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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Essay on Middle Florida (Essai sur la Floride du Milieu) Comte de Castelnau Translated by Arthur R. Seymour Foreword by Mark F. Boyd
Flagler’s Associates in East Florida Development S. Walter Martin
Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, No. 7, 1947
Book review: Douglas, “The Everglades : River of Grass” J. E. Dovell
The Florida Historical Society

  • The membership campaign
  • The annual meeting with the Jacksonville Historical Society
  • New members
  • Accessions to the Library


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stephen Russell Mallory Occie Clubbs
Captain Bunce’s Tampa Bay Fisheries Dorothy Dodd
Henry Morrison Flagler S. Walter Martin
Governors of Florida as Members of Congress James B. Whitfield
Thomas Frederick Davis
Book Reviews:

  • Hanna, “A Prince in Their Midst” Robert S. Cotterill
  • Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal Lawrence C. Wroth

Local and Regional Historical Societies:

  • Jacksonville Historical Society
  • Madison County Historical Society Edwin B. Browning

Notes
The Florida Historical Society

  • New members
  • Deceased members
  • Donations to the Library


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida in 1845 Dorothy Dodd
Florida's Population in 1845 Dorothy Dodd
The Last Spanish Census of Pensacola Duvon C. Corbitt
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’s Premature Proclamation, 1821 T. Frederick Davis
Early Settlers in British West Florida Clinton N. Howard
Notes on Seminole Negroes in the Bahamas Kenneth W. Porter
Territorial Florida: Martin, “Florida in Territorial Days”
The Jacksonville Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society:

  • The annual meeting
  • The Quarterly
  • Accessions to the library
  • New members


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A Prelude to the Creek War of 1813-1814 John Innerarity to James Innerarity Elizabeth Howard West
Quincy Conservative Convention, 1868
The Great Storm, Tallahassee, August, 1851
The Tekesta Indians of Southern Florida John Mann Goggin
The Bemrose Manuscript on the Seminole War Robert Charles Stafford
The Florida Guide Federal Writers’ Project

The Florida Historical Society

  • The Annual Meeting
  • The Palm Beach 4th District Meeting
  • The Lake Wales 1st District Meeting
  • Local Historical Societies
  • Conference of Historical Societies


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Voluntary Exile of Free Negroes of Pensacola Ruth B. Barr and Modeste Hargis
A Map of, the Road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, 1778 (with nine plates) Mark F. Boyd
Transportation in Territorial Florida Alice Whitman
The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1814
The Historical Records Survey and State Archives Survey of Florida
Notes
The Florida Historical Society


Verification And Utility In The Arabic Commentaries On The Canon Of Medicine: Examples From The Works Of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī (D. 1210) And Ibn Al-Nafīs (D. 1288), Nahyan Fancy Sep 2020

Verification And Utility In The Arabic Commentaries On The Canon Of Medicine: Examples From The Works Of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī (D. 1210) And Ibn Al-Nafīs (D. 1288), Nahyan Fancy

History Faculty publications

Although over two dozen Arabic commentaries on the Canon of Medicine were composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, historians of medicine have paid scant attention to them. Instead, these commentaries have often been dismissed as being uncritical expositions that further entrenched the dogma of Galenic/Avicennan medical theory. In this article, I shall show that in fact the opposite was the case for at least a subset of the Canon commentaries from this period. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī developed a new style of verification commentary across his philosophical corpus that he also deployed in his Canon commentary. Even though Fakhr al-Dīn …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Expedition of Marcos Delgado, 1686 Mark F. Boyd
The St. Joseph Convention: The Making of Florida’s First Constitution F. W. Hoskins
The Panton, Leslie Papers: John Graham to Wm. Simpson, 1808
The Public Buildings of Pensacola, 1818
Notes The Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas District Organizations A Letter-Book of Gov. Milton


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Engagements at St. Johns Bluff St. Johns River, September-October, 1862 T. Frederick Davis
A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers
Florida University (1883) C. L. Crow
The Contention Over the Superintendencia of the Floridas D. C. Corbitt
Sidney Lanier in Florida Lena E. Jackson
The Panton, Leslie Papers: A Letter of Edwin Gairdner to William Panton, 1798
Notes


Catalogue Of Collections, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Catalogue Of Collections, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This is a list of books, pamphlets, maps, relics, and photographs.


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

International Rivalry in the Creek Country Part I, The Ascendency of Alexander McGillivray 1783-1789 Lawrence Kinnaird
Sir John Hawkins in Florida Edgar Legare Pennington
The Forbes Purchase A letter from James Innerarity to William Simpson, 1804
A Historical Sketch of My Home Town, Dania Lilliam Jordan


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Capital Removal
The Battleship Maine as a Florida State Board of Health Quarantine Vessel Joseph Y. Porter, M. D. Former Health Officer of Florida
Jacksonville and the Seminole War, 1835-1836, Part II
Education in Florida, 1821-1829 James O. Knauss, Ph. D., Professor European History and Political Science, Florida State College for Women
Proclamation of George III, R. (Upon the Acquisition of East and West Florida
Note and Comment


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of Organization in 1856 and List of Members By J. C. Yonge
Observations on Original Members By C. Seton Fleming
Home Life of the Florida Indians By Judge Benjamin Harrison
Old Pictures of the New Florida By Judge Benjamin Harrison
Reminiscences of the Indian Uprising Near Fort Gatlin, Florida By Mrs. Martha Tyler
Florida Newspapers and Their Value to Historians By James 0. Knauss Professor European History and Political Science, Florida State College for Women
Dreadful Conflagration in Tallahassee From the “Star of Florida,” May 27, 1843.


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Prospectus.
Maj. George R. Fairbanks, by F. P. Fleming.
Report of the President to Annual Meeting 1907. Catalogue of Collections.
Origin of the Shell Mounds, by J. Y. Detwiler.
Indian Massacre in Gadsden County, by A. L. Woodward
Selection of Tallahassee as the Capital.


Some Corner Forever: The Imperial War Graves Commission And The Meaning Of The Great War, Cameron T. Sauers Sep 2020

Some Corner Forever: The Imperial War Graves Commission And The Meaning Of The Great War, Cameron T. Sauers

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

This paper argues that sites administered by the Imperial War Graves Commission played a significant part in the British public’s mourning and understanding of the meaning of the Great War. Pilgrimages, due to their popularity, size, and accessibility, allowed the countless bereaved families to grieve the losses that they suffered during the war. Their visits to cemeteries were powerful experiences because of the painstaking work done by the IWGC to bury identified bodies, honor unidentified remains, and enshrined names for those whose remains could not be identified. The IWGC was a bureaucratic organization that overcame the cultural challenge posed by …


"Immortal Until His Work Is Done": Northern Methodists And The Klan In Reconstruction Alabama, Christopher T. Lough Sep 2020

"Immortal Until His Work Is Done": Northern Methodists And The Klan In Reconstruction Alabama, Christopher T. Lough

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

Although the congressional report from the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Hearings has featured prominently in the historiography of Reconstruction, the insight it offers into its witnesses’ religious experiences has gone largely unnoticed. Using the testimony of Arad Simon Lakin, a Northern Methodist preacher who ministered in Alabama following the Civil War, this article seeks to fill in the gaps. Lakin’s work and the violent resistance he encountered is understood as a microcosm of the Christian life in the Reconstruction South. Building on analyses of the Ku Klux Klan as the embodiment of apocalyptic rhetoric in Southern evangelicalism, I argue that …


2020-2021 Ursinus College Course Catalogue, Office Of The Registrar Sep 2020

2020-2021 Ursinus College Course Catalogue, Office Of The Registrar

Ursinus College Catalogues, 1869-Present

A digital copy of the 2020-2021 Ursinus College Catalog. It contains details of the curriculum, departmental requirements and courses of instruction as well as the Open Questions core requirements, experiential learning and the Common Intellectual Experience (CIE). Academic policies, special opportunities and scholarships, off-campus programs and graduation requirements are also outlined.


Chicanx Murals: Decolonizing Place And (Re)Writing The Terms Of Composition, Nora K. Rivera Sep 2020

Chicanx Murals: Decolonizing Place And (Re)Writing The Terms Of Composition, Nora K. Rivera

English Faculty Articles and Research

Drawing from an interpretive decolonial framework that understands multimodal writing as the act of creating co-composed knowledge, this article analyzes Chicanx murals as multimodal compositions that exemplify the continuation of the Aztec tlacuilolitztli practice of writing with images. This work also invites rhetoric and composition scholars to reexamine Western understandings of history, particularly the history of writing.


Legacy - September 2020, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina Sep 2020

Legacy - September 2020, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Ancient Weapons from the Siege of Ninety Six…..p. 1

Director’s Notes…..p. 2

New Books Include Contributions by SCIAA Staff…..p. 4

Artillery Ammunition from the 1781 Siege of Star Fort…..p. 5

The Wateree Bug: Hellgrammites, Dobsonflies, and Mississippian Period Potters…..p. 8

Sixteenth-Century Scale Weights from Santa Elena…..p. 12

Update on the Activities of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey (2014-2020)…..p. 17

Field Slave Quarters Discovered at Historic Brattonsville…..p. 23

Castle Pinckney Work Continues: Testing and Monitoring During the Down Season in 2020……p. 26

A Vietnam War-Era Training Village at Fort Jackson…..p. 28

Archaeological Survey at Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site…..p. 31 …


William Of Rubruck: Cosmopolitan Curiosity And Restraint In An Age Of Conquest And Mission, Duncan Weaver Sep 2020

William Of Rubruck: Cosmopolitan Curiosity And Restraint In An Age Of Conquest And Mission, Duncan Weaver

Comparative Civilizations Review

William of Rubruck’s account of journeying to Mongolia (1253-55) remained relatively elusive in scholarly and popular discourses. A Franciscan friar, his mission helped tentatively acquaint two (literally/figuratively) distant civilizations, Latin Christendom and the Mongol Empire. We may assess the extent to which a critical reading of Rubruck can propel knowledge of a Christian Eastward mission. Rubruck’s account was found to evince a degree of restraint and cosmopolitan curiosity that not only went against the grain of Christendom’s exceptionalism and expansionism, but also enabled the pursuit of a rudimentary inter-civilizational dialogue.


The Berbers: Constructed Identities By Foreigners On African Soil, Zineb Askaoui Sep 2020

The Berbers: Constructed Identities By Foreigners On African Soil, Zineb Askaoui

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis examines the textual evidence pertaining to the identity of the local North African population of Morocco. In examining the literature about North Africans and the inscriptions in North Africa, I wish to determine who their authors were. Since North Africa has been invaded and colonized multiple times throughout history, the available literature written by both the foreigners who colonized it and the locals yielded interesting and sometimes contrasting results.

The names that address the local North Africans are pertinent expressions of identity or of forceful submission. This study examines four different terms that have been used to describe …


Skiing During World War Ii: Army Mountain Troops First Train On Mount Rainier, Military Personnel Learn To Ski On Snoqualmie Pass, John W. Lundin Sep 2020

Skiing During World War Ii: Army Mountain Troops First Train On Mount Rainier, Military Personnel Learn To Ski On Snoqualmie Pass, John W. Lundin

Works by Local Authors

Relatively little has been written about the army’s experimentation with mountain troops before the U.S. entered WW II in December 1941. Beginning in late 1940, men from existing army units were stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and trained to ski and in winter warfare on Mt. Rainier. This article discusses that training and civilian efforts to provide winter recreation opportunities for military personnel.


Escape From Camp Ford!, Vicki Betts Sep 2020

Escape From Camp Ford!, Vicki Betts

Presentations and Publications

Accounts by federal prisoners of war who tried to escape from Camp Ford, Texas, 1863-1865.


More Austerity Coming? Lessons From New York City's 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Marc Kagan Sep 2020

More Austerity Coming? Lessons From New York City's 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Marc Kagan

Publications and Research

Crises can be moments of opportunity, but it is not foreordained who will seize the ring. The Great Depression ultimately led to the New Deal/Great Society state and increasing equality. 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, on the other hand, laid the groundwork for decades of neoliberal austerity. Despite political vulnerabilities, bankers and their Washington allies acted boldly to protect imperiled assets and remake a city in which the working class wielded some power as a bastion of finance capital. Seemingly powerful unions abandoned the public they served, and followed a risk-averse strategy of concessions in exchange for junior-partner corporatism, …


Co-Teaching Botany And History: An Interdisciplinary Model For A More Inclusive Curriculum, Frederica Bowcutt, Tamara Caulkins Sep 2020

Co-Teaching Botany And History: An Interdisciplinary Model For A More Inclusive Curriculum, Frederica Bowcutt, Tamara Caulkins

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

This essay offers numerous ideas on how to integrate science and history into classroom pedagogy in a way that acknowledges the contributions of women and other groups underrepresented in science by highlighting the cultural and political contexts in which science developed rather than by adding token individuals to a history of science still largely defined by the achievements of a few great men. It details how students in a General Education class co-taught by a botanist and a historian of science at the Evergreen State College not only gained skills in field botany and vegetation analysis but also became more …


An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship To "The Other" In The Historiography Of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer Sep 2020

An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship To "The Other" In The Historiography Of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This paper outlines two different threads in the historiography of empires regarding their treatment of “the other.” The first thread begins with the early Chinese empires, the Qin and Han, which used diplomacy and tributes as well as repression to incorporate “others” under their imperial umbrellas. This thread was then picked up and modified later by the Mongols and Mughals, both of which showed a fair amount of flexibility and openness towards cultural difference. The second thread begins with the Romans (the Republic and Empire), who were largely flexible and inclusive towards “others” until the late Empire, when Christianity took …


Building Baghdad: The Construction Of Urban Space In Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger Sep 2020

Building Baghdad: The Construction Of Urban Space In Iraq, 1921–1963, Andrew S. Alger

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the production of space in Baghdad during the monarchical and early republican eras (1921 – 1963). As the capital of the new nation of Iraq following the First World War, Baghdad expanded along the banks of the Tigris River into new residential and commercial spaces, establishing schools, boutique stores, sporting venues, electricity and running water that transformed how Iraqis conceived of the mundane activities associated with daily life. Employing a theoretical framework drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s production of space, I argue that participation in the creation of new neighborhoods and streets was uneven across differences of class, …


Italian Jews: A Surprising And Understudied Influence In The Enlightenment, Lura Martinez Aug 2020

Italian Jews: A Surprising And Understudied Influence In The Enlightenment, Lura Martinez

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

The experience of Italian Jews during the Enlightenment is deserving of much more attention. Not only did Italian Jews such as Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto, a man born in a ghetto, later embrace a form of secularism, but his works and others written by his peers made an impact on the Italian Enlightenment and seemingly contributed to the practice of toleration that appeared in sporadic installments throughout Europe. While the Jewish experience in Europe hails from a long tradition of persecution, with sporadic and incomplete periods of toleration at various points in its history, it is clear that through a promotion …


The Almohad: The Rise And Fall Of The Strangers, David Michael Olsen Aug 2020

The Almohad: The Rise And Fall Of The Strangers, David Michael Olsen

Dissertations and Theses

The Almohad (1120-1269) displaced the Almoravid dynasty (1040-1147) as the rulers of the Maghreb and Andalusia in 1147 and created the largest Berber kingdom in history. They conquered the first indigenous rulers of the Maghreb by aggregating the Masmuda tribes from the High Atlas Mountains and enlisting the Zenata and Arab tribes from the Northern Maghreb. The Almohad rule built upon the existing Almoravid infrastructure; however, their cultural, administrative, and military approach entailed a more integrated tribal organization, centralized authority, and an original Islamic ideology. In creating this empire they envisioned the Maghreb as a consolidated political center and not …


Urban Warfare: Emerging Geopolitical Conundrum, Bert Chapman Aug 2020

Urban Warfare: Emerging Geopolitical Conundrum, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Urban warfare is as old as human history. It is becoming increasingly important in international political and military planning due to increasing global urbanization and the presence of megacities (urban areas with populations exceeding 10 million) in many global regions and being in areas of recent and potential military conflict. 2018 World Bank data notes that approximately 56% of the world's population lives in urban areas which is up from 34% in 1960. Many of these megacities, including New York City, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Manila are adjacent to oceanic waters and vulnerable to trade and supply …


Exploring Cold War Religious Persecution Using The Rank-Order Approach, Jeffrey M. Byford, Brian K. Horn, John Grant, Cort Casey, Sherrie Hopper Aug 2020

Exploring Cold War Religious Persecution Using The Rank-Order Approach, Jeffrey M. Byford, Brian K. Horn, John Grant, Cort Casey, Sherrie Hopper

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This lesson explores religious persecution in East Germany. Students must decide plausible actions to take against the Protestant Church to diminish power. Acting as a member of The East German Secret Police, students, evaluate, rank, and justify decisions to minimalize Christianity in an atheist society.