Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This indicates the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway and as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Recently completed doctoral dissertations and masters theses are included.
Lumber And Trade In Pensacola And West Florida: 1800-1860,
2021
University of Central Florida
Lumber And Trade In Pensacola And West Florida: 1800-1860, John A. Eisterhold
Florida Historical Quarterly
Of all the commercially significant communities along the Old South's gulf coast, Pensacola was most dependent upon lumber for its prosperity. Although it failed to develop into a great cotton port, Pensacola found that an expanding lumber industry offered a reliable export commodity upon which to base a steady if unspectacular rate of growth. Favorably situated near rich timber resources, and possessing a good harbor, only enterprise was needed to make the city one of the nation's leading lumber ports.
Status Of Negroes In A Southern Port City In The Progressive Era: Pensacola, 1896-1920,
2021
University of Central Florida
Status Of Negroes In A Southern Port City In The Progressive Era: Pensacola, 1896-1920, Donald H. Bragow
Florida Historical Quarterly
Booker T. Washington in his book, The Negro in Business, selected Pensacola, Florida, as a "typical Negro business community" to illustrate the economic progress of blacks since the Civil War. Pensacola, he felt, was "representative of that healthy progressive communal spirit, so necessary to our people...." Washington’s information, obtained largely from the periodical pages of the Colored American, was quite accurate in describing the community's Negro populace during the period 1896 to approximately 1913. In 1907 The Voice of the Negro provided a similar appraisal of Pensacola's Negroes: "It has been equally surprising to note the amount of business done …
Pelts, Plumes, And Hides: White Traders Among The Seminole Indians, 1890-1930,
2021
University of Central Florida
Pelts, Plumes, And Hides: White Traders Among The Seminole Indians, 1890-1930, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
Only a handful of Indians remained in Florida as the Third Seminole War ended in 1858. When Chief Billy Bowlegs led his band out of the Big Cypress Swamp, accepted a government indemnity, and boarded the steamer Grey Cloud which would take him and his group to their new home in the Indian Territory, he estimated that only thirty-eight warriors and their families were left behind. This was probably a low figure, but his information was relayed to the war department by Colonel Elias Rector, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and plans were made to locate the remaining bands. Throughout that …
Booker T. Washington's Florida Incident, 1903-1904,
2021
University of Central Florida
Booker T. Washington's Florida Incident, 1903-1904, Arthur O. White
Florida Historical Quarterly
"Come without fail. You will receive kindly and friendly welcome. Address to be given in courthouse to both races." This telegram of February 4, 1903, reinvited Booker T. Washington, America’s best known black man, to speak on the occasion of the joint meeting of the General Education Board and county superintendents of education at Gainesville, Florida. It was front page news throughout the United States. Washington's acceptance of an earlier invitation from State Superintendent of Education William N. Sheats, one of the South's most renowned educators, had caused intense controversy among Floridians over the idea of a black man, however …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 51, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Proceedings Of The Seventieth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society,
2021
University of Central Florida
Proceedings Of The Seventieth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes program and minutes, In Memoriam, new members, Gifts to the Society, Treasurer's Report
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities, Local Societies and Commissions
Book Notes,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No FURTHER RETREAT: THE FIGHT TO SAVE FLORIDA, by Raymond F. Dasmann, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; ON PRESERVING TROPICAL FLORIDA, by John C. Gifford, reviewed by Polly Redford; ST. PETERSBURG AND ITS PEOPLE, by Walter Fuller, reviewed by Milton D. Jones; HISTORY OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY: A KING’S COUNTRY, by M. Luther King, reviewed by E. W. Carswell; JAMES BLAIR OF VIRGINIA, by Parke Rouse, Jr., reviewed by Jack P. Greene; THE LETTERBOOK OF ELIZA LUCAS PINCKNEY, 1739-1762, edited by Elise Pinckney, reviewed by Hugh Lefler; THE ANATOMY OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, by Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. …
Florencia Investigation Of Spanish Timucua,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florencia Investigation Of Spanish Timucua, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine on the Florida peninsula. Spanish activity pushed Spain's northern frontier up as far as Chesapeake Bay, but effective control extended only to Port Royal, South Carolina. Menéndez, and subsequent Florida governors, established missions and presidios along the Atlantic seacoast and in the interior areas to give added protection to Florida.
Florida's Image In Juvenile Fiction, 1909-1914,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida's Image In Juvenile Fiction, 1909-1914, Peter A. Soderbergh
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the years between Appomattox and Sarajevo many young readers took their leisure pleasures from the pages of hardbacked novelettes. More respectable, to parents at least, than the "dime novel," the novellas exploded with the heady escapades of fictional boys and girls whose mental and physical reserves were unlimited. Descended from earlier models created by Martha Finley and William T. Adams— and rooted in the "success" ethos popularized by Horatio Alger, Jr.— the series published after 1898 outdid their prototypes in every aspect but quality.
Florida Prepares For War 1860-1861,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Prepares For War 1860-1861, George C. Bittle
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida in 1860 cast a peculiar aura. On the fourth of July, Susan Bradford Eppes, daughter of a prominent Tallahassee area planter, was "so proud of the Star-Spangled Banner" carried in a holiday parade by the Governor's Guards. Yet, members of the same militia unit may already have been contemplating the possibility of secession from the Union. West of Tallahassee, in Calhoun County, Florida’s most serious military event of the year was taking shape this same day. Despite ominous political tensions, North and South, local people seemed most concerned with their own immediate problems. A few years earlier two county …
Florida Live Oak Farm Of John Quincy Adams,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Live Oak Farm Of John Quincy Adams, William R. Adams
Florida Historical Quarterly
The preservation of America’s forests did not become a vital concern much before the end of the nineteenth century. The five laws that Congress passed prior to 1873 dealing specifically with the woodlands resulted primarily from a determination to insure an adequate supply of timber for the navy. The live oak, indigenous to the southern coastal area of the United States, was the principal object of the first three laws, the Naval-Timber Purchase Act of 1799 and the two Naval-Timber Reserve acts of 1817 and 1827. Highly prized by shipbuilders for its extremely hard and durable wood, the live oak …
Black Slaves, Red Masters, White Middlemen: A Congressional Debate Of 1852,
2021
University of Central Florida
Black Slaves, Red Masters, White Middlemen: A Congressional Debate Of 1852, James E. Sefton
Florida Historical Quarterly
A list of the most noteworthy congressional debates over slavery would include those on the Compromises of 1820 and 1850, the Gag Rule, the slave trade, and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, among others. Sometimes, however, debate on a comparatively minor episode of a large issue can be highly illuminating. In the spring of 1852, the House of Representatives devoted perhaps ten hours to a bill which brought to a close a bizzare story that had begun sixteen years earlier during federal efforts to remove the Seminole Indians from Florida. Ever since the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1819, white …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 51, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize in Florida History, Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Award, Award of Merit, Mary MacRae History Award, Announcements and Activities, Local Societies and Commissions
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
DUNCAN UPSHAW FLETCHER: DIXIE’S RELUCTANT PROGRESSIVE, by Wayne Flynt, reviewed by Williard B. Gatewood, Jr.; FORERUNNER COURAGEOUS: STORIES OF FRONTIER FLORIDA, by LeRoy Collins, reviewed by William M. Goza; TWO ISLANDS: GRAND MANAN AND SANIBEL, by Katherine Scherman, reviewed by E. Ashby Hammond; SPAIN AND HER RIVALS ON THE GULF COAST, edited by Ernest F. Dibble and Earle W. Newton, reviewed by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; ANGLO-SPANISH RIVALRY IN NORTH AMERICA, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr., reviewed by John J. TePaske; THE NORTH CAROLINA CONTINENTALS, by Hugh F. Rankin, reviewed by Edward S. Perzel; THE PAPERS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS: Volume I, …
Florida History In Periodicals, 1971,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History In Periodicals, 1971, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1971. 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 1971 issue of the Quarterly.
St. Augustine School: Seventy-Five Years Of Negro Parochial Education In Gainesville, Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
St. Augustine School: Seventy-Five Years Of Negro Parochial Education In Gainesville, Florida, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Baptists and Presbyterians already had active congregations in Gainesville, Florida, when, in 1868, the Episcopalians formed "Trinity Parish." Land was secured and in 1873 a frame church was built on north Main Street where the Masonic Temple now stands. This structure served the needs of the parish for over three decades.
