"Where Are Now The Hopes I Cherished?" The Life And Times Of Robert Meacham,
2022
University of Central Florida
"Where Are Now The Hopes I Cherished?" The Life And Times Of Robert Meacham, Canter Brown, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
"Although this convention is the stormiest we have ever attended, and from its dissentions we judge the [Republican] party is badly split. If the Democrats and Conservatives of Florida don’t take such advantage of it as will insure them success, then we say they deserve ‘to be bound hand and foot,’ and ever be under the heel and ground to powder by their former slaves. Such a mess of ‘rag, tag, and bobtail’ buncomb and bombast, ignorance and corruption we have never seen. It is a disgrace to the civilization of the age.“
On The Edge: Blacks And Hispanics In Metropolitan Miami Since 1959,
2022
University of Central Florida
On The Edge: Blacks And Hispanics In Metropolitan Miami Since 1959, Raymond A. Mohl
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Monday, January 16, 1989, hundreds of blacks in Miami took to the streets in angry rage for the fourth time in the 1980s. Over several days, they burned cars and buildings, looted stores, pelted passers-by with rocks and bottles, and faced off with riot police in Overtown and Liberty City, Miami’s two major black communities. The incident that touched off this new expression of black anger was sadly familiar. A Miami policeman had shot and killed a black man fleeing a traffic infraction on a motorcycle, while a second black man, a passenger on the motorcycle, was thrown from …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 69, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Index To Volume Lxviii,
2022
University of Central Florida
Index To Volume Lxviii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Director's Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Historical Society, Minutes of the Board Meeting
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, National Register of Historic Places, William and Sue Goza Collection, margaret L. Chapman Memorial, Awards, Announcements and Activities, Obituary
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE RED HILLS OF FLORIDA, 1528-1865, by Clifton Paisley, reviewed by Michael G. Schene; THE WILDERNESS COAST: ADVENTURES OF A GULF COAST NATURALIST, by Jack Rudloe, reviewed by Jesse Earle Bowden; JOHN KNIGHT: A PUBLISHER IN A TUMULTUOUS CENTURY, by Charles Whited, reviewed by Paul S. George; THE KING SITE: CONTINUITY AND CONTACT IN SIXTEENTH -CENTURY GEORGIA, edited by Robert L. Blakely, reviewed by Ann F. Ramenofsky; SOLDIERS BLUE AND GRAY, by James I. Robertson, Jr., reviewed by Richard M. McMurry; LIFELINE OF THE CONFEDERACY: BLOCKADE RUNNING DURING THE CIVIL WAR, by Stephen R. Wise, reviewed by Howard Jones; THE …
Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries and archives, and other institutions. Anyone interested in particular collections should correspond with the organization in question.
A West Point Graduate In The Second Seminole War: William Warren Chapman And The View From Fort Foster,
2022
University of Central Florida
A West Point Graduate In The Second Seminole War: William Warren Chapman And The View From Fort Foster, Edward C. Coker
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the fall of 1837, Second Lieutenant William Warren Chapman departed from Old Point Comfort, Virginia, bound for Florida on the Caladonia Brander. An 1837 graduate of West Point, he was en route to the Second Seminole War in Florida. After arriving at Fort Brooke in Tampa Bay on October 27, 1837, he was assigned to Company B, Second Artillery which had orders to regarrison Fort Foster. Located twenty-one miles north of Tampa Bay on the military road from Fort Brooke to Fort King, Fort Foster protected the bridge over the Hillsborough River and served as a supply depot for …
The Read-Alston Duel And Politics In Territorial Florida,
2022
University of Central Florida
The Read-Alston Duel And Politics In Territorial Florida, James M. Denham
Florida Historical Quarterly
The December 27, 1839, issue of the St. Augustine News reported that on December 12 a “duel as fought . . . on the Georgia line between Leigh Read and Augustus Alston of Tallahassee. Weapons, rifles; distance, fifteen paces; finale, Alston killed.“ As was typical editorial policy in the reporting of such affairs, no commentary was offered. But the editor might have added that Alston, a Whig, and Read, a Democrat, each led their political parties in a time when a man’s honor and bravery were proven by action as well as words. Neither could, nor wished, to evade the …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 68, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Cramer V. Kirk: The Florida Republican Schism Of 1970,
2022
University of Central Florida
Cramer V. Kirk: The Florida Republican Schism Of 1970, Billy B. Hathorn
Florida Historical Quarterly
Having languished for nearly a century as a nominal political entity, Florida Republicans seemed poised by 1970 to establish parity, if not supplant, the Democrats as the Sunshine State’s majority party. The groundwork for such a metamorphosis had been laid when Eisenhower and Nixon won Florida in four of the five presidential elections between 1952 and 1968. William Cato “Bill” Cramer was elected in 1954 as the state’s first twentieth-century Republican Congressman, and Claude Roy Kirk, Jr., seized the governorship twelve years later amid the internecine bickering of Democratic factions. Moreover, Edward J. Gurney’s 1968 United States Senate victory was …
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Dena Snodgrass, Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference, Florida Anthropological Society, Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
URBAN VIGILANTES IN THE NEW SOUTH: TAMPA, 1882-1936, by Robert P. Ingalls., reviewed by William F. Holmes; THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES AND THE NEW DEAL, 1933-1942, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by Kenneth Philp; LIKE BEADS ON A STRING: A CULTURE HISTORY OF THE SEMINOLE INDIANS OF NORTHERN PENINSULAR FLORIDA, by Brent Richards Weisman, reviewed by Susan Greenbaum; KEY MARCO’S BURIED TREASURE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ADVENTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by Marion Spjut Gilliland, reviewed by Randolph J. Widmer; PROSLAVERY: A HISTORY OF THE DEFENSE OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA, 1701-1840, by Larry E. Tise, reviewed by Charles Reagan Wilson; EVANGELICALS AND …
Florida History Research In Progress,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1988 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archaeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.
Apalachicola In 1838-1840: Letters From A Young Cotton Warehouse Clerk,
2022
University of Central Florida
Apalachicola In 1838-1840: Letters From A Young Cotton Warehouse Clerk, Niles Schuh
Florida Historical Quarterly
John Chrystie wrote long, interesting letters from Apalachicola to the folks back home in New York. In a series of nine letters, written during the 1838-1839 and 1839-1840 business seasons, he described life in that busy cotton port. He wrote to his brother, Tom; to his brother’s wife, Sis; and especially to his close friend, probably a cousin, Albert, about life in a young, fast-growing, frontier town in the territory of Florida. Business, social, and civic life were all of interest to the impressionable young man, and he had very definite ideas and opinions about most of what was going …
Charles Townshend And Plans For British East Florida,
2022
University of Central Florida
Charles Townshend And Plans For British East Florida, Donna T. Mccaffrey
Florida Historical Quarterly
Almost every historical account of the background of the American Revolution necessarily brings in the career of Charles Townshend.1 He introduced and guided through Parliament in 1767 the Townshend program of taxation for America. In so doing, Townshend reopened the dispute between the colonies and the mother country that had been moderated in the previous year by the repeal of the Stamp Act. For some years Townshend had been deeply concerned about colonial matters and was regarded as the expert on American affairs. 2 As a member of the Board of Trade, he had studied colonial problems. At the request …
Billy Bowlegs, Sam Jones, And The Crisis Of 1849,
2022
University of Central Florida
Billy Bowlegs, Sam Jones, And The Crisis Of 1849, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the most unusual events that took place during the removal of some 4,000 Indians and blacks from Florida to Indian Territory during the 1836-1859 period, occurred during the so-called Outbreak of 1849 when the Seminoles delivered three alleged murderers to the whites for trial and possible execution. This outbreak blazed forth in July 1849 when a group of young Seminoles went on a rampage along both coasts of Florida. In the first attack, the Seminoles killed one man and vandalized a small settlement along the Indian River. Then they crossed the peninsula, killed two other persons, and burned …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 68, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
"Whitewash" In Florida: The Lynching Of Jesse James Payne And Its Aftermath,
2022
University of Central Florida
"Whitewash" In Florida: The Lynching Of Jesse James Payne And Its Aftermath, Jack E. Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
On an October morning in 1945, the body of a black man was found lying on the side of a graded road in rural Madison County, Florida. Jesse James Payne, a struggling young sharecropper with a wife and child, had been unceremoniously lynched the night before. This was not an unusual occurrence in a state that by 1920 had the nation’s highest lynching rate relative to its population. But with Payne’s death coming at the close of World War II, when such crimes were all but nonexistent, Florida was again distinguished by being host to the only recorded lynching of …
