Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Story of the University of Tampa: A Quarter Century of Progress from 1930-1955. By James W. Covington and C. Herbert Laub. (The University of Tampa Press, Tampa, 1955. Pp. 137. Illustrations index. $5.00).; Indians of the Southern Colonial Frontier, the Edmond Atkin Report and Plan of 1755. Edited by Wilbur R. Jacobs. (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1954. xxxviii, 108 pp., 7 illus. $5.00.); Florida Under Five Flags. (Revised edition.) By Rembert W. Patrick. (University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1955. Pp. xii, 140. Illustrations, maps, index. $3.00.)
St. Paul’S Church In Quincy, Florida, During The Territorial Period,
2021
University of Central Florida
St. Paul’S Church In Quincy, Florida, During The Territorial Period, Edward B. Gearhart
Florida Historical Quarterly
The development and the growth of the Episcopal Church in Quincy, Florida, and in all Florida, has been best related through the stories of the church leaders whether they were the parish rectors or, in all too few cases, able laymen. For a clear understanding of the life of St. Paul’s Church in Quincy during territorial Florida, three periods must be kept in mind. First, there was the long period of development into a congregation; second, there was the founding of the church and its growth under a rector in residence; last, and most important, were the situations that affected, …
The Legendary Visit Of Emerson To Tallahassee,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Legendary Visit Of Emerson To Tallahassee, Alan J. Downes
Florida Historical Quarterly
Among the pioneers in the perennial migration of winter visitors to Florida was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the beloved philosopher of American ideals. In 1827, ten years before the flowering of the stirring essays on “The American Scholar” and ”Self-Reliance,” the unknown tubercular youth sailed into castle-shadowed St. Augustine harbor seeking the healing climate of the newly-acquired Florida Territory.
Surveyors’ Field Notes As A Source Of Historical Information,
2021
University of Central Florida
Surveyors’ Field Notes As A Source Of Historical Information, Wilfred T. Neill
Florida Historical Quarterly
No doubt many historians are aware of the information to be gleaned from surveyors’ field notes. However, it seems desirable to call further attention to these documents; they should be of special interest to the student of local history, and to the archeologist who wishes to find sites of the Seminole period in Florida.
Osceola’S Coats?,
2021
University of Central Florida
Osceola’S Coats?, William C. Sturtevant
Florida Historical Quarterly
A surprising number of Osceola’s personal possessions have survived to the present, a circumstance no doubt attributable to his fame during life and to the fact that he died in captivity. Goggin (1955; see Bibliography following) has located and carefully described four items of Osceola’s clothing and jewelry, and has compared them with their pictorial representation in Osceola portraits. The four pieces are not only the oldest documented Seminole examples of their types, but are among the oldest dated Seminole ethnographic specimens of any kind. Hence they are important for the study of the history of Seminole material culture, as …
The First Fort Of San Marcos De Apalache,
2021
University of Central Florida
The First Fort Of San Marcos De Apalache, Lucy L. Wenhold
Florida Historical Quarterly
On the Gulf coast of southcentral Florida, where the St. Marks River flowing from further upstate meets the longer, shallower, eastward flowing Wakulla, the union of their waters forms a wide, deep, river-mouth harbor for any sea-going vessels that can pass the bar six miles further down at the entrance to the bay of Apalache. Where the two rivers come together there is a narrow headland that rises above the height of the tide and thrusts as it were a pointing finger toward the open sea. Today it is only a part of the harbor’s shoreline, grown up with tall …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 34, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
News And Notes,
2021
University of Central Florida
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes about the Editor Emeritus, local and regional historical societies around Florida, and new members
Book Review: The Story Of The Chokoloskee Bay Country; With The Reminiscences Of Pioneer C. S. “Ted” Smallwood.,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Review: The Story Of The Chokoloskee Bay Country; With The Reminiscences Of Pioneer C. S. “Ted” Smallwood., Frank B. Sessa
Florida Historical Quarterly
A review of The Story of the Chokoloskee Bay Country; with the Reminiscences of Pioneer C. S. “Ted” Smallwood. By Charlton W. Tebeau. Copeland Studies in Florida History. (Coral Gables, University of Miami Press, 1955. Pp. 88. $1.00.)
Mission To The Creek Indians In 1794,
2021
University of Central Florida
Mission To The Creek Indians In 1794, Richard K. Murdoch
Florida Historical Quarterly
So much effort has been directed to the story of the resolving of the post-Revolutionary War problems of the United States and Great Britain that insufficient attention has been paid to equally vexing problems with Spain and her allies, the southern Indians. In some respects this is not strange for even during the 1790’s, the attention of the American people was directed toward Great Britain for it was with this nation that the new republic’s economic future was most intimately associated. The two decades subsequent to the birth of the new nation saw constant friction along the Florida-Georgia frontier which …
State Aid For Indigent Soldiers And Their Families In Florida, 1861-1865,
2021
University of Central Florida
State Aid For Indigent Soldiers And Their Families In Florida, 1861-1865, William Frank Zornow
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historians have long noted the economic weaknesses of the Confederate states as compared with those of the North. From the very beginning of the war the Southern economy seemed to become increasingly stagnant. In whole areas of the Confederacy there was actual privation and an economic decline which often bore no relationship whatsoever to the proximity of the Union army. These economic deficiencies unquestionably were one of the principal reasons for its collapse.
The Railroads And The Public Lands Of Florida, 1879-1905,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Railroads And The Public Lands Of Florida, 1879-1905, J. E. Dovell
Florida Historical Quarterly
Opportunities for profitable economic enterprise in Florida, capitalizing on the resources of the mild climate and millions of acres of unsettled land, had intrigued Northern investors long before the Civil War when Yankee visitors built the state’s first tourist industry. During the war, Northern investors moved into the federally occupied areas and planned continued and accelerated economic invasion of Florida. In the years of Reconstruction the state was “full of northern men looking for a proposition” for profitable investment. The visitation of Northerners increased from 1870 to 1890 as the United States enjoyed the new industrial expansion resulting from the …
The Struggle For Control Of The Florida Central Railroad, 1867-1882,
2021
University of Central Florida
The Struggle For Control Of The Florida Central Railroad, 1867-1882, Paul E. Fenlon
Florida Historical Quarterly
A golden age of laissez-faire capitalism began throughout the United States within a few years after Appomattox. This was an age of economic expansion which, led by railroad developments, transformed the United States within a generation, changing this country from an essentially agricultural nation into one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world. This era of transformation is sometimes called the period of the greatest industrial revolution in the history of mankind, but it was also a time when skillful financial manipulators fleeced thousands of investors and when there was widespread corruption of many local, state and federal …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 34, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Davidson, Daisy D., 1875-1895 (Sc 3598),
2021
Western Kentucky University
Davidson, Daisy D., 1875-1895 (Sc 3598), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3598. “In Memory of Daisy Davidson,” a tribute to a young Auburn, Kentucky woman who died just prior to her 20th birthday.
Mary Chesnut: A Southern Woman,
2021
Stephen F Austin State University
Mary Chesnut: A Southern Woman, Jade Gordon
Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Membership,
2021
University of Central Florida
Membership, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contirbuting members, life members, new members, Board of Directors meeting notes, and contributors
Florida Historical Society,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes about the new editor of FHQ, a new index forthcoming, and other notes
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Includes reviews of P. G. T. Beauregard, Napoleon in Gray, History of Banking in Florida, and The Caribbean: Its Economy. The Research Council of Florida State University issues a series of Studies under an Editorial Committee of which Dr. George Yost Jr. is chairman. Number Fifteen of the series, with Dr. Victor S. Mamatey as editor, is Education in Florida, Past and Present (182 p.). As the title indicates, this is partly historical, five of the papers in the volume being based on historical research.
