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Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 95, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 6, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 6, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A Special Issue Introduction by FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree Twentieth-Century Florida: A Bibliographic Essay by Gary R. Mormino "A New Social Awakening": James Hudson, Florida A.&M. University's Religious Life Program, and the 1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott by Larry 0. Rivers "We Are Not Hired Help": The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike and the Formation of Modern Florida by Jody Baxter Noll The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living to "Suburban Slum" in Latino Orlando by Simone P. Delerme Book Reviews End Notes


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; "The Florida Historical Society Presents: Florida Frontiers": The Television Series; The Florida Historical Society 2017 Annual Meeting and Symposium; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

de la Cova, Colonel Henry Theodore Titus: Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer. by Victor Andres Triay; Porcher Jr. and Judd, The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An lllustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom. by Hayden R. Smith; Warren, The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History. by Michael T. Bernath; Dom, Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation. by Glenn Robins; McKinley, Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. by Peter A. Coclanis; Stanonis, Faith in Bikinis: Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South …


"We Are Not Hired Help": The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike And The Formation Of Modern Florida, Jody Baxter Noll 2022 University of Central Florida

"We Are Not Hired Help": The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike And The Formation Of Modern Florida, Jody Baxter Noll

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the spring of 2010, a debate over merit pay and tenure for teachers swept across Florida. While this was not a new debate, the introduction of Senate Bill 6 by the Republican led-legislature fanned the flames of discord between teachers and the state. Calling for a merit-based system of pay and teacher retention through standardized testing, as well as diminishing local school board autonomy, the bill directly conflicted with educators' demands for professional respect in a continuously besieged occupation. In passing the bill, the Legislature created an atmosphere of resistance among Florida's teachers who flooded the Governor's office with …


The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living To "Suburban Slum" In Latino Orlando, Simone P. Delerme 2022 University of Central Florida

The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living To "Suburban Slum" In Latino Orlando, Simone P. Delerme

Florida Historical Quarterly

One evening in July of 2010, an Internet user who goes by "GinnyFavers" posted a question to the city-data.com forum: "I heard from someone that the Buena Ventura Lakes (BVL) subdivision was a majority to all Hispanic area. Just curious if that's really true? No negative implication intended! -Amanda."1 Twenty-two minutes later "Metrowester" responded. "Yes, BVL is a primarily Hispanic area. Landstar homes was heavily marketed in Puerto Rico several years ago."2 "Metrowester" continued, and spoke favorably about the Publix Sabor supermarket in the area with a deli that serves Cuban coffee, pastries, and roasted pork. He identified himself as …


Twentieth-Century Florida: A Bibliographic Essay, Gary R. Mormino 2022 University of Central Florida

Twentieth-Century Florida: A Bibliographic Essay, Gary R. Mormino

Florida Historical Quarterly

On New Year's Day, 1920, Florida was a sparsely populated, geographically isolated, and politically insignificant state. The state's population, the smallest in the South, had not yet reached the one million mark. Florida ranked thirty-second of forty-eight states, having just surpassed Colorado in population.1 In comparison, southern neighbors Alabama and Georgia recorded populations of 2.4 and 2.9 million inhabitants. The influence of North Florida and the Panhandle had crested by 1920. By 1930, new places and cities that had not even been born in 1910 signified the pulse beat and direction of Florida: Boca Raton, Coral Gables, and Miami Beach. …


"A New Social Awakening": James Hudson, Florida A. & M. University's Religious Life Program, And The 1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott, Larry O. Rivers 2022 University of Central Florida

"A New Social Awakening": James Hudson, Florida A. & M. University's Religious Life Program, And The 1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott, Larry O. Rivers

Florida Historical Quarterly

On May 28, 1956, an event occurred on the Tallahassee campus of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) that fused an educator and religious leader, his teachings on nonviolence, a detestable act of racial discrimination, and the passion of well-prepared university students into a crusade for social change.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 95, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Introduction: 500 Years Of Florida History-The Twentieth Century, Connie L. Lester 2022 University of Central Florida

Introduction: 500 Years Of Florida History-The Twentieth Century, Connie L. Lester

Florida Historical Quarterly

This is the last of the special issues devoted to the celebration of Florida's 500 Years of History. Launched in 2013 in conjunction with the state's commemoration of the landing of Juan Ponce de Leon on the peninsula, the Florida Historical Quarterly editors proposed a multi-year, multi-issue endeavor to capture a snapshot of Florida history at the second decade of the twenty-first century. As conceived the project called for 6 special issues, one each for the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries and two for the long 19th century (1800-1920). At completion, the special issues included the work of 31 …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; "The Florida Historical Society Presents: Florida Frontiers": The Television Series; The Florida Historical Society 2017 Annual Meeting and Symposium; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 2, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree African Americans in Florida, 1870-1920: A Historiographical Essay by David H.Jackson,Jr. and Kimberlyn M. Elliott The Right to Vote and the Long Nineteenth Century in Florida by Robert Cassanello The Evolving Suffrage Militancy of Mary Nolan by Judith Pouche Book Reviews End Notes


The Evolving Suffrage Militancy Of Mary Nolan, Judith Pouche 2022 University of Central Florida

The Evolving Suffrage Militancy Of Mary Nolan, Judith Pouche

Florida Historical Quarterly

Petite, frail, physically impaired, and seventy-three years old, Mary Nolan could easily be underestimated by anyone foolish enough to equate physical vigor with mental strength. On November 14, 1917, several men brutalized the Jacksonville grandmother as she endured what suffragists would soon call the "Night of Terror" in a Virginia prison. One guard had told her, "I'll take you and handle you, and you'll be sorry you made me." Nolan recalled: "A man sprang at me, and caught me by the shoulder. ... I was jerked down the steps and away into the dark ... [,and later] they pushed me …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Zettler, The Biohistory of Florida, by James C. Clark; Osborn, Indian River Lagoon: An Environmental History. by Devin Leigh; Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War. by Gregory Mixon; Escott, Uncommonly Savage: Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States. by James W. Cortada; Downs, Declarations of Dependence: The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908. by Margaret M. Mulrooney; Bennett, When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont. by Peter Benson; Vickers and Wilson-Graham, Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs. by …


The Right To Vote And The Long Nineteenth Century In Florida, Robert Cassanello 2022 University of Central Florida

The Right To Vote And The Long Nineteenth Century In Florida, Robert Cassanello

Florida Historical Quarterly

These special issues are meant to reflect on the quincentennial history of Ponce de Leon's landing on the shores of the Florida peninsula and as historians we are challenged to understand and come to terms with the consequence of those actions. The editors of the Florida Historical Quarterly have asked the contributors to explore Florida's past through the lens of a century long view. The nineteenth century presents such a unique challenge for these types of historical reflections because so much by way of technology, communication, transportation, societal relations transformed more rapidly than any previously recorded century. The world was …


African Americans In Florida, 1870-1920: A Historiographical Essay, David H. Jackson 2022 University of Central Florida

African Americans In Florida, 1870-1920: A Historiographical Essay, David H. Jackson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The history of African Americans in Florida is a subject area that remains under-researched. While historians have generally done a commendable job examining the topic for the last fifty years or so, Florida still lags behind other southern states when it comes to scholarship on its African American populace. Thus, this essay seeks to review some of the scholarly works that have been published on the subject of African Americans in Florida from 1870 to 1920. It is arranged thematically with scholarship addressing major topics such as: Reconstruction, racial relations, racial violence, politics, religion, urban history, labor, black women, education, …


Special Issue Introduction By Fhq Editors, Connie L. Lester 2022 University of Central Florida

Special Issue Introduction By Fhq Editors, Connie L. Lester

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the planning of the 500 Years of Florida History series, we decided that the complexity of the nineteenth century was too challenging for a single issue. As a result, we divided the century at the end of Reconstruction and expanded it to 1920 and the extension of suffrage to American women with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The seven articles that focused on the earlier decades of nineteenth century appeared in the winter issue of Volume 94 and were edited by James Cusick. Those articles covered a range of topics from literature to Native …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 95, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


"Are We Done?": The Minimization Of Covid-19 And The Individualization Of Health In The United States, Cassidy R. Boe 2022 University of South Florida

"Are We Done?": The Minimization Of Covid-19 And The Individualization Of Health In The United States, Cassidy R. Boe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As the death toll from Covid-19 in the United States exceeds 1 million in just over two years, more variants continue to emerge, threatening more waves of Covid-19 and ultimately, more deaths. Despite this, mask use continues to decline, and one third of Americans say that the pandemic is over. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been central in publicly disseminating biomedical knowledge using Twitter. The CDC’s Twitter account (@CDCgov) shares information related to the spread of Covid-19, including mitigation measures such as mask recommendations and vaccine information. I have conducted a narrative analysis of the replies …


Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany 2022 American University in Cairo

Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany

Theses and Dissertations

Today, the sentimentality associated with poetry is often condescendingly dubbed in a patriarchal society as “feminine poetry.” The first women poets who dared to attempt the pen were often met with attacks on their femaleness and harsh critiques of their writing which was likened to sorcery and witchcraft. Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Audre Lorde are three American women poets who countered these attacks and turned them inside out in favor of their own womanist poetics. They wrote about experiencing the world as women and most importantly about experiencing poetry as women. What happens to poetry when a woman appropriates …


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