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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Stetson University and Florida Baptists: A Documentary History of Relations between Stetson University and the Florida Baptist Convention. By Harry C. Garwood. Edited by Edward A. Holmes, Jr. (DeLand: Florida Baptist Historical Society, 1962. vii, 262 pp. Foreword, preface, notes, index. $2.75.); A Wake in Ybor City. By Jose Yglesias. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. 284 pp. $4.95.); Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education. By James B. Conant. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. 164 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $5.00.); The Confederate Constitution. By Charles Robert Lee, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Aristocrat in Uniform: General Duncan L. Clinch. By Rembert W. Patrick. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press for the Florida Historical Society, 1963. xi, 226 pp. Preface, illustrations, notes, map, bibliography, index. $5.50.); The History of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. By Leedell W. Neyland and John W. Riley. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1963. xi, 303 pp. Foreword, preface, illustrations, bibliography, appendix, index. $6.50.); Pirates, Indians, and Spaniards: Father Escobedo's “La Florida.” Edited by James W. Covington. Translated by A. E. Falcones. (St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing Company, 1963. xvi, 174 pp. Foreword, introduction, footnotes, index, maps. $5.00.); …
A British Report On West Florida And Louisiana, November, 1812, Richard K. Murdoch
A British Report On West Florida And Louisiana, November, 1812, Richard K. Murdoch
Florida Historical Quarterly
After returning the two Floridas to Spain by the Treaty of Paris of 1783, England watched with satisfaction while her thirteen former colonies struggled to reach agreement with the government in Madrid on the thorny problem of the southeastern boundary. The Treaty of San Lorenzo of 1795 failed to satisfy either party and the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 further confused the problem by introducing boundary claims in the region west of the Mississippi River. The suggestion to use force to achieve a permanent settlement with Spain was heard with increasing frequency in Washington. Even Thomas Jefferson, in retirement at Monticello, …
The Fort King Road, 1963, William M. Goza
The Fort King Road, 1963, William M. Goza
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1825, the territory of Florida was sparsely settled and little traveled. Fort Brooke, named for its first commander, Colonel George Mercer Brooke, and located where the Hillsborough River meets Old Tampa Bay, was a scant two years old. In that year, Indian Agent Colonel Gad Humphries established an agency near the present city of Ocala, preceding by some two years the occupation of Fort King on a nearby knoll. Realizing the need to connect its outposts by overland routes, Congress appropriated $12,000 to build a road from the northern boundary of the territory to Fort Brooke. The road was …
The Indian River Settlement: 1842-1849, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.
The Indian River Settlement: 1842-1849, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
No section of the Territory of Florida suffered more than the east coast as a result of Indian deprecations during the Seminole War. The flourishing sugar plantations of the Halifax country were reduced to charred ruins, the tiny port of New Smyrna was entirely deserted, and the infant citrus industry suffered a staggering setback just as it was beginning to show signs of prosperity. After seven years of fighting, many Floridians gravely doubted the truth of General William Worth’s pontifical pronouncement that the Seminole conflict would be “officially” terminated on August 12, 1842. The settlers were alarmed at the naivete …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 43, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xliii, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xliii, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 43
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Local historical societies, State Library and Historical Commission, Florida Arts Council
Minutes Of The Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Minutes Of The Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The officers and directors of the Florida Historical Society met in the headquarters of the Society, the Library of the University of South Florida, at 9:30 a.m., December 7, 1963, with Dr. Frank Sessa presiding. Others present were: Charles Arnade, Rembert W. Patrick, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr., Ben C. Willis, Adam G. Adams, Ernest Jernigan, James R. Knott, Lucius S. Ruder, E. M. Covington, William M. Goza, Walter B. Hellier, Mrs. Ralph Davis, Margaret Chapman, and Thelma Peters. Dr. John Allen, president of the University of South Florida, welcomed the board members and expressed his pleasure at having the Society …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Alabama Confederate Reader. By Malcolm C. McMillan. (University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1963. 468 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $7.75.); Nine Men In Gray. By Charles L. Dufour. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. xviii, 364 pp. Preface, illustrations, notes, bibliography. $4.95.); We Dissent. Edited by Hoke Norris. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1962. vii, 211 pp. Introduction, index. $4.95.); The Public Lands: Studies in the History of the Public Domain. Edited by Vernon Carstensen. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. xxvi, 522 pp. Editor’s note, introduction, index. $6.75.); The Cherokees. By Grace Steele …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World, 1676-1701: The Fitzhugh Letters and Other Documents. Edited with an introduction by Richard Beale Davis. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1963. xvi, 399 pp. Map, illustrations, index. $7.50.); The South Carolina Regulators. By Richard Maxwell Brown. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. xi, 230 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $5.50.); The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Volume II, 1817-1818. Edited by W. Edwin Hemphill. (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 1963, xciv, 513 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $10.00.); Ante-Bellum Thomas County, 1825-1861. By William Warren Rogers. Florida State …
Jonathan C. Gibbs: Florida's Only Negro Cabinet Member, Joe M. Richardson
Jonathan C. Gibbs: Florida's Only Negro Cabinet Member, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historians have contended that during the period of Reconstruction when the Republican party dominated the political stage in Florida, the state was controlled by incompetent, illiterate, and venal Negroes. A critical examination of primary sources, however, shows that this is not a valid conception. Negro office holders were always in a decided minority and among those who held office on the state and local level there were many capable men. The best example of a Florida Negro who disproves the stereotyped freedman politician is Jonathan C. Gibbs, one of the best educated and most cultured persons holding a political office.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Florida During the Civil War. By John E. Johns. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1963. ix, 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $6.00.); Lore of the Wreckers. By Birse Shepard. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1961. viii, 278 pp. Foreword, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. $5.95.); I Take This Land. By Richard Powell. (New York: Scribners, 1962. 437 pp. $5.95.); Ninety Years of Service 1873-1963: The Story of St. Luke's Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida (Jacksonville: 1963. vi, 170 pp. Preface, illustrations.); The Urban Political Community: Profiles in Town Politics. By Gladys M. Kammerer, Charles D. Farris, John M. DeGrove, Alfred B. Clubok. (Boston: …
Wakulla Spring: Its Setting And Literary Visitors, Lou Rich
Wakulla Spring: Its Setting And Literary Visitors, Lou Rich
Florida Historical Quarterly
Wakulla Spring, situated on the coastal lowlands about midway between Apalachee Bay and Tallahassee, has a surrounding area comprised mostly of woodlands of cypress, liveoak, magnolia, and pine. The spring itself is semi-circular with a diameter of 400 feet, and it covers an area of approximately five acres. It is 103 feet deep and has an average flow of 283 cubic feet per seoond. The water is moderately hard and typical of most Florida springs.
Military Operations On The St. Johns, September-October, 1862 (Part Ii) The Federals Capture St. Johns Bluff, Edwin C. Bearss
Military Operations On The St. Johns, September-October, 1862 (Part Ii) The Federals Capture St. Johns Bluff, Edwin C. Bearss
Florida Historical Quarterly
All of Brigadier General John M. Brannan’s Union soldiers and their arms, horses, and rations had reached shore by 9 p.m., October 1, 1862. Among the first units to land were sixty troopers of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. The horsemen spent the afternoon and early evening reconnoitering.
Memoir Of A West Pointer In Saint Augustine: 1824-1826, Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Memoir Of A West Pointer In Saint Augustine: 1824-1826, Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In May, 1824, Second Lieutenant Alfred Beckley of the Fourth Artillery, United States Army, reported for duty at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, where he remained until April, 1826. He was green and untried - a twenty-two year old West Pointer who had graduated ninth in the Class of 1823- and except for his aversion to “French brandy” and “Old Sledge,” he was perhaps a typical example of the officer-gentleman that was the backbone of the peacetime army of that time. Born in Washington City in 1802, Beckley could recall as guests in his home such dignitaries as Joel Barlow, …
Fraud And Intimidation In The Florida Election Of 1876, Jerrell H. Shofner
Fraud And Intimidation In The Florida Election Of 1876, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Presidential Election of 1876 was the most controversial election in American history. It is remembered because of the extended dispute over its outcome and because it has since been regarded as the end of Reconstruction in the South. The uncertain outcome was due to duplicate electoral certificates from Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. These were the only Southern states which still had Republican governors. By various combinations of fraud and violence, both Democratic and Republican parties in these three states had managed to secure electoral certificates for their respective presidential candidates. Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candidate, received 184 …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 42, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Library News, Florida Civil War Centennial Commission, local historical societies, college news
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Sea Power and Chilean Independence. By Donald E. Worcester. University of Florida Monographs, Social Science, No. 15. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962. 87 pp. $2.00.); Reapportionment and the Courts. By James E. Larson. (Tuscaloosa: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1962, vii, 92 pp. Foreword, appendix.)
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of William Henry Drayton and the American Revolution. By William M. Dabney and Marion Dargan. (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1962. xiv, 225 pp. $5.00.); Green Mountain Boy at Monticello, A Talk With Jefferson in 1822. By Daniel Pierce Thompson. (Brattleboro, Vt.: The Stephen Greene Press, 1962. 35 pp. Introduction, illustrations. $4.00.); The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1847-1875. Edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962. xv, 141 pp. Introduction and index. $4.00.); The Civil War At Sea. Vol. I: The Blockaders. By Virgil Carrington Jones. ( New York: Holt, Rinehart, and …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of By Sea and By River: The Naval History of the Civil War. By Bern Anderson. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. xiv, 303 pp. Maps, illustrations, and index. $5.95.); Front Rank. By Glenn Tucker. (Raleigh: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, 1962. 83 pp. Illustrations. $3.00.); Lee’s Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill. By Hal Bridges. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961. viii, 323 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $7.50.); Four Years With General Lee. By Walter H. Taylor. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. xi, 218 pp. Preface, introduction, illustrations, notes, and index. $5.75.); History of Alabama, 1540-1900, as Recorded …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of City Managers in Politics, An Analysis of Manager Tenure and Termination. By Gladys Kammerer, Charles D. Farris, John M. DeGrove, and Alfred B. Clubok. University of Florida Monographs, Social Sciences, No. 13. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962. 93 pp. Preface. $2.00.); Hillsborough: A Parish In The Ulster Plantation. By John Barry. (Belfast: William Mullan & Son Ltd., 1962. 124 pp. $2.50.); The Fighting Elder: Andrew Pickens (1739-1817). By Alice Noble Waring. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1962. viii, 252 pp. Index. $6.00.)
The Alonso Solana Map Of Florida, 1683, Luis Rafael Arana
The Alonso Solana Map Of Florida, 1683, Luis Rafael Arana
Florida Historical Quarterly
Map No. 7 at the end of Verne E. Chatelain’s The Defenses of Spanish Florida 1565-1763 is entitled Mapa de la Ysla de la Florida. It is of Spanish origin, but its printed legend admits the anonymity of the cartographer and the uncertainty of the date. Although Woodbury Lowery listed maps from the same repository, he was unaware of the existence of this one. It was Professor Louis C. Karpinski of the University of Michigan who discovered this paper representation of Florida in the war ministry in Madrid, while searching for American history materials in Spanish archives. His original typed …
Florida's First Railroad Commission 1887-1891 (Part Ii), Durward Long
Florida's First Railroad Commission 1887-1891 (Part Ii), Durward Long
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Railroad Commission was created by the legislature in 1887, and by August of that year its activities were underway. The Commission, in March of 1888, transmitted its first report to Governor Henry L. Mitchell. Although the report was overly optimistic and somewhat exaggerated, it did show that procedure and precedent had been determined. The Commissioners, George McWhorter, Enoch Vann, and William Himes had energetically approached their assigned task, but despite hopeful predictions for a successful second year, the Commission discovered many obstacles in its way. The new year began with a policy which disappointed small companies which had …
Military Operations On The St. Johns, September-October 1862 (Part I), Edwin C. Bearss
Military Operations On The St. Johns, September-October 1862 (Part I), Edwin C. Bearss
Florida Historical Quarterly
As the months passed the Union blockade of the Southern coast increased in effectiveness. To make matters worse for the Confederacy, Union amphibious commands were put ashore at a number of points, vital ports and strategic forts were seized, and the number of points at which blockade runners could land their valuable cargos were constantly reduced. On the east coast of Florida, Fernandina, Fort Clinch, Jacksonville, and St. Augustine had been occupied by the Federals in March, 1862. The following month, Jacksonville was evacuated by the Unionists.
The Ku Klux Klan In The Sunshine State: The 1920'S, David Chalmers
The Ku Klux Klan In The Sunshine State: The 1920'S, David Chalmers
Florida Historical Quarterly
The guiding maxim in Florida politics has long been said to be “Every Man For Himself’ and the same principle of anarchic localism seems to have prevailed in Klan affairs. The story of the Florida Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s was not one of a large statewide organization but rather that of a myriad of growing, active individual Klaverns.