Journey To The Wilderness: Two Travelers In Florida, 1696-1774,
2021
University of Central Florida
Journey To The Wilderness: Two Travelers In Florida, 1696-1774, Mary S. Mattfield
Florida Historical Quarterly
The eastern coast of the State of Florida is today heavily populated. From Jupiter Inlet north to the Georgia state line, vacation resorts and permanent communities front the Atlantic all the way. It is not easy to visualize this shore as wilderness through which a traveler could make his way only with the greatest difficulty, a cruel wilderness of burning desert and freezing exposure, of lacerating thorns and shells, and of near starvation. It is still harder to imagine the traveler on this coast beset, not only by natural perils, but also by the menace of hostile, even cannibalistic Indian …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 45, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of contributors to this issue
Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966,
2021
University of Central Florida
Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the Directors meeting
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 Robinson, The First Coming to America of the Book of Common Prayer, Florida, July 1565, by Michael V. Gannon; deCoste, True Tales of Old St. Augustine, by Theodore Pratt; Manucy, Florida’s Menendez: Captain General of the Ocean Sea, by M. Adele Francis Gorman; Scarborough, The Overseer Plantation Management in the Old South, by William Warren Rogers; Dos Passos, The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades, by Franklin A. Doty; Tebbel, The Compact History of the Indian Wars, by John K. Mahon; Capers, Occupied City: New Orleans Under the Federals, 1862-1865, by Jerrell H. Shofner; Tompkins (ed.), D-Days at …
A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere,
2021
University of Central Florida
A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere, Charles E. Bennett
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Fort Caroline National Memorial, a facility of the National park Service near Jacksonville, includes the reconstructed sixteenth century fort and an interpretive museum, the latter containing priceless American and European artifacts. Fort Caroline, established by the French in 1564 under the leadership of Rene Laudonniere, was then the only European settlement in the territory which is now the United States. It was conquered in 1565 by Spanish forces under Pedro Menendez d’Aviles, who founded Saint Augustine, the country’s oldest city.
Suwannee River Steamboating,
2021
University of Central Florida
Suwannee River Steamboating, E. A. Mueller
Florida Historical Quarterly
Stephen Collins Foster's famous song, “Way Down Upon the Suwannee River,” has probably done more than anything else to elevate this relatively minor Florida river to a position of fame that it otherwise would not have achieved. Now the official state song of Florida, it was written in 1851 while Foster was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had originally decided to title it, “Way Down Upon The Pee Dee River,” but fortunately he changed his mind, and, as the story goes, examined a map and discovered the name of the little-known Florida river. Foster had certainly not seen the Suwannee when …
Florida's Golden Age Of Racing,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida's Golden Age Of Racing, Alice Strickland
Florida Historical Quarterly
The honor of being “the first man to sit behind the controls of a self-propelled road vehicle,” goes to a French army engineer, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, who in the 1760s designed a monstrous steam carriage to transport artillery. Cugnot’s vehicle was so massive and unwieldy that it knocked over the wall of a courtyard while being tested, and on another occasion turned over on the streets of Paris. Its top speed was from two to six miles per hour.
Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker,
2021
University of Central Florida
Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first decade of the twentieth century has been dubbed the “Era of the Muckrakers.” These were the years when the great muckraking journalists - Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens -were writing their famous exposures of trusts, railroads, and government corruption in the celebrated national muckraking magazines - McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and American. Historical studies delving into this phenomenal concentration of reform writers have covered quite adequately its various aspects and impacts on the national level, but they fail to suggest that there might have been journalists and journals on the state and local level who could also …
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I),
2021
University of Central Florida
Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I), Kenneth W. Porter
Florida Historical Quarterly
If a group of informed Americans were asked to name a Seminole chief, it is likely that most of them would reply “Osceola.” If asked to recall a second Florida Indian, at least a majority of those responding would name “Billy Bowlegs.” The second choice would be more accurate, for Osceola was a Seminole only by adoption - being by birth a Red Stick Creek from Georgia or Alabama who came to Florida at about the age of ten. He was not a chief by hereditary right, whereas Billy Bowlegs, to use his common white-man’s nickname, was what an army …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 45, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
New Members And Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
New Members And Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A listing of new members to FHS, contributors to this issue
The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1966,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1966, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the Directors meeting, includes the treasurer's report
Historical News,
2021
University of Central Florida
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Historical Markers program, local historical societies
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Abernethy, The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828, by William Warren Rogers; Ford, John James Audubon, by E. Ashby Hammond; Beals, War Within a War: The Confederacy Against Itself, by William E. Baringer; Wilson, The Black Codes of the South, by Irwin Unger; Mann, Atticus Greene Haygood, by Richard E. Blanchard; Newby, Jim Crow’s Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, by Charles C. Alexander; Golden, A Little Girl is Dead, by Harry Simonhoff; Highsaw (ed.), The Deep South in Transformation, by E. Merton Coulter; Colberg, Human Capital in Southern Development, by Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Tebeau and Carson, Florida: From Indian Trail to Space Age, by J. E. Dovell; Will, Okeechobee Boats and Skippers; and Okeechobee Catfishing, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Richardson, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877, by Joel Williamson; Cushman, A Goodly Heritage: The Episcopal Church in Florida, by Hamilton West; Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770; and The Triumphant Empire: Britain Sails into the Storm, by Don Higginbotham; Cobourn, The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution, by Michael G. Kammen
Political Reconstruction In Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Political Reconstruction In Florida, Jeffell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
Until well into the 1930s historians accepted as standard the interpretations of Reconstruction offered by the “Dunning school.” Professor William A. Dunning and his students at Columbia University had undertaken extensive research in preparing scholarly monographs on the Reconstruction period in each southern state. But they wrote at a time when most Americans considered Negroes as inferior beings and their studies usually began with this basic assumption. It usually followed that the Congressional Radicals had been wrong in all they attempted. Helpless white populations had been subjugated by selfish outsiders who plundered the states, using ignorant Negro voters to maintain …
Early History Of The Cross-Florida Barge Canal,
2021
University of Central Florida
Early History Of The Cross-Florida Barge Canal, Charles E. Bennett
Florida Historical Quarterly
The dream of constructing an all-water route across the peninsula of Florida to carry freight and passengers has often been discussed and debated in the past history of this state. Many plans were projected and discarded, surveys were made, and work even began on a canal during the 1930s. However, only now is the Cross-Florida Barge Canal actually underway with completion scheduled for sometime after 1970.
Henry Bradley Plant And Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Henry Bradley Plant And Florida, Dudley S. Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida was a fertile field for developers during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Lumbermen were at work in the northern part of the state; the citrus industry was in its infancy; phosphate mining was just beginning; and northern vacationers and some invalids were discovering the restorative powers of Florida’s climate. Railroads were needed to serve and to further develop these diverse interests. Many men dreamed of building a network of rails in the state, and some began the project. Most failed, although a few succeeded. Henry Bradley Plant was one of the more successful. He constructed railroads, hotels, …
