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Florida Historical Quarterly

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Florida Bibliography And Historiography, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

I. The Development of Knowledge Regarding the Florida Indians; II. Writings In Florida History on the Period 1821-1860; III. Historical Writing on Twentieth Century Florida

Human-Machine Communication: Complete Volume. Volume 2

Human-Machine Communication

This is the complete volume of HMC Volume 2.

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local centennials, activities of local and regional historical societies, Tequesta,

The Background Of The Greek Settlers In The New Smyrna Colony, E. P. Panagopoulos

Florida Historical Quarterly

Andrew Turnbull, the principal founder of the New Smyrna Colony, was not the first who thought of bringing Greeks to people Florida. Immediately after the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which transferred Florida into British hands, William Knox, in a memorial to Whitehall, had already made this suggestion in a very convincing way. Knox, who later was Under-Secretary of State for American Affairs from 1770 to 1782, made, in his memorial, a detailed analysis of conditions and possibilities of the newly acquired Province of Florida. Attempting to solve the urgent problem of peopling this area, completely depopulated after the departure …

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

New members to FHS and contributors to this issue

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes about Tequesta, activities of local and regional historical societies, notice of the annual meeting, gifts

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 …

Archeology Of The Tampa Bay Area, Ripley P. Bullen

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Tampa Bay region includes the west coast of Florida from Tarpon Springs to Sarasota, or the three counties of Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Manatee; and its archeology is better known than that of any comparable region of the State. Nevertheless, in spite of the large amount of work which has been done on this area, there are many lacunae in our data. We are just beginning to glimpse the dynamics involved, and much work is required before we will have an adequate understanding of the prehistory of this area.

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Asi-Yaholo Or Osceola, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of the numerous Indian leaders who have attracted the attention, the interest, or the sympathy of the people of the whole United States, albeit they never derived any practical advantage therefrom, the notoriety attained by the Seminole leader known as Powell or Osceola, probably drew to that individual more attention than has been given to any other Indian before or since. This fame arose from his resolute opposition to enforced emigration from Florida. His motives were regarded as patriotic, and real or fancied romantic episodes of his career have become a part of our folk-lore. Although seizure and deportation thwarted …

Notes On Modern Seminole Traditions Of Osceola, William C. Sturtevant

Florida Historical Quarterly

Romantic interest among whites in the figure of Osceola began even before his death, and has continued ever since. His abilities as a warrior, his dramatic flair, and the well publicized circumstances of his capture and of his death in captivity soon thereafter, account for this interest. Many who know nothing else about the Seminole know Osceola’s name and some of the white folklore about him. He is almost certain to crop up in casual questioning of the Seminole today by tourists and others. On one occasion, I was present when a customer asked a leading Seminole enterpreneur in his …

Osceola: Portraits, Features, And Dress, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most colorful figure of the unpopular Second Seminole War, Osceola, the Seminole war leader, early caught the imagination of the American public. 1 As a result, although we lack details of his early history, we have a good amount of data for his military career, and numerous comments on his appearance. He was the subject of several original sketches and paintings, as well as numerous engravings taken from them. However, differences between some of these “from life” renderings, raise the question of exactly what Osceola did look like!

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Journey into Wilderness; An Army Surgeon’s Account of Life in Camp and Field during the Creek and Seminole Wars, 1836-1838; by Jacob Rhett Motte, edited by James F. Sunderman. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1953. Pp. xxxv, 326.; Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Translated and edited by Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953. Pp. xxxiii, 282. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, appendixes, index. $4.00.); Introduction, four pencil sketches, nine maps, notes, bibliography, index. $6.00.)

Are There De Soto Relics In Florida?, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The adventurous trip of Hernando de Soto from his debarkation on the Florida Gulf Coast in 1539, through thousands of miles of wilderness, to his death on the Mississippi River in 1542 has been the subject of many fictional and scholarly studies. Despite the careful attention given to his journey many questions arise in the minds of the students. One is the puzzling problem of why no material objects have ever been found which can be derived from the De Soto expedition. It is hard to believe a party of more than five hundred well-equipped men would leave or lose …

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Archaeology of Eastern United States. Edited by James B. Griffin. The University of Chicago Press, 1952 (392 p. 205 full-page plates. $10).; The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1952 (vi, 726 p. maps, bibliography, index, $3.50)

Book Review: Space And Time Perspective In Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida, Charles H. Fairbanks

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Goggin, John M.: Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 47, Yale University Press, New Haven. 1952. (147 pp., 12 plates, 8 text figures, one map, $2.00)

De Soto And Terra Cei, John R. Swanton

Florida Historical Quarterly

In connection with my work as chairman of the De Soto Expedition Commission between 1935 and 1938 I made a study of the documentary and geographical evidence regarding the location of the point where De Soto landed on the Florida coast in 1539 and the position of his first headquarters. While I was assisted to some extent by other members of the Commission, the conclusions reached were more particularly mine and I assume all responsibility for them. They were originally stated in a paper printed in “The Florida Historical Quarterly” (vol. XVI, no. 3; Jan. 1938) and were incorporated later …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Florida: Historic, Dramatic, Contemporary, by J. E. Dovell, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida. 2 vols., 995 pp. (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York [1952]); Miranda: World Citizen. By Joseph F. Thorning (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1952). pp. 311. $5.00.

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Florida of the Inca, by Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Translated and edited by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner. (1951, University of Texas Press, Austin, XLV and 655 pages. $7.50.); A Survey of Indian River Archaeology, Florida. Irving Rouse (296 pp., 8 pls., 15 figs., 5 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 44, New Haven, 1951.; Chronology at South Indian Field, Florida. Vera Masius Ferguson (62 pp., 4 pls., 10 figs., 7 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 45, New Haven, 1951. ($4., the two); History of Jackson County, by J. Randall …

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting

De Soto’S Ucita And The Terra Ceia Site, Ripley P. Bullen

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any Indian site to qualify as De Soto’s Ucita must possess geographical attributes which agree with those assignable to that site by close reading of the De Soto narratives. This paper examines only the claim of the well-known, large Indian site at Terra Ceia, on the east side of McGill Bay. For this purpose Shaws Point on Tampa Bay is assumed to be the landing place of De Soto’s expedition, although that identification has been questioned by some.

De Soto’S First Headquarters In Florida, John R. Swanton

Florida Historical Quarterly

Knowing that Hernando de Soto, his expedition, and the places he visited will probably be matters of discussion for years and years, I have not recently ventured any further contributions regarding them. However, challenge of one of my conclusions, the probable site of the Indian town of Ucita where De Soto established his first North American headquarters, has recently been made in a scientifically motivated paper (“The Terra Ceia Site, Manatee County, Florida.” No. 3 of the Publications of the Florida Anthropological Society, by Ripley P. Bullen), and this calls for some comments.

Fort Pupo: A Spanish Frontier Outpost, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the viewpoint of anthropological analysis one of the most interesting aspects of the study of man is what happens when two cultures meet. When is there an integration of elements, and when an overwhelming of one culture by the other? Precisely what happened when the Spanish and Indians came together has been a fascinating subject of study by many archaeologists in Florida in recent years. It was exactly this problem which turned us from our study of the missions where Spanish priests and Indians came together to a consideration of the similar meeting of Spanish soldiers and Indians. Fort …

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.

Ethnography Of Reading Comic Books, Azadeh Najafian

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis explores why adults read comic books. This research used the ethnographic method and interviewing eleven people, four women, seven male, as its primary source. Based on information and common themes gathered from interviews, I built this thesis into one introduction, three body chapters, and a conclusion.

In the first chapter, I argued that comics could function the same as myths and explained this function and related examples under the “mythic effect” name. In the second chapter, I discussed how my informants use reading comics as a means to escape their everyday lives and how sometimes this escapism carries …

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of "Florida Anthropological Society Publications, Number One: Two Archeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida [by] Hale G. Smith. Published at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1949. John W. Goggin, editor.”