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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Granberry, The Calusa: Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships. by Peter Ferdinando; Rivers, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida. by Douglas R. Egerton; Lowther, The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave "Trade in His African Homeland. by Kari J. Winter; Gannon, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. by J. Matthew Gallman; Milanich and Root, Hidden Seminoles: Julian Dimock's Historic Florida Photographs. by Patsy West; Noble, The U. S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling. by William M. Fowler, Jr.; Antequino …
Documents And Notes: Letters Of Major Hann, Paul S. Losch
Documents And Notes: Letters Of Major Hann, Paul S. Losch
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Talking Trash: A Short History Of Solid Waste Management In Florida, Andrew Fairbanks
Talking Trash: A Short History Of Solid Waste Management In Florida, Andrew Fairbanks
Florida Historical Quarterly
Death and taxes may be the only certainties in life, but taking out the trash is a daily routine for virtually every American household. Human beings have always discarded things, and in the more remote past, people often used discards for other purposes, such as empty oyster shells that formed impressive Native American ceremonial mounds. Until World War II, farmers and urbanites alike fed food scraps to pets, pigs, and other animals. Today, everything from worn out furniture to old cell phones is heaped into piles that comprise one of contemporary Florida's most easily identified landscape features: landfills. As a …
The Fleeting Fame Of Florida's Filibuster, "Major" Frank Hann, Paul S. Losch
The Fleeting Fame Of Florida's Filibuster, "Major" Frank Hann, Paul S. Losch
Florida Historical Quarterly
For three months in 1895, newspaper readers across the United States followed the heroic adventures of Major F. P. Hann, an American volunteer fighting to free Cuba from Spanish oppression. Hann's thirteen letters offered eyewitness accounts from the island's battlefields during the early days of the Cuban War of Independence. The ninth of these letters ran in at least 90 papers, including some well-known today, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Constitution and the San Francisco Chronicle, and it described the arrival from Key West of" 100 men, 1,000 repeating rifles, 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition …
Shipwrecked In The Atlantic World: Reevaluating Jonathan Dickinson's Interactions With Native Peoples Along Florida's Southeastern Coast, Jason Daniels
Florida Historical Quarterly
As the sun rose upon the mangled and beleaguered Reformation on October 23, 1696, Jonathan Dickinson, an Anglo-Jamaican planter in the process of relocating his mercantile affairs to Philadelphia, found himself shipwrecked hundreds of miles from the nearest European colony and stranded amongst Native Americans.2 For modern scholars, Dickinson's account of his two-month odyssey from present-day Jupiter Island to Spanish St. Augustine has proved to be an indispensable ethnographical tract for examining Native Americans living south of the Spanish mission provinces during the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Nevertheless, this complicated and inscrutable text, like much of the Florida peninsula, remains …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 91, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Carlisle and Carlisle, Forts of Florida: A Guidebook. by Robert B. Kane; Feller, Moss, and Coens, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 8, 1830. by Ellen C. Hickman; Oickle, The Man with the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist. by Tom Calarco; Sheppard, By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee. by John R. Lundberg; Loewen and Sebesta, eds., The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause." by Benjamin G. Cloyd; Knetsch and Wynne, Florida in the Spanish-American War. by Charles McGraw; King, Devil in the …
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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Sixteenth-Century Florida In The European Imagination, John Mcgrath
Sixteenth-Century Florida In The European Imagination, John Mcgrath
Florida Historical Quarterly
What we call Florida today is the nearest part of the American mainland to the spot where Columbus landed in 1492, while North America's east coast is also the closest part of the New World to Europe's Atlantic ports. Despite the proximity, Florida remained a mysterious, perplexing land throughout the sixteenth century. For over a century, rumors and legends of various kinds of riches promised rewards to those who could find them, yet successive attempts to explore and settle were frustrating or even disastrous. By 1600, the only lasting European footprint in Florida was St. Augustine, a small outpost that …
Entangled Borderlands: Europeans And Timucuans In Sixteenth-Century Florida, Jonathan Decoster
Entangled Borderlands: Europeans And Timucuans In Sixteenth-Century Florida, Jonathan Decoster
Florida Historical Quarterly
In February 1566, grisly news reached the Norman port cities of Dieppe and Le Havre. The French Huguenot colonists, who had left those ports for Florida less than two years previously, had been cruelly slaughtered by Spaniards. An open letter to France's king, purportedly written by the widows and orphans of the victims, was quickly published in an attempt to prod the crown into action. "The blood of your poor subjects, thus treacherously spilt, cries out before God for vengeance," it exclaimed.1 When the crown seemed deaf to the public outcry, a private citizen, Dominique de Gourgues, felt driven to …
The Historical Archaeology Of Sixteenth-Century La Florida, Kathleen A. Deagan
The Historical Archaeology Of Sixteenth-Century La Florida, Kathleen A. Deagan
Florida Historical Quarterly
Historical archaeology-also known as text-aided archaeology-is the study of the past through the integration of material remains, stratigraphic contexts, and written documents. The use of written documents provides the time frame of historical archaeological research in La Florida-that is, from the date of the arrival of Europeans (ca. 1513) and the written accounts they left. In the same way, the very notion of "La Florida"-a completely European-imposed geographical idea-also assumes a post-1513 chronology, and a spatial boundary that would have been quite alien to the indigenous peoples who lived there.
The Historiography Of Sixteenth-Century La Florida, Paul E. Hoffman
The Historiography Of Sixteenth-Century La Florida, Paul E. Hoffman
Florida Historical Quarterly
The sixteenth-century history of what the Spaniards called La Florida (roughly the entire Southeastern United States)1 starts with what to us is a mystery and ends nearly as obscurely after passing a number of well-known and oft-narrated episodes of exploration, Pedro Menendez de Aviles' founding of an enduring colony as part of the Franco-Spanish "cold war" of 1559-1593, the martyrdoms of Jesuit and then Franciscan missionaries (1571; 1597 respectively), and finally territorial rivalries as the English began their colonial ventures in eastern North America. Until the 1950s, the historiography of these well-known episodes generally reflected the interests of lay, clerical …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 91, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
500 Years Of Florida History - The Sixteenth Century: An Introduction, Connie L. Lester
500 Years Of Florida History - The Sixteenth Century: An Introduction, Connie L. Lester
Florida Historical Quarterly
The year 2013 marks the quincentennial of Juan Ponce de Leon's exploration of lands known for the past five hundred years as Florida. Historians have long noted the consequences of Ponce's activities, interpreted their origins, and offered assessments of the region's past as it related to events taking place in 1513 and the century that followed. Some have focused on European conquistadores, highlighting the exploits of colorful individuals and the institutions they represented. Others have emphasized the lives of Florida's indigenous inhabitants, especially their existence prior to colonization and reactions to foreign invaders in subsequent years. In terms of methodology, …
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Johnson, Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution. by Yovanna Pineda; Willis, Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920. by Joe L. Coker; Winter, The American Dreams of john B. Prentis, Slave Trader. by Phillip Hamilton; Pargas, The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South. by Elizabeth Regosin; Moylan, Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade. by Sharon L. Jones; Wilson, Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South. by Steven P. Miller; Dyckman, Reubin O'D. Askew and the Golden Age of Florida …
Florida's Carpenter Gothic Churches: Artistic Gems From A Victorian Past, Jack C. Lane
Florida's Carpenter Gothic Churches: Artistic Gems From A Victorian Past, Jack C. Lane
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1930 a relatively little known regional artist named Grant Wood entered a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago where he won first place with a painting entitled "American Gothic." News sources across the country published the story of this event along with a photograph of the winning painting, which created a sensation previously unknown in the history of American art. "American Gothic," an iconic symbol of American rural life, became one of the world's best-known images. In the painting, two rural figures with stern sober appearances stand before a small Carpenter Gothic house. The figures dominate the painting …
The Florida Keys Hurricane House: Post-Disaster New Deal Housing, Matthew G. Hyland
The Florida Keys Hurricane House: Post-Disaster New Deal Housing, Matthew G. Hyland
Florida Historical Quarterly
Hurricanes make history in Florida, and scholars often pursue Florida's violent weather to trace the state's development in relation to storms and, afterward, recovery. Since the colonial period, hurricanes have demonstrated their power to damage the region's economy by destroying property, lives, settlements, and cities. One storm in particular, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, proved to be a furious and destructive event. Its death toll was high-its destruction merciless. It stands as a landmark in the history of the Florida Keys, but focusing on the storm's strength and tragic drama obscures other relevant consequences. It also made architectural history. This …
Florida's Constitutional Property Exemptions: Changed Intent In Unchanged Text, Eric H. Miller
Florida's Constitutional Property Exemptions: Changed Intent In Unchanged Text, Eric H. Miller
Florida Historical Quarterly
Recent events have placed the issue of bankruptcy and property exemptions in the spotlight as families negotiate he legal maze of retaining possession of their homes and property in the wake of the financial disruptions since 2007. Attorneys and clients alike are often surprised by the lack of change in the Florida constitutional provisions that limit the options for those seeking relief from the demands of creditors. Indeed, the personal property exemption seems written for an earlier time. The unchanged constitutional text shields a debtor's home but only protects personal property up to a total value of one thousand dollars, …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 91, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
The Peacock Inn: South Florida's First Hotel, Susannah Worth
The Peacock Inn: South Florida's First Hotel, Susannah Worth
Florida Historical Quarterly
Nestled along the shore of Biscayne Bay five miles south of Miami is the community of Coconut Grove. Founded in the 1870s, it sits atop a limestone ridge and still has a sizeable hardwood hammock (tropical forest). The location, the shade, and the availability of fresh water were certainly a lure to early settlers. One early settler it attracted was John Thomas 'Jolly Jack" Peacock, who lived in the bight which was named after him as 'Jack's Bight."
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
End Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; Florida Historical Quarterly Editorial Board; Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Florida Historical Society; 2012-2013 Florida Lecture Series; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Tinker, The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas. by Howard Johnson; Schafer, William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida. by Sarah E. Miller; Haynes, The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1817. by Angela Pulley Hudson; Ellisor, The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier. by Thomas Chase Hagood; Christianson, Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War. by Julie Winch; Brinkmeyer, Jr., The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950. by Kathryn Lee Seidel; Clark, Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: …
Controlling Venereal Disease In Orlando During World War Ii, Claire Strom
Controlling Venereal Disease In Orlando During World War Ii, Claire Strom
Florida Historical Quarterly
Beryl Oates* was nineteen years old when Deputy Sheriff James Allen Black arrested her just after 10:00 am on a Saturday morning in February 1944 on suspicion of having a venereal disease. She was detained until she could be seen by Doctor and Captain Solomon Kolack who worked for the US Public Health Service as the disease control officer for Orange County, Florida. When he saw her, Kolack would have tested Beryl for syphilis and, if she tested positive, she would have probably been confined in the rapid treatment center in Ocala for a lengthy and painful course of arsenic …
The Politics Of Performance: Rollins College And The Annie Russell Theatre, Joan M. Jensen
The Politics Of Performance: Rollins College And The Annie Russell Theatre, Joan M. Jensen
Florida Historical Quarterly
Today, Florida boasts important venues for the performing arts. Orlando is ringed by dozens of theme parks that furnish entertainment for masses of people seeking to sample "popular" culture. These popular forms of entertainment are a backdrop for the somewhat smaller stage of "elite" or "serious" performing arts: Ringling's Asolo Center for the Performing Arts in Sarasota and the Fringe Theater Festival in Miami, which attract thousands of people each year, are examples. These are two faces of the same human need for performance before an audience, and for spaces to gather the audiences.
A Liberated Journalist And Yankee Women On The Florida Frontier, John T. Foster, Jr
A Liberated Journalist And Yankee Women On The Florida Frontier, John T. Foster, Jr
Florida Historical Quarterly
Journalist Ellen Augusta Hill wrote an unusual newspaper column for two years in the 1880s- one that contains both her own extraordinary ideas and many of those of her rural readers. By tracing the journalist's effort and the response it helped to generate, a picture emerges of women who have received little attention in Florida history. Neither Hill nor her followers were native-born Floridians, or even Southerners. They were Yankee women who came from New York and, perhaps surprisingly, from both Ohio and Illinois. The topics covered by Hill and the dialogue engendered departed from earlier journalistic activities in Florida. …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 91, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Alachua Settlers And The Second Seminole War, C. S. Monaco
Alachua Settlers And The Second Seminole War, C. S. Monaco
Florida Historical Quarterly
The role of Florida's interior settlements and relatively modest settler population has never been assigned much historical significance vis-a-vis the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). With few exceptions, the historiography has focused on the military aspects of this protracted conflict, with certain key battles, military commanders, Native American leaders, and the destruction of the east coast sugar plantations garnering the most interest.2 The ramifications of President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act (1830) which celebrated the prospect of placing "a civilized population on large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters"3 are well-known, along with the treaties of Moultrie …
Cumulative Index, Volume 90, Florida Historical Society
Cumulative Index, Volume 90, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Florida History In Publications, 2011, Florida Historical Society
Florida History In Publications, 2011, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.