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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 82, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam; Awards and Grants; Conferences


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gordon, Florida's Colonial Architectual Heritage, by Charles W. Arnade; Purcell, War Sacfice and Memory in Revolutionary America, by Susan J. Oldfather; Chavez, Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift, by J. Barton Starr; Krawczynski, William Henry Drayton: South Carolina Revolutionary Patriot, by Thomas J. Little; Baptist, Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War, by James M. Denham; Garrison, The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary ad the Sovereignty of Native American Nations, by Ronald N. Satz; Smith, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, by Matthew Schoenbachler; Rodrigue, Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: …


Violence, Racial Etiquette, And African American Working-Class Infrapolitics In Jacksonville During World War I, Robert Cassanello Apr 2022

Violence, Racial Etiquette, And African American Working-Class Infrapolitics In Jacksonville During World War I, Robert Cassanello

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before the 1980s, many historians thought that working-class African Americans were victims of racism and consequently played passive roles in history. With the emergence of the new social history, scholars of African American and urban history reexamined previous notions of black culture. They came forward with sources and interpretations suggesting that working-class blacks played a major role in shaping race relations in urban America.


Historic Notes And Documents: The Mix Diaries, Gayle Penner Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: The Mix Diaries, Gayle Penner

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the evening of March 22, 1836, Capt. Mervine P. Mix, U.S.N., brought the USS Concord to anchor in Key West harbor. The island was a good place to repair several damaged sails and to rest after the long voyage from the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire. The Concord, 127 feet long with a 17-foot draft and mounting 18 guns, was one of the navy's finest sloops-of-war. Under its first commander, Matthew C. Perry, the Concord traveled some 2,800 miles, visiting ports in Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and the Greek Islands. With Mix in command, the ship sailed from …


Between Encounter And Experience: Florida In The Cuban Imagination, Louis A. Perez Jr. Apr 2022

Between Encounter And Experience: Florida In The Cuban Imagination, Louis A. Perez Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The antecedents of the relationship between Florida and Cuba reach deeply into the sixteenth century, almost with the inception of European colonization. The peninsula loomed large in the imagination of the island. The enduring facets of this connection assumed discernable patterns early, principally in the form of successive waves of migration northward, spanning centuries, first by such personalities as Panfilo Narvaez and Hernando de Soto and most recently Elian Gonzilez. It is perhaps worth recalling that there was a time when Florida was once a dependency of Cuba, populated and subsidized from the island.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 82, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Who Pays For Progress? Accident Law In Florida, 1845-1886, James L. Hunt Apr 2022

Who Pays For Progress? Accident Law In Florida, 1845-1886, James L. Hunt

Florida Historical Quarterly

Few residents of twenty-first-century Florida are unfamiliar with the notion of legal liability for accidental injuries. The image of the "ambulance chasing" attorney, the call for "tort reform," and a recurring medical malpractice insurance "crisis" are well-known to the casual observer of affairs. In fact, much of the modern business of Florida trial courts concerns automobile accidents, injuries from products, and professional malpractice. In 2000-2001, approximately 35,000 such cases were filed in the state's circuit courts, roughly 23 percent of all civil cases. About 2,000 involved professional malpractice, 4,600 products liability, and 17,000 automobile accidents.1 Despite its current prominence, legal …


History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Public Lectures


The World Was There: A Photographic History Of Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 14, Lori C. Walters Apr 2022

The World Was There: A Photographic History Of Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 14, Lori C. Walters

Florida Historical Quarterly

"The Cape": for those old enough to recall the suspense of John Glenn's fireball reentry aboard Friendship 7, the name evokes the image of an inseparable triad-billowing rockets, towering gantries, and silvery astronauts. It was here along the eastern coast of Florida that the United States established its most noted launch facility at Cape Canaveral. Although missiles arose from the desert at White Sands and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, it was the Cape that held the imagination of the nation captive. Cape Canaveral, with its bright orange gantries lining sundrenched shores, was from where America's astronaut heroes engaged …


Historic Notes And Documents: Life In Miami And The Keys: Two Reports And Map From The Monaco-Alana Mission, 1743, R. Wayne Childers Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Life In Miami And The Keys: Two Reports And Map From The Monaco-Alana Mission, 1743, R. Wayne Childers

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1743, some forty-five years after the Franciscans abandoned their disastrous mission to the Calusa, Jesuit Fathers Joseph Maria Monaco and Francisco Xavier Alaiia proposed Christianizing the Indians of the South Florida Keys.1 The natives had previously indicated that they wanted instruction, but when the priests arrived, the Indians rejected educational efforts and asked instead for supplies and whiskey. Despite the less than warm reception given the two priests, a fort was built for their protection. Alana returned to Havana to report on the expedition, leaving Monaco behind with twelve soldiers. The Governor of Cuba ordered their immediate return, however, …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

McGoun, Ancient Miamians: The Tequesta of South Florida, by John H. Hann; Milanich, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians, by Amy Turner Bushnell; Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Narrative History of Early America, by Juliana Barr; Perdue and Green, The Cold Guide to American Indians of the Southeast, by Daniel Murphree; Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717, by Karl L. Davis; Schafer, St. Augudne's British Years: 1763-1784, by Charles W. Arnade; Bonney and Paredes, eds., Anthropologists and Indians in the New South, …


Fernandina Filibuster Fiasco: Birth Of The 1895 Cuban War Of Independence, Antonio Rafael De La Cova Apr 2022

Fernandina Filibuster Fiasco: Birth Of The 1895 Cuban War Of Independence, Antonio Rafael De La Cova

Florida Historical Quarterly

In early January 1895, Cuban exile leader Jose Marti completed preparations in the United States and the Caribbean to ignite a revolt against Spanish colonial despotism in his homeland. Three vessels were chartered in New York and Boston to retrieve hundreds of weapons from a warehouse in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and board contingents of Cuban revolutionaries in Key West, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica to disembark on the island in conjunction with nationwide internal uprisings. During the previous forty-five years, Cuban patriots had been launching dozens of similar military filibuster expeditions from the United States, which the federal government …


Florida In American Popular Magazines 1870-1970, Tommy R. Thompson Apr 2022

Florida In American Popular Magazines 1870-1970, Tommy R. Thompson

Florida Historical Quarterly

One might say that in the nineteenth century Americans discovered Florida. Fascinated with the abundant sunshine and the beauty of its flora and fauna, a steady progression of visitors tantalized the rest of the country with an "Edenic" image of the peninsula. Just one of the many travelers who journeyed to Florida, Harriet Beecher Stowe set the tone in the early 1870s with a description that made it practically irresistible to Americans of means: "The great charm, after all, of this life, is its outdoorness. To be able to spend your winter days out of doors, even though some days …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 82, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Index To Volume 81, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Index To Volume 81, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers, Websites, Editor's Note,


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Perdue, ed., Sifters: Native American Women's Lives, by Deborah Welch; Newmyer, John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, by T. Michael Woods; Remini, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars, by Stephen Warren; Cashin and Eskew, eds., Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia, by James S. Humphrey; Gallagher, Lee & His Army in Confederate History, by Timothy D. Johnson; McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, by S. Walker Blanton; Wynne and Taylor, The Civil War History Series: Florida in the Civil War, by David Cole; Taylor, Discovering the Civil War in …


"Not A Single Battle But Rather A Real War": The Fight To Equalize Teachers' Salaries In Florida In The 1930s And 1940s, Caroline Emmons Apr 2022

"Not A Single Battle But Rather A Real War": The Fight To Equalize Teachers' Salaries In Florida In The 1930s And 1940s, Caroline Emmons

Florida Historical Quarterly

Segregation had many faces in th South prior to the 1960s, but perhaps most familiar were the separate school systems for black and white children. The 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education decision, the landmark ruling that prohibited segregated schools, galvanized the civil rights movement and signaled the end of the South's racial caste system. Before the Brown fight was engaged or even fully conceived, however, efforts to equalize black and white teacher's salarie in the South laid the groundwork for a direct attack on school segregation. Florida was at the center of the pay equity battle. Between the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 81, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


"Set A Light In A Dark Place": Teachers Of Freedmen In Florida, 1864-1874, Laura Wallis Wakefield Apr 2022

"Set A Light In A Dark Place": Teachers Of Freedmen In Florida, 1864-1874, Laura Wallis Wakefield

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the Civil War came to a close and Reconstrution began, a small army of teachers arrived in Florida. Under the auspices of northern aid societies and educational associations, they proposed to teach emancipated slaves. Most did not have a problem motivating their students: many blacks recognized the symbolic and practical significance of literacy. Still, the teachers faced other challenges. Most had been fierce abolitionists. Their idealism had set them apart even from the mainstream of northern society and, combined with their collective identity as "Yankees," immediately put than at odds with Florida's white population. Consequently, violent resistance arose to …


Notes For Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Notes For Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Larsen, ed. Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism, by Dan Murphree; Kapitzk Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine, by Alejandro Quiroga Fernandez de Soto; Snow and Stans, Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians, by Clarissa Confer; Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England, by Christina Persons; Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture, by Randy Sparks; Inge and Piacentino, eds. The Humor of the Old South, by John Mayfield; McCaulay, Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution, by Randall M. Miller; Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of …


Historic Notes And Documents: Judge Henry D. Clayton And "A Klansman": A Revealing Exchange Of Views, Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. Apr 2022

Historic Notes And Documents: Judge Henry D. Clayton And "A Klansman": A Revealing Exchange Of Views, Paul M. Pruitt, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the afternoon of June 16, 1922, Alabama federal judge Henry Clayton addressed the Florida State Bar Association in Orlando.1 Invited at the last minute, Clayton had been in Jacksonville, holding court by special assignment.2 He knew many Florida lawyers--no doubt including Armsted Brown, an Alabama transplant who would be elected president of the Florida Bar that year.3 He was well accustomed to addressing such meetings, usually speaking on technical issues of law or legislation, and so he had accepted the invitation. But this time he had something broader on his mind.4


The Florida Room: From "Redneck Riviera: To "Emerald Coast": A Personal History Of A Piece Of The Florida Panhandle, Harvey H. Jackson, Iii Apr 2022

The Florida Room: From "Redneck Riviera: To "Emerald Coast": A Personal History Of A Piece Of The Florida Panhandle, Harvey H. Jackson, Iii

Florida Historical Quarterly

There wasn't much to Seagrove Beach the first time I saw it. I'm not even sure how my Grandmother found out it was there. Maybe she heard through friends who were part of the "Dixie Art Colony" that briefly met in the old hotel back in the 1930s. But the Depression ruined the colony, the hotel was torn down, and by the time my family rolled in that summer of 1954, a little store, a cluster of tourist cottages, and a few houses were all there was.


The Icelandic Man Cometh: North Dakota State Attorney Gudmunder Grimson And A Reassessment Of The Martin Tabert Case, Vivien E. Miller Apr 2022

The Icelandic Man Cometh: North Dakota State Attorney Gudmunder Grimson And A Reassessment Of The Martin Tabert Case, Vivien E. Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

In February 1922, after receiving a severe flogging from a whipping boss, a young white man from North Dakota died in a convict labor camp in Dixie County, Florida. The victim was Martin Tabert, and the circumstances of his death brought national scrutiny and condemnation of Florida's penal practices, forcing legislators to approve far-reaching penal reform . Historians N. Gordon Carper and Jerrell H. Shofner have addressed Martin Tabert's death and its legacy in earlier volumes of the Florida Historical Quarterly. Carper admirably reconstructed the story of Martin Tabert's untimely death from the Samuel D. McCoy Papers located in the …


Booker T. Washington's Tour Of The Sunshine State, March 1912, David H. Jackson, Jr. Apr 2022

Booker T. Washington's Tour Of The Sunshine State, March 1912, David H. Jackson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Booker T. Washington, the preeminent African-American leader of his day, won followers and supporters by taking "educational tours" through Southern states. Traveling through Arkansas and the Oklahoma and Indian territories in 1905 won him much support for his agenda. His most successful tour, however, was through Mississippi in 1908, directed Charles Banks, setting the standard for subsequent tours. On his Mississippi trip, Washington spoke to an estimated forty thousand to eighty thousand people. Over the years, he spoke to well over 350,000 black and white people through these campaigns. Indeed, they were his means to "meet the masses of my …


Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Unlike the rest of the American South, Florida's tropical climates have made back porches less than ideal places to cool off, watch the world, and talk thing over. Heat, humidity, and mosquitoes force Floridian indoors. So, homes across the Sunshine State have Florida Rooms, enclosed patios with large windows that allow unobstructed views of the landscape. The Florida Room is both inside and outside, signifying leisured enjoyment of the outdoor whil protecting from its impositions. In 1985, during Governor Bob Graham's administration, even the open brick patio on the governor's mansion became a Florida Room: two walls of glass allow …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 81, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers, Conferences, Public Lectures, Projects