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The East Big Cypress Case, 1948-1987: Environmental Politics, Law, And Florida Seminole Tribal Sovereignty, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Congressional enactment of the Seminole Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1987 paved the way for resolution of a thirty-nine-year political and legal conflict between the Seminole Indians and the state of Florida over control of one of the most environmentally sensitive regions in the state.1 The area, known as the East Big Cypress Reservation, was a 28,000-acre tract lying in western Broward and Palm Beach counties, and it formed a rectangle measuring approximately six miles north to south and eight miles east to west. On the west, the tract abutted the federal Big Cypress Indian Reservation, which was acquired …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

OPERATION DRUMBEAT: THE DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF GERMANY'S FIRST U-BOAT ATTACKS ALONG THE AMERICAN COAST IN WORLD WAR II, by Michael Gannon, reviewed by George E. Buker; CONFEDERATE FLORIDA: THE ROAD TO OLUSTEE, by William H. Nulty, reviewed by Richard M. McMurry; FIRST ENCOUNTERS: SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE UNITED STATES, 1492-1570, edited by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath, reviewed by Amy T. Bushnell; HEARTH AND KNAPSACK: THE LADLEY LETTERS, 1857-1880, edited by Carl M. Becker and Ritchie Thomas, reviewed by Zack C. Waters; THE KING'S RANGER: THOMAS BROWN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER, …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

VENICE: JOURNEY FROM HORSE AND CHAISE, by Janet Snyder Matthews, reviewed by Leland M. Hawes, Jr.; THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FLORIDA, 1892-1975, by George R. Bentley, reviewed by Joseph D. Cushman; THE JOURNAL OF DON FRANCISCO SAAVEDRA DE SANGRONIS , 1780-1783, edited and introduced by Francisco Morales Padrón, reviewed by Jane Landers; THE MINORCANS OF FLORIDA: THEIR HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE, by Philip D. Rasico, reviewed by Jane Quinn; BIG SUGAR: SEASONS IN THE CANE FIELDS OF FLORIDA, by Alec Wilkinson, reviewed by Robert H. Zieger; PIONEER COLLEGE: THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF SAINT LEO COLLEGE, SAINT LEO ABBEY, AND HOLY …

On The Edge: Blacks And Hispanics In Metropolitan Miami Since 1959, Raymond A. Mohl

Florida Historical Quarterly

On Monday, January 16, 1989, hundreds of blacks in Miami took to the streets in angry rage for the fourth time in the 1980s. Over several days, they burned cars and buildings, looted stores, pelted passers-by with rocks and bottles, and faced off with riot police in Overtown and Liberty City, Miami’s two major black communities. The incident that touched off this new expression of black anger was sadly familiar. A Miami policeman had shot and killed a black man fleeing a traffic infraction on a motorcycle, while a second black man, a passenger on the motorcycle, was thrown from …

Charles Townshend And Plans For British East Florida, Donna T. Mccaffrey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost every historical account of the background of the American Revolution necessarily brings in the career of Charles Townshend.1 He introduced and guided through Parliament in 1767 the Townshend program of taxation for America. In so doing, Townshend reopened the dispute between the colonies and the mother country that had been moderated in the previous year by the repeal of the Stamp Act. For some years Townshend had been deeply concerned about colonial matters and was regarded as the expert on American affairs. 2 As a member of the Board of Trade, he had studied colonial problems. At the request …

The International Ocean Telegraph, Canter Brown, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Summer of 1865 was one of great relief for most citizens of the so-recently reaffirmed United States of America. A few weeks earlier, on April 12, Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to a victorious Ulysses S. Grant and, before the end of the following month, the last Confederate force of consequence remaining in the field, then serving under General Edmund Kirby Smith of St. Augustine, had followed suit. The nation had been shocked and saddened by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln two days after Lee’s surrender, but to some extent the outrage …

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Prizes and Awards, Florida History Fair, Tampa Bay History, Conferences, Announcements and Activities

The Spanish St. Augustine Community, 1784-1795: A Reevaluation, Sherry Johnson

Florida Historical Quarterly

While documentation is available, historians have not accurately defined the community in St. Augustine after the return of Spanish rule in 1784. Community studies abound for towns in Europe and North America, but community study techniques, which have been so successful in reinterpreting North American colonial history, have been underutilized by Latin American historians. Eighteenth-century St. Augustine presents an opportunity to investigate one frontier settlement and the origins of its inhabitants. However, the point of beginning for any such study must be a definition of the structure of the community itself. Research reveals that St. Augustine resembled other Spanish American …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

LOUIS WILLIAM DUBOURG: BISHOP OF LOUISIANA AND THE FLORIDAS, BISHOP OF MONTAUBAN, AND ARCHBISHOP OF BESANÇON, 1766-1833. Volume one, SCHOOLMAN, 1766-1818; volume two, BISHOP IN Two WORLDS: 1818-1833, by Annabelle M. Melville, reviewed by Michael J. McNally; MELBOURNE VILLAGE: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1946-1971), by Richard C. Crepeau, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; LA DEFENSA DE LAS INDIAS, 1764-1799, by Julio Albi, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; INTIMACY AND POWER IN THE OLD SOUTH: RITUAL IN THE LIVES OF THE PLANTERS, by Steven M. Stowe, reviewed by William Henry Longton; THE EMERGENCE OF THE COTTON KINGDOM IN THE OLD SOUTHWEST: MISSISSIPPI, …

Arcadia And Bagdad: Industrial Parks Of Antebellum Florida, Brian Rucker

Florida Historical Quarterly

Industrial development in antebellum Florida was rare; the new state’s economy was based primarily on agriculture, as were the other southern states. Two exceptions, however, are the interconnected industrial complexes of Arcadia and Bagdad, located in northwest Florida approximately twenty-five miles from Pensacola. Arcadia had its origins in 1817 and operated as an industrial site until 1855. Bagdad began in 1840 and became one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of yellow pine lumber until its lumber mill closed in 1939.

"State Of Emergency": Key West In The Great Depression, Garry Boulard

Florida Historical Quarterly

On July 1, 1934, elected representatives of the Key West City Council and the Monroe County Board of Commissioners drew up two separate resolutions that said the same thing. The island city, the ordinances declared, was more than $5,000,000 in bonded debt, with at least eighty percent of its inhabitants on the welfare rolls. City services were reduced to almost a non-existent level as employees went without pay for weeks at a time. Furthermore, the lack of a viable industry to employ local residents, coupled with a greatly decreased island tax base, foretold a dire economic future for the city.

Sun Valley’S Ruud Mountain, John W. Lundin

Works by Local Authors

Originally published in Skiing History Magazine March-April 2022 issue. Article details the history of the Ski jump at Ruud Mountain.

Wagon Tracks Volume 36, Issue 2 (January 2022)

Wagon Tracks

Contents

2 On the Cover: The Trail to Santa Fe by Ron Kil Logo Design by Sultan Sultan

4 Introduction

5 Beyond New Mexico and Missouri: Diverse People and Places of the SFT by Guy McClellan

6 What Can the Trail Teach Us? by Steve Schmidt

7 International Connections of the Santa Fe Trail Map by Dr. Susan Calafate Boyle

8-16 The Santa Fe Trail and National Expansion: Commerce, Conquest, and Commemoration by Dr. Leo Oliva

17-23 Business, Politics, and Power: The Transcontinental World of Bent, St. Vrain and Company 1829-1849 by Dr. David C. Beyreis

23 Media Coverage of …

"A Quixote In Imagination Might Here Find...An Ideal Baronage": Landscapes Of Power, Enslavement, Resistance, And Freedom At Sherwood Forest Plantation, Lauren K. Mcmillan

Northeast Historical Archaeology

In the winter of 1862, two armed forces descended upon Fredericksburg; one blue, one gray. After suffering heavy losses during the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Union Army retreated to the northern banks of the Rappahannock River, making camp in Stafford County. From December 1862 until June 1863, the Union Army overran local plantations and small farm holdings throughout the area, including at Sherwood Forest, the home of the Fitzhugh family. Sherwood Forest was used as field hospital, a signal station, a balloon launch reconnaissance station, and a general encampment during the winter and spring of 1862/1863. Throughout the roughly six-month …

Interviews With Erskine Caldwell, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Erskine Caldwell interviewed by unknown interviewer, October 17, 1972.

Interview With Dewitte Thackston, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

DeWitte Thackston interviewed by Esther Mallard, May 18, 1988. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With George Spiridis, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

A part of the "Savannah Greeks" series. George Spiridis interviewed by Esther Mallard, November 20, 1991. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Perri L. Simon, Dalmus T. Jackson, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Perri L. Simon and Dalton T. Jackson interviewed by Esther Mallard, November 5, 1987. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Kenneth Scott, Jr, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Kenneth Scott, Jr, interviewed by Linda, October, 27, 1999. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With David Ruffin, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

David Ruffin interviewed by Esther Mallard, May 5, 1989.

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Interview With Albert Roesel, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Albert Roesel interviewed by Esther Mallard, May 6, 1988. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With William Rigdon, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

William Rigdon interviewed by Robert Word, September 7, 1982. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Harry Raith, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Harry Raith interviewed by Susan Moody, November 23, 1999. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Emily A. Montalvo, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Emily A. Montalvo interviewed by Susan Moody, October 21, 2001. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Huldah C. Mingledorff, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Huldah C. Mingledorff was interviewed by Esther Mallard, May 10, 1989. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Ernest B. Mingledorff, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Ernest B. Mingledorff was interviewed by Sue P. Hansen, November 25, 1986. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Nick Mamalakis, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Nick Mamalakis was interviewed by an unknown interviewer, May 20, 1992. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Robert Majors, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Robert Majors was interviewed by Esther Mallard, December 4, 1992. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Jay Fraser, Malcolm Maclean, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Jay Fraser and Malcolm MacLean were interviewed by Esther Mallard, May 12, 1990. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!

Interview With Curtis J. Lewis, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Curtis J. Lewis was interviewed by Esther Mallard and Jay Fraser ca. 1988. The transcription was updated by Maggie H. Thomas, June 8, 2010.

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