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Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes reviews of Florida place-names of Indian origin and Seminole personal names by William A. Read, and Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy by Ella Lonn

Anthropology In Florida, Rhea M. Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any attempt to investigate the origin and customs of the aborigines of Florida through reliance on written materials is almost immediately frustrated by the paucity of such material and the scantiness of data available. Even an attempt to summarize the work done by field investigators leads to the baffling task of trying to reconcile conflicting theories, a condition that arises from the fact that the conclusions reached as to the origin, antiquity, and life of the early peoples of Florida are so indefinite. Yet there are few regions in the United States more abundantly supplied with mounds that call for …

An Expected Attack On Pensacola, 1816, James Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is in continuation of the series of documents, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie and Co., the publication of which has been continuous in the QUARTERLY. These are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, who has transcribed them.

William Pope Duval: Pioneer And State Builder, James Owen Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

The life of William Pope DuVal, the first civil governor of the territory of Florida, should be an attractive study for anyone who is interested in the colorful characters of our frontier history. He belongs to the same class of pioneers as Sam Houston of Texas. Frontiersmen of this type not only were among the vanguard as settlers but also remained long in the new settlements as leaders in their development. Hence, a study of DuVal’s life, while interesting for many reasons, is particularly important because it enables us to see a cross section of the history of Florida between …

The Extent And Importance Of Federal Naval Raids On Salt-Making In Florida, 1862-1865, Ella Lonn

Florida Historical Quarterly

When one thinks of the naval operations of the War for Southern Independence he is likely to consider only the exploits of the Alabama and other raiders, the duel of the Merrimac and Monitor, the continuous efforts to prevent the blockade-runners slipping into secluded harbors, and the battles of the fleets and forts. It is most unlikely that he knows of the persistent and very important operations of the Union navy all along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Norfolk to Vermillions Bay in Louisiana to wreck the saltmaking of the Confederates.

United States Troops In Spanish East Florida, 1812-13, Part V, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the preceding issues of the QUARTERLY, starting with July, 1930, we followed the career of a detachment of United States regulars during their occupancy of Spanish East Florida beginning March 18, 1812, as told by their commander, Col. Thomas A. Smith, in his official and semi-official correspondence, much of which has never appeared in print before. The last issue brought the story to the time when Col. Smith turned the command over to Maj. Lawrence Manning, of the 8th U.S. Infantry, and bade adieu to the little detachment that he had led into the Spanish province more than a …

Notes On Reconstrucion In Tallahassee And Leon County, 1866-1876, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The soldiers who came back in 1865 found peace and security at least, and for a time there was business activity in Tallahassee. The nightmare of Reconstruction did not begin at once - not until the United States Army took the reins of government, and that other army of carpet-baggers and camp-followers came from everywhere like buzzards collecting.

The Dade Massacre, Albert Hubbard Roberts

Florida Historical Quarterly

One who would write again of the Dade massacre, ninety-one years after its occurrence, must forego the expectation of discovering any great wealth of original data, and content himself in the main with the assembling of facts already published, and the elimination of more or less doubtful detail that has crept into former narratives, in an effort to bring into stronger relief a more or less neglected story of the American soldier’s courage and fidelity unto death. Every school-child has been taught the story of the Alamo, a tragedy enacted a scarce two months after the massacre of the Dade …

Address Of John C. Mcgehee Before The Southern Rights Association Of Madison County, June 7, 1851, John C. Mcgehee

Florida Historical Quarterly

The high historical importance of this address lies in that ten years later John C. McGehee was elected (by a vote of five to one over several worthy opponents) president of the convention of the people of Florida, convened January 3, 1861, which passed the ordinance of secession. At such a time of stress and strong feeling it would seem that a man must be elected to that position at least as much because of his known opinions and long-held beliefs as for his ability and all other reasons.

Featured Bookshelf: 2020 Staff Favorite Reads, Megan M. Haught

Featured Bookshelf

Each December, the UCF Libraries’ Featured Bookshelf celebrates the favorite books of employees of the UCF Libraries. And you know a major thing about librarians and library staff? They love talking about their favorite books. The books listed below are some of the favorite books we read in 2020.

Keep reading below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for our favorite 2020 titles. These 20 books plus favorites from previous years are also on display in the 4th floor Reading Room of the John C. Hitt Library.

And if you find someone has checked the one you’re …

Indian Races Of Florida, Benjamin Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ethnologists now accept the conclusion that the races who built the mounds were pressed to the southward by ruder invaders who came from the North and that the great battles of the conflict between the two were fought in Ohio where the remains of the fortifications erected for defense still remain. On this continent we have, on a smaller scale, a duplication of the struggle which ended in the overthrow of the Roman empire. The great body of these invaders were diverted towards Mexico, where the Toltec empire was overthrown by the Aztecs, soon to be conquered in their turn …

Home Life Of The Florida Indians, Benjamin Harrison

Florida Historical Quarterly

Every family of mankind refers fondly to a Golden Age, when peace and innocence reigned on earth. The lost paradise is no monopoly of the Christian, of the Greek or even of the Old World, since the Inca and the Aztec were equally confident in the truth of his traditions describing it. When Columbus compared the happy conditions he observed in the islands to which he came, with those of Europe, he declared the inhabitants were close to the angels in disposition as well as in geography, and he confidently looked for his Blessed Mountain in all his wanderings. When …

The Origin Of Phosphate, John Y. Detwiler

Florida Historical Quarterly

This article, although here printed for the first time, was written in 1897, five years before the destruction of St. Pierre on the island of Martinique, which was caused by a natural catastrophe similar to that by which Mr. Detwiler believes the phosphate beds were formed. --Editor

The Story Of Juan Ortiz And Uleleh, F. P. Fleming

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, 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 Nineteenth-Century Florida by James G. Cusick
Interpreting Florida, Its Nineteenth-Century Literary Heritage by Maurice O'Sullivan
Abiaka, or Sam Jones, in Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis through the Third Seminole War by Patsy West
"The Indians Are Scattering, I Fear": Mobility and Power in the Second Seminole War by Christine A. Rizzi
Runaway Slave Advertisements in Antebellum Florida: A Retrospective by Matthew J. Clavin
A Flower at Elmira: The Prisoner of War Diary of Wilbur Wightman Gramling by Robert Saunders, Jr.
Another Invisible Man: Alexander …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sucking, Blood, and Fire: Timucuan Healing Practices in Spanish Florida by Tamara Shircliff Spike
Reconstructing Power in an American Borderland: Political Change in Colonial East Florida by Nancy O. Gallman
"Republica de Bandidos": The Prospect Bluff Fort's Challenge to the Spanish Slave System by John Paul Nuno
Currency, Credit, Crises, and Cuba: The Fed's Early History in Florida by Lesley Mace
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between Swamp and Sea: Bahamian Visitors in Southeast Florida before Miami by Devin Leigh
By the Shores of the Phosphorescent Seas: Lafcadio Hearn's Journey to Florida's Mysterious Fountain by Maxwell J. Stillwell
Camp Blanding Station Hospital in the War Years by George E. Cressman Jr.
Swaim Family Papers: Civil War Reports and Letters of Recommendation for a Carpetbagger by John T. Foster Jr., and Nicole Brown
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publications, 2014
Comprehensive Index: 2014-2015 (volume 93)

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Perfectly Still No More: Unionists in Confederate Northeast Florida by T. W. Upchurch
A Perfect Storm: The Ocoee Riot of 1920 by Carlee Hoffman and Claire Strom
Bootlegging Aliens: Unsanctioned Immigration and the Underground Economy of Smuggling from Cuba during Prohibition by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Current Scholarship on the Johns Committee in Florida History The Johns Committee: A Historiographic Essay by Judith G. Poucher
Book Review: Braukman, Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 - by Karen Graves
Book Review: Poucher, State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties by James Anthony …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 92, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Role of Cattle Ranching in the 1656 Timucuan Rebellion: A Struggle for Land, Labor, and Chiefly Power by Justin B. Blanton
An "underground railway" to Pensacola and the Impending Crisis over Slavery by Matthew J. Clavin
Race, Education, and Regionalism: The Long and Troubling History of School Desegregation in the Sunshine State by Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Abel A. Bartley
Nature on a Leash: Tourism, Development, and the Environment on Amelia Island, Florida by Patrick H. Cosby
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida in Publications, 2013
Cumulative Index, Volume 92

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

500 Years of Florida History- The Sixteenth Century: Introduction by Connie L. Lester and Daniel S. Murphree
The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century La Florida by Paul E. Hoffman
The Historical Archaeology of SixteenthCentury La Florida by Kathleen A. Deagan
Entangled Borderlands: Europeans and Timucuans in Sixteenth-Century Florida by Jonathan DeCoster
Sixteenth-Century Florida in the European Imagination by John McGrath
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Peacock Inn: South Florida's First Hotel by Susannah Worth
Florida's Constitutional Property Exemptions: Changed Intent in Unchanged Text by Eric H. Miller
The Florida Keys Hurricane House: Post-Disaster New Deal Housing by Matthew G. Hyland
Florida's Carpenter Gothic Churches: Artistic Gems from a Victorian Past by Jack C. Lane
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 90, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Introduction: Setting a Precedent for Regional Revolution: The West Florida Revolt Considered Samuel C. Hyde,Jr.
Some Thoughts on Spanish East and West Florida as Borderlands James G. Cusick
The Origins of the Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, the West Florida Revolt, and the No Transfer Policy William S. Belko
The Rise and Fall of the Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant in West Florida Cody Scallions
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 90, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

2010 Friends of the Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming of Judaeo-Christian Religion to Florida Michael Gannon
Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Pensacola James M. Denham
Blue Water, Brown Water, and Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar and Personal Naval Conflict in South Florida during the Civil War Irvin D. S. Winsboro and William B. Mack
The Catholic Diocese of Miami and African American Desegregation, 1958-1977 Mark Newman
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 89, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Introduction to Special Issue: This Incomperable Lande Maurice O'Sullivan
A Boy and His Fawn: Parallel Animals in A Trip to Florida for Health and Sport and The Yearling Kathryn Seidel
From Adventure Travel to Leisure Tourism: The Florida Letters of William Drysdale in the New York Times, 1884-1893 Jesus Mendez
"The Most Exotic of Our Cities": Race, Place, Writing, and George Allan England's Key West Philip Levy
The Servants and Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens and African American Life at Cross Creek Rebecca Sharpless
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publications, 2010
Cumulative Index, Volume 89

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 88, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Modern Tourism Was Born: Florida at the World Fairs and on the World Stage in the 1930s David Nelson
From Desegregation to Integration: Race, Football, and "Dixie" at the University of Florida Derrick E. White
Military Slave Rentals, the Construction of Army Fortifications, and the Navy Yard in Pensacola, Florida, 1824-1863 Thomas Hulse
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publication, 2009
Cumulative Index, Volume 88

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 88, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

2009 Catherine Prescott Lecture The Seminole Controversy Revisited: A New Look At Andrew Jackson's 1818 Florida Campaign Daniel Feller
Wetlands and Wildlife: Martin Johnson Heade in Florida Charlotte M. Porter
"Looks Like Acquittal": Sex, Murder, and the Tampa Morning Tribune, 1895 J. Thomas Perry
The Jacksonville Mutiny of 1865 John F. Fannin
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 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 86, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Forward
"Haven't Quite Shaken the Horror": Howard Kester, the Lynching of Claude Neal, and Social Activism in the South during the 1930s Joshua Youngblood
The "Jewel" of the South?: Miami, Florida, and the NAACP's Struggle For Civil Rights in America's Vacation Paradise Chanelle Rose
"More Negotiation and Less Demonstrations": The NAACP, SCLC, and Racial Conflict in Pensacola, 1970-1978 J. Michael Butler
The Struggle for Minority Representation in Florida, 1960-1990 Peyton McCrary
Book Reviews
End Notes