Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THREE VOYAGES, by René Laudonnière, translated by Charles E. Bennett, reviewed by Robert A. Matter; THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE: LAND AND WATER POLICY IN A GROWTH STATE, by Luther J. Carter, reviewed by John K. Mahon; JOHN JAMES TIGERT: AMERICAN EDUCATOR, by George Coleman Osborn, reviewed by Henry L. Swint; LAND FROM THE SEA: THE GEOLOGIC STORY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, by John Edward Hoffmeister, reviewed by H.. K. Brooks; THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE SOUTHERN VOYAGES, A. D. 1492-1616, by Samuel Eliot Morison, reviewed by Ursula Lamb; IN DEFENSE OF THE INDIANS: THE DEFENSE OF THE MOST REVEREND LORD, DON …
Fort Foster: A Second Seminole War Fort,
2021
University of Central Florida
Fort Foster: A Second Seminole War Fort, Michael G. Schene
Florida Historical Quarterly
On November 4, 1836, Major General Thomas Sidney Jesup, recent quatermaster general of the army, was appointed supreme commander in Florida. His orders carried specific instructions to campaign along the Withlacoochee River, occupy the country between this river and Tampa Bay, and establish forts at strategic points in the interior that would ensure safety for the settlers and provide regular supplies for his command.
Civil War Letters Of Colonel David Lang,
2021
University of Central Florida
Civil War Letters Of Colonel David Lang, Bertram H. Groene
Florida Historical Quarterly
David Lang was born in Camden County, Georgia, in 1838, the oldest son among Robert and Margaret Lang’s seven children. Earlier his father had lived in Nassau County, Florida. After graduating from Georgia Military Academy in Marietta in 1857, Robert Lang returned to Florida with his family, settling near White Springs, where his son David became surveyor for Suwannee County.
Theodore Roosevelt Entertains Booker T. Washington: Florida's Reaction To The White House Dinner,
2021
University of Central Florida
Theodore Roosevelt Entertains Booker T. Washington: Florida's Reaction To The White House Dinner, John K. Severn
Florida Historical Quarterly
"It was merely an incident that had no thought or motive behind it except the convenience of the President.“ Thus did Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and the most influential black leader in America, later describe a dinner he attended as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt in the White House on the evening of October 16, 1901. The Negro educator’s account was too subdued an estimate of what became a cause célèbre with ramifications that were racial, social, political, and sectional. In the furor that followed the dinner party, citizens of Florida played a part.
Population Structure In Hispanic St. Augustine, 1629-1763,
2021
University of Central Florida
Population Structure In Hispanic St. Augustine, 1629-1763, Theodore G. Corbett
Florida Historical Quarterly
Recent study of population in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American and European communities is providing new insights into the nature of their social existence. Such studies depend not only upon the traditional census, but utilize a variety of sources, including parish registers, tax and tribute rolls, musters, and genealogical material.1 The use of these sources for the counting of individuals and the arrangement of aggregate figures into tables may seem to produce a rigidly scientific and arid form of history, but in reality these figures do much to explain the everyday life experience of a past community. There is no better …
Madison County's Sea Island Cotton Industry, 1870-1916,
2021
University of Central Florida
Madison County's Sea Island Cotton Industry, 1870-1916, Clifton Paisley
Florida Historical Quarterly
The demand for cotton with a silky fiber, great tensile strength, and a staple at least one and five-eighths inches in length created a boom in the growing of Sea Island cotton in North Florida and South Georgia during the last third of the nineteenth century. Although Sea Island never comprised more than one per cent of the cotton grown in the United States, the use of its long-staple fibers for fine fabrics, laces, thread, and eventually for automobile tires enabled “long cotton,” as it was called, to command a price that was double and sometimes triple that paid for …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 54, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Seventy-Third Annual Meeting,
2021
University of Central Florida
Seventy-Third Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Panton, Leslie Papers, Joseph E. Lee Library Museum, Announcements and Activities,
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
MINORCANS IN FLORIDA: THEIR HISTORY AND HERITAGE, by Jane Quinn, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FLORIDA AND ITS BORDERLANDS, edited by Samuel Proctor, reviewed by J. Barton Starr; KNIGHTS OF THE FOURTH ESTATE: THE STORY OF THE MIAMI HERALD, by Nixon Smiley, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; ED BALL: CONFUSION TO THE ENEMY, by Leon Odell Griffith, reviewed by Peter D. Klingman; JOHN HOLLIDAY PERRY, FLORIDA PRESS LORD, by Leon Odell Griffith, reviewed by Thomas Graham; ANTE-BELLUM PENSACOLA AND THE MILITARY PRESENCE, by Ernest F. Dibble, reviewed by John K. Mahon; TESTIMONY TO PIONEER BAPTISTS: THE ORIGIN AND …
"We Are Truly Doing Missionary Work": Letters From American Missionary Association Teachers In Florida, 1864-1874,
2021
University of Central Florida
"We Are Truly Doing Missionary Work": Letters From American Missionary Association Teachers In Florida, 1864-1874, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Civil War resulted in freedom for approximately 62,000 Florida slaves. Most of these were illiterate and poorly prepared for their new status. Slavery, with few exceptions, had provided no opportunity for formal learning, and education was essential for an adjustment from a condition of dependence to a life of independent responsibility. Fortunately, a majority of Florida freedmen were anxious to learn.
José Alejandro Huau: A Cuban Patriot In Jacksonville Politics,
2021
University of Central Florida
José Alejandro Huau: A Cuban Patriot In Jacksonville Politics, Gustavo J. Godoy
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Sunday afternoon, April 9, 1905, the long funeral procession of José Alejandro Huau moved at a slow pace to the Old City Cemetery in East Jacksonville, Florida. United States Senator James P. Taliaferro, the former Jacksonville mayor, Judge Morris A. Dzialynski, and a large entourage of dignitaries, honorary pall bearers, and other mourners rode in the flag-draped carriages. Many people came on foot. The procession included a large Masonic honor guard. A huge array of floral wreaths surrounded the burial site, as Jacksonville lamented the loss of one of its most esteemed citizens.
"A Year Of Monkey War": The Anti-Evolution Campaign And The Florida Legislature,
2021
University of Central Florida
"A Year Of Monkey War": The Anti-Evolution Campaign And The Florida Legislature, Mary Duncan France
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the summer of 1925, the world focused its attention on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the “Monkey Trial” of John T. Scopes. William Jennings Bryan, former secretary of state and the nation’s most zealous fundamentalist, and Clarence Darrow, the most famous trial attorney of his time, were the real antagonists, as they argued over the issue of the teaching of evolution. Both sides battled as if each believed the trial would produce the definitive statement on God and the creation of man.
The Spaniards And William Augustus Bowles In Florida, 1799-1803,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Spaniards And William Augustus Bowles In Florida, 1799-1803, Robert Allen Matter
Florida Historical Quarterly
Napoleon Bonaparte by 1799 had either conquered his European enemies or had pacified them, and only Great Britain stood between him and complete mastery of the continent. Spain since 1795 had been a rather reluctant ally of France, and thus her coast and the coasts of her colonies, including those along the Gulf coast, had become subject to the depredations of almost overwhelming British sea power. To further plague the Spaniards another problem materialized in 1799—the return to Florida of William Augustus Bowles.
"Sporting Life On The Line": Prostitution In Progressive Era Pensacola,
2021
University of Central Florida
"Sporting Life On The Line": Prostitution In Progressive Era Pensacola, James R. Mcgovern
Florida Historical Quarterly
In our own time, when rapid changes in attitudes toward sexual morality are conversational coin, it is interesting to consider an experiment in the regulation of morals devised in Pensacola, Florida, in the early years of the twentieth century. As a port city, Pensacola responded historically to the sexual desires of large numbers of male transients by noteworthy permissiveness. The city displayed a similarly liberal attitude towards the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 54, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
NOR IS IT OVER YET: FLORIDA IN THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by T. Harry Williams; SWAMP SAILORS: RIVERINE WARFARE IN THE EVERGLADES, 1835-1842, by George E. Buker, reviewed by Clark G. Reynolds; MARJORIE KINMAN RAWLINGS, by Samuel I. Bellman, reviewed by Gloria Jahoda; FLORIDA PLACE NAMES, by Allen Morris, reviewed by Pat Dodson; FLORIDA: A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH, by Robert B. Marcus and Edward A. Fernald, reviewed by Alan Craig; A HISTORY OF FRENCH LOUISIANA, VOLUME ONE, THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV, 1698-1715, by Marcel Giraud, translated by Joseph C. Lambert, reviewed by A. P. …
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the Annual Meeting, Awards, Wentworth Foundation Grant, Activities and Announcements,
Florida History In Periodicals,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History In Periodicals, 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 1974. 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. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1974 issue of the Quarterly.
Robert And John Grattan Gamble: Middle Florida Enterpreneurs,
2021
University of Central Florida
Robert And John Grattan Gamble: Middle Florida Enterpreneurs, Michael G. Schene
Florida Historical Quarterly
Some time in 1826 the son of a wealthy Richmond merchant first looked upon the rich wilderness of Florida. Deteriorating economic conditions in Virginia combined with the attractive prospect of fertile tracts of land available at moderate prices in the new territory prompted John Grattan Gamble to visit Middle Florida. His tour probably included Tallahassee and the Gulf coast around St. Marks. Satisfied with what he found, Gamble returned to Virginia and persuaded members of his family to join him in Florida. Included were his brother, Robert, his brothers-in-law, William H. Cabell and William Wirt, and Wirt’s young son-in-law, Thomas …
