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Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida’s university, college, and public libraries and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archive in question.

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The "Coggins Affair": Desegregation And Mores In Madison County, Florida, Charlotte Downey-Anderson Dec 2021

The "Coggins Affair": Desegregation And Mores In Madison County, Florida, Charlotte Downey-Anderson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Madison, Florida, in the 1950s was a quiet, pretty town of approximately 3,000. The courthouse square which dominates the downtown area was surrounded by stores and was lined with Sabal palms. To the north and across the street from the courthouse there is a small city park with the “Four Freedoms” monument, built in memory of Army Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly, a World War II hero. Pleasant homes dot the oakshaded streets leading from the square. Madison is and was a typical southern town. During the 1950s and the 1960s, racial and social constraints were rigid in the …

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Passage To The New Eden: Tourism In Miami From Flagler Through Everest G. Sewell, Paul S. George Dec 2021

Passage To The New Eden: Tourism In Miami From Flagler Through Everest G. Sewell, Paul S. George

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Henry M. Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) steamed into Miami in April 1896, Florida was already on its way to becoming a tourist haven. With its salubrious climate and primeval setting, the state was, for many visitors a veritable paradise, an accessible Eden. This image was timeless. William Bartram, in his eighteenth-century account of a visit to Florida, described the area as “A blessed unviolated spot of earth . . . [a] blissful garden.” 1 Florida remained remote to most northerners until the middle of the nineteenth century, when a small stream of visitors began arriving, many of …

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Art Is Long; Life Isn't Randolph Caldecott In America And In Florida, John Cech Dec 2021

Art Is Long; Life Isn't Randolph Caldecott In America And In Florida, John Cech

Florida Historical Quarterly

Randolph Caldecott, the noted British illustrator, began his first and last visit to the United States and eventually to Florida in November 1885. Born in 1846, Caldecott was nearly forty and near the end of his life at the time of the journey. Friends had encouraged him to spend the worst part of the winter of 1885-1886 in St. Augustine, Florida, and the American South, away from the bleak English weather that often threatened to break his fragile health. Caldecott suffered, for most of his relatively short life, from a heart condition, the aftereffects of a childhood bout with rheumatic …

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Abner Doubleday And The Third Seminole War, David Ramsey Dec 2021

Abner Doubleday And The Third Seminole War, David Ramsey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Abner Doubleday, the grandson of a veteran of the American Revolution, was born June 26, 1819, at Ballston Spa, New York, twenty miles north of Albany. Abner attended school in Auburn and later Cooperstown, New York, before entering the United States Military Academy in 1838. Graduating in 1842, he stood number twenty-four academically in a class of fifty-six.

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Federal Schools And Acculturation Among The Florida Seminoles, 1927-1954, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. Dec 2021

Federal Schools And Acculturation Among The Florida Seminoles, 1927-1954, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Great Depression of the 1930s would bring incalculable hardship to thousands of Floridians of all races. Actually, the state’s economy had been in constant decline since the late twenties when the excessive speculation of the land boom led to a spectacular “bust,” aided in no small part by a pair of devastating hurricanes occurring only two years apart. Thus, the southernmost state preceded the nation into the economic abyss. As is generally true in such periods of national economic decline, ethnic and linguistic minorities bore the brunt of unemployment and privation. In Florida, one of the groups most adversely …

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Liberal Arts On The Florida Frontier: The Founding Of Rollins College, 1885-1890, Jack C. Lane Dec 2021

Liberal Arts On The Florida Frontier: The Founding Of Rollins College, 1885-1890, Jack C. Lane

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although unique in its particulars, the founding of Rollins College in 1885 strongly resembled the formation and establishment of liberal arts colleges throughout the nineteenth century. Three forces-educational denominationalism, community boosterism, and real estate entrepreneurism-converged during the century to create a mania of indiscriminate college-building that produced as many as 700 institutions by the beginning of the Civil War. Founded in the waning years of the “ages of colleges,” Rollins fits this nineteenth-century pattern. It was the Congregational Church that established Rollins in the small frontier town of Winter Park, Florida. The local citizens provided most of the funds, and …

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John Willis Menard: A Progressive Black In Post-Civil War Florida, Bess Beatty Dec 2021

John Willis Menard: A Progressive Black In Post-Civil War Florida, Bess Beatty

Florida Historical Quarterly

John Willis Menard was thirty-three years old when he arrived in Florida in 1871. Born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, he had attended Iberia College in Ohio and had been employed by the federal government during the Civil War. His service on a committee which surveyed areas in Central America as possible sites for settlement of emancipated slaves had made him even more aware of the needs of the black freedman. He was the first black to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, although he was never seated. He also for a time was editor of the New Orleans …

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Florida, "Our Own Italy": James F. B. Marshall's Post-Civil War Letters To Edward Everett Hale, Patricia P. Clark Dec 2021

Florida, "Our Own Italy": James F. B. Marshall's Post-Civil War Letters To Edward Everett Hale, Patricia P. Clark

Florida Historical Quarterly

While touring Florida during the winter of 1867 as agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which hoped to revitalize its pre-war colonizing efforts, James F. B. Marshall regularly corresponded with company officers: Thomas B. Forbush, secretary, and Edward Everett Hale, vice-president. His letters to Forbush were shared with prospective emigrants and used in the secretary’s publication, Florida: The Advantages and Inducements Which It Offers to Immigrants. In writing to Hale, Marshall offered more confidential observations relating to people he contacted, especially politicians, businessmen, government land agents, large property owners, and speculators, in short, anyone who might be able …

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Charles H. Jones: Florida's Gilded Age Editor-Politician, Thomas Graham Dec 2021

Charles H. Jones: Florida's Gilded Age Editor-Politician, Thomas Graham

Florida Historical Quarterly

For much of the nineteenth century American newspapermen played important roles in political parties. Most papers were affiliated with or were supported by a particular party, and the editor of the party newspaper was usually treated as one of the ranking officers in the organization. Sometimes editors held public office, but more often they served as advisors, ideologues, and mouthpieces of the party line. Nineteenth-century Florida had several newspapermen of this type. Preeminent among these was Charles Dyke of the Tallahassee Floridian, who guided the Democratic party’s chief journal from early statehood days through the tumultuous era of Reconstruction. Dyke’s …

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Pensacola, Florida: A Military City In The New South, James R. Mcgovern Dec 2021

Pensacola, Florida: A Military City In The New South, James R. Mcgovern

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Henry Grady extolled the emergence of the “New South,” he was primarily referring to the advent of an urban industrial civilization in that region; his conception of the “New South” did not foresee the possibility that urbanism in many southern communities would occur without industrialization. While urban history is more than a bookshelf of analyses of individual cities, localized studies of the widely divergent types of cities that make up the “New South“ in the twentieth century would enrich our knowledge of the concept. Pensacola, Florida, emerged as a city in the “New South“ in the period 1900 to …

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Index To Volume Lviii, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Index To Volume Lviii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE SOUTHERN COLONIAL FRONTIER, 1607-1763, by W. Stitt Robinson, reviewed by Kenneth Coleman; THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN THE SOUTH: POWER, CONFLICT, AND LEADERSHIP. ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN RICHARD ALDEN, edited by W. Robert Higgins, reviewed by Robin F. A. Fabel; A SACRED CIRCLE: THE DILEMMA OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN THE OLD SOUTH, 1840-1860, by Drew Gilpin Faust, reviewed by Charles B. Dew; “JOURNAL OF A SECESH LADY,” THE DIARY OF CATHERINE ANN DEVEREAUX EDMONSTON, 1860-1866, edited by Beth G. Crabtree and James W. Patton, reviewed by Anne Firor Scott; SHERMAN’S MARCH, by Richard Wheeler, reviewed by Richard M. McMurry; …

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Civil War Career Of Colonel George Washington Scott, Marion B. Lucas Dec 2021

Civil War Career Of Colonel George Washington Scott, Marion B. Lucas

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Is there no remedy for this seeming madness?" John Scott of Pennsylvania wrote his brother George Washington Scott in January of 1861. Their world seemed to be crumbling around them as they viewed the rapidly approaching conflict between the North and South which would pit one brother against the other, a tragedy which occurred often in this most devastating of American wars.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE AWAKENING OF ST. AUGUSTINE: THE ANDERSON FAMILY AND THE OLDEST CITY, 1821-1924, by Thomas Graham, reviewed by Michael V. Gannon; SITUACION HISTORICA DE LAS FLORIDAS EN LA SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO XVIII, by Elena Sanchez-Fabres Mirat, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FLORIDA: THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, edited by Samuel Proctor, reviewed by Robert R. Rea; THE FLORIDA WARS, by Virginia Bergman Peters, reviewed by John K. Mahon; SOURCES OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE: SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, edited by Howard Peckham, reviewed by Gerard W. Gawalt; JOHN ROSS, CHEROKEE CHIEF, by …

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Trail Indians Of Florida, James W. Covington Dec 2021

Trail Indians Of Florida, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The story of the Trail Indians of Florida is the account of Seminoles who loved Florida as much as any group that ever lived here-Latins, crackers, or transplanted Yankees-and who fought the United States government to a virtual standstill in three nineteenth-century wars in a fierce determination to maintain their homes somewhere on the peninsula. In terms of religion, education, and their general life pattern, the Trail Indians have been among the most recalcitrant in the United States against the threats of the white man’s civilization. In recent years one group of Seminoles, organized into the Miccosukee Tribe, launched a …

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The Sly Foxes: Henry Flagler, George Miles, And Florida's Public Domain, Edward N. Akin Dec 2021

The Sly Foxes: Henry Flagler, George Miles, And Florida's Public Domain, Edward N. Akin

Florida Historical Quarterly

"My domain begins at Jacksonville," Henry M. Flagler asserted in an invitation extended in February 1898 to President William McKinley to visit him on Florida’s east coast. Flagler’s statement contained a great measure of truth. During the 1880s, Flagler, a close friend and associate of John D. Rockefeller in their Standard Oil Company empire, began a second career in Florida. Flagler had spent some time in Jacksonville in 1878 with his first wife in a vain effort to regain her health. He was delighted with Florida, and he honeymooned with his second wife in St. Augustine during the winter of …

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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 58, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

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He Has Carried His Life In His Hands: The "Sarasota Assassination Society" Of 1884, Janet Snyder Matthews Dec 2021

He Has Carried His Life In His Hands: The "Sarasota Assassination Society" Of 1884, Janet Snyder Matthews

Florida Historical Quarterly

A front page headline in the New York Times in February 1885, announced: “The Bloody Work of Band of Southern Murderers . . . the notorious Sarasota Assassination Society.” The Times story reported that Alfred B. Bidwell, formerly of Buffalo, had been arrested for vigilantism in Florida: “This organization is supposed to exist for the purpose of the secret murder of political opponents, and is composed of 20 members, bound together by terrible oaths to perform the bloody work of the band and to keep its secrets inviolate. Mr. Bidwell is charged with making his store the rendezvous of the …

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Storyteller, Emily Vogel Dec 2021

Storyteller, Emily Vogel

Exile

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For Children’S Sake, Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

For Children’S Sake, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

For three decades, Steve Nicholas has worked to create more sustainable cities. He tells videographer Reggie Huang why we must make progress on this urgent problem before it’s turned over to the next generation.

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In Living Color: Newly Discovered Film Shows The Colby Of 80 Years Ago, Laura Meader Dec 2021

In Living Color: Newly Discovered Film Shows The Colby Of 80 Years Ago, Laura Meader

Colby Magazine

In 1935 Frederick Kinch began making home movies using Kodak’s newly introduced 8 mm camera. He filmed his children, a few hunting trips, and his alma mater—Colby. The film he spliced together from two trips to Waterville has recently surfaced, providing rare moving images of both downtown and Mayflower Hill campuses.

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Obituaries, Colby College Dec 2021

Obituaries, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Class Notes, Colby College Dec 2021

Class Notes, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Shorter Takes (Short Form), Colby College Dec 2021

Shorter Takes (Short Form), Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Fighting Climate Change Is A Capital Idea: Graham Macmillan Sees Market Incentives As Powerful Tools, Gerry Boyle Dec 2021

Fighting Climate Change Is A Capital Idea: Graham Macmillan Sees Market Incentives As Powerful Tools, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

In coming years, action on climate may come from what some would consider the least likely direction—capital markets. Where some people might consider the demands of capital markets to be at the root of social and environmental problems, Graham Macmillan ’97 sees market incentive as wielding powerful leverage to help bring about solutions to the world’s most vexing challenges.

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For Students, Gifts With Impact, Colby College Dec 2021

For Students, Gifts With Impact, Colby College

Colby Magazine

A vibrant arts community melding programs on and off campus, accomplished writers in residence who will work, teach, and engage with students, and a new curriculum designed to enhance verbal communications skills vital to success in a myriad of fields. These are among the significant enhancements announced at the College this fall.

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A Football Odyssey, Alexander A. Pyles Dec 2021

A Football Odyssey, Alexander A. Pyles

Colby Magazine

More than 25 years ago, the former Colby linebacker rushed to a bench between the locker room and the field before every Mules practice. He was the first one there each day, ensuring every teammate would have to walk past as he shouted. “‘What a great day to practice! This is gonna be an awesome practice!’” DeCosta, 48, recalls saying.

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Full Issue, Colby College Dec 2021

Full Issue, Colby College

Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 107, no. 2: full issue

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University Of North Florida, Jacksonville, University Of North Florida Dec 2021

University Of North Florida, Jacksonville, University Of North Florida

Admissions

Informational book about the University of North Florida.

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