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Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Proposed Move to the University of Florida; Samuel C. Collier; Donations to the Library

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Frontier General. By James W. Silver. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949. pp. XVIII, 291. $4.50.; Southern Politics in State ad Nation, by V. 0.. Key, Jr. with the assistance of Alexander Heard. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 675,xiv pp.; Chronological History of Winter Park by Claire Leavitt MacDowell.

A. Journal Of Lt. Robert C. Buchanan During The Seminole War: The Battle Of Lake Okeechobee, Frank F. White Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The journal of Lieutenant Robert C. Buchanan, adjutant of the Fourth Infantry, contains the chronicle of the operations of a unit in the campaign against the Seminole Indians from November 1837 to January 1838. Written during the pursuit of the Seminole Indians along the Kissimmee river and Lake Okeechobee, the journal reveals the conditions under which the soldiers lived and fought, his description of the country, and his views on the Seminoles and the war. There is also a description of the famous battle at Lake Okeechobee on December 25, 1837, for which action Buchanan received a citation.

Two Letters Of David L. Yulee, David L. Yulee

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter of Senator Yulee’s was published in the Tallahassee Floridian and Journal of June 9, 1860 and copied in the St. Augustine Examiner of June 23, 1860. The original draft in the handwriting of Yulee, with numerous corrections also in his hand, is among the Yulee Papers at the University of Florida.

The Joint Operations Of The Federal Army And Navy Near St. Marks, March 1865, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Battle of Natural Bridge; Cadets of the West Florida Seminary

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 29, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

Union Nationalism In Florida, Herbert J. Doherty Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Much has been written about the secession movement in the South, about the fire-eaters, the defenders of state rights, the evolution of theories to protect minority property rights, and the development of that sectionalism which is sometimes termed “Southern nationalism.” Less is heard about Southern defenders of the Union-men who conceived of their national loyalty as devotion to the federal union rather than to a section. These latter men, it is true, were in a minority in the South, but they were usually men of wealth and position who were able to make their views known if not popular.

Florida Historical Society: The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

On invitation of the University of Florida our annual meeting of 1950 was held in the Florida Union Auditorium on the campus there, April 14 and 15. It was successful in every way, with a large attendance from various parts of the State. There were three program sessions with papers written for presentation there, a luncheon, and the annual dinner.

Florida Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local historical societies in Florida can together accomplish much more towards the preservation of our State’s history than can the Florida Historical Society provided other societies are established in those areas where there are none now. Hence a major purpose of our Society should be and is cordial encouragement of them. Our members will recall the list of those societies in Florida which are active and inactive appended to the printed program of our last annual meeting. This shows that the number of active societies is larger now than at any time in the past. But the organization of other …

Book Review: East Florida, 1783-1785. A Pile Of Documents Assembled, And Many Of Them Translated, Donald E. Worcester

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Joseph Byrne Lackey, East Florida, 1783-1785. A Pile of Documents Assembled, and Many of Them Translated. Edited by John Walton Caughey (Berkeley and Lps Angeles, University of California Press, 1949. pp. xxiv, 764. index. $7.50).

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of John M. Goggin and Frank H. Sommer III: Excavations on Upper Matecumbe Key, Florida. Yale University Publications in Anthropology number forty-one. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. (101 p., 8 plates, text figures); Gordon R. Willey : Excavations in Southeast Florida (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, number 42,. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949,137 pp., 8 text figures, 16 plates); Gordon R. Willey, Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 113. 559 pp., 60 pls., 76 figs., 20 maps, 17 tables. 1949. Government Printing Office, Washington.

Archeology In Florida, J. E. Dovell

Florida Historical Quarterly

For more than half a century archeologists from outside the State carried on virtually all of the excavations with accompanying studies done in Florida. Mostly they were scientists representing and supported by the Smithsonian Institution and other scientific institutions in the North who published the results of their work. Also includes a review of John W. Griffin, Editor, The Florida Indian and His Neighbors: Papers Delivered at anAnthropological Conference Held at Rollins College, April 9 and 10, 1949. (Winter Park : Inter-American Center, Rollins College, 1949.) 168 pp. 9 maps and tables, $1.00.

A Free Negro Purchases His Daughter, Herbert J. Doherty Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Many interesting sidelights to Southern history are to be found in the documents comprising the Richard Keith Call collection in the Florida Historical Society Library. Certain letters addressed to Call give us new and intriguing views of life in the old South. Here are two letters addressed to Call from Canada by a free Negro. We know very little about these letters or the circumstances surrounding them; as Call’s side of the correspondence is not preserved in the collection, nor is there any reference to the matter nor the persons in any other documents of the collection which this writer …

The Federal Campaign Of 1864 In East Florida, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

At this distance in time from the events of 1864 it is not possible to prepare a satisfactorily complete picture of the 1864 Federal campaign in East Florida. Basic for such a study is the extended series of orders and reports of Federal and Confederate general officers and unit commanders preserved in the War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume XXXV, Parts 1 and 2,1891 (page numbers in these volumes are hereafter cited in parentheses). A careful consideration of these leads to the conclusion that many gaps exist in the series.

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 29, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Map: The Four Stages Of The Battle Of Olustee, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Showing the approximate positions of Confederate and Federal Infantry Regiments in the four stages of the battle (Grant I. The Confederate data after Lieut. M. B.Grant. C.S.A.; the Federal data from interpretation of official and unofficial sources.

Contents Of Volume Xxix, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 29

Provincializing New York: In And Out Of The Geopolitics Of Art After 1945, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

In this article, I argue that the putative global centrality of New York in art after 1945 is a construct, as it is for Paris prior to 1945. Monographs and national approaches are unsuccessful in challenging such powerful myths as these. A global, transnational and comparative approach demonstrates that the struggle for centrality was a global phenomenon after 1945, a battle that New York does not win (depending on one’s point of view) until after 1964. Rather than considering centres and peripheries as a fixed category, I propose to consider them as a strategic notion which artists and their promoters …

The Tide Is Coming In: Fort Pulaski's Historical Relationship With Water, Sadie Ingram

Honors College Theses

Savannah, Georgia is the fourth busiest port in the United States, processing approximately 4.35 million standard shipping containers every year. The port’s protector Fort Pulaski towers among the coastal marshlands and estuaries of the Savannah River. Located on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River, this strategic location allowed the fort to protect Savannah’s vital harbor. Built as part of the United States’ Third System plan to build fortifications along the eastern seaboard, construction of Fort Pulaski began in 1827 and finished twenty years later.

Water has played a pivotal role in the history of Fort Pulaski and …