The Annual Meetings, May 2-4, 1963,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Annual Meetings, May 2-4, 1963, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes minutes from the directors meeting and treasurer's report
Newspaper Mottoes In Ante-Bellum Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Newspaper Mottoes In Ante-Bellum Florida, William Warren Rogers
Florida Historical Quarterly
Southern newspapers before the Civil War were individualistic, caustic, and for the most part politically partisan. The typical newspaper devoted a page to foreign news, contained a section devoted to literary items, and had an outspoken editorial page. Editors borrowed liberally from each other, usually but not always citing the sources of their borrowings. The last page was filled with advertisements but they were also scattered throughout the paper, frequently appearing on page one.
Florida's 1926 Senatorial Primary,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida's 1926 Senatorial Primary, Wayne Flynt
Florida Historical Quarterly
If historical speculation were profitable, few Florida elections would offer more possibilities than the Democratic Senatorial primary of 1926. An election which ended as a routine skirmish between an entrenched incumbent, Duncan U. Fletcher, and a relatively obscure politico, Jerry W. Carter, could have been a struggle for political survival. To fully comprehend the possibilities of 1926, it is necessary to review some historical antecedents.
Federal Relations With The Apalachicola Indians, 1823-1838,
2021
University of Central Florida
Federal Relations With The Apalachicola Indians, 1823-1838, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
In Grant Foreman's outstanding book Indian Removal, the classic account of the Five Civilized Tribes’ movement from the southeastern United States into Indian Territory, the author introduces the Seminole section with the following words: "In the dishonorable record of our dealings with the Indians there is perhaps no blacker chapter than that relating to the Seminole people." l Certainly when we think of the Seminoles we recall broken treaties, dogs tracking Indians through the swamps and the capture of Osceola while protected by a flag of truce. One rather shady phase of the Seminole removal which has been somewhat neglected …
Florida's First Railroad Commission, 1887-1891,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida's First Railroad Commission, 1887-1891, Durward W. Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
The purchase of four million acres of land from the State of Florida by Hamilton Disston at the rate of $.25 an acre brought with it several important developments. Funds received by the state from this purchase enabled the trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund to free state land from litigation which had prevented the sale of land under their control. After the sale, the trustees were free once more to extend land grants to railroad companies. The practical effect was a great increase in railroad construction in the years following. Between 1880 and 1888 the mileage of track increased …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 42, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
The Editor's Corner,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following interesting letter has been made available to the Quarterly through the good offices of Paul L. Maddock and Judge James R. Knott. It was secured by Miss Mary Stavely of Palm Beach on a recent trip to England. The writer, Tom Agar, was the great-uncle of Mrs. Vera Pickard, Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, England. This was the only letter received in England from Agar, and his eventual fate is unknown.
News And Notes,
2021
University of Central Florida
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The editors commend to the careful attention of all of our readers the provocative lead article in this number written by Dr. Charles W. Arnade of the University of South Florida. Few will agree with everything that is said in it, but the editors believe that it is a fair representation of the cavalier disregard for the historical heritage of Florida which is shown by too many of our citizens who should know better.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Charles Brantley Aycock. By Oliver H. Orr, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. x, 394 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $7.50.); Eugene Clyde Brooks: Educator and Public Servant. By Williard B. Gatewood, Jr., (Durham: Duke University Press, 1960. iii, 272 pp. Tables, plates, index. $6.00.); The Ku Klux Klan in American Politics. By Arnold S. Rice, with an introduction by Harry Golden. (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1962. vi, 150 pp. $3.25.); Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920’s. By Burl Noggle. (Baton Rouge: Louisianla State University Press, 1962. ix, 234 pp. Preface, illustrations, index. $6.00.)
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Military Memoirs of a Confederate. By E. P. Alexander, edited by T. Harry Williams. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. 652 pp. Editor’s introduction, notes, illustrations, index. $7.95.); Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff. By Stephen E. Ambrose. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962. vi, 226 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $5.00.); “Beast” Butler, The Incredible Career of Major General Benjamin F. Butler. By Robert Werlich. (Washington: Quaker Press, 1962. 160 pp. $3.95.); Texas Under the Carpetbaggers. By W. C. Nunn. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962. 304 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $5.00.)
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Travels with Charley, In Search of America. By John Steinbeck. (New York: The Viking Press, 1962. 246 pp. $4.95.); Cycles of Conquest. By Edward H. Spicer. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962. xii, 609 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $ 12.50.); The Colonial Records of South Carolina, Series I: Journal of the Commons House of Assembly, March 28, 1749-March 19 1750. Edited by J. Harold Easterby and Ruth S. Green. (Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department, 1962. 490 pp. Preface and index. $12.50.); The Department of War, 1781 - 1795. By Harry M. Ward. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, …
A Scientist Observes Florida: 1870,
2021
University of Central Florida
A Scientist Observes Florida: 1870, John Large, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
No roll of nineteenth century America’s eminent men of science would be complete without the name of Jared Potter Kirtkurd. His noteworthy career was no less of an ornament to the historical recollection of northeastern Ohio than to the scientific fraternity of the country as a whole. Kirtland’s endeavors led him into many areas of public enlightenment. Born in Connecticut in 1793, of deeply-rooted New England ancestry, young Jared had shown an early enthusiasm for horticulture and natural history. At the age of fifteen years he made an original scientific contribution. Later in 1815, at Yale Medical College, he received …
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Crusade for Democracy. By V. M. Newton. (Ames: Iowa University Press, 1961. v, 308 pp. Bibliography, index. $3.95.); Bethell’s History of Point Pinellas. By John A. Bethell with Foreword by Florence Bethell Loader. (St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing Co., 1962. 95 pp. Foreword and illustrations. Hard cover $2.50. Soft cover $1.00.); An Informal History of St. Petersburg. By Page S. Jackson. (St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing Co., 1962. 93 pp. Biography, table of contents, foreword, maps, and illustrations. Hard cover $2.50. Soft cover $1.00.); Tales of West Pasco. By Ralph Bellwood. (Hudson, Florida: Albert J. Makovec, Printer, 1962. …
The End Of An Idyll,
2021
University of Central Florida
The End Of An Idyll, Robert L. Anderson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the year 1687 a boat arrived in St. Augustine containing ten Negroes-eight men and two women-who had fled slavery in the English settlement of St. George to the north of St. Augustine. If this little group were not the first to flee from the practices of the English settlements of North America, they were among the first for whom documentation is available. The significance of the event is that at an early date Florida began to function as an escape-valve, as an attractive alternative to a life of servitude in the colonies to the north. It might be maintained …
Politics And Property During The Transfer Of Florida From Spanish To English Rule, 1763-1764,
2021
University of Central Florida
Politics And Property During The Transfer Of Florida From Spanish To English Rule, 1763-1764, Robert L. Gold
Florida Historical Quarterly
England acquired legal and sovereign control of Spanish Florida on February 10, 1763. After more than a century of imperialistic adventures, which had assumed the form of invasions and guerrilla penetrations from her colonies to the north, Great Britain wrested Florida from Spain’s grip at the Paris peace conferences following the French and Indian War. Because the British had successfully assaulted Havana in the summer of 1762, the Spanish negotiators reluctantly bartered Florida away in order to retrieve their great treasure terminal of the Indies. Less than four months of diplomacy were required to arrange the end of almost two …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 42, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Recent Problems Of Florida History,
2021
University of Central Florida
Recent Problems Of Florida History, Charles W. Arnade
Florida Historical Quarterly
The time I come to you not with a research paper which has resurrected from oblivion with the help of original documents a certain phase or episode of Florida history. That kind of job is tedious but rewarding and requires expert training, enthusiasm, perseverance, and often linguistic and paleographic knowledge. This last might seem to be snobbish or an expression of professional conceit. It is not. Rather, it emphasizes the problem we face here in Florida in dealing with state and local history. This problem is nothing other than what is the difference and what should be the proper cooperation …
Contents Of Volume Xlii,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contents Of Volume Xlii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 42
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
