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A Letter Of G. I. F. Clarke's Relating To Port St. Joseph, East Florida, George I. F. Clarke

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the original in Bureau of Index and Archives, Department of State. Washington, D. C. Other letters of Clarke’s, also relating to the disturbances in East Florida, 1811-1818, were published in the QUARTERLY in July and in October, 1925; and still others, of which the originals are in the collection of the Society, will appear in future issues.

The Nine Old Wooden Forts Of St. Augustine, Part Ii, Jeannette Thurber Conner

Florida Historical Quarterly

After Drake burned the fort at St. Augustine in 1586, the settlers gave the name of San Marcos to the wooden building which took its place - Fort Number Seven. They had long wanted and asked for a fort of stone, and it would seem as if the discovery of coquina by Pedro Menendez Marques, in 1580, should have helped to bring about the realization of their wishes; but always, something came up to prevent it.

Federal Raid On Tampa Bay, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the twelfth instant, the United States gunboat Tahoma, Lieutenant-Commander Semmes, after three months’ repairing and preparation, and taking on board a two-hundred-pound Parrott rifle, left here for Tampa Bay, arriving on the evening of the thirteenth, where she found the United States steamer Adela, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Stodder, and schooners Stonewall Jackson and Ariel, blockading.

The Occupation Of Pensacola Bay, 1689-0698, Part Ii, William Edward Dunn

Florida Historical Quarterly

There were two purposes in the coming of the Spaniards to America. One was the desire for gain; the other the hope of making Christians of the natives. Unfortunately the two conflicted. The fierce desire for gold, that led to the inhuman treatment of the Indians, for a time rendered of no avail the efforts of the priests.

George I. F. Clarke, C. Seton Fleming

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the most interesting characters in the early history of Florida was George I. F. Clarke, an Englishman. He was engineer for the British Government during its possession of Florida and continued this work throughout the succeeding Spanish period and for many years after Florida’s cession to the United States. He is frequently referred to by name and reputation in American State Papers, Public Lands, especially Vol. IV containing the reports of the Land Commissioners appointed by the United States Government to pass upon land claims in Florida. Clarke made many of the surveys of royal grants, and was …

The Republican Party: A Narrative Of Good And Evil, Lawrence Cranor

Theses and Dissertations from 2020

In 2020, there is a misconception that the Republican Party is still the party of Abraham Lincoln. The goal of this paper is to prove that statement incorrect and explain how it came to be incorrect by providing a detailed, methodical chain of evidence. It will separate the Party’s perceived image from reality. This paper will analyze pre-Cold War Republican Party and establish the party’s traditional policies before abandoning centrism in the 1960s and 1970s. Then the emerging Republican Party will be compared with the pre-1960 party. This paper will reflect on Republican Party power dynamics, economic strategies, social priorities, …

Invisible Inequalities: Persistent Health Threats In The Urban Built Environment, Kara M. Schlichting, Melanie A. Kiechle

Publications and Research

A city’s materiality creates health and illness. We both write about air – its movement and its temperature – as it affects human bodies. We offer two topics as case studies, heat and ventilation, and how they exacerbate the effects of each other, to illustrate the long history of seemingly new challenges posed by the novel coronavirus. The environmental inequalities of heat exposure and access to fresh air underscore that cities can only be considered ‘low impact’ on the environment from a top-down, large-scale approach. In writing about air and heat, we direct attention to the feel and the bodily …

The United States And Cuba: A Study Of The Us’S First Military Occupation And State Building Efforts, James Guillard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines the US-Cuban relationship during the first military occupation of Cuba from 1898 to 1902, to show the role of high modernist state building in the occupation and the scope of Cuban participation in this endeavor. This is evidenced by heavily examining the annual reports of the US Military Governor General of Cuba and the US appointed civil secretaries of the Cuban government. This research differs from previous studies in the field by introducing James C. Scott’s concepts of legibility and high modernist state building, as well as suggesting that the Cuban civil secretaries participated within a limited …

A Call To Arms: A Comparative Study Of Mississippi And Kentucky Citizens During The Secession Crisis, 1859-1861, Amy Myers

Master's Theses

Many studies of the American Civil War have considered why Mississippi leaders voted to secede, while Kentucky politicians remained in the Union. Scholars have previously focused on political elites to understand the underlying motivations behind each state’s decision. These same scholars have often confined their studies to a synthesis of why secession occurred nationally or at the state level. The question remains as to what the common citizen saw and believed when faced with secession and if their views matched their delegates.

This study utilizes the governors’ papers of John J. Pettus and Beriah Magoffin, the Jefferson Davis papers, and …

Florida Against Georgia: A Story Of The Boundary Dispute, Fred Cubberly

Florida Historical Quarterly

It has been said that boundary line disputes between individuals are the worst kind of quarrels, and often cause lifelong differences and even descend to heirs of original disputants. When sovereign states have boundary line questions to settle, the Supreme Court of the United States is the tribunal that settles the question, for it is in that Court alone that such questions may be litigated.

Oberservation On Original Members, C. Seton Fleming

Florida Historical Quarterly

In making the following observations as to the various distinguished members of The Florida Historical "Society," organized A. D. 1856, the author has mentioned those prominent men of Florida members of the Society whom he has been able to obtain information about by talking to old citizens, an examination of the various published histories of Florida, an examination of the Florida Supreme Court Reports and Acts of the Legislature of Florida. In the next issue of the Quarterly Magazine, we will be glad to publish accounts of members of the Society of 1856 not especially mentioned in this article.

St. Joseph, Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The prominence which has been given to St. Josephs bay of late owing to the tendency of the Western roads to find an outlet on the Gulf, so as to connect their lines with the Panama Canal, makes the history of this once famous place interesting to the readers who delve into the conditions of the past.

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.

Jacksonville, Fifty-Three Years Ago, Otis L. Keene

Florida Historical Quarterly

A city of less than two thousand population, with quite broad and regular streets, and unlike those of to-day that tire lined and ornamented with electric lights, telegraph and telephone poles, that give them the appearance of an old cypress swamp, were then lined with the stately and beautiful water oak and magnolia; no electric cars, automobiles, bicycles or paving, consequently one could cross them through the deep, soft sand without being confronted with the dangers that the modern means of travel now impose on people. I found the little city quite a busy one in some lines of business, …

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.

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 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 92, 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 Seventeenth-Century La Florida by Jane Landers
The Geopolitics of Seventeenth-Century Florida by Jane Landers
The Historical Archaeology of Seventeenth-Century La Florida by Bonnie G. McEwan
"These people are not conquered like those of New Spain": Florida's Reciprocal Colonial Compact by Amy Turner Bushnell
St. Augustine in the Seventeenth Century: Capital of La Florida by Susan Richbourg Parker
Pirate, Priest, and Slave: Spanish Florida in the 1668 Searles Raid by Diana Reigelsperger
Colonialism on the Spanish Florida Frontier: Mission San Luis, 1656-1704 by Bonnie …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 90, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

American Gibraltar: Key West during World War II by Abraham H. Gibson
Pragmatism, Seminoles, and Science: Opposition to Progressive Everglades Drainage by Chris Wilhelm
"Industrious, Thrifty and Ambitious": Jacksonville's African American Businesspeople during the Jim Crow Era by David H. Jackson, Jr.
"For this is an Enchanted Land": Matjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Environment by Florence M. Turcotte
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publications, 2011
Cumulative Index, Volume 90

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 89, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"... in a strange place ... ": The Experiences of British Women during the Colonization of East & West Florida Deborah L. Bauer
Selling Seduction: Women and Feminine Nature in 1920s Florida Advertising Nicole C. Cox
A Translation History of Fontaneda Peter Ferdinanda
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 87, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida and the Environment: From La Florida" to Global Warming 2008 Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecture Duane E. De Freese
Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the Fit Ecological Novel Jack E. Davis
Gatorland: Survival of the Fittest among Florida's Mid-Tier Tourist Attractions Dorothy Mays Baseball in Key West and Havana, 1885-1910: The Career of Francisco A. Poyo Gerald E. Poyo
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publication
Cumulative Index, Volume 87

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 87, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida's Sledd Affair: Andrew Sledd and the Fight for Higher Education in Florida Carl Van Ness
"Every Right to be Where She Was": The Legal Reconstruction of Black Self- Defense in Jim Crow Florida Chris Bray
The life and crimes of Harry Sitamore, New York "Prince of Thieves" and the "Raffles" of Miami Vivien Miller
Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 18651934 Mikaella M. Adams
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 87, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Introduction to Special Issue:

• NASA's 50th Anniversary U.S. Senator Bill Nelson
• NASA in Florida: A Journalist's View Pat Duggins

The Gendered Anniversary: The Story of America's Women Astronauts Amy Foster, Special Issue Editor
Heroes in a Vacuum: The Apollo Astronaut as Cultural Icon Roger D. Launius
Selling Education in the Shape of a Shuttle Margaret A. Weitekamp
Beyond the Cape: An Examination of Cape Canaveral's Influence on the City of Cocoa Beach, 1950-1963 Lori C. Walters
Space Rush: Local Impact of Federal Aerospace Programs on Brevard and Surrounding Counties Sallie Middleton
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 87, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Cross-Florida Canal and the Politics of Interest-Group Democracy Catherine Prescott Lecture, 2008 Wayne Flynt
The Pioneer African American Jurist Who Almost Became a Bishop: Florida's Judge James Dean, 1858-1914 Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry E. Rivers
Doing the Job: The 1964 Desegregation of the Florida Army National Guard Thomas P. Honsa
Designing History: An Interactive Exploration of the 1930s Florida Ship Canal Chris Beckrnann, Steven Noll, and David Tegeder
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 86, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms": Virgil Darnell Hawkins's Early Life and Entry into the Civil Rights Struggle Larry O. Rivers
The nut with a Huey Long outlook versus the goblins of fear and distortion: Reubin Askew and the Campaign to Establish the Florida Corporate Profits Tax Gordon E. Harvey
Workers of the Sunshine State Unite!: The Florida Socialist Party During the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 R. Steven Griffin
Documents and Notes: Civil War Letters

• In the Aftermath of the Battle of Olustee: A Beecher's Surprise Visit to Florida Sarah Whitmer Foster andJohn T. Foster, Jr.
• "If It Was Not For You …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 85, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"The Ruthless Hand of War": Andrew A. Humphreys in the Second Seminole War Matthew T. Pearcy
Confronting a "Climate of Raucous and Carnival Invasion": The AAUW Takes on the Johns Committee Karen Graves
Henry S. Harmon: Pioneer African American Attorney In Reconstruction-era Florida Darius J. Young
Documents: Andrew Atkinson Humphreys' Seminole War Field Journal
Book Reviews
Book Notes
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 84, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hidden in Plain View: Eugene Poulnot and the History of Southern Radicalism Elna C. Green
Mythic Landscapes of the Boom and Bust Weedon Island, Florida Sheila K Stewart
A Splendid Idea in China Turned Sour in Florida: The Rise and Fall of Florida Splendid China Wenxian Zhang
Book Reviews

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 83, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Introduction Sherry Johnson
Steamboats, Cypress, and Tourism: An Ecological History of the Ocklawaha Valley in the Late Nineteenth Century Steven Noll
Economic Boom or Political Boondoggle? Florida's Atlantic Gulf Ship Canal in the 1930s Michael David Tegeder
"Get the facts-and then act": How Majorie H. Carr and the Florida Defenders of the Environment Fought to Save the Ocklawaha River Frederick R. Davis
Book Reviews
Book Notes
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