Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker,
2021
University of Central Florida
Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first decade of the twentieth century has been dubbed the “Era of the Muckrakers.” These were the years when the great muckraking journalists - Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens -were writing their famous exposures of trusts, railroads, and government corruption in the celebrated national muckraking magazines - McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and American. Historical studies delving into this phenomenal concentration of reform writers have covered quite adequately its various aspects and impacts on the national level, but they fail to suggest that there might have been journalists and journals on the state and local level who could also …
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I),
2021
University of Central Florida
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I), Kenneth W. Porter
Florida Historical Quarterly
If a group of informed Americans were asked to name a Seminole chief, it is likely that most of them would reply “Osceola.” If asked to recall a second Florida Indian, at least a majority of those responding would name “Billy Bowlegs.” The second choice would be more accurate, for Osceola was a Seminole only by adoption - being by birth a Red Stick Creek from Georgia or Alabama who came to Florida at about the age of ten. He was not a chief by hereditary right, whereas Billy Bowlegs, to use his common white-man’s nickname, was what an army …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 45, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
New Members And Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
New Members And Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of new members to FHS, contributors to this issue
The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1966,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1966, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the Directors meeting, includes the treasurer's report
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Historical Markers program, local historical societies
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Abernethy, The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828, by William Warren Rogers; Ford, John James Audubon, by E. Ashby Hammond; Beals, War Within a War: The Confederacy Against Itself, by William E. Baringer; Wilson, The Black Codes of the South, by Irwin Unger; Mann, Atticus Greene Haygood, by Richard E. Blanchard; Newby, Jim Crow’s Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, by Charles C. Alexander; Golden, A Little Girl is Dead, by Harry Simonhoff; Highsaw (ed.), The Deep South in Transformation, by E. Merton Coulter; Colberg, Human Capital in Southern Development, by Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Tebeau and Carson, Florida: From Indian Trail to Space Age, by J. E. Dovell; Will, Okeechobee Boats and Skippers; and Okeechobee Catfishing, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Richardson, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877, by Joel Williamson; Cushman, A Goodly Heritage: The Episcopal Church in Florida, by Hamilton West; Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770; and The Triumphant Empire: Britain Sails into the Storm, by Don Higginbotham; Cobourn, The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution, by Michael G. Kammen
Political Reconstruction In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Political Reconstruction In Florida, Jeffell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
Until well into the 1930s historians accepted as standard the interpretations of Reconstruction offered by the “Dunning school.” Professor William A. Dunning and his students at Columbia University had undertaken extensive research in preparing scholarly monographs on the Reconstruction period in each southern state. But they wrote at a time when most Americans considered Negroes as inferior beings and their studies usually began with this basic assumption. It usually followed that the Congressional Radicals had been wrong in all they attempted. Helpless white populations had been subjugated by selfish outsiders who plundered the states, using ignorant Negro voters to maintain …
Early History Of The Cross-Florida Barge Canal,
2021
University of Central Florida
Early History Of The Cross-Florida Barge Canal, Charles E. Bennett
Florida Historical Quarterly
The dream of constructing an all-water route across the peninsula of Florida to carry freight and passengers has often been discussed and debated in the past history of this state. Many plans were projected and discarded, surveys were made, and work even began on a canal during the 1930s. However, only now is the Cross-Florida Barge Canal actually underway with completion scheduled for sometime after 1970.
Henry Bradley Plant And Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Henry Bradley Plant And Florida, Dudley S. Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida was a fertile field for developers during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Lumbermen were at work in the northern part of the state; the citrus industry was in its infancy; phosphate mining was just beginning; and northern vacationers and some invalids were discovering the restorative powers of Florida’s climate. Railroads were needed to serve and to further develop these diverse interests. Many men dreamed of building a network of rails in the state, and some began the project. Most failed, although a few succeeded. Henry Bradley Plant was one of the more successful. He constructed railroads, hotels, …
Bishop Michael J. Curley And Anti-Catholic Nativism In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Bishop Michael J. Curley And Anti-Catholic Nativism In Florida, David P. Page
Florida Historical Quarterly
The four-hundred year history of the Catholic Church in Florida, beginning with the Spanish settlements of the sixteenth century, and continuing through successive English, Spanish, and United States occupations of the peninsula, has not been an entirely peaceful passage. It has been marked by periodic conflicts between Indians and missionaries, missionaries and Spanish officials, missionaries and English raiders, parish priests and governors, parishioners and United States officials, and, finally, during the first half of the nineteenth century, between parish trustees and pastors. In the years between the Civil War and World War I, the church in Florida enjoyed a consoling …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 45, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
Directors' Meeting,
2021
University of Central Florida
Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the annual Board of Directors' meeting
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Arthur W. Thompson Prize; Florida Library Association; local historical societies
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Carpenter, Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard, by Ralph Peek; Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965, by Maurice M. Vance; Wynes (ed.), The Negro in the South Since 1865: Selected Essays in American Negro History, by Joe M. Richardson; Shadgett, The Republican Party in Georgia: From Reconstruction through 1900, by Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.; Wilensky, Conservatives in the Progressive Era: the Taft Republicans of 1912, by George Norris Green; Bailey, Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century, by James H. Smylie; Batista, The Growth and Decline of the Cuban Republic, by …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Gannon, The Cross in the Sand, by Gerald J. Goodwin; Catholic Historical Review, by Luis R. Arana; McMurray, The Impeachment of Circuit Judge Richard Kelly, by Ben Krentzman; Hartsfield and Roady, Florida Votes: 1920-1962, by John M. DeGrove; Bradford, The Wind Commands Me: A Life of Sir Francis Drake, by James W. Covington; Cave, Jacksonian Democracy and the Historians, by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; Gates, Agriculture and the Civil War, by James C. Bonner; Horn (ed.), Tennessee’s War, by Adam Adams; Higdon, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd, by Merlin G. Cox.
An Episode In The Third Seminole War,
2021
University of Central Florida
An Episode In The Third Seminole War, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Third Seminole War covers the period from December 1855 to the spring of 1858. Although this war brought to a complete standstill nearly all economic growth in central and southern Florida and involved a large expenditure of money and men by national and state forces, it has been virtually ignored by writers who have preferred to pay more attention to the much more famous conflict which lasted from 1835 to 1842. The Second Seminole War attained national attention because the Indians were not crushed and because such well-known figures as Thomas Jesup, Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Richard K. Call, …
Historical Beginnings Of Ybor City And Modern Tampa,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical Beginnings Of Ybor City And Modern Tampa, Durward Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
The story of the revitalization of Tampa, Florida at the end of the nineteenth century is illustrative of many developments accompanying the expansion of cities in that era. Part of the story concerns the attempt to build Ybor City, separate from but adjacent to Tampa, based on immigrant capital and immigrant labor. While Ybor City failed to retain its separateness from Tampa, its cigars - “Hav-A-Tampa, ” “Tampa Nuggets,” “Tampa Straights,” and many others - widely advertised this Florida city. Tampa became famous for cigars even though production began in Ybor City in 1886, and her reputation continues. As late …
