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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, The Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. Eldon Turner; Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. by Daina L. Ramey; Balleisen , Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. by Tony A. Freyer; Davis, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government. by Hutch Johnson; Bleser and Gordon, eds. , Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives. by Carol Elizabeth Adam; Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. by Cyril M. Lafvanec; Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping …
Florida's Forgotten Ethnic Culture: Patterns Of Canadian Immigration, Tourism, And Investment Since 1920, Eric Jarvis
Florida's Forgotten Ethnic Culture: Patterns Of Canadian Immigration, Tourism, And Investment Since 1920, Eric Jarvis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Since the 1920s, Florida has been an important factor in the lives of many Canadians who either traveled ot the state as tourists, became short of long term residents, or invested in its land and businesses. As a result, a close and involved interrelationship has developed between the culture and people of the northern country and that of the souther state. Different in type from either overseas or nothern American visitors and investors, Canadians have provent to be a significant but often overlooked ethnic culture in Florida, providing demographic diversity and financial support while at the same time creating a …
Daytona Beach: A Closed Society, Robert E. Snyder
Daytona Beach: A Closed Society, Robert E. Snyder
Florida Historical Quarterly
I remember the 1920s when you could rent an apartment on Atlantic Avenue along the ocean for $25 a week and store clerks with salaries of $8 a week could afford to send their families to the beach in the summer for an annual vacation," John Paul Jones, editor of Florida Living, wrote in 1993; "Summertime was Daytona Beach's big season when the boardwalk was going full blast, day and night. Children and young couples had a safe, healthy place to laugh and play-much like Coney Island."1 Indeed, early-twentieth-century Daytona Beach took several strategic steps which would position it alongside …
Constructing Indians In The Colonial Floridas: Origins Of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573, Daniel S. Murphree
Constructing Indians In The Colonial Floridas: Origins Of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573, Daniel S. Murphree
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1599, Garcilaso de la Vega published his account of Hernando de Soto's journey through what is today the southeastern United State. Based on th author's romantie perceptions of North America and dubious evidence provided by expedition members, the work's factual validity is questionable in many regards.1 Nevertheless, Garcilaso's interpretation provides valuable information pertaining to the imagee of the Florida created and perpetuated by European visitors during the sixteenth century.2 In particular, one passage attributed to Hernando de Soto encapsulated general colonist opinions regarding native peoples. The explorer concluded that "all of the land of this realm is practically identical …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 81, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Call for Papers, Conferences, Awards, Fellowships and Awards, Statement of Errata
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Summerhill and William, Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincentenary. by Claudia Bushman; Weddle, The Wreck of the Belle, The Ruin of La Salle. by Jesus F. de la Teja; Hardesty and Little, Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians. by David Pollack; Andersen, Paynes Prairie: A History of the Great Savanna. by Chris Monaco; Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas. by Philip Schwarz; Adams, General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons. by William B. Skelton; Gallagher, ed., The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula Campaign and the Seven …
Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society
Exhibition Review, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1994 the original watercolor of Mark Catesby, housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, were cIeaned and conserved. At the same time, facsimiles of the 263 original watercolors were prepared using a process called stochatic lithography, resulting in copies almost indistinguishable from the original . Fifty sets were produced before the plates were detroyed. One set belongs to the Special and Area Studies Collection of th George Smathers Libraries at th University of Florida. Forty of those prints make up the current exhibition traveling through Florida.
Legacy To The People: The Civic Origins Of The Orange County Regional History Center, Bob Beatty
Legacy To The People: The Civic Origins Of The Orange County Regional History Center, Bob Beatty
Florida Historical Quarterly
On September 29, 2000, history will change forever," proclaimed the Orange County Historical Society at the grand opening of the 35 million Orange County Regional History Center.1 History in Orange County had indeed changed forever. Over a half century, the museum (and the commission and society that shaped it) struggled for legitimacy, particularly in finding an appropriate home. Prior to opening the Regional History Center in the 1927 Orange County Courthouse, the museu. hosted exhibits in five different locations. But its current address in the restored Courthouse is particularly appropriate and in a sense represents a closing of a circle: …
Disney's Celebration, The Promise Of New Urbanism, And The Portents Of Homogeneity, Hugh E. Bartling
Disney's Celebration, The Promise Of New Urbanism, And The Portents Of Homogeneity, Hugh E. Bartling
Florida Historical Quarterly
Perhaps the most important demographic and social transformation that has occurred in the United States in the past fifty years has been mass suburbanization. As some of the more astute commentators on suburban development have argued, these shifts in population have been accompanied by political and social changes, utterly reconfiguring the nature of civic interaction in the country. Government subsidized loans for white middle-class home buyer transformed the uburban landscape and provided the impetus for the construction of a very different lived environment than had heretofore existed.1 The post-World War II suburb was arranged around the single-family home, transportation by …
In Search Of Community: Historic Preservation And The Quest To Recover Fort Gatlin, Scott Eidson
In Search Of Community: Historic Preservation And The Quest To Recover Fort Gatlin, Scott Eidson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In a city dominated by large numbers of transplant residents, very few citizens of Orlando know or care about the area's rich and colorful history or its historical figures. Local history is not taught in the Orange County schools "unless a teacher has a particular interest in the subject and makes a special effort."1 Recently, efforts have been made to curb this trend. In 1997, a small organization known as the Fort Gatlin Historical Group sought to trace Orlando's origins through a community-wide effort to preserve the presumed site of Fort Gatlin, a United States Army fort of the Second …
Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society
Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 2002, the Florida Historical Society mark its centenary. Organized on 26 November 1902 and chartered three years later, the Society was the successor to the Historical Society of Florida, formed in 1856. According to its charter, the Society's mission was twofold: "the collection arrangement and preservation of all material pertaining to the history of, or in any manner illustrative of Florida, . .. [and to] prepare, edit and publish articles, sketches, biographies, pamphlets, books and documents, descriptive or illustrative of Florida."1 To fulfill the second objective, the Society initiated the Publication of the Florida Historical Society in April 1908, …
Sunbelt Dreams And Altered States: A Social And Cultural History Of Florida, 1950-2000, Gary R. Mormino
Sunbelt Dreams And Altered States: A Social And Cultural History Of Florida, 1950-2000, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida's Big Bang represents an astonishing and complex story, a state swelling from 2.7 million inhabitannts in 1950 to 16 million only fifty years later. Demographically, Florida's tranformation is nothing short of revolutionary. On the eve of World War II Florida's population of l.9 million ranked twenty-seventh nationally and last in the South, trailing even lowly South Carolina and Arkansas. America's twentieth most populous state in 1950, Florida has vaulted to America's fourth largest in 2000, and stands poised to overtake New York. Like shifting tectonic plates, the post-World War II decade witnessed one of the great population shift in …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 81, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Index For Volume 80, Florida Historical Society
Index For Volume 80, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Hann, trans., An Early Florida Adventure Story by John James Clune; Landers, ed., Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida by Bradley C. Bond; O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Eliga H. Gould; Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 by Justin C. Eaddy; Stephens, Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895 by Edward Baptist; Sprague, The Florida War by Jay Jennings; Davis and Swentor, eds., Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant by David Coles; Grimsley and Simpson, …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conferences/Call for Papers, Awards
The Salesman And His Swamp: Dick Pope's Cypress Gardens, Stephen E. Branch
The Salesman And His Swamp: Dick Pope's Cypress Gardens, Stephen E. Branch
Florida Historical Quarterly
In a 1922 article summarizing his family's entrepreneurial success, Edward F. Tilyou was sanguine in his assertion that "those of us in the amusement business have studied your psychology and tried to build our business on a few simple fundamental."1 Indeed, the Tilyou family was renowned for its ability to both anticipate and manipulate the entertainment seeking public. Whether manifested in their operations at Coney Island or Atlantic City, the Tilyous' popular culture acumen was effectively intertwined with the entertainment hucksterism pioneered by P.T. Barnum. And while the specific "fundamentals" of the amusement business necessarily evolve over time, understanding the …
Historic Notes And Documents: A Late Seventeenth-Century Journey To Tampa Bay, Ronald Wayne Childers
Historic Notes And Documents: A Late Seventeenth-Century Journey To Tampa Bay, Ronald Wayne Childers
Florida Historical Quarterly
At the close of th War of the League of Augsburg in 1697, Louis XIV of France found himself with enough free resources to make a fresh effort to colonize the Gulf Coasst. He had already tried this in 1684 when the Sieur de La Salle had departed France and founded a colony at Matagorda Bay in Texas.1 The colony lasted from 1685 to 1686, ending in disaster for the French. Louis, prevented from further expansion in Europe, again tried to expand his overseas possessions eleven years later.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 80, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Forgotten Sacrifice: Native American Involvement In The Construction Of The Castillo De San Marcos, Jason B. Palmer
Forgotten Sacrifice: Native American Involvement In The Construction Of The Castillo De San Marcos, Jason B. Palmer
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the past, historians have been quick to praise the remarkable hardships endured by Spanish soldiers and colonists in the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos.1 Their pay, food, and other supplies were siphoned off to help complete the construction. But seemingly lost in discussions of deprivation and hardship are the Native Americans who lived in the Spanish colony of La Florida. Apalachees, Timucuans, and Guales toiled for over twenty-four years under grueling condition to construct the first European-style stone fortress on North America's east coast.
Climate, Community, And Commerce Among Florida, Cuba, And The Atlantic World, 1784-1800, Sherry Johnson
Climate, Community, And Commerce Among Florida, Cuba, And The Atlantic World, 1784-1800, Sherry Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In late June 1791, St. Augustine captain Don Antonio de Alcantara sailed into Havana harbor at the helm of his schooner, the Santa Catalina. As the captain and master of his own vessel, he was held in high esteem, and Spanish customs officials acknowldged his status by prefacing his name with the honorifie title "Don" (Sir).1 A decade earlier, his arrival would have been unthinkable. His port of origin was in British hands in the early 1780s, and Britain was at war with Spain. Even after the conflict ended in 1783, commerce with Cuba remained restricted.2 More important, Alcantara would …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conferences, Websites, Editor's Notes
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Taylor, The Florida Lighthouse Trail, by Kevin McCarthy; Hurley, Lighthouses of Egmont Key, by Thomas W. Taylor; Marquardt, ed., The Archaeology of Useppa Island, by Arlene Fradkin; Smith, Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom, by Kathryn H. Braund; McGrath, The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane, by J.R. McNeill; Rabasa, Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest, by Lance R. Blyth; Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, by Edward G. Gray; Read, Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, …
The Historian's Craft, Jerald T. Milanich
The Historian's Craft, Jerald T. Milanich
Florida Historical Quarterly
In historical research, as in riding the hounds, the search is often at least as much fun as the end of the chase. Galloping through journals, books, and archival sources in search of an unknown historical figure can be positively exhilarating, epecially when the hunt is replete with fale trails, British baronets, a mysterious princess, and multiple pseudonyms.
Rassling A Governor: Defiance, Desegregation, Claude Kirk, And The Politics Of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, Randy Sanders
Rassling A Governor: Defiance, Desegregation, Claude Kirk, And The Politics Of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, Randy Sanders
Florida Historical Quarterly
In early April 1970, at a time when intransigence concerning desegregation measures below the Mason-Dixon line seemed to have played itself out, the entire nation watched as a southern governor challenged federal authority more directly than Orval Faubus or Ross Barnett or Gorge Wallace ever had. The 1970 confrontation sprang from political considerations: a governor seeking to bolster his chances for reelection defied a president who employed subterfuge to minimize the political liabilities of his desegregation enforcement duties. Historians and political observers of the 1960 and 1970s often refer to these Republican political appeals to the former Confederate states as …
Historic Notes And Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings's 1873 Description Of Mounds In East-Central Florida, Jerald T. Milanich
Historic Notes And Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings's 1873 Description Of Mounds In East-Central Florida, Jerald T. Milanich
Florida Historical Quarterly
Among the collection of new papers recently donated to the University of Florida's P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History by the family of Thomas and Georgine Mickler, owners for many years of Mickler Books, is a copy of a New York newspaper containing an important article about archaeological sites in Florida shortly after the Civil War.
Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane
Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane
Florida Historical Quarterly
In th fall of 1943, Farrar and Rinehart announced the publication of The St. Johns: A Parade of Diversities by James Branch Cabell and A.J. Hanna, the twenty-fourth volume in its prestigious Rivers in America series.1 The series was the brainchild of Constance Lindsay Skinner, prominent poet, novelist, journalist, writer of children's literature, and literary critic. Her idea, which Farrar and Rinehart adopted in 1935, was to produce a history of America and its people through the stories of its major rivers. The first woman to hold a major editorial position in American adult publishing, Skinner edited six volumes before …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 80, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras
"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras
Florida Historical Quarterly
The British colonies in East and West Florida and the Bahamas were frontier outposts. They were not central to European colonial ventures in the same way as Jamaica and Veracruz. British imperial perspective considered these settlements little more than "buffers," separating the established colonies of mainland North America from hostile group of Amerindians (principally Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws), as well a from Spanish imperial outposts in Cuba Santo Domingo, and remote Louisiana.1 The importance of such border societies to British officials in Westminster ought to be measured in terms of national security rather than in terms of economic productivity (i.e., …