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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 master’s theses completed in 1986 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.
The Seymour Decision: An Appraisal Of The Olustee Campaign, William N. Nulty
The Seymour Decision: An Appraisal Of The Olustee Campaign, William N. Nulty
Florida Historical Quarterly
Just before seven A.M. on February 20, 1864, Colonel Guy V. Henry’s mounted brigade, the advance guard of the Union forces commanded by Brigadier General Truman Seymour, departed Barber’s Ford, Florida, heading west on the Lake City and Jacksonville Road. Composed of the Fortieth Massachusetts Mounted Infantry with the First Massachusetts Independent Cavalry attached and Captain Samuel S. Elder’s Horse Battery with four pieces of artillery, the mounted men soon outdistanced those marching in brigade columns. The sky was clear and gold sunlight was just starting to filter down through the pines. In a report written two days later, Seymour …
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. …
Black Immigrants: Bahamians In Early Twentieth-Century Miami, Raymond A. Mohl
Black Immigrants: Bahamians In Early Twentieth-Century Miami, Raymond A. Mohl
Florida Historical Quarterly
Miami is generally thought of as a new immigrant city— a city that only recently became the haven of Caribbean and Latin American exiles and refugees. Until the first big wave of Cubans began to arrive in 1959, Miami seemed the quintessential tourist town and retirement haven. From the 1920s through the 1950s, sun and surf, gambling and horse racing, and endless promotional extravaganzas helped to shape Miami’s public image. The fact is, however, that Miami has always had a magnetic attraction for peoples of the Caribbean. Indeed, the magnitude and diversity of current immigration to Miami tends to mask …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 65, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conferences, Exhibitions, Announcements and Activities
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops, 1986
Cow Cavalry: Munnerlyn's Battalion In Florida, 1864-1865, Robert A. Taylor
Cow Cavalry: Munnerlyn's Battalion In Florida, 1864-1865, Robert A. Taylor
Florida Historical Quarterly
Secession and civil war filled the air along with the blossoms of spring in Florida and the rest of the rebellious South in 1861. Florida’s membership in the new Confederate States of America augmented southern leader’s confidence in the region’s basic agricultural strength. It was well known that antebellum Florida possessed large numbers of beef cattle, which in an emergency could feed thousands of rebel soldiers. Florida beef would figure prominently in Confederate logistics, but could never meet the high expectations placed upon it by the government.
Florida Seminoles In The Depression And New Deal, 1933-1942: An Indian Perspective, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Seminoles In The Depression And New Deal, 1933-1942: An Indian Perspective, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Great Depression of the 1930s, following as it did the exuberant prosperity and financial excesses of the “Roaring Twenties,” caught millions of Americans both economically and psychologically unprepared to deal with the collapse which was to follow. One of the few groups which was not adversely affected immediately, if only because they were already living perilously close to the poverty level, was the Seminole Indians of Florida. As late as the turn of the century they had participated in a profitable trading relationship with white merchants in the south Florida region. These merchants had purchased a great volume of …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
JACKSON COUNTY, FLORIDA— A HISTORY, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by William Warren Rogers; THE LIVES OF VIZCAYA: ANNALS OF A GREAT HOUSE, by Kathryn Chapman Harwood, reviewed by Marcia J. Kanner; EDUCATING HAND AND MIND: A HISTORY OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN FLORIDA, by Robert G. Stakenas, reviewed by Arthur O. White; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME 10: DECEMBER 12, 1774-JANUARY 4, 1776, edited by David R. Chesnutt, et al., reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN OF THE OLD SOUTH. THE PECULIAR SISTERHOOD IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, by Minrose C. Gwin, reviewed by Emma Lou Thornbrough; …
Standards Of Nutrition In A St. Augustine Hospital, 1783-1821, Ann P. Emerson
Standards Of Nutrition In A St. Augustine Hospital, 1783-1821, Ann P. Emerson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Established by royal decree of the king of Spain in 1776, the Regulations for Royal Hospitals provided guidelines for hospital care in royal Spanish hospitals. This included the one in St. Augustine, Florida, during the Second Spanish Period (1783-1821). Other Spanish hospitals at this time were located in Mobile and New Orleans. The set of regulations is among the earliest written documents specifying the role and responsibilities of medical personnel, treatment of patients, content of regular and special diets, and preparation of food for patients. Earlier, in 1570, Phillip II of Spain had established a law to provide his subjects …
Union Academy: A Freedmen's Bureau School In Gainesville, Florida, Murray D. Laurie
Union Academy: A Freedmen's Bureau School In Gainesville, Florida, Murray D. Laurie
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Union Academy was one of the most important institutions in Gainesville’s black community for over fifty years. It was the town’s first public high school and from its graduating classes came most of Alachua County’s black teachers and black leaders. The facility which housed the Academy was built during Reconstruction by black carpenters who had learned their skill as slaves. Land for the building had been purchased by the school’s board of trustees. A symbol of self-sufficiency and pride for Gainesville’s black citizens for many decades, the Union Academy also represented the value they placed on education.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 65, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Florida History In Periodicals, 1985, Florida Historical Society
Florida History In Periodicals, 1985, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1985. 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 1985 issue of the Quarterly.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE FLORIDA SITUADO: QUANTIFYING THE FIRST EIGHTY YEARS, by Engel Sluiter, reviewed by Lyle N. McAlister; BEYOND THE NEXT MOUNTAIN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY ROBERT CRAWFORD WOODARD, DECEMBER 9, 1867-August 31, 1949, reviwed by Paul S. George; BERNARD ROMANS: FORGOTTEN PATRIOT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. MILITARY ENGINEER AND CARTOGRAPHER OF WEST POINT AND THE HUDSON VALLEY, by Lincoln Diamant, reviewed by Louis De Vorsey, Jr.; THE GEORGIA-FLORIDA CONTEST IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1776-1778, by Martha Condray Searcy, reviewed by Robin F. A. Fabel; MY GOLD COAST: SOUTH FLORIDA IN EARLIER YEARS, by Lora Sinks Britt, reviewed by Thelma Peters; MCKEITHEN WEEDEN …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Awards, Florida History Fair, Wentworth Foundation Grant, History of Florida, Quincentennial of the Discover Prizes, Florida Women's Hall of Fame Awards, Announcments and Activities, Conferences
Conservation And Reutilization Of The Castillo De San Marcos And Fort Matanzas, Luis Rafael Arana
Conservation And Reutilization Of The Castillo De San Marcos And Fort Matanzas, Luis Rafael Arana
Florida Historical Quarterly
On July 10, 1821, at four o’clock in the afternoon, Spanish gunners in the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine fired a twenty-one gun salute. On the last round they lowered the royal colors and marched out of the fortification, abandoning twenty-five pieces of unserviceable artillery. Passing in front of the line of American soldiers waiting to enter the Castillo, the Spanish soldiers exchanged salutes with the representatives of the new proprietors of the Florida territory. Five days earlier, ruined Fort Matanzas, some twenty kilometers south of St. Augustine at Matanzas Inlet, had been evacuated by its three-man garrison, …
Jacksonville In The Progressive Era: Responses To Urban Growth, James B. Crooks
Jacksonville In The Progressive Era: Responses To Urban Growth, James B. Crooks
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Jacksonville, Florida, became a substantial southern city. Its population more than tripled from 28,428 to 91,558, as it jumped from the nineteenth to the twelfth largest city in the Southeast. Construction, after the great fire of 1901, of skyscrapers, a new city hall, court house, library, high schools, modern department stores, and a palatial railroad station created a cosmopolitan downtown. Expanding suburbs in Riverside, Murray Hill, Springfield, and across the St. Johns River in South Jacksonville provided the physical and social separation of work and home life that characterized cities across …
Groveland: Florida's Little Scottsboro, Steven F. Lawson
Groveland: Florida's Little Scottsboro, Steven F. Lawson
Florida Historical Quarterly
The residents of Lake County, Florida, awoke on the morning of July 16, 1949, to a drama that was hauntingly familiar and yet disturbingly different. Word passed quickly through the area of small towns and rural communities that before dawn on this summer Sunday’s white woman had been attacked and raped by four black men near Groveland. In the past, such crimes had stirred lynch mobs into acts of vengeance, and this occasion proved no exception. However, in this instance, blood-thirsty vigilantes did not succeed in rendering summary punishment, but they partially achieved their objectives through lawful means. Although lynching …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 65, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Brokers, Binders, And Builders: Greater Miami's Boom Of The Mid-1920s, Paul S. George
Brokers, Binders, And Builders: Greater Miami's Boom Of The Mid-1920s, Paul S. George
Florida Historical Quarterly
Six decades have passed since greater Miami and all the rest of Florida were immersed in an orgy of land speculation and a vast array of construction projects referred to as the boom. Miami and its environs were the storm center of the boom, which began to reach fever pitch in 1924. This speculative period crested in the latter part of 1925, when the price of land rose to unheard of heights, and construction commenced on a myriad of ambitious building projects. The boom ended in 1926.
Index To Volume Lxiv, Florida Historical Society
Index To Volume Lxiv, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
BLACK EAGLE : GENERAL DANIEL “CHAPPIE " JAMES , J R., by James R. McGovern, reviewed by Jim Haskins; THIS DESTRUCTIVE WAR: THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN IN THE CAROLINAS, 1780-1782, by John S. Pancake, reviewed by Hugh F. Rankin; THE SLAVE'S NARRATIVE, edited by Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reviewed by Larry E. Rivers; WHITE SOCIETY IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH, by Bruce Collins, reviewed by John Hebron Moore; NORTH CAROLINA PLANTERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, 1800-1860, by Jane Turner Censer, reviewed by Cheryll Ann Cody; BLACK MASTERS: A FREE FAMILY OF COLOR IN THE OLD SOUTH, by Michael P. …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, National Register of Historic Places, Consulting Services, Conferences, Announcements and Activities
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
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 other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.
"Florida Is A Blessed Country": Letters To Iowa From A Florida Settler, Pat Sonquist Lane
"Florida Is A Blessed Country": Letters To Iowa From A Florida Settler, Pat Sonquist Lane
Florida Historical Quarterly
Letters from settlers have provided information and insights into the early history of our country. The letters here are about Gainesville and Charlotte Harbor, Florida, between 1885 and 1887, and were written by J. Albert Erickson, who had moved from north central Iowa to Florida in 1874. Erickson’s letters were sent to John A. Lindberg, editor of the Dayton (Iowa) Review, who published them.
Steamboat Activity In Florida During The Second Seminole Indian War, Edward A. Mueller
Steamboat Activity In Florida During The Second Seminole Indian War, Edward A. Mueller
Florida Historical Quarterly
A significant stimulus to the development of steamboat activity in Florida was the Second Seminole Indian War (1835-1842). The war was a difficult one for the United States to wage. Transportation by water played a key role. The conflict involved a substantial number of steamboats. Because of a lack of roads, they served as logical and logistical answers to military needs. Army facilities located on or near navigable waters, like the St. Johns River and its tributaries, could be supplied by steamboats. With few exceptions steamboats were primarily used for military purposes and usually did not cater to civilians. However, …
Demographic Patterns And Changes In Mid-Seventeenth Century Timucua And Apalchee, John H. Hann
Demographic Patterns And Changes In Mid-Seventeenth Century Timucua And Apalchee, John H. Hann
Florida Historical Quarterly
Surprisingly little is known about the village patterns of northern Florida’s natives prior to their missionization or about the settlement policy followed by the friars during the formation of the Florida mission chains. This is particularly true for the inland missions of Potano, Utina, Ustaca, and Apalachee. There is no evidence that the Florida Franciscans followed the “reduction" approach of their Jesuit contemporaries in the South American mission provinces of Guaira, Itatin, Tape and Paraguay, whose people had a material culture roughly similar to that of North Florida’s missionized tribes. Thus, it is generally assumed that the friars adapted their …
"The Nest Of Vile Fanatics": William N. Sheats And The Orange Park School, Joe M. Richardson
"The Nest Of Vile Fanatics": William N. Sheats And The Orange Park School, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
When the Orange Park Normal and Industrial School opened October 7, 1891, probably none of the excited participants imagined that within three years the school would incur the wrath of Florida’s superintendent of public instruction and would result in the passage of a state law prohibiting teaching blacks and whites under the same roof. Rather, the school began with enthusiastic community support and the expectation that its influence would reach throughout upper Florida and lower Georgia. The Orange Park school was founded by the American Missionary Association of New York, the most significant benevolent society then engaged in educating blacks. …