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Historic Notes And Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings's 1873 Description Of Mounds In East-Central Florida, Jerald T. Milanich Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings's 1873 Description Of Mounds In East-Central Florida, Jerald T. Milanich

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the collection of new papers recently donated to the University of Florida's P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History by the family of Thomas and Georgine Mickler, owners for many years of Mickler Books, is a copy of a New York newspaper containing an important article about archaeological sites in Florida shortly after the Civil War.

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Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane Apr 2022

Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane

Florida Historical Quarterly

In th fall of 1943, Farrar and Rinehart announced the publication of The St. Johns: A Parade of Diversities by James Branch Cabell and A.J. Hanna, the twenty-fourth volume in its prestigious Rivers in America series.1 The series was the brainchild of Constance Lindsay Skinner, prominent poet, novelist, journalist, writer of children's literature, and literary critic. Her idea, which Farrar and Rinehart adopted in 1935, was to produce a history of America and its people through the stories of its major rivers. The first woman to hold a major editorial position in American adult publishing, Skinner edited six volumes before …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 80, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

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"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras Apr 2022

"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras

Florida Historical Quarterly

The British colonies in East and West Florida and the Bahamas were frontier outposts. They were not central to European colonial ventures in the same way as Jamaica and Veracruz. British imperial perspective considered these settlements little more than "buffers," separating the established colonies of mainland North America from hostile group of Amerindians (principally Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws), as well a from Spanish imperial outposts in Cuba Santo Domingo, and remote Louisiana.1 The importance of such border societies to British officials in Westminster ought to be measured in terms of national security rather than in terms of economic productivity (i.e., …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences and Lectures, Websites, Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Clark, 200 Quick Looks at Florida History, by Benjamin D. Brotemarkle; Craig, Spanish Colonial Gold Coins in the Florida Collection, by Roger C. Smith; Carson, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal, by Jane E. Dysart; Onuf, Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, by Michael E. Long; Francaviglia and Richmond, eds., Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848, by John M. Belohlavek; McMurry, Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy, by Judkin Browning; Grabau, Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign, by Richard L. Kiper; Litwicki , America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920, by …

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Historic Notes And Documents: Telegraphic Correspondence Relating To The Jacksonville Fire Of 1901, Louis Zelenka Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Telegraphic Correspondence Relating To The Jacksonville Fire Of 1901, Louis Zelenka

Florida Historical Quarterly

On Friday, May 3, 1901, most of Jacksonville's downtown business and residential district was destroyed by fire. Mary L'Engle telegraphed her father, J.C. L'Engle, who represented Duval County in the State House: "Big fire Jax. Our three houses burned. We staying at Westmoreland Hotel. Fire still burning." In Tallahassee, Governor William S. Jenning received a telegram from an unknown correpondent: "The city of Jacksonville in flames. Armory destroyed. I think it would be advisable to send four companies [of militia] to the city at once."

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Larry Eugene River's "Slavery In Florida": A Review Essay, James Oakes Apr 2022

Larry Eugene River's "Slavery In Florida": A Review Essay, James Oakes

Florida Historical Quarterly

Serious scholarly invetigation of slavery in Florida began with the 1973 publication of Julia Floyd Smith's Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860. In her own way Smith was a pioneer. She was the first to lay out the basic contours of slavery's history in Florida, and she grounded her narrative on extensive use of archival records, census data, traveler's accounts, legislation, and even slave narratives. Her focus was restricted to the American slaveholders who poured into middle Florida after 1821 and who thereafter extended the southern frontier of the cotton belt. She framed her book within the literature …

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Jacksonville's Consolidation Mayor: Hans G. Tanzler Jr., James B. Crooks Apr 2022

Jacksonville's Consolidation Mayor: Hans G. Tanzler Jr., James B. Crooks

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jacksonville's consolidation with Duval County on October 1, 1968, marked a major turning point in the history of this northeastern Florida coastal city. Prior to this event, Jacksonville and the surrounding Duval County struggled with a variety of problems. Despite rapid growth in the metro area, the city lost population, endured racial conflict, and suffered substantial environmental pollution. While other Southern cities faced many of the same problems, the glamour that soon shone upon the Sunbelt seemed to elude this city on the St. Johns River. Partly it was comparative. Other Florida cities-Miami, Tampa-St. Petersburg and Orlando-had begun to achieve …

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Plumb Lines, Politics, And Projections: The Florida Everglades And The Wright Report Controversy, Aaron D. Purcell Apr 2022

Plumb Lines, Politics, And Projections: The Florida Everglades And The Wright Report Controversy, Aaron D. Purcell

Florida Historical Quarterly

The drainage of the Florida Everglades haw been a highly debated issue since the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1840s, the United State Congress and the state of Florida passed legislation that encouraged reclamation.1 Nothing came from that effort, but during the next decade Congress began transferring Everglades land to the state of Florida, stipulating that all earnings made from the lands be reinvested in their reclamation.2 To manage the development of these lands, in 1855, the state created an Internal Improvement Fund and appointed trustees who oversaw projects that the Sunshine State hoped would attract people, capital, and agricultural developers. …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 80, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

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History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam, Awards and Grants, Conferences, Local History, Websites, Recent History Titles

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fuson, Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida. By Charles W. Arnade; McEwan, ed., Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory. By James Taylor Carson; Craig, Spanish Colonial Silver Coins in the Florida Collection. By Roger C. Smith; Cashin, William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By J. Russell Snapp; O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. By Robert L. Paquette; Massey, John Laurens and the American Revolution. By Robert Olwell; Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Jeffrey Robert Young; …

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Historic Notes And Documents: The Spanish Dedication Tablets From San Marcos De Apalache, Ryan J. Wheeler Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: The Spanish Dedication Tablets From San Marcos De Apalache, Ryan J. Wheeler

Florida Historical Quarterly

Several scholars have offered information and opinions on the date of construction of the Spanish stone fort and stone watchtower at San Marcos de Apalache.1 Two Spanish dedication tablets from the fort, presently in the collection of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Bach, have been cited in these attempts at temporal assignment, but there has been no scholarly attempt to doument the tablets or translate inscriptions on them.2 This essay presents information on the tablets, a transcription of the engraved tablet, comparison with similar architectural features, and some thoughts on the dating of the tablets and their bearing on …

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Religion On Florida Territorial Frontiers, Ernest F. Dibble Apr 2022

Religion On Florida Territorial Frontiers, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In reviewing works on Florida territorial history, well-known scholar Herbert J. Doherty Jr. noted in 1958 that many individual church histories had been written but most were "not good history." Even though he later conceded that Catholic and some Protestant denominations were "adequately treated" in denominational history survey, a true religious history-one that synthesizes church histories- remain unavailable. The role of religion on Florida's territorial frontiers is largely hidden from history.

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Fort Denaud: Logistics Hub Of The Third Seminole War, Jay Jennings Apr 2022

Fort Denaud: Logistics Hub Of The Third Seminole War, Jay Jennings

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the least known and seldom chronicled military events in American history in the three-year conflict known as the Third Seminole War. Also labeled the Billy Bowlegs War, this final uprising of the Seminole tribe occurred in South Florida between 1855 and 1858. Few of the military outposts established during the war remain; the enduring legacy of most is a roadside marker or street sign. Thirty miles east of Fort Myers-one of the placenames that lives on-is a small swing-span bridge memorializing Fort Denaud, beside which is a plaque marking the spot of a forgotten military installation that played …

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Green Awakening: Social Activism And The Evolution Of Majory Stoneman Douglas's Environmental Consciousness, Jack E. Davis Apr 2022

Green Awakening: Social Activism And The Evolution Of Majory Stoneman Douglas's Environmental Consciousness, Jack E. Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in life, Marjory Stoneman Douglas earned a reputation a an impassioned and outspoken environmentalist. Her antiquity, warrior-like spirit, and signature wide-brim hats made her a darling of the media. From Ms. and Rolling Stone magazines to the smallest village newspapers of Florida, journalists called her "Our Lady of the Glades," "Grand Dame of the Everglades," "Guardian of the Glades," "Guardian of the Glades' Spirit," "First Lady of the Everglades," "Empress of the Everglades," "Champion of Everglades," and "Everglades Evangelist." She received countless honorary degrees, medals, and awards. At age 102, she was Honorary Chair of the Conference on the …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 80, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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Hydrodynamic Signatures Of Recreational Boat Wakes And Their Influence To Sediment Entrainment Along The Shoreline Of A Shallow Estuary, Kelly M. Kibler Apr 2022

Hydrodynamic Signatures Of Recreational Boat Wakes And Their Influence To Sediment Entrainment Along The Shoreline Of A Shallow Estuary, Kelly M. Kibler

Predicting Boat Wake Bank Erosion Risk

Wave energy from recreational boat wakes is associated with erosion and degradation of shoreline ecotones. However, wake effects are often assumed to be negligible when boating lanes are located far from shore. In this study, field experiments were conducted to characterize hydrodynamics of recreational boat wakes at the shoreline of a shallow estuary as offshore sailing-line distance varied from 50 to 200m. Results indicate that wake events were considerably more energetic than ambient conditions, with an average 20% increase in wave height, 190% increase in near-bed orbital velocity, and 110% increase in wave-induced shear stress. Wake events generated farther from …

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Epsidoe 24: Michael Chiang ’20ms: Where Medicine And Hospitality Intersect, University Of Central Florida Apr 2022

Epsidoe 24: Michael Chiang ’20ms: Where Medicine And Hospitality Intersect, University Of Central Florida

Knights Do That Podcast Transcripts

In episode 22 -- the eighth of season two of Knights Do That -- we speak with Michael Chiang '20MS, who is specializing in emergency medicine and is the first UCF student to graduate with a dual-degree M.D. and master's in hospitality, shares what drew him into these fields, how he plans to use both degrees in the future and the adversity he's faced along the way. Here is an inspiring episode of how education and life experiences can guide you.

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Evaluating Library Instruction At 2-Year And 4-Year Institutions, Katy A. Miller, Rachel Edford, Karen Kaufmann Apr 2022

Evaluating Library Instruction At 2-Year And 4-Year Institutions, Katy A. Miller, Rachel Edford, Karen Kaufmann

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Research Study Checklist to accompany the Association of College and Research Libraries Project Outcome webinar "Evaluating Library Instruction at 2-Year and 4-Year Institutions". This webinar outlined how to use Project Outcome as a catalyst for research. Librarians from Seminole State College of Florida and University of Central Florida discussed using the Project Outcome for Academic Libraries toolkit to investigate the similarities and differences in the perceived student satisfaction/value of library instruction at a two-year and a four-year institution.

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Please Keep Plastics Out Of My Lagoon!, Linda Walters Apr 2022

Please Keep Plastics Out Of My Lagoon!, Linda Walters

CEELAB Children's Books

Everyone is talking about plastic pollution. In this book for young audiences, we provide information on plastic pollution, including microplastics. We describe some of the many animals found in our favorite estuary, the Indian River Lagoon, that are impacted by plastics. This book asks young readers to pick the items they want to see in their lagoon, "This animal friend or that harmful piece of plastic?"

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Seminole County Dei Survey: Brief Overview, Amy Donley Phd, Caroline Austin, Julio Montanez Apr 2022

Seminole County Dei Survey: Brief Overview, Amy Donley Phd, Caroline Austin, Julio Montanez

Institute for Social and Behavioral Science (ISBS)

The University of Central Florida’s Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences (ISBS) partnered with Seminole County to conduct a 2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) survey of county employees.

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Volume Index, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Volume Index, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lander, Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Virginia Gould; Mann, Art in Florida, 1564-1945, by Valerie Anne Leeds; McCarthy, Native Americans in Florida, by Patricia Wickman; Bense, ed., Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola, by Paul E. Hoffman; Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, by Adonijah Bakali; Saunt, A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816, by Greg O'Brien; Weddle, Wilderness Manhunt: The Spanish Search for La Salle, Foter, ed., The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687, by Julianna Barr; Leibiger, Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of …

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History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Call for Papers, Fellowships and Grants, Websites, Minutes of the Florida Historical Society, New Business, Committee Reports, Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

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Historic Notes And Documents: "Our Desired Haven": The Letters Of Corinna Brown Aldrich From Antebellum Key West, 1849-1850, James M. Denham Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: "Our Desired Haven": The Letters Of Corinna Brown Aldrich From Antebellum Key West, 1849-1850, James M. Denham

Florida Historical Quarterly

On January 8,1849, Dr. Edward S. Aldrich wrote his wife Corinna Brown Aldrich from Key West, Florida. His description of American's southernmost town spoke of its beauty and economic potential.

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Orlando's Martin Andersen: Power Behind The Boom, H. Bailey Thomson Apr 2022

Orlando's Martin Andersen: Power Behind The Boom, H. Bailey Thomson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Newspaper publishers often have been key partners with other business and civic leaders in promoting the expansion of their cities. The goal of these coalitions, which sociologist Harvey L. Molotch calls "growth machines," has been so intensify land use and make money. Such boosterism has been especially prevalent in the South since World War II, as civic-commercial elites sought to modernize government and attract industry, measuring their success mainly in conservative terms such as new factories, office buildings, and expressways.

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A St. Augustine Crime Passionnel, Vivien Miller Apr 2022

A St. Augustine Crime Passionnel, Vivien Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

The crime passionnel is not formally recognized in North American law. Nevertheless, any reading of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century southern court records and pardon files reveal that, as acts of interpersonal violence, crimes of passion "generated by thwarted love, jealousy, [and] hatred that rise to the level of obsession" were not uncommon. One such crime was perptrated by Alexander Campbell. This was the unusual case of a middle-class white man who was convicted of first-degree murder in a Florida court in 1891 and sent to the convict lease system where he remained for a considerable length of time. This partiular Florida …

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Military Liberalism On The East Florida "Frontier": Implementation Of The 1812 Constitution, Alejandro Quiroga Fernandez De Soto Apr 2022

Military Liberalism On The East Florida "Frontier": Implementation Of The 1812 Constitution, Alejandro Quiroga Fernandez De Soto

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first quarter of the nineteenth century was a time of great political change in both Spain and its American empire. The French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808 led to a long war for independence, as the Spanish people and government sought to oust Napoleon's troops and form a constitutional monarchy. During the war deputies from throughout the empirr formed the Cortes Generales, or National Assembly, in Cadiz and proclaimed the first Spanish constitution in 1812. The change of government in Spain had consequences for the American colonies, and scholars have pointed out the role played by the …

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