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De Soto And Terra Cei, John R. Swanton

Florida Historical Quarterly

In connection with my work as chairman of the De Soto Expedition Commission between 1935 and 1938 I made a study of the documentary and geographical evidence regarding the location of the point where De Soto landed on the Florida coast in 1539 and the position of his first headquarters. While I was assisted to some extent by other members of the Commission, the conclusions reached were more particularly mine and I assume all responsibility for them. They were originally stated in a paper printed in “The Florida Historical Quarterly” (vol. XVI, no. 3; Jan. 1938) and were incorporated later …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Florida: Historic, Dramatic, Contemporary, by J. E. Dovell, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida. 2 vols., 995 pp. (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York [1952]); Miranda: World Citizen. By Joseph F. Thorning (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1952). pp. 311. $5.00.

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Florida of the Inca, by Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Translated and edited by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner. (1951, University of Texas Press, Austin, XLV and 655 pages. $7.50.); A Survey of Indian River Archaeology, Florida. Irving Rouse (296 pp., 8 pls., 15 figs., 5 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 44, New Haven, 1951.; Chronology at South Indian Field, Florida. Vera Masius Ferguson (62 pp., 4 pls., 10 figs., 7 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 45, New Haven, 1951. ($4., the two); History of Jackson County, by J. Randall …

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Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting

De Soto’S Ucita And The Terra Ceia Site, Ripley P. Bullen

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any Indian site to qualify as De Soto’s Ucita must possess geographical attributes which agree with those assignable to that site by close reading of the De Soto narratives. This paper examines only the claim of the well-known, large Indian site at Terra Ceia, on the east side of McGill Bay. For this purpose Shaws Point on Tampa Bay is assumed to be the landing place of De Soto’s expedition, although that identification has been questioned by some.

De Soto’S First Headquarters In Florida, John R. Swanton

Florida Historical Quarterly

Knowing that Hernando de Soto, his expedition, and the places he visited will probably be matters of discussion for years and years, I have not recently ventured any further contributions regarding them. However, challenge of one of my conclusions, the probable site of the Indian town of Ucita where De Soto established his first North American headquarters, has recently been made in a scientifically motivated paper (“The Terra Ceia Site, Manatee County, Florida.” No. 3 of the Publications of the Florida Anthropological Society, by Ripley P. Bullen), and this calls for some comments.

Fort Pupo: A Spanish Frontier Outpost, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the viewpoint of anthropological analysis one of the most interesting aspects of the study of man is what happens when two cultures meet. When is there an integration of elements, and when an overwhelming of one culture by the other? Precisely what happened when the Spanish and Indians came together has been a fascinating subject of study by many archaeologists in Florida in recent years. It was exactly this problem which turned us from our study of the missions where Spanish priests and Indians came together to a consideration of the similar meeting of Spanish soldiers and Indians. Fort …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of John M. Goggin and Frank H. Sommer III: Excavations on Upper Matecumbe Key, Florida. Yale University Publications in Anthropology number forty-one. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. (101 p., 8 plates, text figures); Gordon R. Willey : Excavations in Southeast Florida (Yale University Publications in Anthropology, number 42,. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949,137 pp., 8 text figures, 16 plates); Gordon R. Willey, Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 113. 559 pp., 60 pls., 76 figs., 20 maps, 17 tables. 1949. Government Printing Office, Washington.

Archeology In Florida, J. E. Dovell

Florida Historical Quarterly

For more than half a century archeologists from outside the State carried on virtually all of the excavations with accompanying studies done in Florida. Mostly they were scientists representing and supported by the Smithsonian Institution and other scientific institutions in the North who published the results of their work. Also includes a review of John W. Griffin, Editor, The Florida Indian and His Neighbors: Papers Delivered at anAnthropological Conference Held at Rollins College, April 9 and 10, 1949. (Winter Park : Inter-American Center, Rollins College, 1949.) 168 pp. 9 maps and tables, $1.00.

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of "Florida Anthropological Society Publications, Number One: Two Archeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida [by] Hale G. Smith. Published at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1949. John W. Goggin, editor.”

Nocoroco, A Timucua Village Of 1605, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1605 Alvaro Mexia was sent on an expedition down the east coast of Florida by Governor Don Pedro de Ybarra of Spanish East Florida. Mexia followed the inland waters as far south as St. Lucie Inlet, and upon his return to St. Augustine compiled a map and itinerary which are invaluable in the study of the archaeology of the early historic period in the area.

Archaeology In Florida: A Report On The Goodnow Mound, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Though we call archaeology “pre-history,” so much has been learned about the former inhabitants of the land we might almost omit the prefix. This is not nearly so true of Florida aborigines as it is of many other parts of the country; and what has been accomplished here has been done by scientists from outside the State: Moore, Wyman, Stirling, Hrdlicka, Fewkes, Willey and others. Recently two of our own young men have been avidly following an urge which must have been congenital by digging into the history before history of the peninsula. These are John W. Griffin of Daytona …

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of The Everglades: River of Grass. By Marjory Stoneman Douglas (New York : Rhinehart and Company, 1947. pp. 406. $3.50)

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Florida Historical Quarterly

Also includes donations to the library.

The Everglades Before Reclamation, J. E. Dovell

Florida Historical Quarterly

This account of the Everglades and their early history is one result of the author’s extensive research into all available sources. The full story of the Everglades including reclamation is the subject of an unpublished dissertation by the author which was accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina.

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Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Seminole Negroes Of Andros Island, Bahamas, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a recent article in this journal, Kenneth W. Porter has raised the question of the identity of the Indian negroes of Andros Island in the Bahamas. As the result of investigations on Andros Island in the summer of 1937, it is possible to clarify the problem, and positively to identify the legendary Indians of Andros Island as Seminole Negroes. A more detailed historical investigation of the problem had been contemplated, but present conditions make it impossible to complete the research as originally outlined.

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Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Contributors To This Number, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Antillean Problem In Florida Archeology, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost since the beginning of archeological studies in Florida the problem of aboriginal relations between Florida and the Antilles has concerned investigators. Many similarities, both archeological and ethnological, between the two areas have been noted. It shall be the purpose of this paper to discuss several aspects of the problem.

Source Materials Of Florida History In The John Carter Brown Library Of Brown University, Lawrence C. Wroth

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his search for the rarest of historical material on colonial Florida, the historian will find in the John Carter Brown Library a good part of all that is available anywhere. There an extraordinary collection of source materials on the history of North, South, and Central America of the period before 1801 has been brought together for the use of scholars. More than four hundred titles, many of the utmost rarity and some unique, have been listed in that library for the Union Catalog of Floridiana. The most important of these have been selected and are described here by Dr. …

Report Of The Committee On Archeology, W. J. Winter

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Board of Directors last year authorized President Hanna to organize a committee on archeology, and Dr. Winter, an experienced archeologist, was appointed chairman. His graduate work was done at the University of Chicago, and during the past three years, as Archeologist and Assistant Director of Research for the St. Augustine Historical Program of Carnegie Institution of Washington, he has surveyed in a general way the archeological research possibilities of Florida. The other members of the committee are: D. Graham Copeland, Francis B. Crowninshield, Dr. A. R. L. Dohme, W. B. Goodwin, R. R. Otis, Mrs. Doris Stone, and Mrs. …

The Florida Historical Society: 1856-1861, 1879, 1902-1940, Watt Marchman

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Timucua Indians Of Sixteenth Century Florida, W. W. Ehrmann

Florida Historical Quarterly

When first visited by the Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth century, northern Florida was inhabited by the Timucua family of Indians. Their territory was bounded approximately on the west by the Aucilla River, on the north by a line running just north of the present Georgia-Florida state line from the Aucilla River on the west to Cumberland Island on the east, and on the south by a line extending from Tampa Bay to Cape Canaveral.

The Relationship Of Florida Archaeology To That Of Middle America, Doris Stone

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida, as we all know, is a low coastal plain having as its principal element a limestone base, with its share of swamps and soft adhering mud which covers easily and in certain cases preserves. On the east and west coasts the environmental conditions differ from each other and from the peninsula itself, as well as from the entire southeastern area to which anthropologically it belongs, and from the rest of North America. On the western coast are the shell keys and coral reefs and not far distant on the eastern side, in addition to a few reefs, lie the …

Program, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The St. Augustine Historical Restoration, Eleanor Beeson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The St. Augustine Historical Restoration conducted under the auspices of Carnegie Institution of Washington with the cooperation of the City of St. Augustine is dedicated to the purpose of preserving and redeveloping the physical remains of the centuries of history of this region, site of the first permanent white settlement on the Atlantic seaboard, thereby creating a beautiful national shrine where the meaning of the great events embodied in these monuments will be understandable.

Employee Accomplishment Report 2019 - 2020, Cynthia S. Dancel

Libraries' Documents

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Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce Enewsletter #004, Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce

Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce

February 2021 edition of the UCF Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce Newsletter calls for volunteers from other departments and colleges, shares new subcommittees, a Black History Month Reading List, and Women's History Month virtual events.

“Committed to a globalized, competitive and innovative workforce through diversity and inclusiveness” Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce Newsletter Information on professional development and Diversity & Inclusion related news and events delivered directly to your inbox every semester.