Causal And Contributing Factors In Lynching Women,
2022
California State University, San Bernardino
Causal And Contributing Factors In Lynching Women, Cecelia Smith
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The violent act of lynching has mostly been identified as a method of vigilante justice perpetrated against African American men. During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) in the south, these efforts of terror by violent mobs were employed to instill fear, to preserve an economy that had been fortified by a now-extinct slave industry, and to facilitate a white supremacist ideology. Initial lynching and data analyses have often seen scholars focus explicitly on male experiences. Women, however, were also victimized by this type of mob violence. African American women, White women, and Mexican women were lynched, but justification for such actions …
Exodus Arena: Cashman Field And The (Re)Development Of Sports And Recreation In Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada,
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Exodus Arena: Cashman Field And The (Re)Development Of Sports And Recreation In Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Ryan Browar
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Cashman Field is a minor league sport stadium one-mile north of the world famous “Fremont Street Experience” in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Minor league sports stadiums are microcosms of their communities, and Cashman Field’s history is Las Vegas’s history. Although the city’s first permanent sports venue, the stadium endured numerous cycles of colonialism, stadium building, successful operation, neglect, decay, and abandonment. Now at the end of another cycle, Cashman Field is being forgotten as Las Vegas transitions into a major league sports town. Sports stadiums reveal the social, cultural, and economic factors that define twentieth-century American history, but Cashman Field’s …
Policing Sin City: The Creation And Impact Of The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 1973-1985,
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Policing Sin City: The Creation And Impact Of The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 1973-1985, Richard Kim
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This thesis examines the creation of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in 1973 and its impact on the War on Crime. The first chapter examines the significance of race and policing in Las Vegas from the early twentieth century until the consolidation of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and Las Vegas Police Department in 1973. Chapter 2 then analyzes how the federal government’s so-called War on Crime played out at the local and state level in Nevada from 1973 to 1985. The thesis argues that this period witnessed a punitive turn in policing that had long-term consequences for Las …
Promoting Paradise: The Recruitment Of Volga German Immigrants To The American Midwest, 1870-1900,
2022
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Promoting Paradise: The Recruitment Of Volga German Immigrants To The American Midwest, 1870-1900, Kassidy N. Whetstone
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In 1762 and 1763, Russian tsarina Catherine II issued manifestos encouraging foreign immigration throughout Russia, and received an overwhelming response from German farmers. These farmers, who would later be known as Russian Germans, Mennonites, or Volga Germans, quickly gained a reputation for their successful farming skills. As a result, following the Homestead Act of 1862, United States recruiters used promotional land advertisements to entice the farmers to migrate to the Midwest. The posters often depicted “open,” abundant lands in paradise. Upon arrival, however, the Volga Germans faced a reality starkly different from what the advertisements had promoted. This paper analyzes …
Cumulative Index, Volume 90,
2022
University of Central Florida
Cumulative Index, Volume 90, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Florida History In Publications, 2011,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History In Publications, 2011, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
End Notes,
2022
University of Central Florida
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; In Memorium: Harold D. Cardwell; FLorida Historical Society 2012 Award Recipients; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Woods, A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900. by Maura Jane Farrelly; Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico. by Kristy Feldhousen-Giles; McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. by Thomas G. Nester; Shawhan and Swain, Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. by Pamela Tyler; Kinser and Tarr, eds., Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations. by Anna Lillios; Mielnik, New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolinas State Parks. by Jack I. Hayes; Foglesong, …
Industrious, Thrifty And Ambitious: Jacksonville's African American Businesspeople During The Jim Crow Era,
2022
University of Central Florida
Industrious, Thrifty And Ambitious: Jacksonville's African American Businesspeople During The Jim Crow Era, David H. Jackson, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
While modern-day Florida conjures images of Disney World and sunny beaches, the black experience in the Sunshine State from around 1880 to 1930 was not so bright. Race relations in Florida were equal to, if not harsher than, other Southern states. Consequently, understanding race relations in Florida must be contextualized in reference to the mores, traditions, and values that governed the South as a whole and wreaked terror against black people in large measure.2
For This Is An Enchanted Land Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings And The Florida Environment,
2022
University of Central Florida
For This Is An Enchanted Land Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings And The Florida Environment, Florence M. Turcotte
Florida Historical Quarterly
American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings described her adopted home in north-central Florida as "an enchanted land." Her love for her surroundings was evident in rich descriptions of the seasons, the forces of nature, and the lives of the people around her. Immediately upon arrival in 1928 at Cross Creek, a tiny hamlet about twenty miles southeast of Gainesville, Rawlings immersed herself in the local hunting and fishing culture. She came to understand and appreciate the lifestyle of the people of the nearby "Big Scrub" country, who depended on the land for their survival. Along with this understanding, Rawlings came to …
Pragmatism, Seminoles, And Science: Opposition To Progressive Everglades Drainage,
2022
University of Central Florida
Pragmatism, Seminoles, And Science: Opposition To Progressive Everglades Drainage, Chris Wilhelm
Florida Historical Quarterly
Floridians have always had complex, contentious, and dynamic relationships with the Everglades. Most Floridians in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century saw the Everglades as a wasteland and supported draining useless swamp in order to facilitate economic progress. The publication of Marjory Stoneman Douglas' The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) and the advent of modern environmentalism encouraged Floridians to reconsider the identity and value of the Everglades, seeing it as a 'river of grass' that needed protection and restoration. These two views, however, only scratch the surface of the multiplicity of ways Floridians have perceived and interacted with …
American Gibraltar: Key West During World War Ii,
2022
University of Central Florida
American Gibraltar: Key West During World War Ii, Abraham H. Gibson
Florida Historical Quarterly
As visitors and locals alike will attest, there is no other place in America quite like Key West. Separated from the Florida peninsula by more than a hundred miles, the island city lies closer to Havana than Miami. The archipelago to which it belongs not only boasts the only tropical climate in the lower forty-eight, but also features flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. Even the ground underfoot is unique. A mere hundred thousand years ago, Key West was not only underwater, but alive. Its entire surface teemed with millions of tiny coral which slowly built the island's …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 90, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. by Lynn A. Nelson; Juricek, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763. by Matthew H. Jennings; Wayne, Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida. by Uzi Baram; Tuten, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. by Philip Mills Herrington; Slap, ed., Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath. by John David Smith; Clegg III, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. by Bruce E. Baker; Holsaert, Prescod, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, …
End Notes,
2022
University of Central Florida
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; 2011-2012 Florida Lecture Series; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly
Miami Stories,
2022
University of Central Florida
Miami Stories, Jeff Rice
Florida Historical Quarterly
In his song Miami 2017, Billy Joel imagined Miami, Florida, as a refuge for an impending apocalypse. In the narrative, or diegesis, Joel builds, Miami is never mentioned. But as Joel describes how dangerous New York has become in this futuristic scenario, the city's citizens, we are led to believe, will once again flee south, just as the song tells us they did almost eight years earlier.
In Marjorie's Wake: A Film Voyage Into Florida's Nature Consciousness,
2022
University of Central Florida
In Marjorie's Wake: A Film Voyage Into Florida's Nature Consciousness, Leslie Kemp Poole
Florida Historical Quarterly
As the premiere of the documentary ended and the lights went up, its filmmakers held their breath and wondered: Would In Marjorie's Wake accomplish the task they had hoped for-to bridge the new Florida with the old, linking the literary musings of one of the state's most celebrated authors with a true concern for its vanishing paradise? The audience's enthusiastic applause and subsequent comments- gave them hope.
Florida Porch Reverie,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida Porch Reverie, Charlie Hailey
Florida Historical Quarterly
Calvin Stowe once conversed with Goethe on his Florida porch. His wife Harriet Beecher Stowe, well-known author of Uncle Toms Cabin, set up this context when she first explored Orange Park in the spring of 1867 and found an enthralling climate and landscape inclined to mix the actual with the imagined. By 1868 the Stowes purchased a house on the St. Johns River in Mandarin and by 1872 completed renovations, most significantly the porch. For Harriet, this open-air space-she called it her "veranda"-harbored dreams and visions for writerly inspiration. On the porch, Calvin reads, translates, and hallucinates while Harriet listens …
Is South Florida The New Southern California?: Carl Hiaasen's Dystopian Paradise,
2022
University of Central Florida
Is South Florida The New Southern California?: Carl Hiaasen's Dystopian Paradise, David M. Parker
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida and California have from their entry into American culture been considered by writers to be enchanted states, the places to which Americans can escape to a more exotic reality than is represented by the colder North and East. As early as the American Revolution, then-Spanish Florida was known for its unspoiled terrain and its lush beauty. Harriet Beecher Stowe extolled its exotic qualities, while Stephen Crane wrote of the contrast between the harsh outside world and the escapist qualities of the state. California, by contrast, has been seen as a paradise, a found Eden, and like Florida, a place …
Murders And Pastels In Miami: The Role Of Miami Vice In Bringing Back Tourists To Miami,
2022
University of Central Florida
Murders And Pastels In Miami: The Role Of Miami Vice In Bringing Back Tourists To Miami, Alison Meek
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the 1950s, Miami, Florida, earned a reputation as a tourist destination for its "arresting combination of sun, sand, and sea."1 But by the late 1970s and early 1980s, that image had changed dramatically. Instead of sandy beaches and year-round warm tropical rays of sun tanning pasty tourists, Miami developed an image in the national and international media centered on drug cartel shoot-outs, Cuban refugees, and race riots. To make matters worse, in the eyes of Miami's tourist honchos, a new NBC weekly series focused on the city was set to debut in the fall of 1984. Michael Mann's Miami …
