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History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meetings, Awards, Conferences and Meetings, Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
PEPPER: EYEWITNESS TO A CENTURY, by Claude Denson Pepper and Hays Gorey, reviewed by Alexander R. Stoesen; IN THE WAY OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS: A CULTURAL VIEW OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MIDWIFERY IN FLORIDA, by Debra Anne Susie, reviewed by William M. Straight; THE CHARACTER OF THE WORD: THE TEXTS OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON, by Karla F. C. Holloway; reviewed by Jim Haskins; THE CORPSE HAD A FAMILIAR FACE, by Edna Buchanan, MIAMI, by Joan Didion, reviewed by Paul S. George; ARCHAEOLOGY OF ABORIGINAL CULTURE CHANGE IN THE INTERIOR SOUTHEAST: DEPOPULATION DURING THE EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD, by Marvin T. Smith, reviewed by John …
"Everybody Votes For Gilchrist": The Florida Gubernatorial Campaign Of 1908, Ric A. Kabat
"Everybody Votes For Gilchrist": The Florida Gubernatorial Campaign Of 1908, Ric A. Kabat
Florida Historical Quarterly
The sun was breaking through in Tallahassee on January 5, 1909, as groups of people filled the streets excitedly awaiting the inauguration of Florida’s new governor. The capitol was adorned with red, white, and blue bunting, and crowds had gathered on the grounds to watch the ceremonial festivities. At 12:00 P.M., Albert W. Gilchrist recited the oath officially accepting the office that he had sought so long and hard. Stepping to the podium, he could see hundreds of people waiting to hear his inaugural address. Many wondered: will Gilchrist be progressive? Will he pursue liberal policies or will his administration …
"State Of Emergency": Key West In The Great Depression, Garry Boulard
"State Of Emergency": Key West In The Great Depression, Garry Boulard
Florida Historical Quarterly
On July 1, 1934, elected representatives of the Key West City Council and the Monroe County Board of Commissioners drew up two separate resolutions that said the same thing. The island city, the ordinances declared, was more than $5,000,000 in bonded debt, with at least eighty percent of its inhabitants on the welfare rolls. City services were reduced to almost a non-existent level as employees went without pay for weeks at a time. Furthermore, the lack of a viable industry to employ local residents, coupled with a greatly decreased island tax base, foretold a dire economic future for the city.
Arcadia And Bagdad: Industrial Parks Of Antebellum Florida, Brian Rucker
Arcadia And Bagdad: Industrial Parks Of Antebellum Florida, Brian Rucker
Florida Historical Quarterly
Industrial development in antebellum Florida was rare; the new state’s economy was based primarily on agriculture, as were the other southern states. Two exceptions, however, are the interconnected industrial complexes of Arcadia and Bagdad, located in northwest Florida approximately twenty-five miles from Pensacola. Arcadia had its origins in 1817 and operated as an industrial site until 1855. Bagdad began in 1840 and became one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of yellow pine lumber until its lumber mill closed in 1939.
Florida Preachers And The Election Of 1928, M. Edward Highes
Florida Preachers And The Election Of 1928, M. Edward Highes
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the presidential election of 1928, a Roman Catholic, Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, was the first of his religion to represent a major political party as its candidate for president. When Smith, the Democratic nominee, was defeated in this election, the importance of religion to his defeat frequently obscured the other issue which also created widespread opposition to his presidential aspirations. This issue, which many of the opponents of Smith cited as central to their opposition, was prohibition. Governor Smith proposed modifying existing prohibition laws to allow the sale of beer and wine. It was this position, …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 67, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Prizes and Awards, Florida History Fair, Publications, Forthcoming Meetings, Announcements and Activities
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
FLAGLER: ROCKEFELLER PARTNER AND FLORIDA BARON, by Edward N. Akin, reviewed by Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.; THE IMMIGRANT WORLD OF YBOR CITY : ITALIANS AND THEIR LATIN NEIGHBORS IN TAMPA, 1885-1985, by Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta, reviewed by Wayne Flynt; THE ECONOMY OF BRITISH WEST FLORIDA: 1763-1783, by Robin F. A. Fabel, reviewed by William S. Coker; FLORIDA FOLKTALES, edited by J. Russell Reaver, reviewed by Marjory Bartlett Sanger; SEMINOLE HISTORY: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, by Martee Wills and Joan Perry Morris, foreword by Burt Reynolds, reviewed by William Warren Rogers, Jr.; THE EARLY …
Apalachee Counterfeiters In St. Augustine, John H. Hann
Apalachee Counterfeiters In St. Augustine, John H. Hann
Florida Historical Quarterly
The record of the criminal investigation into the counterfeiting activity of two young Apalachee visitors to St. Augustine is of significance for the light it casts on the acculturation of the Indians, Spanish labor recruitment practices late in the mission period, and the missions’ influence. It provides interesting vignettes as well of retail commercial life in St. Augustine and of the role played by free blacks in that commercial life and of the access of blacks to the governor.
Florida History In Other Periodicals, Florida Historical Society
Florida History In Other Periodicals, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1987. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1987 issue of the Quarterly.
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, …
Rebel Beef: Florida Cattle And The Confederate Army, 1862-1864, Robert A. Taylor
Rebel Beef: Florida Cattle And The Confederate Army, 1862-1864, Robert A. Taylor
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida supplied the Confederacy with thousands of head of cattle during the Civil War. Beef provided an important food source for soldiers in the lower South. Beef kept the Army of Tennessee from starving during the winters of 1863 and 1864, and meat sustained the defenders of Charleston while under Union seige. The Confederate Commissary Bureau had little difficulty supplying their armies with beef during the first year of the war, but by the beginning of 1862, it became increasingly hard to procure. To increase the number of available cattle, the Bureau awarded contracts to civilian agents to locate and …
Pedro Menéndez's Strategic Plan For The Florida Peninsula, Eugene Lyon
Pedro Menéndez's Strategic Plan For The Florida Peninsula, Eugene Lyon
Florida Historical Quarterly
It is evident that perceptible interconnections linked the efforts of the several sixteenth-century explorers of North America. Professor Paul Hoffman has pointed out how legend and geographic surmise drew Europeans to the continent from the time of John and Sebastian Cabot and Juan Ponce de Leon to that of Walter Raleigh. The later adventurers were heritors of the wisdom of folly of their predecessors, from whatever nation or kingdom they might have come.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 67, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
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
Index To Volume Lxvi, Florida Historical Society
Index To Volume Lxvi, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS : VOICE OF THE RIVER : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH JOHN ROTHCHILD, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, reviewed by LeRoy Collins; BOMBAST AND BROADSIDES: THE LIVES OF GEORGE JOHNSTONE, by Robin F. A. Fabel, reviewed by J. Barton Starr; YO SOLO: BERNARDO DE GÁLVEZ Y LA TOMA DE PANZACOLA EN 1781; UNA CONTRIBUCIÓ N ESPAÑOLA A LA INDEPENDENCIA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, by Carmen de Reparaz, reviewed by Joseph John Jova; FLORIDA'S VANISHING ARCHITECTURE, by Beth Dunlop, reviewed by Ivan A. Rodriguez; RECONSTRUCTING HISTORIC SUBSISTENCE WITH AN EXAMPLE FROM SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPANISH FLORIDA, by Elizabeth J. Reitz and C. Margaret …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, History Fair, National Register of Historic Places, Announcements and Activities, Awards,
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries and archives, and other institutions. Anyone interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.
Demography And The Political Destiny Of Florida During The Second Spanish Period, Abel Poitrineau
Demography And The Political Destiny Of Florida During The Second Spanish Period, Abel Poitrineau
Florida Historical Quarterly
The twenty-year period of British sovereignty of the Floridas came to an end September 3, 1783, when the treaty concluding the American Revolution was signed at Versailles, France. The Treaty of Paris, as it was known, gave the Spanish crown control of a large portion of North America. Spain retained sovereignty over the Louisiana Territory, and the Spanish flag once more flew over the Floridas as it had from 1565 to 1763. However, the restoration of Spanish rule in the Floridas, so important for the control of the Bahama Channel, was at best precarious. Spain’s military weakness and the financial …
John Ellis, King's Agent, And West Florida, Julius Groner
John Ellis, King's Agent, And West Florida, Julius Groner
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the short though not uneventful life of the British colony of West Florida, major figures came and went with disruptive frequency. Three royal governors and two lieutenant governors headed the resident administration of the colony in eighteen years, but all of them enjoyed the administrative stability provided in London by the royal agent for West Florida, John Ellis. For a dozen years this distinguished scientist and modest bureaucrat presided over the parliamentary grant upon which West Florida depended and disbursed its funds in such a judicious manner as to restrain gubernatorial fiscal exuberance, maintain necessary public functions, and satisfy …
Florida Slave Narratives, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Slave Narratives, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Historical Quarterly
In October 1939, the Jacksonville Journal published a story describing a federally-funded project going on in Florida that would have a far-reaching impact on future scholarship. “On disks that time can’t destroy, a sapphire needle scratches the songs of the longshoreman and waterfront workers which, because of mechanical equipment and the jook organ, are fast disappearing.“ The paper not only detailed the technology that was being utilized, it pointed out the importance of the technicians, in this case, Stetson Kennedy of Jacksonville and Robert Harrison Cook. Representatives of the Federal Writers’ Project, Kennedy and Cook had honeycombed the hinterland and …
The 1944 Florida Democratic Senate Primary, James C. Clark
The 1944 Florida Democratic Senate Primary, James C. Clark
Florida Historical Quarterly
Senator Claude Pepper’s defeat in the 1950 Democratic primary by Representative George Smathers has become one of the most controversial elections in Florida politics. The race between Pepper, a New Deal liberal, and Smathers, a traditional southern conservative, attracted national attention. But Pepper’s popularity actually began to decline in 1944, when he narrowly avoided a runoff election against a field of little-known candidates. The 1944 election indicated some of Pepper’s political weaknesses that Smathers would exploit six years later. Claude Pepper followed an unusual route to the United States Senate. He was born in Alabama in 1900, was graduated from …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 66, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
President's Prize, Meetings, Awards, Announcements and Activities, Obituary
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
MIAMI: CITY OF THE FUTURE. By T. D. Allman, reviewed by Marcia J. Kanner; FLORIDA 'S ARMY: MILITIA , STATE TROOPS , NATIONAL GUARD, 1565-1985. By Robert Hawk, reviewed by John K. Mahon; THE FORGING OF THE UNION, 1781-1789. By Richard B. Morris, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; A MACHINE THAT WOULD Go OF ITSELF: THE CONSTITUTION IN AMERICAN CULTURE. By Michael Kammen, reviewed by Kermit L. Hall; THE EAGLE'S NEST: NATURAL HISTORY AND AMERICAN IDEAS, 1812-1842. By Charlotte M. Porter, reviewed by Todd Savitt; ROBERT STAFFORD OF CUMBERLAND ISLAND : GROWTH OF A PLANTER . By Mary R. Bullard, …
Nobility, Family, And Service: Menéndez And His Men, John Frederick Schwaller
Nobility, Family, And Service: Menéndez And His Men, John Frederick Schwaller
Florida Historical Quarterly
The conquest of Florida by the Spanish has been described by Eugene Lyon and other important scholars. Nevertheless, it is sometimes forgotten that Florida was only a small and relatively unimportant part of Spain’s vast American empire. Yet those conquistadors and their followers who came to Florida are an interesting lot. This is particularly true of these men who served with Menéndez in Florida, a group of whom ended their lives and careers in Mexico. An examination of their activities reveals the ties of family, the status of nobility, and the importance of royal service.
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 1987 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archaeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.
Ordeal By Siege: James Bruce In Pensacola, 1780-1781, Robin F. A. Fabel
Ordeal By Siege: James Bruce In Pensacola, 1780-1781, Robin F. A. Fabel
Florida Historical Quarterly
Of the aspects of British West Florida attracting the attention of historians none surpasses the siege of Pensacola in 1781. All accounts rely on the reports of combatant participants, but no historian of West Florida has evidently used or perhaps been aware of the observations of one of the many civilian observers trapped by war in Pensacola. He was James Bruce, collector of customs at Pensacola. While enduring with his countrymen the final desperate days of British rule in the province, he wrote six letters to mercantile friends in London. They provide, apart from illuminating details of economic conditions during …