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Joseph Urban's Palm Beach Architecture, Donald W. Curl Mar 2022

Joseph Urban's Palm Beach Architecture, Donald W. Curl

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Paris Singer established the Everglades Club, he changed forever the nature of Palm Beach as a winter resort. Until 1918 social life centered on the Flagler hotels and the Beach Club, Colonel Edward Bradley’s gambling casino. In the period after World War I, when growing wealth allowed America’s middle class to plan winter vacations, society found its exclusiveness threatened. Almost anyone who could afford it could register at the Royal Poinciana, the Breakers, or the Palm Beach Hotel. The Everglades Club, with its expensive restricted membership, allowed for a new definition of society in the winter resort.


Review Essay: Osceola: The White Man's Indian, Theda Perdue Mar 2022

Review Essay: Osceola: The White Man's Indian, Theda Perdue

Florida Historical Quarterly

Patricia R. Wickman’s study of Osceola is not a typical biography. She outlines the major events in the life of Osceola, but her focus is primarily on Osceolana— that is, the artifacts associated with the hero of the Seminoles’ struggle to remain in their homeland. She attempts to separate the genuine accounts of his life and accurate visual representations of him from those that are derivative, and she authenticates some personal belongings while casting considerable doubt on others. Her narrative reads like a detective story. Like all detective work, some of her investigation is technical and dull, while other parts …


Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, archives, and other institutions. Anyone interested in particular collections should correspond with the organization in question.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, by Arthur S. Evans and David Lee, reviewed by Daniel T. Hobby; The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy, by Kirkpatrick Sale, reviewed by Michael Gannon; The Oligarchs in Colonial and Revolutionary Charleston: Lieutenant Governor William Bull and His Family, by Kinlock Bull, Jr., reviewed by Don Higginbotham; The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas, by James A. Lewis, reviewed by Robert R. Rea; Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789: Volume 17, March 1 - August 31, 1781, edited by Paul H. Smith, …


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to The Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1989 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archaeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Eighty-ninth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops 1991


The Grizzly, March 3, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Alena Deantonellis, Marie Sykes, Madison Handwerger, Vaughn Dibattista Mar 2022

The Grizzly, March 3, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Alena Deantonellis, Marie Sykes, Madison Handwerger, Vaughn Dibattista

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Wismer Finally Steps Up Its Game • Meet Dr. Amoroso-O'Connor • Test Your Ursinus Knowledge • Opinions: Black History Month at Ursinus • Wrestling Closes a Standout Season • A Solo Senior


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1989 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archaeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.


William Pope Duval: An Extraordinary Folklorist, Frank L. Snyder Mar 2022

William Pope Duval: An Extraordinary Folklorist, Frank L. Snyder

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Pope Duval, who served four terms as territorial governor of Florida, was a natural storyteller.1 His tales were crafted and fabricated with so much skill that his listeners believed every word as the absolute truth. DuVal never hesitated to shade the truth or to embellish his stories so that they became fictionalized accounts bordering on the fringes of reality. He wove a web of drama as he spoke and completely captured the attention of his audience. The stations in life they, the members of his audience, occupied did not matter— raw frontiersmen, uneducated workingmen, intellectuals, literary geniuses, or sophisticated …


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Society, Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Festival, Prizes, Awards, and Recognition, Announcements and Activites, Seeking Information, Obituary


Interview With Albert Roesel, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

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 Huldah C. Mingledorff, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

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 Emma Kelly, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Interview With Emma Kelly, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Emma Kelly was interviewed by Esther Mallard, March 30, 1988.


Interview With Col. Dewey W. Johnson, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Interview With Col. Dewey W. Johnson, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Col. Dewey W. Johnson was interviewed by "Hanson," October 4, 1985. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!


Lecture By Dr. Walter J. Fraser, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Lecture By Dr. Walter J. Fraser, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

A lecture by Walter J. Fraser given October 16, 1990, for an Award for Excellence. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!


Interview With Bowles C. Ford, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Interview With Bowles C. Ford, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Bowles C. Ford interviewed by Esther Mallard, April 5, 1990. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!


Interview With Cartha Deloach, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Interview With Cartha Deloach, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Cartha Deloach interviewed by Esther Mallard, January 19, 1993. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!


Interview With Moses M. Coleman, Jr, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Interview With Moses M. Coleman, Jr, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Moses M. Coleman, Jr, interviewed by Esther Mallard, March 3, 1993. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!


Interview With Mercedes Arnold, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Feb 2022

Interview With Mercedes Arnold, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections Oral History Collection

Mercedes Arnold interviewed by an unknown interviewer, June 14, 1990. Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog!


Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe Jan 2022

Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe

Honors Program Theses

Fashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society's rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women's Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The …


Democracy's Shield: Voices Of Wwii, Michael J. Birkner, Grace E. Gallagher, Rachel I. Main Jan 2022

Democracy's Shield: Voices Of Wwii, Michael J. Birkner, Grace E. Gallagher, Rachel I. Main

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Based on a body of 700 oral history interviews archived at Gettysburg College, Democracy's Shield relates the American military experience through the voices of those who served – from early awareness of the conflict in Europe and East Asia to the dropping of the atomic bomb, victory, occupation and homecoming.

The text is illustrated with images of artifacts from the library's Special Collections.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Portents of War
Pearl Harbor
Draft Status and Volunteering
Exams, Induction, Training
Heading to the Front
Attitudes about the Enemy
Race, Gender and the War Effort
GI Joe
Aboard Ship
Up in …


The European Revolutions Of 1848 And Their Connection To The United States, Roman Peña Jan 2022

The European Revolutions Of 1848 And Their Connection To The United States, Roman Peña

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..2

II. Synthesis Essay Bibliography…………………22

III. Primary Documents and Headnotes………....23

IV. Textbook Critique……………………………....34

V. New Textbook Entry…………………………...38


The Dances Of Diplomacy: French Social Dance Culture In The United States, 1780-1800, Kaylar Gina Moser Jan 2022

The Dances Of Diplomacy: French Social Dance Culture In The United States, 1780-1800, Kaylar Gina Moser

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis explores how social dancing in the United States formed a noteworthy aspect of political, diplomatic, social, and class exchange for U.S. elites both domestically and overseas; and how the cultural dominance over dance that France enjoyed during this period created an informal cultural diplomatic relationship between the United States and France in the 1780s and the 1790s. I argue that U.S. elites utilized this dance culture as a form of upper-class status legitimation that could serve diplomatic purposes. This project increases the purview of U.S. cultural diplomatic studies by centering on the eighteenth century and by utilizing an …


Johnston Family Papers - Accession 1217, American Civil War, Thomas Jefferson Johnston, Robert James Johnston, Johnston Family, Huber Family, Nesbit Family, Stassen Family Jan 2022

Johnston Family Papers - Accession 1217, American Civil War, Thomas Jefferson Johnston, Robert James Johnston, Johnston Family, Huber Family, Nesbit Family, Stassen Family

Manuscript Collection

The Johnston Family Papers is a collection primarily focused on genealogical materials. Much of the content was gathered by Andrew D. Johnston, with significant contributions from family members. The collection includes genealogical research conducted by both Andrew D. Johnston and Patricia Andrews Johnston Treadwell. This research comprises Family Tree Maker files, pedigree charts, descendant reports, ahnentafel reports, family unit charts, grave records, family narratives, published genealogical resources, marriage announcements, and obituaries. Prominent family names in the collection include Johnston, Huber, Nesbit, Stassen, Wiedderecht, Glass, Briegel, and Boese.

In addition to the genealogical materials, the collection contains the personal papers of …


Florida History In Periodicals, 1985, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History In Periodicals, 1985, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1985. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1985 issue of the Quarterly.


A Second Chance: Cary Nicholas And Frontier Florida, Dennis Golladay Dec 2021

A Second Chance: Cary Nicholas And Frontier Florida, Dennis Golladay

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the morning of July 17, 1821, the inhabitants of Pensacola gathered around the town’s public square to witness the ceremony marking the transfer of the Floridas from Spanish to American control. Among the new American residents in the crowd was Cary Nicholas, a thirty-four-year-old transplanted Kentuckian who, like so many others, saw in the territory the prospect for a new start in a life too full of disappointments and failures.


History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Wentworth Foundation Grant, International Spanish Conference, Florida Historical Directory, Awards, Sanborn Map Collection, National Register of Historic Places, Announcements and Activities, Meetings


Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.


History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historical American Building Survey, Society of Florida Archivists, Announcements and Activities


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses completed in 1983 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.