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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 58, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

1980 Annual Meeting, Awards, Wentworth Foundation Grant, Florida Historical Society Library, Jacksonville Historical Society, Announcements and Activities


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE AWAKENING OF ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ANDERSON FAMILY AND THE OLDEST CITY, 1821-1924, by Thomas Graham, reviewed by Michael V. Gannon; SITUACION HISTORICA DE LAS FLORIDAS EN LA SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO XVIII, by Elena Sanchez-Fabres Mirat, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FLORIDA: THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, edited by Samuel Proctor, reviewed by Robert R. Rea; THE FLORIDA WARS, by Virginia Bergman Peters, reviewed by John K. Mahon; SOURCES OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE: SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, edited by Howard Peckham, reviewed by Gerard W. Gawalt; JOHN ROSS, CHEROKEE CHIEF, by …


Florida History In Periodicals, 1978, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida History In Periodicals, 1978, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1978. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume.


St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. 2021 University of Central Florida

St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line operated between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, for three months between January 1, 1914, and March 31, 1914. The Line is commonly recognized as the world’s first regularly-scheduled passenger and commercial freight airline. The idea for the airline originated with the Florida engineer and businessman, P. E. Fansler. It was while experimenting with speed boat racing that he became interested in flying as a way of achieving even greater speed. When he heard about the record-breaking long distance flight made by Antony Jannus in a Benoist flying boat between Omaha and New Orleans in the …


Governor Tonyn's Brown-Water Navy: East Florida During The American Revolution, 1775-1778, George E. Buker 2021 University of Central Florida

Governor Tonyn's Brown-Water Navy: East Florida During The American Revolution, 1775-1778, George E. Buker

Florida Historical Quarterly

Moses Kirkland left St. Augustine aboard the brigantine Betsey bound for British-held Boston with a packet of letters requesting an expedition to Charleston, South Carolina, so that the southern loyalists and Indians might be saved for the crown. East Florida’s Royal Governor Patrick Tonyn’s letters were among the bundle being forwarded to General Thomas Gage. On December 17, 1775, the Continental schooner Lee captured the Betsey off the New England coast and made for an American port. The next day the intercepted East Florida letters were taken to General George Washington’s headquarters at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they aroused considerable interest. …


Trail Indians Of Florida, James W. Covington 2021 University of Central Florida

Trail Indians Of Florida, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The story of the Trail Indians of Florida is the account of Seminoles who loved Florida as much as any group that ever lived here-Latins, crackers, or transplanted Yankees-and who fought the United States government to a virtual standstill in three nineteenth-century wars in a fierce determination to maintain their homes somewhere on the peninsula. In terms of religion, education, and their general life pattern, the Trail Indians have been among the most recalcitrant in the United States against the threats of the white man’s civilization. In recent years one group of Seminoles, organized into the Miccosukee Tribe, launched a …


The Sly Foxes: Henry Flagler, George Miles, And Florida's Public Domain, Edward N. Akin 2021 University of Central Florida

The Sly Foxes: Henry Flagler, George Miles, And Florida's Public Domain, Edward N. Akin

Florida Historical Quarterly

"My domain begins at Jacksonville," Henry M. Flagler asserted in an invitation extended in February 1898 to President William McKinley to visit him on Florida’s east coast. Flagler’s statement contained a great measure of truth. During the 1880s, Flagler, a close friend and associate of John D. Rockefeller in their Standard Oil Company empire, began a second career in Florida. Flagler had spent some time in Jacksonville in 1878 with his first wife in a vain effort to regain her health. He was delighted with Florida, and he honeymooned with his second wife in St. Augustine during the winter of …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 58, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


He Has Carried His Life In His Hands: The "Sarasota Assassination Society" Of 1884, Janet Snyder Matthews 2021 University of Central Florida

He Has Carried His Life In His Hands: The "Sarasota Assassination Society" Of 1884, Janet Snyder Matthews

Florida Historical Quarterly

A front page headline in the New York Times in February 1885, announced: “The Bloody Work of Band of Southern Murderers . . . the notorious Sarasota Assassination Society.” The Times story reported that Alfred B. Bidwell, formerly of Buffalo, had been arrested for vigilantism in Florida: “This organization is supposed to exist for the purpose of the secret murder of political opponents, and is composed of 20 members, bound together by terrible oaths to perform the bloody work of the band and to keep its secrets inviolate. Mr. Bidwell is charged with making his store the rendezvous of the …


Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2021 Western Kentucky University

Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).


The Grizzly, December 9, 2021, Layla Halterman, Morgan Mason, Cici Chagnon, Brooke Hurley, Mike Johnston, Katie Cressman, Kathy Logan, Alessandra Armour 2021 Ursinus College

The Grizzly, December 9, 2021, Layla Halterman, Morgan Mason, Cici Chagnon, Brooke Hurley, Mike Johnston, Katie Cressman, Kathy Logan, Alessandra Armour

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Bears Walk for Project Healing Hive • Basement Fire in BWC • Phi Psi Fundraiser Gets Messy • Senior Spotlight: Zenya Yanoff • Meet Connor Donovan • Opinions: First Year Check In; Chem Night Exams • Leaving a Player, Returning a Coach • Men and Women's BB Recap


Directors' Meeting, December 9, 1978, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Directors' Meeting, December 9, 1978, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Directors' Meeting


Index To Volume Lvii, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Index To Volume Lvii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, National Register of Historic Places, Publications, Announcements and Activities, Obituary


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE MERCHANT OF MANCHAC: THE LETTERBOOKS OF JOHN FITZPATRICK, 1768-1790, edited by Margaret Fisher Dalrymple, reviewed by William S. Coker; EARLY MEDICAL HISTORY OF PINELLAS PENINSULA: A QUADRICENTENNIAL EPOCH, by Frederick Eberson, reviewed by William M. Straight; THE SOUTH, A HISTORY, by I. A. Newby, reviewed by Bell I. Wiley; ANDREW JACKSON IND THE COURSE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE, 1767-1821, by Robert V. Remini, reviewed by Edwin A. Miles; DEEP LIKE THE RIVERS: EDUCATION IN THE SLAVE QUARTER COMMUNITY, 1831-1865, by Thomas L. Webber, reviewed by Peter Kolchin; POLITICS AND POWER IN A SLAVE SOCIETY: ALABAMA, 1800-1860, by J. Mills Thornton …


Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following paragraphs list recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida’s university, college, and public libraries. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or institution in question.


The Naval Career Of John Eliot, Governor Of West Florida, Robert R. Rea 2021 University of Central Florida

The Naval Career Of John Eliot, Governor Of West Florida, Robert R. Rea

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Royal Navy offered a promising career to the younger sons of many an English county family in the eighteenth century, and when political influence could be brought to bear, prospects for rapid advancement were considerably increased. The case of John Eliot offers an interesting example of the making of a naval officer during the Seven Years War and demonstrates the heights to which family connections could raise a very young man, for Eliot’s elevation to the governorship of the colony of West Florida at the age of twenty-four far surpassed the claims of his service at sea. Eliot’s naval …


Policing Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930, Paul S. George 2021 University of Central Florida

Policing Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930, Paul S. George

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Miami, Florida, was incorporated in 1896, most white residents mirrored the prevailing attitude toward blacks. Negroes, they assumed, were inferior people who represented a potential threat to the white community. This attitude resulted in the consignment of blacks to cramped quarters with inadequate municipal services, creation of a dual system of justice, and semi-official tolerance of white terrorism. The symbol and guardian of this order was the police.


An Empty Victory: The St. Petersburg Sanitation Strike, 1968, Darryl Paulson 2021 University of Central Florida

An Empty Victory: The St. Petersburg Sanitation Strike, 1968, Darryl Paulson

Florida Historical Quarterly

St. Petersburg, Florida, has long had the image of being a haven for retirees and tourists. People are drawn to the city by its beaches, its sunshine, and its tranquility. The peaceful climate of St. Petersburg was shattered in 1968 when a work stoppage in the sanitation department mushroomed into a four-month strike. What started as a nonviolent effort using marches, picketing, and economic boycotts in an attempt to increase wages, transformed itself into fire bombings, arson, gunfire, and riots. At the conclusion of the strike, the workers found their situation no better than before the walkout, but the strike …


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