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Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Eighty-seventh Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops, 1989


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Awards, Announcements and Activities, Obituary


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ST. PETERSBURG AND THE FLORIDA DREAM, 1888-1950, by Raymond Arsenault, reviewed by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.; PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS: THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY MODERN BRITISH COLONIES AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE, by Jack P. Greene, reviewed by Darrett B. Rutman; BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA: MERCHANT SEAMEN, PIRATES, AND THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MARITIME WORLD, 1700-1750, by Marcus Rediker, reviewed by Christopher Ward; WAR AND SOCIETY IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA: THE WIDER DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT, by Don Higginbotham, reviewed by David T. Morgan; THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, by Robert V. Remini, reviewed by Richard B. Latner; WITHIN …


Settlers, Bureaucrats, And Private Land Claims: The "Little Arredondo Grant", Edward F. Keuchel 2022 University of Central Florida

Settlers, Bureaucrats, And Private Land Claims: The "Little Arredondo Grant", Edward F. Keuchel

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his study of United States land policy, historian Paul W. Gates wrote, “No problem caused Congress, officials of the General Land Office, and federal courts more difficulty or took up as much time as the private land claims, that is the grants of land made by predecessor governments in areas acquired from Great Britain, France, Spain, Mexico, and in the Oregon country by agreement with Great Britain.“ There were also problems in Florida since land had been granted by both the Spanish and British governments, and the “little Arredondo grant” of Columbia County demonstrates the complexities in the settlement …


St. Augustine's Fallout From The Yamasee War, John H. Hann 2022 University of Central Florida

St. Augustine's Fallout From The Yamasee War, John H. Hann

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between 1702 and 1705, Englishmen from South Carolina and their Indian allies destroyed all the surviving missions in Spanish Florida from Apalachee to Amelia Island. A remnant Guale population drawn from at least fifteen settlements of coastal Georgia had taken refuge in the 1680s at three mission sites on Amelia Island. In 1702, James Moore, governor at Charles Town, captured and burned St. Augustine. Only the town’s castillo and the refugees it housed survived Moore’s assault. Renewed English and Indian attacks against the inland missions in 1704 and 1705 brought new waves of native refugees to St. Augustine. The greatest …


The Commerce Of East Florida During The Embargo, 1806-1812: The Role Of Amelia Island, Christopher Ward 2022 University of Central Florida

The Commerce Of East Florida During The Embargo, 1806-1812: The Role Of Amelia Island, Christopher Ward

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Thomas Jefferson’s embargo policy brought much of North Atlantic commerce to a halt, world economic patterns—already stressed by France’s continental system— readjusted along informal lines for the duration of the Napoleonic era. Of the numerous “transshipment” ports that evolved between 1807 and 1812, none became more significant than Amelia Island, “neutral” Spain’s northernmost settlement on the Florida Atlantic seaboard. Just a few hundred feet across the St. Marys River from Georgia, Amelia Island (Fernandina after 1811) became an important link in a chain that enterprising merchants forged to bypass American trade restrictions. The years before the War of 1812 …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 68, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


The International Ocean Telegraph, Canter Brown, Jr. 2022 University of Central Florida

The International Ocean Telegraph, Canter Brown, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Summer of 1865 was one of great relief for most citizens of the so-recently reaffirmed United States of America. A few weeks earlier, on April 12, Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to a victorious Ulysses S. Grant and, before the end of the following month, the last Confederate force of consequence remaining in the field, then serving under General Edmund Kirby Smith of St. Augustine, had followed suit. The nation had been shocked and saddened by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln two days after Lee’s surrender, but to some extent the outrage …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Prizes and Awards, Florida History Fair, Tampa Bay History, Conferences, Announcements and Activities


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

INVASION OF PRIVACY: THE CROSS CREEK TRIAL OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS, by Patricia Nassif Acton, reviewed by William M. Goza; FULL STEAM AHEAD! THE STORY OF PETER DEMENS , FOUNDER OF ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, by Albert Parry, reviewed by Leland M. Hawes, Jr.; FLORIDA’S PAST: VOLUME 2, PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE STATE, by Gene M. Burnett, reviewed by Stuart B. McIver; THE LOG OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, translated by Robert H. Fuson; THE DIARIO OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA, 1492-1493, abstracted by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, reviewed by William F. Keegan; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, …


Florida History In Other Periodicals, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Florida History In Other Periodicals, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1988. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and that were not included in the list published in the July 1988 issue of the Quarterly.


Blacks And The Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835, George Klos 2022 University of Central Florida

Blacks And The Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835, George Klos

Florida Historical Quarterly

The rise of Jacksonian democracy in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s led to a national program of Indian displacement for the benefit of white settlers and land speculators. Disputes between whites and Indians over the possession of black slaves was a very prominent feature of Indian removal from Florida. Unlike Indian removal in other parts of the United States, land was not the main issue; thousands of acres of public land could be had in Florida without dispossessing the Seminoles. Mediation of white-Seminole slave disputes failed, in part, because the federal Indian agents often owned and speculated …


The Spanish St. Augustine Community, 1784-1795: A Reevaluation, Sherry Johnson 2022 University of Central Florida

The Spanish St. Augustine Community, 1784-1795: A Reevaluation, Sherry Johnson

Florida Historical Quarterly

While documentation is available, historians have not accurately defined the community in St. Augustine after the return of Spanish rule in 1784. Community studies abound for towns in Europe and North America, but community study techniques, which have been so successful in reinterpreting North American colonial history, have been underutilized by Latin American historians. Eighteenth-century St. Augustine presents an opportunity to investigate one frontier settlement and the origins of its inhabitants. However, the point of beginning for any such study must be a definition of the structure of the community itself. Research reveals that St. Augustine resembled other Spanish American …


Pensacola Progressive: John Moreno Coe And The Campaign Of 1948, Sarah Hart Brown 2022 University of Central Florida

Pensacola Progressive: John Moreno Coe And The Campaign Of 1948, Sarah Hart Brown

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1951, John Moreno Coe, native of Pensacola, Florida, participated as an advocate for the defense in the celebrated case of Willie McGee, a black man tried and convicted three times by Mississippi juries for the rape of a Laurel, Mississippi, housewife. As with most of his clients, Coe passionately believed in McGee's innocence; further, he believed that McGee had been systematically denied due process by Mississippi courts. In his home town, almost no one except Coe’s family supported him in this crusade; his actions were perverse and strange in the eyes of most Pensacolians. Yet following McGee’s execution, Coe …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 68, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Index To Volume Lxvii, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Index To Volume Lxvii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Directors Meeting Florida Historical Society


History News, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, National Register of Historic Places, Southern Jewish Historical Society, Announcements and Activites


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2022 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

LOUIS WILLIAM DUBOURG: BISHOP OF LOUISIANA AND THE FLORIDAS, BISHOP OF MONTAUBAN, AND ARCHBISHOP OF BESANÇON, 1766-1833. Volume one, SCHOOLMAN, 1766-1818; volume two, BISHOP IN Two WORLDS: 1818-1833, by Annabelle M. Melville, reviewed by Michael J. McNally; MELBOURNE VILLAGE: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1946-1971), by Richard C. Crepeau, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; LA DEFENSA DE LAS INDIAS, 1764-1799, by Julio Albi, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; INTIMACY AND POWER IN THE OLD SOUTH: RITUAL IN THE LIVES OF THE PLANTERS, by Steven M. Stowe, reviewed by William Henry Longton; THE EMERGENCE OF THE COTTON KINGDOM IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST: MISSISSIPPI, …


William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr. 2022 University of Central Florida

William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Alexander Blount, as a child, had experienced the frustrations of poverty and disorder resulting from the Civil War. While steeped in many of the values and traditions of the Old South, Blount was one of the new generation of southern leaders who, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877, strove to modernize the South through industrialization and closer cooperation with northern capitalists. His keen intellect and sharp legal mind served him well as a corporate lawyer for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Florida. Blount’s legal career in Pensacola spanned the Bourbon period, roughly from 1877 to 1900, when …


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