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No Longer, Not Yet: Retrofuture Hauntings On The Jetsons, Stefano Morello

Publications and Research

From Back to the Future to The Wonder Years, from Peggy Sue Got Married to The Stray Cats’ records – 1980s youth culture abounds with what Michael D. Dwyer has called “pop nostalgia,” a set of critical affective responses to representations of previous eras used to remake the present or to imagine corrective alternatives to it. Longings for the Fifties, Dwyer observes, were especially key to America’s self-fashioning during the Reagan era (2015).

Moving from these premises, I turn to anachronisms, aesthetic resonances, and intertextual references that point to, as Mark Fisher would have it, both a lost past …

Education In Florida, 1821-1829, James O. Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

Writers on the history of education in Florida have usually passed over the period between 1821 and 1830 with only casual mention. During this decade no public schools were established in the territory and the records relating to private schools and libraries are meagre. However, since the educational activities in these years form the background of the later cultural development, it seems advisable to gather all available material on the subject and to attempt to draw a picture as accurate as possible under the circumstances.

Address Before The Florida Historical Society, Duncan U. Fletcher

Florida Historical Quarterly

An address given by Duncan U. Fletcher

Narvaez And De Soto: Their Landing Places And The Town Of Espirito Santo, A. H. Phinney

Florida Historical Quarterly

But little is known of Ponce de Leon’s two voyages to Florida. It is said that the first time he landed somewhere between the present Jacksonville and New Smyrna. We have no knowledge as to where he was defeated by the Indians when he came the second time. After Ponce de Leon came Narvaez in 1528. We have quite a full account of his expedition, written by his Treasurer, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. From this history we are able to definitely know where Narvaez found a landing place.

The Importance Of Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This subject can best be introduced with concrete illustrations. A year ago several Tallahasseeans interested in Florida history heard that many old letters and books were in the attic of a near-by plantation house which had been built more than twenty years before the Civil War. Attracted there, they found the unfinished attic littered with business and social letters, documents, and books - all of ante-bellum days. The greatest prize discovered was a dilapidated journal of the overseer of the slaves, of which there were more than one hundred on the place as early as 1836. As this journal gave …

Indian Races Of Florida, Benjamin Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ethnologists now accept the conclusion that the races who built the mounds were pressed to the southward by ruder invaders who came from the North and that the great battles of the conflict between the two were fought in Ohio where the remains of the fortifications erected for defense still remain. On this continent we have, on a smaller scale, a duplication of the struggle which ended in the overthrow of the Roman empire. The great body of these invaders were diverted towards Mexico, where the Toltec empire was overthrown by the Aztecs, soon to be conquered in their turn …

Colonial Florida, Louis J. Mendelis

Florida Historical Quarterly

The extent of territory and the duration of time covered by a subject so broad as Colonial Florida make an introductory note necessary. The name Florida once covered all the territory from the end of the Peninsula to Labrador. In Colonial times, before James Moore's destructive expedition, the name was confined to the present States of Florida and Georgia. Not until 1821 did the State acquire its present boundaries.

Home Life Of The Florida Indians, Benjamin Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

Every family of mankind refers fondly to a Golden Age, when peace and innocence reigned on earth. The lost paradise is no monopoly of the Christian, of the Greek or even of the Old World, since the Inca and the Aztec were equally confident in the truth of his traditions describing it. When Columbus compared the happy conditions he observed in the islands to which he came, with those of Europe, he declared the inhabitants were close to the angels in disposition as well as in geography, and he confidently looked for his Blessed Mountain in all his wanderings. When …

Minutes Of Organization In 1856 And List Of Members, J. C. Yonge

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Governor Milton And His Family: A Contemporary Picture Of Life In Florida During The War, By An English Tutor, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following extract is from Miss Sarah L. Jones' "Life in the South from the Commencement of the War," which was published in London, in 1863. The author was an English school teacher, who came to the United States in 1859, and found herself professionally engaged in the Southern States at the outbreak of hostilities. In 1861 she was engaged by Gov. John Milton of Florida, as tutor to his children and the following extract relates some of her observations and impressions in this family. It will be noted that some of her criticisms are caustic and portray rather too …

A Matron Of The Revolution, John H. Cross

Florida Historical Quarterly

Probably few people in Florida are aware of the fact that in old Saint Michaels cemetery in Pensacola reposes all that is mortal of Mrs. Dorothy Walton, wife and widow of Governor George Walton of Georgia and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from that State.

Senator David L. Yulee (Continued), C. Wickliffe Yulee

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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

An Indian Bettlefield Near Melrose, H. Von Noszky

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although it is well known that the neighborhood of Melrose is rich in Indian mounds and a fine hunting ground for flint arrowheads, pottery; and the like, few are aware that within a few miles of Melrose was fought one of the most important battles on Florida soil. This struggle took place between DeSoto’s forces and the Indians under Vitachuco, some time in 1539.

Senator Yulee: A Biographical Sketch By C. Wichliffe Yulee, C. Wickliffe Yulee

Florida Historical Quarterly

The adage that: no man is a hero to his valet, may be coupled with one that: every man is a hero to his child; which fact the writer promises to bear ever in mind, endeavoring to anticipate the modifications of those candid friends whose friendship is never so demonstrative as when clipping one’s wings. But it is a matter of some regret that a person who feels compelled thus to issue a self-denying ordinance, should have been selected to write, for the Florida Historical Society, the biography of Senator Yulee; since any historical narrative must have a strong element …

Pensacola: Its Early History, S. J. Gonzalez

Florida Historical Quarterly

Turning the hands of time backward along the dial of Floridian history, we find chronicled in the year 1559- or according to some writers 1553- the birth of an infant city on the shores of Ochees, a beautiful deep water bay, which offered safe anchorage to a fleet sailing northward under the command of one Tristam DeLuna, one of those adventurous Spaniards who, following the ignis fatuus of all Spanish explorers of the gulf - the fabulous golden stores of a country to the northward - had entered the harbor in search of a landing place.

Origin Of The County Names In Florida, Geo. B. Utley

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following article indicates briefly the origin of the names given to the various counties of the State of Florida. So far as possible the reason for the name is given, as well as its origin. In instances where counties were named for men of national prominence there is often no apparent significance except the desire to honor the memory of a national hero.

Old Newspapers, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The, Florida Historical Society has recently acquired by gift and purchase several old newspapers, which are interesting reading, and are undoubtedly genuine.

Antiquities At And Near New Smyrna, Florida, John Y. Detwiler

Florida Historical Quarterly

These antiquities embrace at the present time, the “Spanish Mission,” the “Old Fort” and the “Rock House,” the latter within the last few years having been destroyed by the removal of the shell mound on which it was built, for road making purposes. This building as well as that of the Spanish Mission, however, has been perpetuated by photographs of which the Florida State Historical Society has authenticated copies.

Old St. Augustine, Dewitt Webb

Florida Historical Quarterly

Twenty-five years ago the harbor of St. Augustine during society’s season was white with the sails of many yachts; There were more than seventy-five of them.

Editorial Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

To Conquer the Coast: Pensacola, the Gulf of Mexico and the Construction of American Imperialism, 1820-1848 by Maria Angela Diaz
Losing Lincoln: Black Educators, Historical Memory, and the Desegregation of Lincoln High School in Gainesville, Florida by Kathryn Palmer
The Gulf Coast Fish Cheer: Radicalism and the Underground Press in Pensacola, Florida, 1970-1971 by Christopher Satterwhite
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Pensacola's Cast Iron Architecture by Cynthia Catellier
New Deal Historic Preservation for Key West by Matthew G. Hyland
The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Phosphate Rock: The 1974 Political Controversy over Florida Phosphate Shipments to the Soviet Union by Brad Massey
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida in Publications 2015
Index to Volume 94

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by the FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree
The Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Florida by James G. Cusick
Interpreting Florida, Its Nineteenth-Century Literary Heritage by Maurice O'Sullivan
Abiaka, or Sam Jones, in Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis through the Third Seminole War by Patsy West
"The Indians Are Scattering, I Fear": Mobility and Power in the Second Seminole War by Christine A. Rizzi
Runaway Slave Advertisements in Antebellum Florida: A Retrospective by Matthew J. Clavin
A Flower at Elmira: The Prisoner of War Diary of Wilbur Wightman Gramling by Robert Saunders, Jr.
Another Invisible Man: Alexander …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sucking, Blood, and Fire: Timucuan Healing Practices in Spanish Florida by Tamara Shircliff Spike
Reconstructing Power in an American Borderland: Political Change in Colonial East Florida by Nancy O. Gallman
"Republica de Bandidos": The Prospect Bluff Fort's Challenge to the Spanish Slave System by John Paul Nuno
Currency, Credit, Crises, and Cuba: The Fed's Early History in Florida by Lesley Mace
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between Swamp and Sea: Bahamian Visitors in Southeast Florida before Miami by Devin Leigh
By the Shores of the Phosphorescent Seas: Lafcadio Hearn's Journey to Florida's Mysterious Fountain by Maxwell J. Stillwell
Camp Blanding Station Hospital in the War Years by George E. Cressman Jr.
Swaim Family Papers: Civil War Reports and Letters of Recommendation for a Carpetbagger by John T. Foster Jr., and Nicole Brown
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publications, 2014
Comprehensive Index: 2014-2015 (volume 93)

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by the FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree
The Historiography of Eighteenth-CenturyFiorida by Sherry Johnson
James Grant, British East Florida, and the Impending Imperial Crisis, 1764-1771 by Susan Schwartz
"Cast Away off the Bar": The Archaeological Investigation of British Period Shipwrecks in St. Augustine by Chuck Meide
The Failure of Great Britain's "Southern Expedition" of 1776: Revisiting Southern Campaign in the Early Years of the American Revolution, 1775-1779 by Roger Smith
Slanders and Sodomy: Studying the Past through Colonial Crime Investigation By James Cusick
Mayhem and Murder in the East Florida Frontier, 1783 to …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

New Systems, Established Traditions: Governor James Grant's Indian Diplomacy and the Evolution of British Colonial Policy, 1760-1771 by James L. Hill
"Wishing that Right May Prevail": Ethan Allen Hitchock and the Florida War by C.S. Monaco
Time to Grow Up: The Rise and Fall of Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale by James Schiltz
"A Few Crazy Ladies": How Women Broke Down Barriers and Created a Place for Female Martial Artists in Florida, 1974-1983 by Christopher David Thrasher
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Perfectly Still No More: Unionists in Confederate Northeast Florida by T. W. Upchurch
A Perfect Storm: The Ocoee Riot of 1920 by Carlee Hoffman and Claire Strom
Bootlegging Aliens: Unsanctioned Immigration and the Underground Economy of Smuggling from Cuba during Prohibition by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Current Scholarship on the Johns Committee in Florida History The Johns Committee: A Historiographic Essay by Judith G. Poucher
Book Review: Braukman, Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 - by Karen Graves
Book Review: Poucher, State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties by James Anthony …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 92, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Role of Cattle Ranching in the 1656 Timucuan Rebellion: A Struggle for Land, Labor, and Chiefly Power by Justin B. Blanton
An "underground railway" to Pensacola and the Impending Crisis over Slavery by Matthew J. Clavin
Race, Education, and Regionalism: The Long and Troubling History of School Desegregation in the Sunshine State by Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Abel A. Bartley
Nature on a Leash: Tourism, Development, and the Environment on Amelia Island, Florida by Patrick H. Cosby
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida in Publications, 2013
Cumulative Index, Volume 92