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J. F. B. Marshall: A New England Emigrant Aid Company Agent In Post-War Florida, 1867, Patricia P. Clark 2021 University of Central Florida

J. F. B. Marshall: A New England Emigrant Aid Company Agent In Post-War Florida, 1867, Patricia P. Clark

Florida Historical Quarterly

Near the end of his tour of Florida as agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company in early 1867, General James Fowle Baldwin Marshall, former resident of Honolulu and more recently paymaster general of Massachusetts troops, wrote to his wartime commander, Governor John Andrew: “I am tempted by the prospect of usefulness & success, as well as by my long tropical experience to join the ‘Yankee horde’ of reconstructionists, & become a Floridian.“ This “Yankee horde” was enticed to postwar Florida not only by the climate, already fabled throughout the North as beneficial for consumptives and others ailing with …


Flagler's Magnificent Hotel Ponce De Leon, Thomas Graham 2021 University of Central Florida

Flagler's Magnificent Hotel Ponce De Leon, Thomas Graham

Florida Historical Quarterly

St. Augustine is unusual among most American cities in that it possesses a distinct local atmosphere and character. Largely this charm stems from its Spanish heritage— the narrow streets overarched with balconies, its moss-covered coquina rock walls, and its ancient historic monuments such as the Castillo de San Marcos. But many of the buildings and homes of the city reflect the spirit of a more recent age, that of Victorian America before the turn of the century, when St. Augustine was the winter home of affluent Northerners. The most prominent Victorian buildings are three magnificent structures surrounding a central plaza …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 54, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


“From The House Come Everything”: Macler Shepard And Jeffvanderlou, Inc’S Effort To Rebuild A North St. Louis City Neighborhood, 1966-1978, Mark Loehrer 2021 University of Missouri-St. Louis

“From The House Come Everything”: Macler Shepard And Jeffvanderlou, Inc’S Effort To Rebuild A North St. Louis City Neighborhood, 1966-1978, Mark Loehrer

Theses

This thesis charts the course of the JeffVanderLou (JVL) organization between the pivotal years of 1966 to 1976, using the life of a man named Macler Shepard as the primary lens of exploration. Born in Marvell Arkansas, Macler Shepard followed in the footsteps of tens of thousands of other Southern migrants to cities like St. Louis, hoping to find a new life in the industrial North. However, no sooner had he settled in, he was displaced by the construction of Pruitt-Igoe, one of St. Louis’ first large-scale urban renewal programs. In response, Shepard became involved in neighborhood organizing, focusing on …


Kristin Du Mez: Love Thy Neighbor Is For Wimps, Kristin Du Mez 2021 Calvin University

Kristin Du Mez: Love Thy Neighbor Is For Wimps, Kristin Du Mez

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Militant hyper-masculinity is the ideal of Christian manhood in the white evangelical world, and it's part and parcel of Trumpism and today's Republican Party. Author Kristen Du Mez joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.


Minutes Of The Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Minutes Of The Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The semi-annual meeting of the board of directors of the Florida Historical Society was convened at 9:45 a.m. in the Society’s Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, December 7, 1974, by Milton D. Jones, president. Officers and directors attending included Thelma Peters, Alva Jones, Jay B. Dobkin, Jerrell H. Shofner, Samuel Proctor, George E. Buker, Lewis H. Cresse, Jr., Addie Emerson, William M. Goza, Marty Grafton, John W. Griffin, James R. Knott, John K. Mahon, Jessie Porter Newton, Randy Nimnicht, Sister Eileen Rice, and Norman Simons. Mrs. Margaret Burgess was also present. Mr. Jones welcomed Messrs. Buker, Cresse, and Nimnicht …


Contents Of Volume, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Contents Of Volume, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contents for Volume LIII


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

HIBERNIA: THE UNRETURNING TIDE, by Margaret Seton Fleming Biddle, reviewed by Dena Snodgrass; BEYOND THE FOURTH GENERATION, by Lamar Johnson, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; FLORIDA FROM SECESSION TO SPACE AGE, by Merlin G. Cox and J. E. Dovell, reviewed by Dorothy Dodd; SPAIN: THE RISE OF THE FIRST WORLD POWER, by John Fraser Ramsey, reviewed by Donald E. Worcester; PEDRO DE LA TORRE: DOCTOR TO CONQUERORS, by John Tate Lanning, reviewed by Irving A. Leonard; BRITISH MAPS OF COLONIAL AMERICA, by William P. Cumming, reviewed by Louis De Vorsey, Jr.; BLACK MAJORITY: NEGROES IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM 1670 …


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Florida Confederation of Historical Societies, The Florida History Newletter, National Register of Historic Places, Florida Anthropological Society, Activities and Events, Florida Manuscript Acquisitions and Accessions, Notes


Some Early Railroads In Alachua County, Caroline Watkins 2021 University of Central Florida

Some Early Railroads In Alachua County, Caroline Watkins

Florida Historical Quarterly

Earliest transportation in Florida was usually by water routes— north and south— since few rivers offered east-west communication. The inland, unsettled country was covered by pine and oak forests and a thick growth of palmettos, vines, and scrub. Canals to connect the Atlantic and the Gulf had been proposed as early as the first Spanish period, and routes were surveyed in the 1820s. When it became evident that tidewater canals would be difficult to construct and locks expensive, attention was diverted to roads and railroads.


Vicente Pazos, Agent For The Amelia Island Filibusters, 1818, Charles H. Bowman, Jr. 2021 University of Central Florida

Vicente Pazos, Agent For The Amelia Island Filibusters, 1818, Charles H. Bowman, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The appearance of a North American squadron under John D. Henley and a land force under James Bankhead at the mouth of the St. Marys River on December 18, 1817, with orders to move against Luis Aury and his establishment on Amelia Island, compelled the filibusters to abandon posthaste their illfated Republic of the Floridas. Aury had occupied the island since September under the flag of Mexico. It was obvious that the North American fighting power was superior to any that Aury could muster and that surrender of the island was inevitable.


Reminiscences Of A Lector: Cuban Cigar Workers In Tampa, Louis A. Perez, Jr. 2021 University of Central Florida

Reminiscences Of A Lector: Cuban Cigar Workers In Tampa, Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, increased tobacco imports revived the historico-economic nexus between Cuba and Florida. In Key West, Tampa, Ocala, and Jacksonville cigar factories opened to process Havana tobacco. Thousands of Cubans arrived in Florida to work and most of them established themselves permanently.


The New York Times Views Civil War Jacksonville, Richard A. Martin 2021 University of Central Florida

The New York Times Views Civil War Jacksonville, Richard A. Martin

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the Civil War, military units North and South had their newspaper contingents in camp and field— war correspondents living out of saddlebags stuffed with pencils and notebooks, artists with sketch pads, and photographers working out of wagons jammed with the apparatus of their craft. Although southern newspapers were restricted by shortages of newsprint and men, northern journals prospered, publishing prolifically every shade of drama and every degree of tragedy the conflict offered. In fact, as Allan Nevins has observed, Civil War correspondents enjoyed such a virtual monopoly on the news “they were able to write with greater fullness and …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 53, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Gubernatorial Politics: The Fuller Warren Years, David R. Colburn 2021 University of Central Florida

Florida Gubernatorial Politics: The Fuller Warren Years, David R. Colburn

Florida Historical Quarterly

Inaguration Day, January 3, 1949, dawned overcast and rainy in Tallahassee. The inclement weather, however, did not dampen the enthusiasm of a large crowd that lined the route from the executive mansion to the capitol to greet the new governor, Fuller Warren. With typical inaugural fanfare, Warren was escorted to the steps of the capitol by marching guardsmen and a band which periodically broke into a rendition of “Suwannee River,” the state song. After taking the oath of office, Warren gave a brief inaugural address in which he called for governmental economy, pine tree prosperity, citrus reform, increased tourism, and …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE EVERGLADES: FROM YESTERDAY TO TOMORROW, by Wyatt Blassingame, reviewed by Thelma Peters; THE NEW FLORIDA ATLAS: PATTERNS OF THE SUNSHINE STATE, by Roland Wood and Edward A. Fernald, reviewed by Robert B. Marcus; WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, VOLUME XII, GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT, edited by John C. Upchurch and David C. Weaver, reviewed by Shannon McCune; MONEY AND POLITICS IN AMERICA, 1755-1775: A STUDY IN THE CURRENCY ACT OF 1764 AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REVOLUTION, by Joseph Albert Ernst, reviewed by Richard B. Sheridan; THE OLD DOMINION AND THE NEW NATION, 1788-1801, by …


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 and as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters theses completed in 1974 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.


History News, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Bicentennial Symposium, Florida College Teachers of History, State and Local History Awards, Announcements and Activities, Local Societies and Commissions, Notes


Newnansville: A Lost Florida Settlement, Susan Yelton 2021 University of Central Florida

Newnansville: A Lost Florida Settlement, Susan Yelton

Florida Historical Quarterly

Created by an act of the Territorial Legislative Council on December 29, 1824, Alachua County comprised most of the territory known as “inland Florida,” extending almost from the Georgia line to Charlotte Harbor. The development of this land had a long and colorful history. In the annals of Florida history one finds the name Newnansville identified as the county seat of Alachua County, a fort site during the Second Seminole War; and as a prosperous nineteenth-century settlement in one of the richest land belts in north-central Florida. This little town, located south of the Santa Fe River, helped pave the …


The Case Of Tom Tiger's Horse: An Early Foray Into Indian Rights, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. 2021 University of Central Florida

The Case Of Tom Tiger's Horse: An Early Foray Into Indian Rights, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

At a time in our national history when the American Indian’s claim to social and political justice is being vigorously pursued, and dramatically portrayed through mass media coverage of incidents such as the occupation of Alcatraz, disruption at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, and a “Second Wounded Knee,” it might be well to consider in calmer retrospective one of those little known efforts to secure Indian rights which occurred in Florida at the turn of the century. The participants included an aggrieved Seminole headman of the Cow Creek band and his white friends who displayed an unusual zeal …


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