Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Wellman, The House Divides: The Age of Jackson and Lincoln, from the War of 1812 to the Civil War, by Holman Hamilton; Halasz, The Rattling Chains: Slave Unrest and Revolt in the Antebellum South, by Joe M. Richardson; Posey, Frontier Mission: A History of Religion West of the Southern Appalachians to 1861, by John Opie; Barret (ed.) Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson, by Glenn Tucker; Eller (ed.), Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865: Part VI - Special Studies and Cumulative Index, by Edwin C. Bearss; Hyman (ed.), New Frontier of the American Reconstruction, by …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Will, A Dredgeman of Cape Sable, by Baynard Kendrick; Weidling and Burghard, Checkered Sunshine: The Story of Fort Lauderdale, 1793-1955, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Ott and Chazal, Ocali Country: Kingdom of the Sun, 1539-1965, by Richard A. Martin; Ney, Palm Beach: The Place, The People, Its Pleasures and Palaces, by James R. Knott and George L. Hern, Jr.; TenEick, History of Hollywood (1920-1950), by Julian I. Weinkle; Kendrick, Flight From a Firing Wall, by Marion Murray; Sirmans, Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763, by Michael G. Kammen; McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the …
Joseph E. Brown And Florida's New South Economy,
2021
University of Central Florida
Joseph E. Brown And Florida's New South Economy, Derrell C. Roberts
Florida Historical Quarterly
The present day economy of Florida is rooted in the post-Civil War New South era of American history. The first wealth acquired in the tourist trade and citrus production came to Florida in this period. Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, along with many other Americans North and South, was amassing at this time a sizeable personal fortune in various enterprises that ranged from agriculture and real estate to railroads, banking, and mineral enterprises. On several occasions, he visited Florida, always keenly observing the economy of the state. Governor Brown’s political career was spread over the years from the 1840s …
Lieutenant John T. Mclaughlin: Guilty Or Innocent?,
2021
University of Central Florida
Lieutenant John T. Mclaughlin: Guilty Or Innocent?, Nell L. Weidenbach
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Squadron, based on Key Biscayne and Indian Key during the Second Seminole War, was a small but highly effective naval group whose part in bringing hostilities to a close has remained in relative obscurity for over a century. Furthermore, the youthful and courageous commander of this squadron, Lieutenant John T. McLaughlin, has been relegated to the fine print of an occasional footnote. The sparse and very brief paragraphs allotted to him all too frequently concentrate on his fiscal extravagances and his drinking excesses, with dark intimations of corruption and cruelty. The paragraphs which follow are designed to bring …
First Campaign Of The Second Seminole War,
2021
University of Central Florida
First Campaign Of The Second Seminole War, George C. Bittle
Florida Historical Quarterly
There was no one basic cause of the Second Seminole War which began in Florida in December 1835. Major General T. S. Jesup, a regular army officer who served in Florida during the war, said that the Indian attacks were primarily the result of white efforts to secure Negroes held by the Seminoles. Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri believed the oppressive and intriguing nature of federal Indian supervision was to blame. Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, who served briefly in Florida early in 1836, thought that the Florida conflict was an example of border warfare. Mrs. Ellen Call Long, …
Fort King: A Brief History,
2021
University of Central Florida
Fort King: A Brief History, Eloise R. Ott
Florida Historical Quarterly
Within the eastern residential section of Ocala is the site of Fort King. Probably more has been written of this military outpost than of any Florida fortification of its time. Yet long overlooked in official files in Washington is the scarcely known story of its erection - letters which tell of its plan, its buildings, and of problems resulting from the frugality of a government insistent upon a stringent economy of expenditure.
Oldsmar For Health, Wealth, Happiness,
2021
University of Central Florida
Oldsmar For Health, Wealth, Happiness, Glenn A. Niemeyer
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida real estate boom of the mid-1920s brought unparalleled publicity to Florida. From Jacksonville to Key West city streets were clogged with cars and trucks bearing northern license plates. Swamps were drained and lots on “Venetian canals” were offered for public sale at fantastic prices. Elaborate advertising campaigns, boasting such names as William Jennings Bryan, attempted to lure the Northerner away from snow and ice and into the “Sunshine State.” According to Frederick Lewis Allen, it was “the most delirious fever of real-estate speculation which had attacked the United States in ninety years.”
The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War, Russell Garvin
Florida Historical Quarterly
Freedom for negroes in a society where race was the only qualification for slavery was at best an anomaly and at worst an illusion. In either case though, freedom survived alongside slavery. Florida first acquired free Negroes early in the seventeenth century. In 1704 the Spanish governor, Zuniga, opened the territory to fugitive slaves from British plantations to the North. Thus established, potential liberty across the border tempted Carolina blacks and tormented their white owners. It was hoped that the colonization of Georgia would serve as a buffer region to prevent the escape of slaves to Florida. Carolina benefited, but …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 46, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xlvi,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contents Of Volume Xlvi, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 46
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of contributors to this issue
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the Annual Meeting, Florida Conference of College Teachers of History, local historical societies
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Holmes, Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799, by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Posey, Religious Strife on the Southern Frontier, by Lefferts A. Loetscher; Van Every, Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian, by Frank Laumer; Dew, Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works, by Clement Eaton; Somers, The Southern States Since the War: 1870-1871, by Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.; Weltner, Southerner, by Mary Elizabeth Massey; Smith et al., Diamond Anniversary Faculty Essays, by Doak S. Campbell; Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities, by Gilbert L. …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Bigelow, Frontier Eden: The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Frank G. Slaughter; Rush, The Battle of Pensacola, March 9 to May 8, 1781: Spain’s Final Triumph Over Great Britain in the Gulf of Mexico, by Jane de Grummond; Martin, Eternal Spring: Man’s 10,000 Years of History at Florida's Silver Springs, by Donald W. Curl; Massola, The Wonderful Life of Angelo Massari; An Autobiography, by O. Z. Tyler; Gibson, Spain in America, by Donald Worcester; McDermott, The French in the Mississippi Valley, by Robert L. Gold; De Vorsey, The Indian Boundary in the Southern Colonies, 1763- 1775, …
Black Belt Political Crisis: The Savage-James Lynching, 1882,
2021
University of Central Florida
Black Belt Political Crisis: The Savage-James Lynching, 1882, Edward C. Williamson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1868 and again in 1872, Florida’s Republican Party triumphed over a predominantly ex-Confederate Democratic opposition. The Republican majorities were greatly enhanced by the political organization of the Black Belt. Chief among the political organizers was carpetbagger Dennis Eagan, a native of Ireland, whose particular bailiwick was Madison County and whose political organization survived the debacle of 1876 and the demise of Reconstruction. As late as 1880, Eagan was still delivering sizeable majorities to Republican candidates when in most of the rest of Florida the party was becoming dormant. That majority, for the most part Negroes, was in effect keeping …
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Civil War (Part Ii),
2021
University of Central Florida
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Civil War (Part Ii), Kenneth W. Porter
Florida Historical Quarterly
Elias Rector as an ardent partisan of the Confederacy, must have particularly wished in subsequent years that his report of Billy Bowleg’s death had been more than just a rumor, for Bowlegs was one of the principal chiefs of the Five Civilized Tribes who supported the Union in the Civil War. Although a number of Seminole chiefs, along with representatives of all the other Civilized Tribes, were bullied or cajoled into signing a treaty with the Confederacy, before the war was over it was estimated that two-thirds of the Seminole Indians and practically all their Negroes were within the Union …
Federal Expedition Against Saint Marks Ends At Natural Bridge,
2021
University of Central Florida
Federal Expedition Against Saint Marks Ends At Natural Bridge, Edwin C. Bearss
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the last year of the Civil War, the Union forces took advantage of their seapower to carry the conflict to sections of Florida that had heretofore escaped the ravages of war. Operating from bases which they had seized along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the state, Union columns would strike deep into the interior and fall back before the Confederates could rally a force strong enough to intervene. Raiding parties were likewise put ashore from transports. If they ran into serious opposition, the raiders would fall back to the beach, where they would be covered by the great …
Election Of 1870 And The End Of Reconstruction In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Election Of 1870 And The End Of Reconstruction In Florida, Ralph L. Peek
Florida Historical Quarterly
William Dunnington Bloxham was the first Democrat to win a high elective office in Florida following Congressional Reconstruction. Just twenty-eight months after the end of military rule in the state this native Florida conservative was elected lieutenant governor. However, he was denied the fruits of victory for more than eighteen months. After tedious litigation he was finally awarded the office by the Florida Supreme Court and was inaugurated June 3, 1872.
