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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
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Short notes about a variety of books
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Panagopoulos, New Smyrna: An Eighteenth Century Greek Odyssey, by John J. TePaske; Mahon (ed.), Bemrose’s Reminiscences of the Second Seminole War, by Arrell M. Gibson; Viereck, The New Land, by Albert Manucy; St. Augustine Foundation, Explorations and Settlements in the Spanish Borderlands: Their Religious Motivations, by Robert L. Gold; Sosin, The Revolutionary Frontier, 1763-1783, by Paul H. Smith; Anderson (ed.), With the Bark On: Popular Humor of the Old South, by Wade H. Hall; Goetzmann, When The Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon In American Diplomacy, 1800-1860, by Deane and David Heller; Patrick, The Reconstruction of the Nation, by …
A Florida Soldier In The Army Of Northern Virginia: The Hosford Letters, Knox Mellon, Jr.
A Florida Soldier In The Army Of Northern Virginia: The Hosford Letters, Knox Mellon, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
A long neglected area of American Civil War history has been the thousands of unpublished letters and diaries still found gathering dust in hundreds of attics across the nation. The recent Civil War centennial brought out some material of this type, and the general public has grown more aware of the advantages to be gained from the publication of soldiers’ memoirs. Despite this fact, it is rare indeed to find as moving and articulate a series of letters as the ten written by a young Florida Confederate officer, Lieutenant John W. Hosford, to his sweetheart, Miss Laura Rich, between November …
Florida Politics And The Tallahassee Press, Thomas S. Graham
Florida Politics And The Tallahassee Press, Thomas S. Graham
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1849, the editor of the Tallahassee Floridian & Journal, one of the state’s leading newspapers, recommended the compilation of Florida’s news journals so that future historical researchers would be furnished with “extensive and otherwise unattainable data for correct history of opinions and events." Today the common use of newspaper materials in the writing of history has amply validated the perceptiveness of the editor’s foresight, and while the newspapers of the ante-bellum era have proved useful in writing history, they have also been found to be fascinating and worthy of study in themselves. The Floridian & Journal and its foremost …
Military Reconstruction In Florida, Merlin G. Cox
Military Reconstruction In Florida, Merlin G. Cox
Florida Historical Quarterly
The sovereign power in Florida from March 15, 1867, to July 4, 1868, was the military arm of the United States government. Many interpreters have viewed military reconstruction as an illustration of man’s inhumanity to man; it was, they say, a revenge mechanism to punish the vanquished for losing the war. Most members of democratic societies are so vehement in their condemnation of military rule that they admit no shades of difference in assessing the achievements of armies of occupation. If this blanket indictment were valid, Hitler’s armies of occupation in Western Europe and American occupation armies in Japan were …
Key West And The New Deal, 1934-1936, Durward Long
Key West And The New Deal, 1934-1936, Durward Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historians often point out that the depression which began for the rest of the United States in 1929, started in Florida much earlier. The final collapse of the real estate boom in Florida in 1926, was followed by serious fiscal difficulties for units of government-local and state-as well as for private citizens. Even nature seemed to conspire against the economic well-being of the state. The devastating hurricanes of 1926 and 1928 were followed by the invasion of the Mediterranean fruit fly in 1929, to add to the deepening financial and economic distress which many Florida communities were suffering in the …
Agriculture And Advertising: Florida State Bureau Of Immigration, 1923-1960, Martin M. Lagodna
Agriculture And Advertising: Florida State Bureau Of Immigration, 1923-1960, Martin M. Lagodna
Florida Historical Quarterly
The shades were drawn in the back office of the busy white frame country store. As was his habit, the little man with the greying hair and starched collar lay down to rest after dinner. Out front the hitching posts were being bound with leather as customers hurried into the general merchandise mart which also served as a postoffice. The store was humming and the man’s wife and his clerk-partner tended the people. After all, it was the largest supplier of its kind between Ocala and Dade City. Business was good but the man in the darkened back office was …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 46, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1967, Florida Historical Society
The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1967, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the annual meeting of the board of directors
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historic American Buildings Survey of Key West, Obituaries
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of De Conde, The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801 by Richard W. Van Alstyne; Thompson, Robert Toombs of Georgia, by Ben Procter; Swint (ed.), Dear Ones At Home: Letters From Contraband Camps, by George R. Bentley; Spain, At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900, by Wayne Flynt; Wynes (ed.), Forgotten Voices: Dissenting Southerners in an Age of Conformity, by Phillip S. Paludan; Clark and Kirwan, The South Since Appomattox: A Century of Regional Change, by Allen J. Going; Matthews and Prothro, Negroes and the New Southern Politics, by …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Schell, De Soto Didn’t Land at Tampa, by Luis Rafael Arana; Austin, Frank M. Chapman in Florida: His Journals and Letters, by John D. Pennekamp; Douglas, History of Dunedin, by Walter P. Fuller; Forshay and Micken, Lure of the Sun: A Story of Palm Beach County, by Donald W. Curl; McPhee, Oranges, by Baynard Kendrick; Wagner and Taylor, Pieces of Eight: Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet, by Hale G. Smith; Sauer, The Early Spanish Main, by Charles W. Arnade; Corkran, The Creek Fontier, 1540-1783, by John K. Mahon
Trabue, Alias Punta Gorda, Vernon E. Peeples
Trabue, Alias Punta Gorda, Vernon E. Peeples
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Southern Railway in 1885-1886, constructed a line from Bartow Junction to Charlotte Harbor, and a new town, Punta Gorda, sprang up at the southern terminus of what was then the southernmost railroad in the United States. Punta Gorda’s beginning enbroiled its settlers and leading citizens in a controversy that raged for many years.
Naval Engagements In Tampa Bay, 1862, Frank Falero, Jr.
Naval Engagements In Tampa Bay, 1862, Frank Falero, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the Civil War, the Union Navy’s primary mission was to prevent the South from marketing her products and to prevent her from obtaining arms. To accomplish this dual mission, the North stationed a considerable number of ships in blockade positions along the Gulf and Atlantic seaboards. The majority of these blockade vessels were small in size as well as firepower. There were two main reasons why the Union used small ships as blockaders. The first reason being that their adverseries likely would be small, shallow-draft vessels with limited firepower, and second, the larger more powerful ships were needed to …
Illegal Importations: Enforcement Of The Slave Trade Laws Along The Florida Coast, 1810-1828, Frances J. Stafford
Illegal Importations: Enforcement Of The Slave Trade Laws Along The Florida Coast, 1810-1828, Frances J. Stafford
Florida Historical Quarterly
The above quotations, decrying the evils of the slave trade are from two widely disparate sources and periods. The first may be found in an anti-slave trade tract of the Society of Friends published in 1824, and the second is from the opinion in a federal case involving slave trading activities in 1860. Both are evidence of the futility of the hopes of the founding fathers in 1787, that slavery and its companion evil, the slave trade, were but temporary problems for the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the cotton gin and the textile mills destroyed …
British And Indian Activities In Spanish West Florida During The War Of 1812, Frank L. Owsley, Jr.
British And Indian Activities In Spanish West Florida During The War Of 1812, Frank L. Owsley, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Britain lost control of Florida in 1783 to Spain, many English merchants and public officials, especially the governors of Jamaica and New Providence, did not consider the loss of Florida as permanent. They continued an extensive legal and illegal trade with the Indians in Florida and the southern United States. The mouth of the Apalachicola River and the area around it comprised one of the main seats of this commerce, especially the illegal part. In line with their objectives of regaining control of Florida, these various British officials and merchants sent such filibusterers as William Augustus Bowles, who plotted …
Notes On The Medical History Of Key West, 1822-1832, E. Ashby Hammond
Notes On The Medical History Of Key West, 1822-1832, E. Ashby Hammond
Florida Historical Quarterly
The years 1818 to 1823 were unquiet times in the northern Caribbean. The Latin nations of the area were either stabilizing their newly gained independence or preparing for further expressions of defiance against their Iberian overlords. In any event there was neither time nor the resources for organizing a military patrol of the waters extending from Venezuela to Tampa Bay, from Yucatan to Puerto Rico. Piracy was virtually unrestrained, and wrecking, considered by some observers to have been an only slightly more honorable enterprise, went unregulated. Shortly after John W. Simonton had acquired the island, then known as Cayo Hueso, …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 46, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Historical News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Wellman, The House Divides: The Age of Jackson and Lincoln, from the War of 1812 to the Civil War, by Holman Hamilton; Halasz, The Rattling Chains: Slave Unrest and Revolt in the Antebellum South, by Joe M. Richardson; Posey, Frontier Mission: A History of Religion West of the Southern Appalachians to 1861, by John Opie; Barret (ed.) Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson, by Glenn Tucker; Eller (ed.), Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865: Part VI - Special Studies and Cumulative Index, by Edwin C. Bearss; Hyman (ed.), New Frontier of the American Reconstruction, by …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Will, A Dredgeman of Cape Sable, by Baynard Kendrick; Weidling and Burghard, Checkered Sunshine: The Story of Fort Lauderdale, 1793-1955, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Ott and Chazal, Ocali Country: Kingdom of the Sun, 1539-1965, by Richard A. Martin; Ney, Palm Beach: The Place, The People, Its Pleasures and Palaces, by James R. Knott and George L. Hern, Jr.; TenEick, History of Hollywood (1920-1950), by Julian I. Weinkle; Kendrick, Flight From a Firing Wall, by Marion Murray; Sirmans, Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763, by Michael G. Kammen; McCormick, The Second American Party System: Party Formation in the …
Joseph E. Brown And Florida's New South Economy, Derrell C. Roberts
Joseph E. Brown And Florida's New South Economy, Derrell C. Roberts
Florida Historical Quarterly
The present day economy of Florida is rooted in the post-Civil War New South era of American history. The first wealth acquired in the tourist trade and citrus production came to Florida in this period. Governor Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, along with many other Americans North and South, was amassing at this time a sizeable personal fortune in various enterprises that ranged from agriculture and real estate to railroads, banking, and mineral enterprises. On several occasions, he visited Florida, always keenly observing the economy of the state. Governor Brown’s political career was spread over the years from the 1840s …
Lieutenant John T. Mclaughlin: Guilty Or Innocent?, Nell L. Weidenbach
Lieutenant John T. Mclaughlin: Guilty Or Innocent?, Nell L. Weidenbach
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Squadron, based on Key Biscayne and Indian Key during the Second Seminole War, was a small but highly effective naval group whose part in bringing hostilities to a close has remained in relative obscurity for over a century. Furthermore, the youthful and courageous commander of this squadron, Lieutenant John T. McLaughlin, has been relegated to the fine print of an occasional footnote. The sparse and very brief paragraphs allotted to him all too frequently concentrate on his fiscal extravagances and his drinking excesses, with dark intimations of corruption and cruelty. The paragraphs which follow are designed to bring …
First Campaign Of The Second Seminole War, George C. Bittle
First Campaign Of The Second Seminole War, George C. Bittle
Florida Historical Quarterly
There was no one basic cause of the Second Seminole War which began in Florida in December 1835. Major General T. S. Jesup, a regular army officer who served in Florida during the war, said that the Indian attacks were primarily the result of white efforts to secure Negroes held by the Seminoles. Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri believed the oppressive and intriguing nature of federal Indian supervision was to blame. Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, who served briefly in Florida early in 1836, thought that the Florida conflict was an example of border warfare. Mrs. Ellen Call Long, …
Fort King: A Brief History, Eloise R. Ott
Fort King: A Brief History, Eloise R. Ott
Florida Historical Quarterly
Within the eastern residential section of Ocala is the site of Fort King. Probably more has been written of this military outpost than of any Florida fortification of its time. Yet long overlooked in official files in Washington is the scarcely known story of its erection - letters which tell of its plan, its buildings, and of problems resulting from the frugality of a government insistent upon a stringent economy of expenditure.
Oldsmar For Health, Wealth, Happiness, Glenn A. Niemeyer
Oldsmar For Health, Wealth, Happiness, Glenn A. Niemeyer
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida real estate boom of the mid-1920s brought unparalleled publicity to Florida. From Jacksonville to Key West city streets were clogged with cars and trucks bearing northern license plates. Swamps were drained and lots on “Venetian canals” were offered for public sale at fantastic prices. Elaborate advertising campaigns, boasting such names as William Jennings Bryan, attempted to lure the Northerner away from snow and ice and into the “Sunshine State.” According to Frederick Lewis Allen, it was “the most delirious fever of real-estate speculation which had attacked the United States in ninety years.”
The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War, Russell Garvin
The Free Negro In Florida Before The Civil War, Russell Garvin
Florida Historical Quarterly
Freedom for negroes in a society where race was the only qualification for slavery was at best an anomaly and at worst an illusion. In either case though, freedom survived alongside slavery. Florida first acquired free Negroes early in the seventeenth century. In 1704 the Spanish governor, Zuniga, opened the territory to fugitive slaves from British plantations to the North. Thus established, potential liberty across the border tempted Carolina blacks and tormented their white owners. It was hoped that the colonization of Georgia would serve as a buffer region to prevent the escape of slaves to Florida. Carolina benefited, but …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 46, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents