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Heroic Women Of The West: The Role Of Women In Developing The West, Oluchi Angela Ekwenye 2024 University of Nebraska at Omaha

Heroic Women Of The West: The Role Of Women In Developing The West, Oluchi Angela Ekwenye

UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair

The women's suffrage movement in Wyoming offers an illustrative example of the instrumental role that some women played in shaping the early American West. In 1869, Esther Morris spearheaded the fight for women's right to vote in the Wyoming territory. As a prominent judge and justice of the peace, Morris utilized her political clout and legal expertise to lobby territorial lawmakers. She helped draft a progressive bill granting all Wyoming women the right to vote, which the all-male legislature passed into law that same year. Using primary sources, this research discusses how women like Esther Morris paved the way for …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Society Press; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; FHS Social Media; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Library of Florida History; Florida Historical Society Conferences; Historic Rosseter House Museum and Gardens; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Guidelines for Sumissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews & Book Notes, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews & Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Foster, John T and Sarah Whitmer Foster, Calling Yankees to Florida: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Tourist Articles; Foster, John T. Jr, At the Dawn of Tourism in Florida: Abolitionists, Print Media, and Images for Early Vacationers. by Jerald T. Milanich; Mcinnis, Tatiana D., To Tell A Black Story of Miami. by Porsha Dossie; Henderson, Clay, Forces of Nature: A History ofRorida Land Conservation. by Douglas Ponticos; Noll, Steven, ed., Writing for the Public Good: Essays from David R. Colburn and Senator Bob Graham. by Terri Fine; Book Notes: Martel, Heather, Deadly Virtue: Fort Caroline and the Early Protestant Roots of …


An Environmental History Of The Armed Occupation Act Of 1842: Empire, Cultivation, And Securing The Southernmost Frontier In The Contiguous United States, Gary DeSantis 2024 University of Central Florida

An Environmental History Of The Armed Occupation Act Of 1842: Empire, Cultivation, And Securing The Southernmost Frontier In The Contiguous United States, Gary Desantis

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Armed Occupation Act of 1842 (AOA) remains important to Florida's environmental history because it brought a stalwart band of white pioneers to take advantage of 200,000 acres of relatively untouched wilderness south of Gainesville. The basic tenants of the Act called for heads of households to bear arms against Seminoles, bestowed 160 acres of land to those who farmed at least five acres as well as constructed a domicile, and so succeeded in attracting new migrants that Florida achieved statehood three years later in 1845. The Act was effective in boosting the population-at least in giving Florida the 60,000 …


The Hunt For Charlie Wright: Race And Environment In Florida's Turpentine Industry, Christopher Calton 2024 University of Central Florida

The Hunt For Charlie Wright: Race And Environment In Florida's Turpentine Industry, Christopher Calton

Florida Historical Quarterly

On December 2, 1922, a Georgia-bound train was departing from the depot at Perry, Florida, when the crew discovered the body of a young girl lying in the tall grass beside the track. Halting the train, they inspected the body to find that the woman was "brutally beaten with some blunt instrument and her throat cut in such a horrible manner that death must have been instantaneous." Blood pooled around her body, and there were clear signs of a struggle. The crew immediately returned to the depot where they alerted the local authorities.


"The First Man To Plant The Holy Gospel In Florida:" A New Biography Of Francisco Lopez De Mendoza Grajales (1527-1586), David Arbesu 2024 University of Central Florida

"The First Man To Plant The Holy Gospel In Florida:" A New Biography Of Francisco Lopez De Mendoza Grajales (1527-1586), David Arbesu

Florida Historical Quarterly

Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, the secular priest from Jerez de la Frontera who sailed across the Atlantic with Pedro Menendez de Aviles in 1565, can truly be considered one of the "founding fathers" of Florida. Apart from being a key figure in Menendez' expedition, he served as the first vicar of St. Augustine and San Mateo, helped establish the first permanent mission in the United States, and, as Michael Gannon reminds us, celebrated "the first mass in America's first city." An eleven-foot tall statue of the chaplain erected in 1958 on the grounds of Mission Nombre de Dios marks …


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"The First Man to Plant the Holy Gospel in Florida:" A New Biography of Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales (1527-1586) by David Arbesu
An Environmental History of the Armed Occupation Act of 1842: Empire, Cultivation, and Securing the Southernmost Frontier in the Contiguous United States by Gary DeSantis
The Hunt for Charlie Wright: Race and Environment in Florida's Turpentine Industry by Christopher Calton
Book Reviews & Book Notes
End Notes


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 101, No. 1, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 101, No. 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Society Press; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; FHS Social Media; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Library of Florida History; Florida Historical Society Conferences; Historic Rosseter House Museum and Gardens; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Guidelines for Sumissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


From Hungary To Florida: The Life And Works Of Hungarian Composer Joseph Velezdy, Ethan Watford 2024 University of Central Florida

From Hungary To Florida: The Life And Works Of Hungarian Composer Joseph Velezdy, Ethan Watford

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida has long been an amalgam of cultures and peoples, only magnifying in its diversity with the rapid and continued population growth since the mid-twentieth century. As a result, the state has garnered an extensive history of varying cultures and groups that have transformed its history and identity. Within these movements stand individuals whose lives and ideals can best represent their groups as a whole. The life of Joseph Velezdy, a seemingly innocuous Central Florida retiree, is one such example. On the surface, Joseph was a childless retired barber from Miami who spent the final decades of his life with …


Sweet Home Jacksonville: How A Florida City Produced An Early Generation Ofafrican American Civil Rights Lawyers, Richard Brust 2024 University of Central Florida

Sweet Home Jacksonville: How A Florida City Produced An Early Generation Ofafrican American Civil Rights Lawyers, Richard Brust

Florida Historical Quarterly

Thinking back to his days ofgrowing up in Jacksonville in the late nineteenth century, James Weldon Johnson recalled that "[l]ong after the close of the Reconstruction period Jacksonville was known far and wide as a good town for Negroes." Johnson, an African American lawyer and educator who became a writer in the Harlem Renaissance, remembered that "[w]hen I was growing up, most of the city policemen were Negroes; several members of the city council were Negroes; one or two justices of the peace were Negroes." Indeed, African Americans from all over the country regarded what was then Florida's largest city …


Title Pages, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Title Pages, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Made and Executed by the White Race:" Florida's Constitution of 1865 and "Black Codes" by Alexander J. Bowen
Sweet Home Jacksonville: How a Florida City Produced An Early Generation ofAfrican American Civil Rights Lawyers by Richard Brust
From Hungary to Florida: The Life and Works of Hungarian Composer Joseph Velezdy by Ethan Watford
End Notes


"Made And Executed By The White Race:" Florida's Constitution Of 1865 And "Black Codes", Alexander J. Bowen 2024 University of Central Florida

"Made And Executed By The White Race:" Florida's Constitution Of 1865 And "Black Codes", Alexander J. Bowen

Florida Historical Quarterly

A common metric in confirming a state's Southern identity is its commitment to white supremacy, what U.B. Phillips argued was the "central theme of Southern history." Florida was the third state to secede on January 10, 1861; white lawmakers readily enacted Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchised African Americans after Reconstruction; and, from 1877 to 1950, Florida ranked first in the southeast in lynchings per capita. The Floridian commitment to white supremacy was endemic in the state's constitution of 1865 and in the "Black Codes" passed early during Reconstruction, making Florida's first postwar government one of the harshest and most reactionary …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 101, No. 1, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 101, No. 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Gender And Orality In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon, Nessa Ordukhani 2024 University of California, Berkeley

Gender And Orality In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon, Nessa Ordukhani

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

This essay explores the intersection of postmodernism and multiculturalism in Toni Morrison's novel, Song of Solomon. It delves into the destabilization of historical metanarratives by postmodernism through the theories of Jean-François Lyotard, which challenges the notion of a singular truth and questions who constructs popular historical narratives. The essay discusses the role of the victors, particularly white males, in shaping history and the process of legitimation through which historical facts are determined. It examines how Morrison's novel offers an alternative history that highlights African American perspectives and challenges the dominant white narrative. Additionally, the essay explores the tension between multiculturalism …


Cumulative Index For Volume 100, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Cumulative Index For Volume 100, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida History In Publications, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Florida History In Publications, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Society Press; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; FHS Social Media; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Library of Florida History; Florida Historical Society Conferences; Historic Rosseter House Museum and Gardens; FLorida Historical Society Awards; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Guidelines for Sumissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2024 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Bennett, Florida Explored: The Philadelphia Connection in Bartram's Tracks. by Jane H. Plummer; Kushlan, Seeking the American Tropics: South Horida's Early Naturalists. by Roger Chapman; Cecere, March to Independence: The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies, 1775-1776, by David Head; Denham and Honeycutt, eds., The Letters of George Long Broum: A Yankee Merchant on Rorida's Antebellum Frontier. by Mark R. Cheathem; Levin, Searching for Black Confederares: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth. by Joshua Butler; Castillo, Working In the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami. By Martin T. Olliff; Mormino, Millard Fillmore Caldwell: Governing on the Wrong Side …


Rock You Like A Hurricane: A State Of The Field In Hurricane Historiography, Ian Seavey 2024 University of Central Florida

Rock You Like A Hurricane: A State Of The Field In Hurricane Historiography, Ian Seavey

Florida Historical Quarterly

The study of hurricanes and their effects on human society is a relatively new endeavor for academic historians. No published historiographic essay or article exists save a brief section in Stuart B. Schwartz's 2005 article "Hurricanes and the Shaping of the Circum-Caribbean Societies." This is due to the fact that hurricanes are traditionally analyzed in scientific ways that focus on veracity, storm track, wind speed, and storm surge. With the increasing scholarship in the field ofenvironmental history over the past thirty years, more historians now examine how hurricanes significantly impact human communities. The study of hurricanes most assuredly fits into …


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