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History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Wentworth Foundation Grant, International Spanish Conference, Florida Historical Directory, Awards, Sanborn Map Collection, National Register of Historic Places, Announcements and Activities, Meetings


Florida History In Periodicals, 1984, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida History In Periodicals, 1984, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1984. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1984 issue of the Quarterly.


Formation Of The State Of Florida Indian Reservation, James M. Covington 2021 University of Central Florida

Formation Of The State Of Florida Indian Reservation, James M. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Florida there are four reservations for Indians— three established by the federal government and one by the state of Florida. The state reservation was established through the efforts of white friends of the Seminoles, a representative from a national organization, several politicians, the federal Indian agent in Florida, and a friendly governor. Ever since the end of the Third Seminole War in 1858, some whites tried to assist the few Indians remaining in the state. Under the terms of the Florida Constitution written in 1868, the Seminoles were entitled to elect one person to the state house of representatives …


St. Augustine Historical Society, 1883-1983, Thomas Graham 2021 University of Central Florida

St. Augustine Historical Society, 1883-1983, Thomas Graham

Florida Historical Quarterly

The St. Augustine Historical Society began as an informal gathering of a few individuals who met in the downstairs parlor of the Presbyterian manse on the corner of St. George and Hypolita streets. Dr. Milton Waldo, the Presbyterian minister, would converse on a regular basis with acquaintances who shared his interest in natural history. Because of its casual origin the date of the first Society meeting is uncertain. Dr. Waldo later recalled that he and Charlie Johnson, a local boy who would later be a natural history museum curator in Boston, began meeting together over insect and shell specimens in …


"In The Public Interest?" Ed Ball And The Fec Railway War, Burton Altman 2021 University of Central Florida

"In The Public Interest?" Ed Ball And The Fec Railway War, Burton Altman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historians describe the Florida East Coast Railway strike of the 1960s as one of the longest labor disputes in United States history. It was also one of the most violent episodes in recent American labor history. Expected to last only a few weeks, it began in January 1963, when 1,640 workers walked out, and did not end until late 1974. The early years of the strike were punctuated by numerous violent acts, particularly derailments and dynamitings of FEC railway freight trains. On October 20, 1963, four diesel locomotives and fifty-two cars piled up just south of New Smyrna Beach, Florida. …


Florida's Cattle-Ranching Frontier: Manatee And Brevard Counties (1860), John Solomon Otto 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida's Cattle-Ranching Frontier: Manatee And Brevard Counties (1860), John Solomon Otto

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1860, the eve of the Civil War, the southern edge of settlement, which delimited the “settled” areas with more than two persons per square mile from the “frontier” areas with fewer than two inhabitants per square mile, stood in central Florida. With the exception of a settled area along eastern Tampa Bay, the southern half of the Florida peninsula was a true frontier. South Florida, in fact, was the largest remaining frontier east of the Mississippi River.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 64, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Subject Disintegration: Identity And Alterity In The Age Of The Hyperreal, Sophie Ell 2021 University of New Mexico

Subject Disintegration: Identity And Alterity In The Age Of The Hyperreal, Sophie Ell

American Studies ETDs

What do the signs “identity” and “alterity” point to within the economy of representation and the logic of simulation that govern the present era? How does the visual saturation of a screen-mediated life affect the study of identity? Where does the information overload within which we operate leave the production of knowledge about otherness? My goal in this project is not to resolve these questions, but rather to linger in them. Focusing on various portrayals of categorical identities in film, photography, and digital media, I utilize a semiotic analysis to examine the formulaic, repetitive maneuvers of signification practices that reproduce …


Spirituality Countering Dehumanization: A Cypher On Asian American Hip Hop Flow, Brett J. Esaki 2021 University of Arizona

Spirituality Countering Dehumanization: A Cypher On Asian American Hip Hop Flow, Brett J. Esaki

Journal of Hip Hop Studies

Flow—an artistic connection to the beat—is essential to the experience and cultural mix of Hip Hop. “Flow” is also a term from positive psychology that describes a special out-of-body state of consciousness, first articulated by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. When Hip Hop performers get into artistic flow, they sometimes become immersed in psychological flow, and this article examines the combination for Asian American Hip Hop. Based on my national survey of Asian Americans in Hip Hop, I argue that dual flow inspires spiritual transformation and mitigates the dehumanization of social marginalization. However, the combination of terms presents problematic possibilities, given that Hip …


Index To Volume Lxiii, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Index To Volume Lxiii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Florida Historical Society


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FIFTY FEET IN PARADISE: THE BOOMING OF FLORIDA, by David Nolan, reviewed by Jesse Earle Bowden; NEITHER DIES NOR SURRENDERS: A HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN FLORIDA, 1867-1970, by Peter D. Klingman, reviewed by David J. Ginzl; CATHOLICISM IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 1868-1968, by Michael J. McNally, reviewed by Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.; MURDER IN MIAMI: AN ANALYSIS OF HOMICIDE PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN DADE COUNTY (MIAMI) FLORIDA, 1917-1983, by William Wilbanks, reviewed by William Maples; ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURE: THE SEARCH FOR NUESTRA SENORA DE ATOCHA, by R. Duncan Mathewson, reviewed by Daniel Koski-Karell; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS 1774-1789, VOLUME …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, Society of Florida Archivists, Announcements and Activities, Obituary


Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society 2021 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, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.


Racial Patterns Of Labor In Postbellum Florida: Gainesville, 1870-1900, David Sowell 2021 University of Central Florida

Racial Patterns Of Labor In Postbellum Florida: Gainesville, 1870-1900, David Sowell

Florida Historical Quarterly

In July 1865, the New Era, a Gainesville newspaper, echoed the sentiments of many white Floridians with its comment: “We do not believe that any inducement can make black free labor a success. If it proves so here it will really prove what has not been proven anywhere else.“ Emancipation had broken the antebellum pattern of labor relations in the South, and many people were apprehensive of the ability of the region to assimilate freedmen successfully into a new economic system. Slavery, of course, had been far more than an economic relationship. It was the visible manifestation of a socioeconomic …


Burton-Swartz Cypress Company Of Florida, Drew Harrington 2021 University of Central Florida

Burton-Swartz Cypress Company Of Florida, Drew Harrington

Florida Historical Quarterly

Logging operations began in Taylor County in 1913 when three men— S. J. Carpenter, W. L. Burton, and E. G. Swartz— formed the Burton-Swartz Cypress Company of Florida. Carpenter, president of Carpenter-O’Brien Lumber Company, a large Jacksonville operation, owned thousands of acres in Dixie, Taylor, and Lafayette counties. He planned a southwestward expansion, but his interest was in the pine timber of the area. Because saws which cut pine cannot be used to harvest cypress, Carpenter needed someone to “checkerboard” with him by cutting the virgin cypress on his holdings. Perhaps it was at the Yellow Pine Manufacturers Association’s Convention …


Florida's First Women Candidates, Allen Morris 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida's First Women Candidates, Allen Morris

Florida Historical Quarterly

The nineteenth amendment, the women’s suffrage amendment, having been ratified by the requisite thirty-eight states, was declared a part of the United States Constitution on August 26, 1920. Tennessee cast the deciding vote. The amendment had been first proposed by Congress on June 5, 1915. Florida was not among the thirty-eight states. Ratification did not come in this state until 1969, and then only as a symbolic recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Florida League of Women Voters. Florida’s women unsuccessfully had urged their legislators since the 1890s to adopt woman’s suffrage. In 1917 the right to vote in …


First League Of Women Voters In Florida: Its Troubled History, Joan S. Carver 2021 University of Central Florida

First League Of Women Voters In Florida: Its Troubled History, Joan S. Carver

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida League of Women Voters cites 1939 as the year of its establishment. In fact, this date marks the founding of the second league of women voters in the state. An earlier organization, the Florida State League of Women Voters (FSLWV) which receives no mention in current league publications, was organized in 1921 and was disaffiliated by the national organization in 1937. The stormy history of the first league illustrates the difficulties women’s organizations in the South experienced in carving out an appropriate role in the political arena in the years following the adoption of the suffrage amendment. It …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 63, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities


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