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Book Notes, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

OSCEOLA: THE UNCONQUERED INDIAN, by William and Ellen Hartley, reviewed by John K. Mahon; BIG CYPRESS: A CHANGING SEMINOLE COMMUNITY, by Merwyn S. Garbarino, reviewed by Harry A. Kersey, Jr.; HISTORIA DEL DESCUBRIMIENTO DE LA FLORIDA Y BEIMENI O YUCATAN, (Boletin de la Academia Puertorriquena de la Historia), by Aurelio Tío, reviewed by C. W. Arnade; FLOOD TIDE OF EMPIRE: SPAIN AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 1543-1819, by Warren L. Cook, reviewed by Jack D. L. Holmes; ARMS FOR EMPIRE: A. MILITARY HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA, 1607-1763, by Douglas Edward Leach, reviewed by T. Harry Williams; BRITISH …


A Woman Liberated: Lillian C. West, Editor, Bernadette K. Loftin Nov 2021

A Woman Liberated: Lillian C. West, Editor, Bernadette K. Loftin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lillian Carisle West's professional name, L. C. West, graced the masthead of the weekly Panama City Pilot from 1917 to 1937. She also managed or edited two other local papers, the St. Andrews Bay News and Lynn Haven Free Press, during part of this period, and she operated the Gulf Coast Development Company and the Panama City Publishing Company. Thus, for almost two decades, Mrs. West successfully assumed a leadership position generally reserved only for the male sex by the society of her time. How she managed to accomplish this feat in a small southern town where women’s struggle for …


The Pwa In Tampa: A Case Study, Charles B. Lowry Nov 2021

The Pwa In Tampa: A Case Study, Charles B. Lowry

Florida Historical Quarterly

The stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing depression resulted in the first attempts by the federal government to stimulate the economy on a massive scale at a time of economic collapse. President Hoover moved reluctantly in this area, but Franklin D. Roosevelt, although poorly grounded in economics, avidly applied Keynesian economic theory to an extent unacceptable to his Republican predecessor. The programs of the New Deal affected vast numbers of individuals and businesses, both large and small. The Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (T.S.&E.) founded by Ernest Kreher, a German immigrant, was among the latter. In 1932, while …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 52, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SLAVERY AND PLANTATION GROWTH IN ANTEBELLUM FLORIDA, 1821-1860, by Julia Floyd Smith, reviewed by Clifton Paisley; JOURNEY THROUGH THE OLD EVERGLADES: THE LOG OF THE MINNEHAHA, edited by Pat Dodson, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; EVERGLADES COUNTRY: A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH, by Patricia Lauber, reviewed by Thelma Peters; PALMETTO RAMBLER, by Walter R. Hellier, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; FRANCISCO PAREJA’S 1613 CONFESSIONARIO: A DOCUMENTARY SOURCE FOR TIMUCUAN ETHNOGRAPHY, edited by Jerald T. Milanich and William C. Sturtevant, reviewed by Charles Hudson; SHIPPING, MARITIME TRADE AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA, by James F. Shepherd and Gary …


East Florida In 1834: Letters Of Dr. John Durkee, W. Stanley Hoole Nov 2021

East Florida In 1834: Letters Of Dr. John Durkee, W. Stanley Hoole

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the summer of 1833 Dr. John Durkee, for more than ten years a practicing physician in Meredith Bridge (now a part of Laconia), New Hampshire, traveled to East Florida for the benefit of his health.1 Settling in Jacksonville, a village of fewer than 250 people and about twenty houses and stores, he soon recuperated sufficiently to lead an active life.2 He rode horseback into the hinterland of Duval County, hunted, fished, and because of his scientific background interested himself primarily in such subjects as alligators, snakes, deer, birds, trees, cattle, soils, and Indian archeology. Meantime, he kept abreast of …


Spanish-Indian Relations In Florida, 1602-1675: Some Aspects Of Selected Visitas, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr. Nov 2021

Spanish-Indian Relations In Florida, 1602-1675: Some Aspects Of Selected Visitas, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The visita or inspection was an institution which dated back at least to the Egyptians and Persians. Spain, in particular, employed the investigation most efficiently to increase royal authority by acquiring political, economic, social, religious, and other types of information. The Laws of the Indies spelled out the form visitations should take. Visitadores, for example, had to announce their purpose upon arrival. They had to begin their work in the principal city of the area under investigation, check on fiscal conditions, and determine in the course of their inquiry whether crown law had been observed. Moreover, the leyes required the …


Seventy-First Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Seventy-First Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

RIVER OF THE GOLDEN IBIS, by Gloria Jahoda, reviewed by Frank G. Slaughter; TALES OF OLD BREVARD, by Georgiana Kjerulff, reviewed by Ernest Lyons; HUNTED LIKE A WOLF: THE STORY OF THE SEMINOLE WAR, by Milton Meltzer, reviewed by James W. Covington; FLORIDA PROMOTERS: THE MEN WHO MADE IT BIG, by Charles E. Harner, reviewed by Thomas S. Graham; SUGAR AND SLAVES: THE RISE OF THE PLANTER CLASS IN THE ENGLISH WEST INDIES, 1624-1713, by Richard S. Dunn, reviewed by Robert R. Rea; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME THREE: JAN. 1, 1759-AUG. 31, 1763, edited by Philip M. Hamer …


Martin Tabert, Martyr Of An Era, N. Gordon Carper Nov 2021

Martin Tabert, Martyr Of An Era, N. Gordon Carper

Florida Historical Quarterly

Martin Tabert, in his desire to “see the world,” unfortunately met an untimely death in Florida. The national publicity given the circumstances surrounding his death provided the catalyst Floridians needed to abolish the cruel and corrupt convict-lease system, a peculiarly southern institution given impetus during the Civil War-Reconstruction era.


Road From Receivership: Claude Pepper, The Dupont Trust, And The Florida East Coast Railway, Alexander R. Stoesen Nov 2021

Road From Receivership: Claude Pepper, The Dupont Trust, And The Florida East Coast Railway, Alexander R. Stoesen

Florida Historical Quarterly

In December 1971, the longest labor dispute in United States history came to an end when a settlement was reached in the Florida East Coast Railway strike. It began in January 1963, and was viewed nationally as a test case of railway labor work rules. Hopes for an early conclusion faded, however, as each side dug in for a fight to the bitter end.2 Strife was not new to the troubled history of the FEC; it had been an object of controversy for many years, and possibly the violence-torn decade of the 1960s might have been avoided if it had …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FLORIDA, LAND OF IMAGES, by Nixon Smiley, reviewed by William M. Goza; PAPA: HEMINGWAY IN KEY WEST, by James McLendon, reviewed by Kathryn Hall Proby; FRANCIS DRAKE, PRIVATEER CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES AND DOCUMENTS, edited by John Hampden, reviewed by Paul E. Hoffman; BLAZE OF GLORY: THE FIGHT FOR NEW ORLEANS, 1814-1815, by Samuel Carter, III, reviewed by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; THE MALLORYS OF MYSTIC: SIX GENERATIONS IN AMERICAN MARITIME ENTERPRISE, by James P. Baughman, reviewed by Edward A. Mueller; DANIEL LEE, AGRICULTURIST: HIS LIFE NORTH AND SOUTH, by E. Merton Coulter, reviewed by James C. Bonner; BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: THE …


Rise Of The "Businessman's Politician": The 1924 Florida Gubernatorial Race, Victoria H. Mcdonell Nov 2021

Rise Of The "Businessman's Politician": The 1924 Florida Gubernatorial Race, Victoria H. Mcdonell

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 1920s in Florida reflected the enormous social and economic changes that were occurring throughout the United States. The conservatism of the period, exemplified by high tariffs, the passage of the Volstead Act, and the growth of right wing groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, performed an uneasy counterpoint to the new currents of change. Urban growth, rapid economic development, and the proliferation of transportation and communications facilities foretold the future complexion of American life, As Floridians approached the 1924 gubernatorial campaign they were faced with two alternatives: electing men who were committed to holding on to the past …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE CITY MAKERS, by Richard A. Martin, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE GULF COAST, 1803-1850, edited by Lucius F. Ellsworth, Ted Carageorge, William Coker, Earle Newton, reviewed by Harry P. Owens; SYNAGOGUE IN THE CENTRAL CITY: TEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREATER MIAMI, 1922-1972, by Charlton W. Tebeau, reviewed by John P. Reiger; JOHN GORRIE, M.D.: FATHER OF AIR CONDITIONING AND MECHANICAL REFRIGERATION, by Raymond B. Becker, reviewed by William M. Straight; THE PRE-COLOMBIAN MIND, by Francisco Guerra, reviewed by Jerald T. Milanich; SIXTEENTH CENTURY NORTH AMERICA: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE AS SEEN By THE EUROPEANS, …


William V. Knott And The Gubernatorial Campaign Of 1916, Wayne Flynt Nov 2021

William V. Knott And The Gubernatorial Campaign Of 1916, Wayne Flynt

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sometime around 1958, William V. Knott recorded his impressions of the 1916 gubernatorial contest for a graduate student in New England. Much of this material was already available, especially in the master’s thesis by John R. Deal, Jr., "Sidney Johnston Catts, Stormy Petrel of Florida Politics" (University of Florida, 1949). Deal interviewed Knott and emphasized many points covered in this account. This is, however, the most complete and authoritative account yet published of the infamous "Sturkie Resolution" which played a critical role in the campaign. The manuscript is also a most complete revelation of Knott’s critique of the "Bryan Primary …


A Study Of Florida Defense Costs, 1565-1585: A Quantification Of Florida History, Paul E. Hoffman Nov 2021

A Study Of Florida Defense Costs, 1565-1585: A Quantification Of Florida History, Paul E. Hoffman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Superficially quantitative history, like happiness, is different things to different people. Basically, however, it seeks to verify in more explicit ways generalizations such as "X was more important than Y," and "slavery was (or was not) profitable." To that end, numbers and statistical tests are developed to describe the same reality as that dealt with by "traditional" history. For most practitioners of the methodology this numerical description is a second, verifying description having as much validity, but no more than a narrative about the same historical events. Occasionally, as with the fiscal history of Florida from 1565 to 1585, the …


Booker T. Washington's Florida Incident, 1903-1904, Arthur O. White Nov 2021

Booker T. Washington's Florida Incident, 1903-1904, Arthur O. White

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Come without fail. You will receive kindly and friendly welcome. Address to be given in courthouse to both races." This telegram of February 4, 1903, reinvited Booker T. Washington, America’s best known black man, to speak on the occasion of the joint meeting of the General Education Board and county superintendents of education at Gainesville, Florida. It was front page news throughout the United States. Washington's acceptance of an earlier invitation from State Superintendent of Education William N. Sheats, one of the South's most renowned educators, had caused intense controversy among Floridians over the idea of a black man, however …


Proceedings Of The Seventieth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Proceedings Of The Seventieth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes program and minutes, In Memoriam, new members, Gifts to the Society, Treasurer's Report


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Nov 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No FURTHER RETREAT: THE FIGHT TO SAVE FLORIDA, by Raymond F. Dasmann, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; ON PRESERVING TROPICAL FLORIDA, by John C. Gifford, reviewed by Polly Redford; ST. PETERSBURG AND ITS PEOPLE, by Walter Fuller, reviewed by Milton D. Jones; HISTORY OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY: A KING’S COUNTRY, by M. Luther King, reviewed by E. W. Carswell; JAMES BLAIR OF VIRGINIA, by Parke Rouse, Jr., reviewed by Jack P. Greene; THE LETTERBOOK OF ELIZA LUCAS PINCKNEY, 1739-1762, edited by Elise Pinckney, reviewed by Hugh Lefler; THE ANATOMY OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, by Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. …


Florencia Investigation Of Spanish Timucua, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr. Nov 2021

Florencia Investigation Of Spanish Timucua, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine on the Florida peninsula. Spanish activity pushed Spain's northern frontier up as far as Chesapeake Bay, but effective control extended only to Port Royal, South Carolina. Menéndez, and subsequent Florida governors, established missions and presidios along the Atlantic seacoast and in the interior areas to give added protection to Florida.


Florida's Image In Juvenile Fiction, 1909-1914, Peter A. Soderbergh Nov 2021

Florida's Image In Juvenile Fiction, 1909-1914, Peter A. Soderbergh

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the years between Appomattox and Sarajevo many young readers took their leisure pleasures from the pages of hardbacked novelettes. More respectable, to parents at least, than the "dime novel," the novellas exploded with the heady escapades of fictional boys and girls whose mental and physical reserves were unlimited. Descended from earlier models created by Martha Finley and William T. Adams— and rooted in the "success" ethos popularized by Horatio Alger, Jr.— the series published after 1898 outdid their prototypes in every aspect but quality.


Black Slaves, Red Masters, White Middlemen: A Congressional Debate Of 1852, James E. Sefton Nov 2021

Black Slaves, Red Masters, White Middlemen: A Congressional Debate Of 1852, James E. Sefton

Florida Historical Quarterly

A list of the most noteworthy congressional debates over slavery would include those on the Compromises of 1820 and 1850, the Gag Rule, the slave trade, and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, among others. Sometimes, however, debate on a comparatively minor episode of a large issue can be highly illuminating. In the spring of 1852, the House of Representatives devoted perhaps ten hours to a bill which brought to a close a bizzare story that had begun sixteen years earlier during federal efforts to remove the Seminole Indians from Florida. Ever since the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1819, white …


Holes In The Sky, Stephanie Chipner Oct 2021

Holes In The Sky, Stephanie Chipner

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

The students will be able to explain how one or more characters develop throughout the plot in a literary text • The student will be able to explain a theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text. • The student will be able to summarize a text to enhance comprehension. Include plot and theme for a literary text. Use the central idea and relevant details for an informational text. • Students will be able to identify opportunities to serve or help others in the school or community.


Dreamers, Joyce Montanez Oct 2021

Dreamers, Joyce Montanez

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

The student will understand that everyone is different and unique no matter where they come from. ● The student will be able to understand the impact of building vocabulary and understanding by reading. ● The student will be able to understand what the word “immigrant” means. ● The student will be able to understand the difference between “emigrate” and “immigrate”. ● The student will be able to answer key details from the book “Dreamers” by Yuyi Morales. ● The student will be able to identify the elements of the story. ● The student will be able to analyze what the …


Book Reviews And Book Notes, Florida Historical Society Oct 2021

Book Reviews And Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

DE BRAHM’S REPORT OF THE GENERAL SURVEY IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT IN NORTH AMERICA, edited by Louis De Vorsey, Jr., reviewed by J. Leitch Wright; ANTE-BELLUM TALLAHASSEE, by Bertram H. Groene, reviewed by Clifton Paisley; A NATURALIST IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA, by Charlotte Orr Gantz, reviewed by Marian Murray; THE FIRST AMERICAN: A STORY OF NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, by C. W. Ceram, reviewed by Charles H. Fairbanks; ECONOMIC BEGINNINGS IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA, 1670-1730, by Converse D. Clowse, reviewed by John G. Clark; THE REGULATORS IN NORTH CAROLINA: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, 1759-1776, edited by William S. Powell, reviewed by North Callahan; …


Apalachee Indians, 1704-1763, James W. Covington Oct 2021

Apalachee Indians, 1704-1763, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of Florida’s most tragic incidents occurred when Governor James Moore of South Carolina and his small army composed of 1,000 Indians and fifty whites moved into the Apalachee area of North Florida and laid waste to what had been the center of the Franciscan missions. Accounts of this raid describe the gallant defense made at Ayubale mission by Father Miranda and his neophytes, the defeat of the relief column from San Luis under command of Captain Ruiz Mexia, the torture of captives, the destruction of the Apalachee villages, and the removal of 3,000 or more Apalachees for resettlement in …


Cruise Of The Minnehaha, Pat Dodson Oct 2021

Cruise Of The Minnehaha, Pat Dodson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the winter of 1891-1892 four men— three brothers, Stanley, Robert, and Edward Bullock, and their friend, A. E. Woodham — sailed a thirty-foot sloop, the Minnehaha, from Narcoossee on East Lake Tohopekaliga on a round trip down the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and out to the Gulf of Mexico via the Caloosahatchee River. They began the trip that fall down the Kissimmee River, opened a few years before by Hamilton Disston’s dredges. Leaving November 26, they reached Marco on January 9 and returned home February 8. They followed a tortuous route, covering about 1,000 miles in seventy-three days.


Tivoli Theatre Of Pensacola, Dian Lee Shelley Oct 2021

Tivoli Theatre Of Pensacola, Dian Lee Shelley

Florida Historical Quarterly

Pensacola during the 1820s was hardly more than a small frontier town, yet its citizens, with a predominately French and Spanish background, enthusiastically supported a theatre. Its importance is not that major theatrical personalities were attracted to the community, but that such a remote town, still the center of Indian trade, would welcome a theatre at all. The desire and support of dramatic entertainment suggests a different perspective from the conception of Pensacola during this period as a raw frontier town surrounded by wilderness.


Anti-Catholicism And The Florida Legislature, 1911-1919, Robert B. Rackleff Oct 2021

Anti-Catholicism And The Florida Legislature, 1911-1919, Robert B. Rackleff

Florida Historical Quarterly

Swept into office five months earlier by an unprecedented wave of religious prejudice, Florida Governor Sidney Johnston Catts asked the 1917 legislature to help him fulfill the promises of his campaign of fear of Roman Catholic power[.]