Florida, "Our Own Italy": James F. B. Marshall's Post-Civil War Letters To Edward Everett Hale,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida, "Our Own Italy": James F. B. Marshall's Post-Civil War Letters To Edward Everett Hale, Patricia P. Clark
Florida Historical Quarterly
While touring Florida during the winter of 1867 as agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which hoped to revitalize its pre-war colonizing efforts, James F. B. Marshall regularly corresponded with company officers: Thomas B. Forbush, secretary, and Edward Everett Hale, vice-president. His letters to Forbush were shared with prospective emigrants and used in the secretary’s publication, Florida: The Advantages and Inducements Which It Offers to Immigrants. In writing to Hale, Marshall offered more confidential observations relating to people he contacted, especially politicians, businessmen, government land agents, large property owners, and speculators, in short, anyone who might be able …
Charles H. Jones: Florida's Gilded Age Editor-Politician,
2021
University of Central Florida
Charles H. Jones: Florida's Gilded Age Editor-Politician, Thomas Graham
Florida Historical Quarterly
For much of the nineteenth century American newspapermen played important roles in political parties. Most papers were affiliated with or were supported by a particular party, and the editor of the party newspaper was usually treated as one of the ranking officers in the organization. Sometimes editors held public office, but more often they served as advisors, ideologues, and mouthpieces of the party line. Nineteenth-century Florida had several newspapermen of this type. Preeminent among these was Charles Dyke of the Tallahassee Floridian, who guided the Democratic party’s chief journal from early statehood days through the tumultuous era of Reconstruction. Dyke’s …
Pensacola, Florida: A Military City In The New South,
2021
University of Central Florida
Pensacola, Florida: A Military City In The New South, James R. Mcgovern
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Henry Grady extolled the emergence of the “New South,” he was primarily referring to the advent of an urban industrial civilization in that region; his conception of the “New South” did not foresee the possibility that urbanism in many southern communities would occur without industrialization. While urban history is more than a bookshelf of analyses of individual cities, localized studies of the widely divergent types of cities that make up the “New South“ in the twentieth century would enrich our knowledge of the concept. Pensacola, Florida, emerged as a city in the “New South“ in the period 1900 to …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 59, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Directors' Meeting, December 1, 1979,
2021
University of Central Florida
Directors' Meeting, December 1, 1979, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
President Jerrell Shofner called the meeting of the board of directors of the Florida Historical Society to order at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, December 1, 1979, at the Florida Historical Society Library, University of South Florida, Tampa. Present were Jay B. Dobkin, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr., Linda V. Ellsworth, Lucius F. Ellsworth, Paul S. George, Thomas Graham, E. A. Hammond, Wright Langley, Christian LaRoche, John Mahon, Janet Snyder Matthews, Thomas Mickler, Vernon Peeples, Olive Peterson, O. E. Peterson, Samuel Proctor, Paul Wehr, and Linda Williams. Margaret Burgess of the Society staff, Thomas Greenhaw, editor of the Society’s Newsletter, and Paul Camp …
Index To Volume Lviii,
2021
University of Central Florida
Index To Volume Lviii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE SOUTHERN COLONIAL FRONTIER, 1607-1763, by W. Stitt Robinson, reviewed by Kenneth Coleman; THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN THE SOUTH: POWER, CONFLICT, AND LEADERSHIP. ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN RICHARD ALDEN, edited by W. Robert Higgins, reviewed by Robin F. A. Fabel; A SACRED CIRCLE: THE DILEMMA OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN THE OLD SOUTH, 1840-1860, by Drew Gilpin Faust, reviewed by Charles B. Dew; “JOURNAL OF A SECESH LADY,” THE DIARY OF CATHERINE ANN DEVEREAUX EDMONSTON, 1860-1866, edited by Beth G. Crabtree and James W. Patton, reviewed by Anne Firor Scott; SHERMAN’S MARCH, by Richard Wheeler, reviewed by Richard M. McMurry; …
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, National Register of Historic Places, Announcements and Activities, Obituary
Wtvj's Miami Crime War: A Television Crusade,
2021
University of Central Florida
Wtvj's Miami Crime War: A Television Crusade, Paul G. Ashdown
Florida Historical Quarterly
Station WTVJ, Miami, broadcast sixty-five consecutive weekday editorials against Dade County crime in 1966. These editorials, supported by documentary news reports and interviews, reportedly “shook the political foundation of the State of Florida and sent shock waves rocking the underworld that were felt in the crime capitals of the world.“
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions,
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.
A New Voyage Of North American Discovery: Pedro De Salazar's Visit To The "Island Of Giants",
2021
University of Central Florida
A New Voyage Of North American Discovery: Pedro De Salazar's Visit To The "Island Of Giants", Paul E. Hoffman
Florida Historical Quarterly
The voyages to North America and along the coast by Spanish explorers Juan Ponce de León, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Juan de Pineda, and Esteban Gómez are known because of the work of scholars like Henry Harrissee, Woodbury Lowery, and more recently, Samuel Eliot Morison. Andres González de Barcía, in recounting these tales, now available in English translation, described the activities of Diego Miruelo, a pilot who supposedly landed in Florida in 1516 and, eight years later, 1524, while serving Vázquez de Ayllón, became mad and died when he could not find the place he had visited in 1516. But …
Strivings For Sovereignty: Alexander Mcgillivray, Creek Warfare, And Diplomacy, 1783-1790,
2021
University of Central Florida
Strivings For Sovereignty: Alexander Mcgillivray, Creek Warfare, And Diplomacy, 1783-1790, Thomas D. Watson
Florida Historical Quarterly
The outcome of the American Revolution left the Creek confederacy in a perilous state. Most Creeks had sided with the British and were dismayed when they learned in 1783 that Britain had bought peace largely at their expense. Alexander McGillivray, the half-breed Creek, spoke for his people when he conveyed their anger to British authorities at finding their “country betrayed . . . and divided between the Spaniards and Americans.“
Juan De La Villebeuvre And Spanish Indian Policy In West Florida, 1784-1797,
2021
University of Central Florida
Juan De La Villebeuvre And Spanish Indian Policy In West Florida, 1784-1797, Jack D. L. Holmes
Florida Historical Quarterly
Borderlands scholars who have studied Spanish policy toward the Indian tribes of North America have remarked on the notable difference between the mission- presidio system of the “New Southwest” and the trading-post techniques of the “Old Southwest.” In the area stretching from Memphis on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Mississippi River to St. Augustine on the Atlantic coast, Spain followed the successful patterns established first by the French until 1763, and thereafter by the British in West Florida until the close of the American Revolution.
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 58, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Jacksonville As A Nineteenth-Century Railroad Center,
2021
University of Central Florida
Jacksonville As A Nineteenth-Century Railroad Center, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
The earliest railroad building in Florida, as in most parts of the United States, was premised upon the idea that the railroads were an adjunct to water transport and that their primary purposes were to connect interior commercial or agricultural centers with seaports or to bridge land barriers between waterways. The notion that railroads alone might connect so as to provide an inland transportation system was not readily grasped by many early businessmen and politicians, most of whose economic horizons were parochially oriented. Indeed, pioneer railroad interests in Florida were so disturbed by the thought that Georgia railroads might drain …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
PLACES IN THE SUN: THE HISTORY AND ROMANCE OF FLORIDA PLACE NAMES, by Bertha E. Bloodworth and Alton C. Morris, reviewed by Margaret L. Chapman; MALIGNED GENERAL: A BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS S. JESUP, by Chester L. Keiffer, reviewed by Frank Laumer; THE STORY OF A NUN: JEANIE GORDON BROWN, by Jane Quinn, reviewed by Eileen F. Rice; ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF STATE LEADERSHIP IN FLORIDA PUBLIC EDUCATION, by Arthur O. White, reviewed by Harry A. Kersey, Jr.; TIME OF THE TURTLE, by Jack Rudloe, reviewed by Gloria Jahoda; INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH, 1585-1763, by Richard Beale Davis, reviewed …
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Awards, Announcements and Activities
Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Unicameral Legislature In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Unicameral Legislature In Florida, Allen Morris
Florida Historical Quarterly
The government organized by President James Monroe and the Congress in March 1822, for the management of the newly-acquired territory in Florida, included a one-house legislature known as the legislative council. This unicameral legislature lasted seventeen years, from 1822 until 1838. Efforts to revive the one-house body did not commence until 1967.
Ruggles Hubbard, Civil Governor Of Fernandina,
2021
University of Central Florida
Ruggles Hubbard, Civil Governor Of Fernandina, Marilyn Maple
Florida Historical Quarterly
Ruggles Hubbard was one of the four men who became embroiled in a power struggle over Amelia Island, Florida, in the late summer of 1817. The island was originally occupied on June 29, 1817, by General Sir Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish revolutionary who claimed to represent several South American insurgent governments. He dreamed of freeing Florida from Spanish control with support he had solicited from certain United States citizens in Baltimore and Philadelphia. His flag, a green St. George’s Cross on a white field, was raised over Fernandina, as he proclaimed his victory in the name of the independence of …
