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Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the directors meeting

The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Review of A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau. By George R. Bentley. (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. 298 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $5.00.); The Three Pebbles. By Richard Parker. (New York, David McKay Company, 1956. 218 pp. Illustrations. $2.75.); As They Saw Forrest. Edited by Robert Self Henry. (Jackson, Tenn., McCowart-Mercer Press, 1956. 306 pp. Maps and illustrations. $5.00).

Florida In 1855, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

One hundred years ago when the Florida Historical Society was founded at St. Augustine the members of that organization lived in a region and a society which was vastly different from that which is known to millions of twentieth century Americans as “Florida.” In those ancient days tourists were a rarity and resort hotels south of St. Augustine were even rarer. The cities were mere hamlets by present-day standards and almost all of the population was concentrated in the extreme northern part of the state. Industry was virtually non-existent and the mass of men were farmers. Negroes were held in …

Florida, Iowa, And The National "Balance Of Power," 1845, Franklin A. Doty

Florida Historical Quarterly

To Floridians, the admission of their state to the Union is an event in which interest arises as a matter of course from local and state pride and from general historical awareness of the times and circumstances. To Iowans, the event is of similar interest because of the pairing of the two states in the same act of admission. To the historically minded in general, the occasion provides a convenient focus for reconsidering some of the chief crosscurrents of national politics in the 1840's.

Alabama's Political Leaders And The Acquisition Of Florida, Hugh C. Bailey

Florida Historical Quarterly

If many Americans were concerned with western expansion in 1819, it is equally true that many were greatly interested in expansion to the south. America’s spirit of ‘‘manifest destiny” was by no means blunted with the purchase of Louisiana, and at the time of Alabama’s admission to the Union the question of the acquisition and disposition of Florida had become a major issue. Nowhere was the concern greater than among the group which dominated the early years of Alabama’s political life, “the Georgia Machine.” Composed of former Georgians, many of whom originally came from Virginia, the “machine” was nurtured and …

Fort Caroline, Cradle Of American Freedom, Charles E. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

Along the southern bank of the St. Johns River in northeastern Florida stand a wooded bluff and adjoining shorelands which may well be considered the birthplace of American ideals and freedom; or, at very least, the cradle of American ideals in the distant years of 1564 and 1565, and the beginning of the first permanent settlement of our country. The United States government is now, in 1956, establishing at the site what will be called Fort Caroline National Memorial. It is expected that it will be open to visitors by the early summer of 1957. Although the history of St. …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 35, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Contents Of Volume Xxxv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 35

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

New members to FHS and contributors to this issue

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes about Tequesta, activities of local and regional historical societies, notice of the annual meeting, gifts

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Story of the University of Tampa: A Quarter Century of Progress from 1930-1955. By James W. Covington and C. Herbert Laub. (The University of Tampa Press, Tampa, 1955. Pp. 137. Illustrations index. $5.00).; Indians of the Southern Colonial Frontier, the Edmond Atkin Report and Plan of 1755. Edited by Wilbur R. Jacobs. (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1954. xxxviii, 108 pp., 7 illus. $5.00.); Florida Under Five Flags. (Revised edition.) By Rembert W. Patrick. (University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1955. Pp. xii, 140. Illustrations, maps, index. $3.00.)

St. Paul’S Church In Quincy, Florida, During The Territorial Period, Edward B. Gearhart

Florida Historical Quarterly

The development and the growth of the Episcopal Church in Quincy, Florida, and in all Florida, has been best related through the stories of the church leaders whether they were the parish rectors or, in all too few cases, able laymen. For a clear understanding of the life of St. Paul’s Church in Quincy during territorial Florida, three periods must be kept in mind. First, there was the long period of development into a congregation; second, there was the founding of the church and its growth under a rector in residence; last, and most important, were the situations that affected, …

The Legendary Visit Of Emerson To Tallahassee, Alan J. Downes

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the pioneers in the perennial migration of winter visitors to Florida was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the beloved philosopher of American ideals. In 1827, ten years before the flowering of the stirring essays on “The American Scholar” and ”Self-Reliance,” the unknown tubercular youth sailed into castle-shadowed St. Augustine harbor seeking the healing climate of the newly-acquired Florida Territory.

Surveyors’ Field Notes As A Source Of Historical Information, Wilfred T. Neill

Florida Historical Quarterly

No doubt many historians are aware of the information to be gleaned from surveyors’ field notes. However, it seems desirable to call further attention to these documents; they should be of special interest to the student of local history, and to the archeologist who wishes to find sites of the Seminole period in Florida.

Osceola’S Coats?, William C. Sturtevant

Florida Historical Quarterly

A surprising number of Osceola’s personal possessions have survived to the present, a circumstance no doubt attributable to his fame during life and to the fact that he died in captivity. Goggin (1955; see Bibliography following) has located and carefully described four items of Osceola’s clothing and jewelry, and has compared them with their pictorial representation in Osceola portraits. The four pieces are not only the oldest documented Seminole examples of their types, but are among the oldest dated Seminole ethnographic specimens of any kind. Hence they are important for the study of the history of Seminole material culture, as …

The First Fort Of San Marcos De Apalache, Lucy L. Wenhold

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the Gulf coast of southcentral Florida, where the St. Marks River flowing from further upstate meets the longer, shallower, eastward flowing Wakulla, the union of their waters forms a wide, deep, river-mouth harbor for any sea-going vessels that can pass the bar six miles further down at the entrance to the bay of Apalache. Where the two rivers come together there is a narrow headland that rises above the height of the tide and thrusts as it were a pointing finger toward the open sea. Today it is only a part of the harbor’s shoreline, grown up with tall …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 34, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes about the Editor Emeritus, local and regional historical societies around Florida, and new members

Book Review: The Story Of The Chokoloskee Bay Country; With The Reminiscences Of Pioneer C. S. “Ted” Smallwood., Frank B. Sessa

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of The Story of the Chokoloskee Bay Country; with the Reminiscences of Pioneer C. S. “Ted” Smallwood. By Charlton W. Tebeau. Copeland Studies in Florida History. (Coral Gables, University of Miami Press, 1955. Pp. 88. $1.00.)

Mission To The Creek Indians In 1794, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

So much effort has been directed to the story of the resolving of the post-Revolutionary War problems of the United States and Great Britain that insufficient attention has been paid to equally vexing problems with Spain and her allies, the southern Indians. In some respects this is not strange for even during the 1790’s, the attention of the American people was directed toward Great Britain for it was with this nation that the new republic’s economic future was most intimately associated. The two decades subsequent to the birth of the new nation saw constant friction along the Florida-Georgia frontier which …

State Aid For Indigent Soldiers And Their Families In Florida, 1861-1865, William Frank Zornow

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historians have long noted the economic weaknesses of the Confederate states as compared with those of the North. From the very beginning of the war the Southern economy seemed to become increasingly stagnant. In whole areas of the Confederacy there was actual privation and an economic decline which often bore no relationship whatsoever to the proximity of the Union army. These economic deficiencies unquestionably were one of the principal reasons for its collapse.

The Railroads And The Public Lands Of Florida, 1879-1905, J. E. Dovell

Florida Historical Quarterly

Opportunities for profitable economic enterprise in Florida, capitalizing on the resources of the mild climate and millions of acres of unsettled land, had intrigued Northern investors long before the Civil War when Yankee visitors built the state’s first tourist industry. During the war, Northern investors moved into the federally occupied areas and planned continued and accelerated economic invasion of Florida. In the years of Reconstruction the state was “full of northern men looking for a proposition” for profitable investment. The visitation of Northerners increased from 1870 to 1890 as the United States enjoyed the new industrial expansion resulting from the …

The Struggle For Control Of The Florida Central Railroad, 1867-1882, Paul E. Fenlon

Florida Historical Quarterly

A golden age of laissez-faire capitalism began throughout the United States within a few years after Appomattox. This was an age of economic expansion which, led by railroad developments, transformed the United States within a generation, changing this country from an essentially agricultural nation into one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world. This era of transformation is sometimes called the period of the greatest industrial revolution in the history of mankind, but it was also a time when skillful financial manipulators fleeced thousands of investors and when there was widespread corruption of many local, state and federal …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 34, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

Follow The Leader: Rhetorical Analysis Of Adolf Hitler’S Speeches, Katrina Muller, Cecil Kramer

Liberty University Research Week

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Textual or Investigative

Founding Father, Loyal Subject: How John Joachim Zubly Fought For Liberty And Chose Loyalty, Joshua White, Carey Roberts

Liberty University Research Week

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Textual or Investigative

Frodo And Sam’S Relationship In The Light Of Aristotle’S Philia, Martina Juričková

Journal of Tolkien Research

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship of the two major characters of Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings, Frodo and Sam. It tries to find out whether their relationship can be regarded as friendship and what kind of friendship it is. It analyses the relationship of Frodo and Sam and its development according to Aristotle’s teaching on friendship as this was the first and most complex analysis of friendship as a social and philosophical phenomenon. This work comes to the conclusion that Frodo and Sam’s relationship can be understood as an example of perfect, …