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The Gibraltar Of The Gulf Of Mexico, Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

A hundred years ago the United States was suffering frequent growing pains. The Louisiana and Florida cessions had uncorked the Mississippi, and the hardy pioneers of its valley were floating tons of produce down-river to New Orleans. From that growing port Yankee merchantman, flying Dutchman, and British brig edged out into the Gulf Stream and headed for the narrow mouth of the Gulf where they swept through the Straits past Tortugas with the Havannah to starboard, and the two scarce thirty leagues apart.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Defenses of Spanish Florida 1565 to 1763 by Verne E. Chatelain, and John and William Bartram, by Ernest Earnest

Peridot Pictures - Bowling Green-Warren County Bicentennial Film (Mss 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 715. Proposal, script materials, correspondence, publicity, interviews and other items relating to the production of a film for the Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) bicentennial by Peridot Pictures and the Landmark Association of Bowling Green.

Garden Of Ruins: Military Occupation And State Power In Civil War Louisiana, Johnathan Matthew Ward

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Using Civil War Louisiana as its focus, I argue that military occupation and expansive state power during the US Civil War served the primary mechanisms by which national states fought the war, stabilized order, and shaped a postwar nation. While many histories of the war separate frontline combat from the domestic home front and distinguish between the policy decisions of high politics and everyday decisions on the ground, this dissertation connects the political decisions of war to the daily acts of governance and resistance in occupied Louisiana. Union occupation officials and Confederate state authorities made contingent decisions throughout the war …

The Tallahassee Fire Of 1843, F. Eppes

Florida Historical Quarterly

An account of this conflagration, which destroyed the greater part of the town as first built, appeared in the Quarterly in the issue for July, 1924. These additional documents and notes are taken from contemporaneous issues of the Floridian and the Sentinel, Tallahassee newspapers.

Contemporaneous Pen-Pictures Of Richard Keith Call And Thomas Brown (1841), Horatio Waldo

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following sketches written by Horatio Waldo, editor of the Florida Journal of Apalachicola, were published in the issue of March 17, 1841, of that paper. They were brought to light and copied for the Quarterly by research students of Florida State College for Women.

Ocala Prior To 1868, Eloise Robinson Ott

Florida Historical Quarterly

Uncommonly colorful in its historical background, Ocala, the seat of justice of Marion county, held a position of unique importance among the towns of central Florida in the early days of our statehood. Among the older settlements and so situated geographically that through it must pass the pioneers pressing southward its influence was soon felt, for interwoven with its sturdy agricultural and industrial progress we find the glamour of a social life that left lasting impress upon educational and political activities throughout a large part of the State.

Gentry, Robert Turner, 1865-1950 (Mss 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 713. Correspondence of Robert T. Gentry, Sonora (Hardin County), Kentucky, an insurance agent and cashier for the Bank of Sonora. Consists mostly of letters to Gentry from his wife, from Gentry’s friends and siblings in Owen County, Kentucky, and from sellers and dealers of Native American relics. Some correspondence of his wife Martha “Mattie” Gentry is also included.

‘We Were Very Much Surprised At Their Worship’: American Girls And Religious Tourism In The Early Republic, 1780-1835, Sharon Halevi

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Following the Revolution, the United States formally embraced the ideal and practice of religious freedom. But how was this ideal instilled and practiced? Could a form of pilgrimage have been mobilised in order to inculcate it? In this article I argue that in the early American republic, religious freedom was demonstrated and imparted to adolescents through a unique form of pilgrimage: visiting and attending the worship services of religious minorities while on tour. I demonstrate my argument by considering the travel accounts of fifteen, Protestant, American adolescent girls (aged 10 to 21) between 1782 and 1835; I trace their visits …

The Shanachie, Volume 33, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

In this issue: Irish wolfhounds among New England’s earliest settlers -- Please join us for yet another year of Irish history and culture (SHU Digital Commons) -- An Irish actor, his playwright son and a Connecticut landmark -- Civil rights champion for Cape Cod Indians.

A Devised Ethnodrama: Conscious Voices, Sonia Pasqual

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Using techniques of storytelling, dance, poems, and monologues in the process of re-enacting life stories, the ensemble display issues that may be impeding society’s growth—discrimination against body image, blackness, females, and LGBTQ individuals. In addition, engagement in storytelling and performance can help the audience increase their cognitive skills, empathy, and ability to live a communal life. This evidence-based practice can transform lives and society. It has the potential of continuing to other faculties and with other departments, such as film, musical, and additional narratives. This specific work could be extended out beyond art and education into populations of any communities …

The Significance Of The Automobile In 20th C. American Short Fiction, Megan M. Flanery

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Midcentury American life featured a post-war economy that established a middle class in which disposable income and time for leisure were commonplace. In this socio-economic environment, consumerism flourished, ushering in the Golden Age of the automobile: from 1950 to 1960, Americans spent more time in their automobiles than ever before, and, by the end of the decade, the number of cars on the road had more than doubled. While much critical attention has been given to the role of the automobile in American novels, less has been given to its role in American short stories. The automobile has been featured …

"To Claim That Greatness For Themselves”: A History Of The Kentucky Horse Park, Emily Elizabeth Libecap

Theses and Dissertations--History

The Kentucky Horse Park describes itself as the world’s only equine theme park. However, the park is not entirely without historical precedent; instead, world’s fairs, amusement parks, and theme parks all form a century-long pedigree chart through which the park can trace its ancestors. The Kentucky Horse Park’s links to these predecessors deepen our understanding of how the park is a reflection of the world around it and the motivations for how and why it was built. From its inception in the late 1960s, to when it opened in 1978, through the present day, the Kentucky Horse Park was and …

What Pandemic?: Physical Memorialization Of The 1918 Pandemic, Carly M. Kauffman

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Throughout history there have been many significant events the people find worth remembering. Some of these events are significant enough that people build structures to honor, commemorate, or memorialize them. However, there are some events that are also significant, yet they seem to warrant little or no memorialization. In the United States' historical narrative, it seems that the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 is forgotten among the chaotic period of World War I and the interwar years. The lack of traditional memorials dedicated to the 1918 Pandemic can be attributed to the lack of acknowledgement of the pandemic in terms of …

Body Snatching In Philadelphia: A Social And Cultural History, 1762-1883, Timothy R. Dewysockie

Theses and Dissertations

In 18th-century Philadelphia the first medical school in the thirteen British colonies was established. However, cadavers for dissection could only be obtained involuntarily, a posthumous punishment generally reserved for murderers and suicides. Body snatching, the disinterment of corpses for dissection, immediately became a problem because legal sources of "subjects" did not meet demand. Body snatching was resisted in popular representations and the actions of everyday citizens in riots, petitions, and other forms of protest. However, in the late 19th century the requisition of "unclaimed" bodies for dissection - that is, dead "paupers" - became enshrined in Pennsylvania's 1883 Anatomy Act, …

East Florida Seminary - Micanopy, C. L. Crow

Florida Historical Quarterly

For some eight years there existed in Florida, less than thirty miles apart, two schools founded at approximately the same time and bearing similar names: the one, “East Florida State Seminary, located in Ocala and controlled by the State; the other, “East Florida Seminary”, established in Micanopy and, at least nominally, under the care of the Florida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This Conference, it may be said in passing, extended at the time from Key West to Albany and from the Atlantic to Apalachicola, thus covering all Middle and East Florida and that part of Georgia lying …

The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society: Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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.

Jacksonville And The Seminole War, Part Ii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Courier, Jacksonville, Florida, December 24, 1835.

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.

Editorial Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Alachua Settlers and the Second Seminole War by C.S. Monaco
A Liberated Journalist and Yankee Women on the Florida Frontier by John T. Foster, Jr., Sarah Whitmer Foster, and Roscoe A. Turnquest
The Politics of Performance: Rollins College and the Annie Russell Theatre by Joan M. Jensen
Controlling Venereal Disease in Orlando during World War II by Claire Strom
Book Reviews
End Note

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 84, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"More Courage Than Discretion": Charles M. Hamilton in Reconstruction-Era Florida Daniel R. Weinfeld
Raising Her Voice: Ruth Perry, Activist and Journalist for the Miami NAACP Judith G. Poucher
Florida Room: Battle for St. Augustine 1964: Public Record and Personal Recollection Claudia S. Slate
Book Reviews
Index

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 76, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE OF F. BURRALL HOFFMAN JR., 1882-1980 Donald W. Curl
FLORIDA’S FLYING MINUTE MEN: THE CIVIL AIR PATROL, 1941-1943 Thomas Reilly
CLAUDE PEPPER, STROM THURMOND, AND THE 1948 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN FLORIDA Julian M. Pleasants
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
HISTORY NEWS
VOLUME INDEX

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 76, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD AND THE SPOKEN WORD IN THE RISE AND FALL OF WILLIAM LEE POPHAM William Warren Rogers
THE GANGSTER IN OUR MIDST: AL CAPONE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 1930-1947 Stephen C. Bousquet
CIVIL RIGHTS AND SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN SANFORD Patricia Dillon
REVIEW ESSAY: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LATETWENTIETH- CENTURY SOUTH Raymond A. Mohl
FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
FLORIDA MANUSCRIPT ACQUISITIONS AND ACCESSIONS
HISTORY NEWS

The Gilded Finch: An Exploration Of Class Conflict, Mattea Harrison

Senior Honors Theses

Research is applied to create a play exploring the conflict between two women in the American upper class at the end of the nineteenth century. Both Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Vanderbilt’s family, wealth, and relationships were researched through studying primary and secondary accounts of their lives and times. A study of the women has produced a comprehensive picture of their motivations in their lives’ actions. The relationships between the women and their daughters has also been examined and applied. These two women are interesting characters in history to examine due to their family history and the families that they married …

Hot Dog Vs. Christian Fundamentalism In 1920s America, Nicole Orchosky

Student Projects from the Archives

Hot Dog: the Regular Fellow’s Monthly was a satirical magazine published by the Merit Publishing Company in Cleveland, Ohio throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Editor Jack Dinsmore included crudely humorous short stories and poems, images of scantily clad women, and editorials and opinion pieces offering his own commentary on current events. In the case of the December 1921 issue, Dinsmore offers scathing criticism of religious Prohibition supporters, namely Billy Sunday and Reverend John Roach Straton. This paper examines how an opinionated independent publication representative of its anti-Prohibition readership reacted to the Temperance Movement and subsequent outspoken Fundamentalist Christian figureheads.

Free People Of Color In West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Evelyn Lenora Wilson

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

“Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana” documents the presence, land ownership, business development, and personal relationships of free people of color in a rural Louisiana parish. Beginning with how free people of color came to be in the parish, it shows an absence of segregation by skin color in home ownership, business relationships, and friendships. Free people of color found themselves accepted in a community that valued their talents and skills and disregarded the color of their skin.

Free people of color bought and sold homes in whatever part of the parish suited them. Most lived surrounded …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A SECOND CHANCE: CARY NICHOLAS AND FRONTIER FLORIDA Dennis Golladay
A GREAT STIRRING IN THE LAND: TALLAHASSEE AND LEON COUNTY IN 1860 William Warren Rogers
BLACK REACTION TO SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN POST-RECONSTRUCTION F L O R I D A Wali R. Kharif
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: A SWISS SETTLER IN EAST FLORIDA: A LETTER OF FRANCIS PHILIP FATIO edited by William Scott Willis
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
HISTORY NEWS
ANNUAL MEETING

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

PALM TREES, PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND PROMOTERS: BOOSTING FLORIDA AS A MOTION PICTURE EMPIRE, 1910-1030 Richard Alan Nelson
“DIGNITY AND IMPORTANCE:” SLAVERY IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, FLORIDA— 1827 TO 1860 Larry Rivers
FOLLOWING BARTRAM’S “TRACK”: TITIAN RAMSAY PEALE’S FLORIDA JOURNEY Charlotte M. Porter
NOTES ON U. S. ARSENALS, DEPOTS, AND MARTIAL FIREARMS OF THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR M. L. Brown
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: FLORIDA MANUSCRIPT ACQUISITIONS AND ACCESSIONS
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
HISTORY NEWS
DIRECTOR’S MEETING