among its members in 1804 were James Innerarity and his brother John. Of the latter, Marquis wrote: “Like a white shadow, John Innerarity glided through the weaving labyrinth, never on the losing side.“ Another scholar contended that individuals connected with both companies “were influential with the governments under which they lived, and exercised unmeasured control over the Indian tribes with which …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 67, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Executive Committee Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Executive Committee Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Historical Society Executive Committee Meeting
Annual Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Eighty-sixth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops, 1988
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meetings, Awards, Conferences and Meetings, Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
PEPPER: EYEWITNESS TO A CENTURY, by Claude Denson Pepper and Hays Gorey, reviewed by Alexander R. Stoesen; IN THE WAY OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS: A CULTURAL VIEW OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MIDWIFERY IN FLORIDA, by Debra Anne Susie, reviewed by William M. Straight; THE CHARACTER OF THE WORD: THE TEXTS OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON, by Karla F. C. Holloway; reviewed by Jim Haskins; THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE, by Edna Buchanan, MIAMI, by Joan Didion, reviewed by Paul S. George; ARCHAEOLOGY OF ABORIGINAL CULTURE CHANGE IN THE INTERIOR SOUTHEAST: DEPOPULATION DURING THE EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD, by Marvin T. Smith, reviewed by John …
