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Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 61, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MY WORK AMONG THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES, by James Lafayette Glenn, edited by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by William C. Sturtevant; THE VISION OF A CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY, by Russell M. Cooper and Margaret B. Fisher, reviewed by Jack C. Lane; THE TRANSLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: A HISTORY, by James A. Rawley, reviewed by Jack P. Greene; LA MISION DE DON LUIS DE ONIS EN LOS ESTADO UNIDOS (1809-1819), by Angel del Rio, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 6: SECRETARY OF STATE, 1827, edited by Mary W. M. Hargreaves and James F. Hopkins, reviewed by …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1910 Census Schedules, Awards, Announcements and Activities,


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society 2021 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 masters’ theses completed in 1981 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.


The Agrarians From The Perspective Of Fifty Years: An Essay Review, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. 2021 University of Central Florida

The Agrarians From The Perspective Of Fifty Years: An Essay Review, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the fall of 1930 Harper and Brothers, an old and prestigious northern publishing house, brought out a collection of essays by “twelve Southerners,” entitled I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. Described at the time as a Southern or Southern Agrarian manifesto, the collection came into existence, according to one of the contributors, as “a sort of happening”— “a coalescence of circumstances and people and conditions” unlikely to reoccur. The contributors, known as the Agrarians, were for the most part natives of the rural, small-town areas of the westernmost South, and most at some point had …


Immigrant Women In Tampa: The Italian Experience, 1890-1930, Gary R. Mormino 2021 University of Central Florida

Immigrant Women In Tampa: The Italian Experience, 1890-1930, Gary R. Mormino

Florida Historical Quarterly

The historical study of women, particularly immigrant women, has advanced dramatically over the past decade. Recent scholarship has rescued from neglect a great deal of historical material and has placed in clearer perspective the important roles played by women in American society. Ultimately, women’s history will be fully integrated into the pageantry of the American experience. Sufficient specialized studies to accomplish this goal, however, do not yet exist. More regional and local investigations detailing the histories of women in many different locations, time periods, and life situations are required.


Potter Committee Investigation Of The Disputed Election Of 1876, Karen Guenther 2021 University of Central Florida

Potter Committee Investigation Of The Disputed Election Of 1876, Karen Guenther

Florida Historical Quarterly

On Saturday, March 3, 1877, Chief Justice Morrison B. Waite, in a private ceremony at the White House, swore into office Rutherford Birchard Hayes of Ohio as the nineteenth president of the United States. This event, culminating four months of controversy, resulted from the decision of a special electoral commission and a subsequent agreement known historically as the Compromise of 1877. Nevertheless, many Democrats still refused to concede the legitimacy of the Republican victory. When Congress reconvened shortly after the inauguration, several prominent House Democrats demanded a thorough investigation of the election. Consequently, in May 1878, the House established the …


Timucuan Rebellion Of 1656: The Rebolledo Investigation And The Civil-Religious Controversy, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr. 2021 University of Central Florida

Timucuan Rebellion Of 1656: The Rebolledo Investigation And The Civil-Religious Controversy, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Timucuan Indians rebelled in 1656 because they had been mistreated by the Spaniards. In particular, the Indians reacted against the forced labor policy which Governor Diego de Rebolledo had sought to impose on them. Forced labor had not originated in Florida during the Rebolledo Administration, but the manner in which the governor sought to carry out his policy proved galling to the Indians. Often when St. Augustine experienced frequent food shortages because of the uncertainty of the situado, governors turned to the provinces to procure corn to see the settlers through the difficulty. Apparently such a shortage existed in …


Florida's Capitols, Lee H. Warner 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida's Capitols, Lee H. Warner

Florida Historical Quarterly

In mid-1982, after years of debate over the ultimate fate of its old capitol, a decision to restore part of the structure, over $7,000,000 spent, and four years of actual restoration work, the old building was again opened. By that time the executive and legislative branches of government were well settled in the new capitol and, surprising no one, expecting to construct still more office buildings to house their activities.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 61, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Eightieth Meeting, Proceedings of the Eightieth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities,


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE KING'S COFFER, PROPRIETORS OF THE SPANISH FLORIDA TREASURY, 1565-1702, by Amy Bushnell, reviewed by Light T. Cummins; VICENTE FOLCH, GOVERNOR IN SPANISH FLORIDA, 1787-1811, by David Hart White, reviewed by Carole W. Troxler; FLORIDA'S “FRENCH" REVOLUTION, 1793-1795, by Charles E. Bennett, reviewed by William S. Coker; THE BILLY BOWLEGS WAR, 1855-1858: THE FINAL STAND OF THE SEMINOLES AGAINST THE WHITES, by James W. Covington, reviewed by John K. Mahon; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME 8, OCT. 10, 1771-APRIL 18, 1773; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME 9, APRIL 19, 1773-DEC. 12, 1774, edited by George C. Rogers, Jr. …


German Tourists In Florida: A Two-Century Record, Earl R. Beck 2021 University of Central Florida

German Tourists In Florida: A Two-Century Record, Earl R. Beck

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1981, 74,219 West German tourists landed in the airport in Miami. This figure, which represents over a ten per cent increase over 1980, does not take account of many Germans who came to Florida after landing elsewhere in the United States. Those thousands of Germans who visit Florida today are continuing the lively interest in this state which began more than two hundred years ago. But, strangely enough, the number of German accounts of Florida and its myriad lures has been quite small. Stranger still, while tourism has grown, German writing about Florida has declined, and some recent accounts …


Encounter At The Aucilla, 1862, Katharine Jackson Willis 2021 University of Central Florida

Encounter At The Aucilla, 1862, Katharine Jackson Willis

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Civil War was more than dramatic sieges, heroic charges, and bloody encounters. There were numerous isolated and little-publicized acts of valor and triumph on both sides. If such affairs did not directly influence the outcome of the war, they hid a special poignance of their own. For Southerners who increasingly learned to endure the painful news of costly mistakes, defeats, and reversals, such individual triumphs were particularly welcome. One example of courage and success occurred on June 2, 1862, in a remote theatre of the conflict: Florida.


An Integrated Free School In Civil War Florida, Gerald Schwartz 2021 University of Central Florida

An Integrated Free School In Civil War Florida, Gerald Schwartz

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the Federal occupation of Jacksonville in February 1864, an attempt was made by Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, an abolitionist lady from New Hampshire, to operate there the state’s first racially integrated free school. This kind of an integrated facility, fleeting though it proved to be, was among the first in any southern state.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 61, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Legislative Committees: Their Growth Since 1822, Allen Morris 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida Legislative Committees: Their Growth Since 1822, Allen Morris

Florida Historical Quarterly

Nine of the thirteen members of Florida’s first Legislative Council had reached Pensacola to take the oath of office on July 22, 1822. Officers were elected the following day, and a committee of two was appointed to advise Governor William P. DuVal that the council was ready to proceed to business. On the same day that the governor’s message was received by the council, segments of it were referred to committees of four members “with authority to report by bill or otherwise” on matters relating to the judiciary and revenue. In immediate succession, other committees of three to five members …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1983 Annual Meeting, Annual Awards, Florida History Fair, Wentworth Foundation Grant, Announcements and Activities, Publications


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MIAMI: THE MAGIC CITY, by Arva Moore Parks, reviewed by Marcia J. Kanner; BISCAYNE COUNTRY, 1870-1926, by Thelma Peters, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; HISTORY OF GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, 1854-1979, by Charles H. Hildreth and Merlin G. Cox, reviewed by Jerrell H. Shofner; IBERVILLE’S GULF JOURNALS, translated and edited by Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; FLORIDA’S PREHISTORIC STONE TECHNOLOGY, by Barbara A. Purdy, reviewed by Mark J. Brooks; THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF JOHN BARTRAM: FROM LAKE ONTARIO TO THE RIVER ST. JOHN, by Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, reviewed by Marjory Bartlett Sanger; JUAN NEPOMUCENO …


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