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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Knotts, See Yankeetown: History and Reminiscences by Ernest H. Jernigan; Clausen, Morrell, and Jones, Florida Department of State, Bureau of Historic Sites and Properties: Bulletin No. I, by Eugene Lyon; Ritcheson, Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States, 1783-1795, by Robert R. Rea; Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation by Michael Kammen; Martin, The Amistad Affair, by Martin M. LaGodna; Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South by Joe M. Richardson; Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made, by Roger D. Bridges; Parker (ed.), The Structure of the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South, by Julia F. Smith; …
Tamiami Trail Blazers: A Personal Memoir, Russell Kay
Tamiami Trail Blazers: A Personal Memoir, Russell Kay
Florida Historical Quarterly
Prior to the construction of the Tamiami Trail connecting the east and west coasts of Florida, the only cross-peninsular highway ran from Tampa to Daytona Beach. With the advent of automobiles in Florida shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the possibility of constructing a highway across the Everglades was considered. It was a very controversial issue, however, and opponents argued that the giant cost and the great engineering problems would make the project impossible. Businessmen and chamber of commerce representatives on both coasts, however, insisted that it could be done. Shortly after the end of World War I …
Justice Samuel Douglas As Governor Marvin Remembered Him, Bertram H. Groene
Justice Samuel Douglas As Governor Marvin Remembered Him, Bertram H. Groene
Florida Historical Quarterly
In February of 1896 forty-seven year old Bettie Douglas Lewis of Tallahassee, Florida, wrote a letter to aging William Marvin, former governor of the state of Florida. Mrs. Lewis’ mother was “Lizzie” Brown, oldest of former Governor Thomas Brown’s four daughters. Bettie’s father was Judge Samuel James Douglas, once Florida’s territorial judge of the middle district, located in Tallahassee, and later an associate justice of the Florida supreme court. Douglas died in 1873, and twenty-three years later, Bettie (Mrs. George Lewis) sought to preserve his history. Aside from her mother, Lizzie, there were few people then living who knew the …
History Of The Blockhouse On The Withlacoochee, Tom Knotts
History Of The Blockhouse On The Withlacoochee, Tom Knotts
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Animosity between the Florida Seminoles and the American settlers moving in from Georgia and the Carolinas which had been brewing for decades erupted into bloody conflict on December 28, 1835, when Major Francis L. Dade’s command was massacred near Wahoo Swamp, while enroute from Fort Brooke to Fort King. Osceola and a detachment of warriors murdered Wiley Thompson, Indian agent at Fort King, and Constantine Smith the same day as Dade’s massacre. Brigadier General Duncan L. Clinch, commander of the regular forces in Florida, clashed with the Indians three days later as he attempted to cross the Withlacoochee River. …
Intervention And Reaction: Florida Newspapers And United States Entry In World War I, C. Peter Ripley
Intervention And Reaction: Florida Newspapers And United States Entry In World War I, C. Peter Ripley
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida newspapers largely ignored the war in Europe until 1917. In early January there was only an occasional mention of the international situation except for brief reports on the fighting. But by mid-February the possibility, and in some cases the inevitability, of United States involvement in the war was a major editorial topic. A month later a majority of the papers favored America’s joining the crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”
Thirty Cent Cotton At Lloyd, Florida 1916-1919, Clifton Paisley
Thirty Cent Cotton At Lloyd, Florida 1916-1919, Clifton Paisley
Florida Historical Quarterly
Not since the Reconstruction Era had the price of cotton reached the heights that it did during the period of the first World War. Very few cotton farmers of 1916-1919 could remember personally the 44 cent cotton of 1865, or even the 20 cent cotton, for after 1872 and until the beginning of the war in Europe in 1914, the price remained below 20 cents. Much of this time southern cotton brought less than 10 cents a pound, in 1914 it was only 8.9 cents. From this low price however, cotton advanced to 19.3 cents in 1916, 29.6 cents in …
War Averters: Seward, Mallory, And Fort Pickens, Ernest F. Dibble
War Averters: Seward, Mallory, And Fort Pickens, Ernest F. Dibble
Florida Historical Quarterly
In January 1861, the scene was set in Pensacola and the curtain almost drawn for the first major military confrontation of the Civil War. A crisis over federal property developed in Florida, and except for Fort Pickens at Pensacola and Fort Taylor in Key West, all government installations were seized. In Pensacola, both sides expected hostilities to begin immediately. The navy yard at Warrington, Barrancas barracks, and Fort McRee were taken peacefully, but Lieutenant Adam J. Slemmer, in command of the Pensacola forts, removed all of his men and as much equipment as possible from the other locations into the …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 49, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Proceedings Of The Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Proceedings Of The Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Announcements and Activities
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
Reviews of Redford, Billion-Dollar Sandbar: A Biography of Miami Beach, by Kathryn Hall Proby; Dean, The Tampa of My Childhood, 1897-1907, and On St. Andrews Bay, 1911-1917: A Sequel, by John D. Ware; Ford, A Comparison of Formative Cultures in the Americas: Diffusion or the Psychic Unity of Man, by William R. Bullard, Jr.; Huck and Moseley (eds.), Militarists, Merchants, and Missionaries, by Donald E. Worcester; McDermott, Frenchmen and French Ways in the Mississippi Valley, by William S. Coker; Brown, The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution, by Robert M. Calhoon; Owsley (ed.), The South: Old and New …
Florida Frontier Incidents During The 1850s, George C. Bittle
Florida Frontier Incidents During The 1850s, George C. Bittle
Florida Historical Quarterly
From a military viewpoint Florida’s frontier at the beginning of the 1850s was relatively quiet. There was no significant warfare, but the Indian question was far from settled. Governor Thomas Brown’s message to the Florida legislature in 1850 repeated many previous statements and complained about the almost total disorganization of Florida’s militia. Governor Brown typically blamed this situation on the current militia law’s unwieldy nature. However, it should be noted, that Florida military officials had not made the militia returns required by the federal government since 1845. There would seem to be some question therefore, concerning the state’s desire to …
Sidney J. Catts: The Road To Power, Wayne Flynt
Sidney J. Catts: The Road To Power, Wayne Flynt
Florida Historical Quarterly
The South produced a bumper crop of political demagogues between 1890 and 1920. This unparalleled but dubious array of luminaries included James E. Ferguson of Texas, Huey Long of Louisiana, James K. Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, Tom Heflin of Alabama, Tom Watson of Georgia, Cole Blease, “Cotton” Ed Smith, and Ben Tillman of South Carolina, as well as many others. These politicos broke the back of conservative Bourbonism with their emotional appeals to the religious and racial intolerance of the newly powerful masses of voters. Once in office they frequently championed social and economic reform such as the …
Chateaubriand's Florida And His Journey To America, E. P. Panagopoulos
Chateaubriand's Florida And His Journey To America, E. P. Panagopoulos
Florida Historical Quarterly
The American writings of Chateaubriand have nearly been forgotten. Despite the beauty of their poetic prose and the power of their descriptions, historians now consider them obsolete. In 1968 the bicentennial year of his birth was celebrated in other parts of the world with special conferences and impressive publications, but in the United States no periodical commemorated the event, and no paper re-evaluating Chateaubriand’s contribution was read in any of the numerous historical meetings. And yet, Chateaubriand was not just another author. During the first half of the nineteenth century his writings played a great part in shaping French, if …
Nazi Invasion Of Florida!, Leon O. Prior
Nazi Invasion Of Florida!, Leon O. Prior
Florida Historical Quarterly
The United States has been invaded only twice by enemy military forces since the War of 1812. Both invasions were by small parties of German saboteurs during World War II. On June 13, 1942, four men came ashore by boat from a submarine at Amagansett, Long Island, New York. Four days later, four other Germans landed along the isolated beach some four miles south of Ponte Vedra, a luxurious resort on the upper east coast of Florida near Jacksonville. These German invasions were a part of the Abwehr’s Operation Pastorius.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 49, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Award, Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize in Florida History, other announcements and activities
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
Reviews of Harman, Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763, by Robert L. Gold; Carswell, Holmes Valley: A West Florida Cradle of Christianity, by John D. Ware; Snodgrass, Papers: Jacksonville Historical Society, Volume V, by O. Z. Tyler, Jr.; Castanien, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and Varner, El Inca: The Life and Times of Garcilaso de la Vega, by Luis Rafael Arana; Halbert and Ball, The Creek War of 1813 and 1814, and Longstreet, War Cries on Horseback: The Story of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains, by John K. Mahon; Onis, Memoria Sobre las Negociaciones Entre Espana …
Florida History In Periodicals, 1969, Florida Historical Society
Florida History In Periodicals, 1969, 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 1969. 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. A few articles with a peripheral interest to Florida have also been included. Since some journals were not published on schedule in 1968, articles from them were not included in the list published in the July 1969 issue of the Quarterly. The present listing includes these journals …
Luis Bertucat And William Augustus Bowles: West Florida Adversaries In 1791, Jack D. L. Holmes
Luis Bertucat And William Augustus Bowles: West Florida Adversaries In 1791, Jack D. L. Holmes
Florida Historical Quarterly
In an effort to check the expansion of the American frontiersmen onto Indian lands after the American Revolution, William Augustus Bowles, self-styled head of the Creek-Cherokee Nation, and later “Director-General of the State of Muskogee,” wrote the Spanish minister of state, the Conde de Floridablanca, in 1791. Bowles asked for Spanish protection for the Creeks and Cherokees and urged a wider alliance or confederation of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Creeks. He also suggested that Spain modify its commercial restrictions and remove the monopoly which had been granted the firm of William Panton, Thomas Forbes, and Robert Leslie, and instead …
Educating The Seminole Indians Of Florida, 1879-1970, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Educating The Seminole Indians Of Florida, 1879-1970, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
It was not until the 1920s that Seminole Indian children in Florida began to attend federal and public schools on a regular basis. The Seminoles were among the last tribes to accept the benefits of public school education. Much of the basis for this long resistance is found in the cultural and geographic isolation of the Seminoles. Following a series of devastating confrontations with the government between 1817 and 1858, collectively known as the Seminole Wars, most of the Seminoles who had not been killed were sent to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Those few Indians who remained in Florida …
Cotton And The Factorage System In Antebellum Florida, Julia F. Smith
Cotton And The Factorage System In Antebellum Florida, Julia F. Smith
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida planters cultivated both short staple and Sea Island cotton. The most common varieties of short staple cotton grown throughout the lower South were Green Seed, Mexican, Petit Gulf, and Mastadon. Florida growers preferred the Mexican to other “short” cotton seed. Under favorable conditions, it yielded about 1,500 pounds of cotton to the acre. In other cotton culture areas the yield was not so great; for instance, in the fertile black belt of Alabama yields of 800 to 1,000 pounds of short staple per acre were obtained. The yield from less fertile regions was not so great. In the South …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 49, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Negro Troops In Florida, 1898, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
Negro Troops In Florida, 1898, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
The outbreak of the War with Spain in 1898 elicited a mixed reaction among Negro Americans. Enthusiastic pro-war advocates viewed the conflict in terms of its benefits to Negroes. Their argument maintained that the black man’s participation in the military effort would win respect from whites and therefore enhance his status at home. They also emphasized that the islands likely to come under American influence would open economic opportunities for black citizens. Opposing such views were the highly vocal anti-war, anti-imperialist elements within the Negro community. Though sympathetic with the plight of Cuba and especially with Negro Cubans, these black …
Contents Of Volume Xlix, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xlix, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 49
Director's Meeting, December 13, 1969, Florida Historical Society
Director's Meeting, December 13, 1969, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes from the directors' meeting
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting, speakers' bureau, news from local historical societies
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Jahoda, The Road to Samarkand: Frederick Delius and His Music, by Evelyn Harris; Dunn, Re-Discover Florida, by Margaret L. Chapman; Stoddard, Memoirs of a Naturalist, by Elizabeth S. Austin; Willison, Patrick Henry and His World, by Aubrey C. Land; Herndon, William Tatham and the Culture of Tobacco, by Clifton L. Paisley; Hemphill (ed.), The Papers of John C. Calhoun: Volume IV, 1819-1820, by Thomas P. Govan; Wooster, The People in Power: Courthouse and State House in the Lower South, 1850-1860, by Thomas D. Clark; Hyman (ed.), Heard Round The World, by Ben Procter; Goff, Confederate Supply, by James …