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Vigilante Justice And National Reaction: The 1937 Tallahassee Double Lynching, Walter T. Howard
Vigilante Justice And National Reaction: The 1937 Tallahassee Double Lynching, Walter T. Howard
Florida Historical Quarterly
The gruesome southern custom of lynching blacks no longer plagues the state of Florida. Yet, between 1882 and 1945, this species of vigilantism was a persistent problem. In the period 1889 to 1918, peak lynching years in the United States, nearly 200 blacks were executed in Florida. During the decade 1890-1900, seventy-four blacks were victims to lynch-law in Florida, and in the first ten years of the twentieth century, fifty-one met death in the same fashion. Forty-nine blacks were lynched between 1910 and 1917, and thirty-four between 1922 and 1929. Twelve blacks were executed during the decade of the 1930s, …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Wentworth Foundation Grant, Awards, International Spanish Conference, Announcements and Activities
Major General James Patton Anderson: An Autobiography, Margaret Uhler
Major General James Patton Anderson: An Autobiography, Margaret Uhler
Florida Historical Quarterly
Although James Patton Anderson has received relatively little historical recognition, the contributions he made to Florida’s Civil War effort are worthy of historical study.
Open-Range Cattle-Herding In Southern Florida, John S. Otto
Open-Range Cattle-Herding In Southern Florida, John S. Otto
Florida Historical Quarterly
The herders of the Old South held little land and few slaves but owned considerable numbers of livestock. They grazed their livestock on the unclaimed public lands, or “open-range,” at no charge, a practice which was safeguarded by state laws until after the Civil War. Living throughout the Old South, the herders were especially numerous in the mountains and the coastal plain, where the soil possessed little fertility, and where most of the land was unclaimed public domain. In the southern mountains, herders raised hogs in the unfenced hardwood forests, exporting porkers to southern plantations and to midwestern slaughter houses. …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Wentworth Foundation Grant, International Spanish Conference, Florida Historical Directory, Awards, Sanborn Map Collection, National Register of Historic Places, Announcements and Activities, Meetings
St. Augustine Historical Society, 1883-1983, Thomas Graham
St. Augustine Historical Society, 1883-1983, Thomas Graham
Florida Historical Quarterly
The St. Augustine Historical Society began as an informal gathering of a few individuals who met in the downstairs parlor of the Presbyterian manse on the corner of St. George and Hypolita streets. Dr. Milton Waldo, the Presbyterian minister, would converse on a regular basis with acquaintances who shared his interest in natural history. Because of its casual origin the date of the first Society meeting is uncertain. Dr. Waldo later recalled that he and Charlie Johnson, a local boy who would later be a natural history museum curator in Boston, began meeting together over insect and shell specimens in …
General Joseph B. Wall And Lynch Law In Tampa, Robert P. Ingalls
General Joseph B. Wall And Lynch Law In Tampa, Robert P. Ingalls
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Monday morning, March 6, 1882, the news spread quickly through Tampa, a normally sleepy community of some 1,000 people. During the previous night a man had broken into the home of a prominent family living just outside town. After stealing several small items, the intruder had assaulted a young woman of the family. According to subsequent press reports, the attacker had fled before actually raping the victim, but clues to his identity, including a knife left at the scene, put Sheriff D. Isaac Craft and a posse on his trail the following morning. With Tampans gripped by feelings of …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
SELECTED LETTERS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS, edited by Gordon E. Bigelow and Laura V. Monti, reviewed by Jim Haskins; THE SEMINOLE WORLD OF TOMMY TIGER, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr. and Voncile Mallory, FOREST IN THE SAND, by Marjory Bartlett Sanger with drawings by D. D. Tyler, reviewed by John Cech; LASALLE AND HIS LEGACY, FRENCHMEN AND INDIANS IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, edited by Patricia K. Galloway, reviewed by Michael G. Schene; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 9, FEBRUARY 1-MAY 31, 1778, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerard W. Gawalt, Rosemary Fry Plakas, and Eugene R. Sheridan, …
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Florida Historical Society
Immigrant Women In Tampa: The Italian Experience, 1890-1930, Gary R. Mormino
Immigrant Women In Tampa: The Italian Experience, 1890-1930, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Historical Quarterly
The historical study of women, particularly immigrant women, has advanced dramatically over the past decade. Recent scholarship has rescued from neglect a great deal of historical material and has placed in clearer perspective the important roles played by women in American society. Ultimately, women’s history will be fully integrated into the pageantry of the American experience. Sufficient specialized studies to accomplish this goal, however, do not yet exist. More regional and local investigations detailing the histories of women in many different locations, time periods, and life situations are required.
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters theses completed in 1979 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.
Career Of A "Carpetbagger": Malachi Martin In Florida, Mildred L. Fryman
Career Of A "Carpetbagger": Malachi Martin In Florida, Mildred L. Fryman
Florida Historical Quarterly
The epithet "carpetbagger" holds such a solid place in the vocabulary of American history that it would be difficult to describe the nation’s Reconstruction experience without utilizing it. In 1868, the editors of a Pensacola newspaper expressed the attitude towards “carpetbaggers” which prevailed among white Southerners. “While crushed beneath a grinding military despotism, hireling spies and impudent adventurers have swarmed upon . . . [us] taking a despicable advantage of . . . [our] weakness, misfortunes and suffering to traduce, vilify and malign . . . [us]. . . . Upstarts, without name, character or position in their own land, …
The Tampa Flogging Case, Urban Vigiliantism, Robert P. Ingalls
The Tampa Flogging Case, Urban Vigiliantism, Robert P. Ingalls
Florida Historical Quarterly
On November 30, 1935, at about nine o'clock in the evening, a group of Tampa policemen, without a warrant, entered a home at 307 East Palm Avenue and seized six men who were holding a political meeting. Four of the six were members of the Socialist party. All belonged to the Modern Democrats, a new local party that had run candidates in the recent municipal election on a platform containing socialist ideas. Now, almost a month after their candidates had been defeated by incumbents, these leaders of the Modern Democrats were being taken to police headquarters for questioning about their …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
MINORCANS IN FLORIDA: THEIR HISTORY AND HERITAGE, by Jane Quinn, reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FLORIDA AND ITS BORDERLANDS, edited by Samuel Proctor, reviewed by J. Barton Starr; KNIGHTS OF THE FOURTH ESTATE: THE STORY OF THE MIAMI HERALD, by Nixon Smiley, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; ED BALL: CONFUSION TO THE ENEMY, by Leon Odell Griffith, reviewed by Peter D. Klingman; JOHN HOLLIDAY PERRY, FLORIDA PRESS LORD, by Leon Odell Griffith, reviewed by Thomas Graham; ANTE-BELLUM PENSACOLA AND THE MILITARY PRESENCE, by Ernest F. Dibble, reviewed by John K. Mahon; TESTIMONY TO PIONEER BAPTISTS: THE ORIGIN AND …
Tallahassee Through The Storebooks: Era Of Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1877, Clifton Paisley
Tallahassee Through The Storebooks: Era Of Radical Reconstruction, 1867-1877, Clifton Paisley
Florida Historical Quarterly
Leon was the largest and richest county in Florida at the outbreak of the Civil War. Its population numbered 12,343, and its property was assessed at $8,843,095 in 1860. It led the state in agriculture; its farms were valued at $2,482,211, and during the crop year 1859 they produced 16,686 bales of cotton, 421,654 bushels of corn, and 136,038 bushels of sweet potatoes. It ranked third in manufacturing. Twenty-six establishments in 1859 employed 239 male and seven female workers and produced products worth $261,200. The county, like the rest of Florida and the South, suffered grievous economic losses during the …
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Fancher, The Lost Legacy of Georgia’s Golden Isles, by James C. Bonner; Frakes, Laboratory for Liberty: The South Carolina Legislative Committee System, 1719-1776, by George C. Rogers, Jr.; Combs, The Jay Treaty: Political Battleground of the Founding Fathers, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; Daniels, Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, by Aubrey C. Land; Ketcham, James Madison, a Biography, by James Rabun; Stewart, Joshua R. Giddings and the Tactics of Radical Politics, by Alfred A. Cave; Davidson, The Last Foray, The South Carolina Planters of 1860: A Sociological Study, by John Hebron Moore; Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, …
Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911, Durward Long
Making Of Modern Tampa: A City Of The New South, 1885-1911, Durward Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historican have yet to devote the thought and research to urbanization in the South that the subject deserves. Coulter’s brief attention to the growth and role of cities and towns in the Reconstruction era, Van Woodward’s similarly brief concern with cities in his Origins of the New South, Ezell’s short treatment in his textbook survey, Park’s interpretative chapter in Couch’s Culture in the South, and Vance’s edited work on the recent South nearly exhaust the list of serious histories which offer even slight leads about southern urbanization. A survey of the Journal of Southern History and state historical journals is …
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting; Florida Conference of College Teachers of History; local historical societies; college news
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman
Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first decade of the twentieth century has been dubbed the “Era of the Muckrakers.” These were the years when the great muckraking journalists - Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens -were writing their famous exposures of trusts, railroads, and government corruption in the celebrated national muckraking magazines - McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and American. Historical studies delving into this phenomenal concentration of reform writers have covered quite adequately its various aspects and impacts on the national level, but they fail to suggest that there might have been journalists and journals on the state and local level who could also …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Stetson University and Florida Baptists: A Documentary History of Relations between Stetson University and the Florida Baptist Convention. By Harry C. Garwood. Edited by Edward A. Holmes, Jr. (DeLand: Florida Baptist Historical Society, 1962. vii, 262 pp. Foreword, preface, notes, index. $2.75.); A Wake in Ybor City. By Jose Yglesias. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. 284 pp. $4.95.); Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education. By James B. Conant. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. 164 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $5.00.); The Confederate Constitution. By Charles Robert Lee, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University …
A British Report On West Florida And Louisiana, November, 1812, Richard K. Murdoch
A British Report On West Florida And Louisiana, November, 1812, Richard K. Murdoch
Florida Historical Quarterly
After returning the two Floridas to Spain by the Treaty of Paris of 1783, England watched with satisfaction while her thirteen former colonies struggled to reach agreement with the government in Madrid on the thorny problem of the southeastern boundary. The Treaty of San Lorenzo of 1795 failed to satisfy either party and the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 further confused the problem by introducing boundary claims in the region west of the Mississippi River. The suggestion to use force to achieve a permanent settlement with Spain was heard with increasing frequency in Washington. Even Thomas Jefferson, in retirement at Monticello, …
Suggestions For Research In The Culture And Society Of A Spanish Florida, William B. Griffen
Suggestions For Research In The Culture And Society Of A Spanish Florida, William B. Griffen
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida was established as a functional part of the Spanish colonies in 1565. Saint Augustine was from the beginning the focal point of the Spanish Empire in Florida from which the social and cultural influences of the Iberian civilizers were radiated into the hinterland, transforming to some degree both the physical environment and the human groups bearing different ways of life which were encountered. But, not only from the standpoint of Spanish-Indian culture contact and acculturation does early Florida hold interest for the anthropologist. The imported European culture is also of tremendous importance to be understood in the development of …
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting, local and regional historical society
Osceola: Portraits, Features, And Dress, John M. Goggin
Osceola: Portraits, Features, And Dress, John M. Goggin
Florida Historical Quarterly
The most colorful figure of the unpopular Second Seminole War, Osceola, the Seminole war leader, early caught the imagination of the American public. 1 As a result, although we lack details of his early history, we have a good amount of data for his military career, and numerous comments on his appearance. He was the subject of several original sketches and paintings, as well as numerous engravings taken from them. However, differences between some of these “from life” renderings, raise the question of exactly what Osceola did look like!
Are There De Soto Relics In Florida?, John M. Goggin
Are There De Soto Relics In Florida?, John M. Goggin
Florida Historical Quarterly
The adventurous trip of Hernando de Soto from his debarkation on the Florida Gulf Coast in 1539, through thousands of miles of wilderness, to his death on the Mississippi River in 1542 has been the subject of many fictional and scholarly studies. Despite the careful attention given to his journey many questions arise in the minds of the students. One is the puzzling problem of why no material objects have ever been found which can be derived from the De Soto expedition. It is hard to believe a party of more than five hundred well-equipped men would leave or lose …
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Everglades, by Alfred Jackson Hanna and Kathryn Abbey Hanna. (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. 379 pp. $4.00), and Lakanal, the Regicide: A Biographical and Historical Study of the Career of Joseph Lakanal, by John Charles Dawson. University of Alabama Press, 1948. (215 p. $5.00)
Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 27
The Florida Historical Society: The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society: The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.