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Florida Reconstruction Impeachments, Cortez A. M. Ewing
Florida Reconstruction Impeachments, Cortez A. M. Ewing
Florida Historical Quarterly
The impeachment of Governor Harrison Reed not only contributes an interesting chapter to the history of Reconstruction but it also offers a number of novel precedents to the history of American impeachments. Throughout his gubernatorial term (1868-1872), Reed fought a consistent and courageous struggle against carpetbag politicians in Florida. I know of no other state or national civil officer against whom the impeachment remedy was so frequently attempted. On four occasions, he was threatened with legislative removal. Twice the lower house passed impeachment resolutions. Finally, in the last year of his term, his enemies voted a bona fide and legal …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 36, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notice of the annual meeting, gifts, notes from local and regional historical societies, and contributors
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Seminole Music. By Frances Densmore. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 161. (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1956. xxviii, 218 pp. Plates, index. $1.00); The Negro and Southern Politics; A Chapter of Florida History. By Hugh Douglas Price. (New York, New York, University Press, 1957. 133 pp. $5.00); Gunner with Stonewall; Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague, a Memoir Written for His Children in 1903. Edited by Monroe F. Cockrell; with an Introduction by Bell Irwin Wiley. (Jackson, Tenn., McCowat-Mercer Press, 1957. 181 pp. Illustrations. $5.95)
Letters Of A Carpetbagger In Florida, 1866-1869, George E. Osborn
Letters Of A Carpetbagger In Florida, 1866-1869, George E. Osborn
Florida Historical Quarterly
These letters, written by Daniel Richards to Elihu B. Washburne, throw considerable light on the hectic days of Reconstruction in Florida. Not only do these friendly messages reveal much of what the author actually witnessed of the United States military occupation in the peninsula state but a number of referenes are made to the chaotic economic conditions which existed generally at that time. Although Florida had fewer Negroes in proportion to population than some of the former Confederate states, the problem of relations between the races was one with great complexities. At least some of the obstacles to the establishment …
The Cession Of Florida And John Quincy Adams, Secretary Of State, Lester Harris
The Cession Of Florida And John Quincy Adams, Secretary Of State, Lester Harris
Florida Historical Quarterly
The cession of the Floridas stands out as one of the greatest victories in the history of American diplomacy. Ownership of Florida insured to the United States a continuous seaboard on the Atlantic Ocean. It led to the recognition by the United States of the South American colonies, then in revolt against Spain. The treaty with Spain gave the United States its first recognized claim to the western lands bordering on the Pacific Ocean. 2 It became the basis for the acquisition of Oregon and Washington, and parts of present day Montana and Idaho. Cession led directly to the Monroe …
Autobiography Of William Marvin, Kevin E. Kearney
Autobiography Of William Marvin, Kevin E. Kearney
Florida Historical Quarterly
Sixty-five years ago, a venerable man in Skaneateles, New York, set himself to the task of recording the events of his life. What William Marvin wrote between the pages of a lined composition notebook was more than an autobiography. It was a chapter in American history. What is even more significant is that much of what Marvin recounted pertained to the history of Florida during the critical years 1835-1866, a period which found the nation challenged with the issues of union, disunion, and reunion. The story which follows, then, is the story of a man who served Florida during the …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 36, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes from local and regional historical societies, contributors to the issue, new members
Book Review: The Unconquered Seminole Indians, James W. Covington
Book Review: The Unconquered Seminole Indians, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
Review of by Irvin M. Peithmann (St. Petersburg, Fla., The Great Outdoors Association, 1956. 96 pp. Illustrations, $1.00.)
Book Review: This Changing South, C. W. Tebeau
Book Review: This Changing South, C. W. Tebeau
Florida Historical Quarterly
Review of This Changing South. By John M. Maclachlan and Joe S. Floyd, Jr. (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1956. xii, 154 pp. Appendix, Index, Tables $4.00.)
Book Review: The Territorial Papers Of The United States Volume Xxii: The Territory Of Florida, 1821-1824., Dorothy Dodd
Book Review: The Territorial Papers Of The United States Volume Xxii: The Territory Of Florida, 1821-1824., Dorothy Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
Review of The Territorial Papers of the United States Volume XXII: The Territory of Florida, 1821-1824. Edited by Clarence Edwin Carter. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956. xiii, 1129 pp. Map, Inde $8.25.)
Civil War Operations In And Around Pensacola, Edwin C. Bearrs
Civil War Operations In And Around Pensacola, Edwin C. Bearrs
Florida Historical Quarterly
Entering Pensacola Harbor from the Gulf of Mexico in 1861 one would have seen, as he crossed the ba , Fort McRee immediately on his left on the main land or west shore of the bay and to the right Fort Pickens on the western extremity of Santa Rosa Island. This island, lying approximately parallel to the shore of the mainland, is nearly forty miles long and is separated from the mainland by Pensacola Bay. On the mainland opposite Fort Pickens and at a distance of about one and one-half miles stood Fort Barrancas and about another one and one-half …
The Civil War Letters Of August Henry Mathers, Franklin A. Doty
The Civil War Letters Of August Henry Mathers, Franklin A. Doty
Florida Historical Quarterly
The writer of the letters which follow was born in Monticello, Florida, on April 25, 1825, the son of William Henry Mathers, Jr., and Elizabeth Clarke Mathers. The details of his early education are not known. He was married on October 28, 1848, to Mary Ann Cooper, daughter of Dr. James A. Cooper, originally of Farmington, Georgia, and Elizabeth White Cooper. The young couple lived a while in Madison, Florida, before removing to Micanopy where Mathers, together with his father-m-law, opened a drug store in 1853, known in later years as the “Old Reliable Micanopy Drug Store.”
Blockage Runner, Alice Strickland
Blockage Runner, Alice Strickland
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the Civil War Confederate blockade runners played a dangerous and exciting game of hide and seek with Union gunboats off the Florida coast. President Lincoln had proclaimed the blockade on April 19, 1861, with the intention of closing the Atlantic ports of the Confederacy to trade with other nations. The South, therefore, was faced with the problem of running the blockade in order to bring in the necessities of war.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 36, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Capital Removal, Sylvia Jean Hardaway
Capital Removal, Sylvia Jean Hardaway
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1823, two commissioners, one representing East Florida, and the other representing West Florida, selected Tallahassee as the most suitable site for the capital of the newly organized territory of Florida. However, from the very first time the Legislative Council convened at Tallahassee, pressure was brought forth to remove the capital from Tallahassee. Typical of the objections to Tallahassee was that it was so far from any settlement or habitation of civilized man, although it had been chosen by men well qualified to determine the most advantageous position near the center of the population. In the very first session of …
Junior Historical Content, Florida Historical Society
Junior Historical Content, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A total of 82 papers were entered in the annual Junior Historical Writing Contest which is sponsored by the Florida Historical Society. Secondary school students from 19 schools participated in the 1957 contest. The papers were judged by a committee from the History Department of The Florida State University composed of Weymouth T. Jordan, as chairman, Charles W. Arnade, Earl R. Beck, Benjamin F. Rogers, and Venila L. Shores. The following awards were recommended and approved by the Society.
Business Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Business Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Notes from the directors meeting, report of the treasurer, annual membership meeting
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The program from the annual meeting
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Latin America, A History. By Alfred Barnaby Thomas. (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1956. xiii, 801, pp. $6.50.); Reminiscences of Big I. By William Nathaniel Wood. Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley. (Jackson, Tenn., McCowat-Mercer Press, 1956. 138 pp. Illustrations, appendix. $3.95.); Steamboats in the Hyacinths. By Ella Teague de Berard. (Daytona Beach, College Publishing Company, 1956. 64 pp. $2.00.)
The Woman Suffrage Movement In Florida, A. Elizabeth Taylor
The Woman Suffrage Movement In Florida, A. Elizabeth Taylor
Florida Historical Quarterly
Early in the nineteenth century many persons began feeling acute dissatisfaction with the status of American women. Because of this sentiment they wrote, spoke, and organized for the purpose of changing this status. By the latter part of the century their efforts were producing results. In ever increasing numbers women were attending institutions of higher learning. They were engaging in many professional and business activities. In the political realm also their status was improving, and a few states were even allowing them to vote.
Gavino Gutierrez And His Contributions To Tampa, Jess L. Keene
Gavino Gutierrez And His Contributions To Tampa, Jess L. Keene
Florida Historical Quarterly
Seventy three years ago the inhabitants around Hillsborough Bay never dreamed of the vast possibilities hidden in the scrub and native forest about them. They never dreamed that a large city was to be built at their own doors and by their own hands.
Florida And Iowa: A Contemporary View, Franklin A. Doty
Florida And Iowa: A Contemporary View, Franklin A. Doty
Florida Historical Quarterly
Within the span of one generation after the admission of Florida and Iowa to the Union, the citizens of the two states confronted each other in the awful strife of the Civil War. Portents of this bitter separation had been discernable in the birthing of the states, but who could have said with assurance that these two frontier communities, having so many more roots and inheritances in common than they had fatal divergencies, would shortly stand drawn in battle array against each other? Regardless of their common institutional origins, the two communities came to subordinate themselves to, and form a …
The Florida Ship Canal, Benjamin F. Rogers
The Florida Ship Canal, Benjamin F. Rogers
Florida Historical Quarterly
A few miles south of Ocala four huge bridge piers tower out of the underbrush to puzzle most tourists and many Floridians. These piers are monuments to a project which was pictured the moment the Spanish realized Florida was a peninsula, which was considered by Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and John C. Calhoun, which was surveyed and re-surveyed during the administrations of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, which was undertaken and abandoned under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and which still stirs the imagination of many Floridians - the trans-Florida canal.
Birthplaces Of The Conquistadors, Karl A. Bickel
Birthplaces Of The Conquistadors, Karl A. Bickel
Florida Historical Quarterly
Ever since I started dabbling into the business of Spanish Conquistadors; particularly Balboa, Cortes, Pizzaro and our own first great tourist Hernando De Soto, I have been interested in looking more closely into the birthplaces of these men - a topic rather lightly treated by the greater historians - and trying to find after a fashion, some of the things that made them “tick.” The thing that really started me off, however, was a paragraph in a book by Ruth Matilda Anderson of the Hispanic Society of America. The book is titled Spanish Costume - Extramadura and without question it …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 36, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xxxvi, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxxvi, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 36
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to the issue, new members
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Local centennials, activities of local and regional historical societies, Tequesta,