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Florida Historical Quarterly

A listing of publications and research by historians around Florida

Florida Women Get The Vote, Kenneth R. Johnson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida women worked long and hard to secure the right to vote. In 1912 Mrs. Roselle Cooley, Miss Frances Anderson, and a few other energetic women in Jacksonville organized the Florida Equal Franchise League. The idea spread to other communities, and in 1913 a small group of suffragists from all parts of the state, led by Dr. Mary Safford, met at Orlando and organized the Florida Equal Suffrage Association. This organization carried on the main fight for woman suffrage in Florida. It was composed of twenty-eight local leagues, five of which were men’s leagues. They were organized between June 1912 …

"A Tale To Tell From Paradise Itself", George Bancroft's Letters From Florida, March 1855, Patricia Clark

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although the development of Florida as a resort for wealthy northern vacationers saw a product of the post-Civil War era, the decade preceding the war was the beginning of a modest influx of travelers, particularly to the northeast region which bordered on the St. Johns River and its tributaries. The subtropical climate, which proved to have a beneficial effect on those suffering mainly with chronic respiratory and bronchial ailments, lured the invalid, while the variety of bird and animal life attracted the hunters. In addition, there were the inveterate travelers-those disposed to adventure or goaded by curiosity as to customs …

Deprivation, Disaffection, And Desertion In Confederate Florida, John F. Reiger

Florida Historical Quarterly

The federal blockade, departure of most breadwinners for the military, removal of large quantities of food, clothing, and supplies for troops on every southern battlefront, disregard of desperate appeals of Confederate and state officials urging the planting of food rather than money crops, and great speculation, caused widespread suffering for most Florida families during the Civil War.

The Florida Treaty And The Gallatin-Vives Misunderstanding, Louis R. Bisceglia

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the time it was announced by His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII in August 1820, that he was sending a minister plenipotentiary to the United States to conduct further negotiations with President Monroe, to the moment General Francisco Vives disembarked in New York on April 7, 1820, from the packet ship James Monroe, an aura of mystery had enveloped Washington as to the disposition of the Spanish government toward the Florida treaty. For during this time there had been virtually no official communiques exchanged between the two governments. John Forsyth, the American minister in Spain, was for all intents and …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 48, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

The Annual Meeting, May 9-10, 1969, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, activities and events,

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Dinkins, Dunnellon-Boomtown of the 1890’s: The Story of Rainbow Springs and Dunnellon, by Baynard Kendrick; Lyons, My Florida, by Pat Parks; Murphy, The Frank Murphy Story, by John Frasca; Severein, Explorers of the Mississippi, by Jack D. L. Holmes; Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Paul H. Smith; Kammen, A Rope of Sand: The Colonial Agents, British Politics, and the American Revolution, by Charles L. Mowat; Prucha, The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783-1846, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; McConnell, Negro Troops of Antebellum Louisiana: A History of the Battalion of …

St. Augustine, 1784: Decadence And Repairs, John D. Ware

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the first of many duties of the Spanish officials upon their return to St. Augustine after an absence of twenty years was to examine and perform necessary repairs to the public buildings. Many of these had fallen into disrepair during the latter years of the British tenure.

Captain Young's Sketch Map, 1818, Alan K. Craig

Florida Historical Quarterly

Recently a manuscript map entitled “Sketch of the Indian and Negro Towns on the Suwaney River” was found during a search of the National Archives and Records Service documents section by A. P. Muntz, chief of the cartographic branch. This map (RG77:L 247-94) is included in a selection of signed and dated maps filed in the records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers pertaining to military activities in northern Florida in the vicinity of the Suwannee River. Almost all are dated 1839, and were rendered by officers of the “topographical engineers” contingent assigned to military forces commanded by …

Lizzie Brown's Tallahassee, Bertram H. Groene

Florida Historical Quarterly

Francis Elizabeth Brown, born in 1818, was the oldest daughter of Thomas Brown, governor of Florida from 1849 to 1853. In the winter of 1827-1828 her father, a dispirited Virginia planter, organized a caravan to move his family from his Rappahannock River farm to Leon County, Florida, some 800 miles away. Brown packed ten year old Lizzie, as Francis Elizabeth was affectionately known, her mother, her brother Jackson, and her three sisters, Mary, Mag, and Ginnie, into the family carriage. Followed by twenty planter friends and his 140 slaves, Brown led the party for two months through North and South …

Spanish Treaties With West Florida Indians 1784-1802, Jack D. L. Holmes

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Bernardo de Galvez raised the lion-and-castle banner over Pensacola in 1781, British rule in West Florida came to a close and the Gulf of Mexico was again a Spanish sea. Keeping it thus was another matter, however, for the young and restless nation to the north was expansionist minded. One of the keys to Spanish defense of Louisiana and West Florida was the presence of 20,000 Indians whose friendship and support would determine who would control the area. Spanish governors and commandants signed various treaties with these Indians between 1784 and 1802. Basically, there were two types of treaties: …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 48, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

Aspects Of The Development And Exploration Of The Forbes Purchase, John C. Upchurch

Florida Historical Quarterly

Attempts at land speculation have been common in the United States. In Florida an early attempt involved an immense tract of land known as the “Forbes Purchase.” This territory, situated in the north-central part of the state bordering the Gulf of Mexico, was the object of exploitation as a unit for approximately fifty-seven years, 1804-1861. First under the trading firm of Panton, Leslie and Company and its successor John Forbes and Company, and later under the Apalachicola Land Company, this practically virgin wilderness was explored, surveyed, and to a degree developed.

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes about the new cover format, various awards, local historical societies

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Laumer, Massacre, by Rolf E. Schell; Paisley, From Cotton to Quail: An Agricultural Chronicle of Leon County, Florida, 1860-1967, by Gloria Jahoda; Parks, The Railroad That Died at Sea: The Florida East Coast’s Key West Extension, by Donald W. Curl; Rhyne, Our Yesterdays, by Clifton Paisley; Pizzo, Tampa Town, 1824-1886: Cracker Village with a Latin Accent, by William M. Goza; Norman, Discoverers of America, by Charles E. Bennett; Craven, The Colonies in Transition, 1660-1713, by John J. TePaske; Hamer, Rogers, and Lyles (eds.), The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume I, 1746-1755, by Richard Walsh; Rohrbough, The Land Office …

Florida History In Periodicals, 1968, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, and, anthropology published in state and regional periodicals in 1968. Articles, notes, and documents which have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing, since they appear in the annual index of each volume. A few articles with a peripheral interest to Florida have also been included.

A Letter From Occupied Tallahassee, Bertram H. Groene

Florida Historical Quarterly

Beigadier General Edward M. McCook, a thirty-two year old Union cavalry officer, accompanied by five staff officers, and units from the Second Indiana Cavalry and Seventh Kentucky Cavalry, numbering about 500 men, left Macon, Georgia, on May 5, 1865. He was under orders to accept the surrender of Confederate forces at Tallahassee and St. Marks. Leaving his cavalry four miles behind on the Thomasville Road, McCook and his officers quietly rode into Tallahassee and there on May 10 they received the surrender by Major General Samuel Jones of Florida’s Confederate forces. Two days later McCook received the surrender of the …

Accounts Of The Real Hacienda, Florida, 1565 To 1602, Paul E. Hoffman

Florida Historical Quarterly

The P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida has recently acquired from the Archive of the Indies five reels of microfilm containing all photographable documents from legajos number 941 to 949 inclusive of Contaduria (see Table I, for contents). These documents are the accounts of the royal officials for the provinces of Florida from 1565 to 1602. They consist of audited copies of three basic sets of books: the accounts of agents sent to collect the subsidy (situado) in Havana or Vera Cruz, the accounts of the treasurers, and the accounts of the factors and …

Florida Courts And The Disputed Election Of 1876, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the election of November 7, 1876 failed to resolve the presidential contest between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden because of uncertain results in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, both national parties sent prominent representatives to the three southern capitals to observe and work for their partys’ interests. With Tilden only one electoral vote short of victory, the Republicans needed every one of the nineteen disputed votes. Because there had been less violence and corruption in Florida and because only a few votes separated the parties, many politicians believed it to be the crucial state. Under …

Florida And Rumrunning During National Prohibition, James A. Carter, Iii

Florida Historical Quarterly

Few periods in Florida's long, colorful history equal the excitement and turbulence of those years when national prohibition was in effect. From the outset of the "Noble Experiment" in 1920 it was apparent to even the most casual observer of events that the state was destined to play a starring role in the drama of that era. The proximity of the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands, coupled with an extensive coastline indented with innumerable bays and inlets, was a boon to liquor smuggling and rumrunning as enforcement agents quickly discovered.

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 48, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Port Of Apalachicola, Harry P. Owens

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a decision on the Forbes Purchase claims Apalachicola entered a new phase in its development. The recently organized Apalachicola Land Company exerted its efforts to develop a major cotton port. Some citizens, dissatisfied with the Apalachicola Land Company, began a rival port on St. Joseph Bay. St. Joseph failed to develop as a commercial center and it ceased to exist by 1842. During the two decades before the Civil War, Apalachicola experienced prosperity to such a degree that it became the thrid largest cotton port on the Gulf of Mexico.

Contents Of Volume Xlviii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 48

Hospital Sketches, Louisa May Alcott

Zea E-Books in American Studies

In November 1862, Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) signed up as a volunteer nurse for the Sanitary Commission charged with caring for the Civil War’s mounting casualties. From 13 December 1862 until 21 January 1863, Miss Alcott served at the Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown in the District of Columbia, where she ultimately contracted typhoid and pneumonia and very nearly died. This book is her account of her journey south from Concord and her six weeks in the nation’s wartime capital. Styling herself by the fanciful name “Tribulation Periwinkle,” she brought humor as well as pathos to her subject, making this …

Amjambo Africa! (July 2021), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Juneteenth..................................2

Beautiful Blackbird Festival.....3

Publisher’s Editorial..................6

Immigration & the workforce.11

Finding freedom from Trauma Part II..................................12/19

World Market Basket .............14

Food for All Mobile Market

African beef & sauce with Eugénie Kipoy

Nouveaux Romans: reviews of recent novels by Francophone authors A partnership with Bates College .......................15/16/17

Sending money home ............20

Finance.....................................21

Columns. ......................24/25/26

Nigeria bans Twitter ...............27

Bombay Mahal ........................28

Tips&Info for Maine ..............29

ICE in Maine..................30/31

Translations

French .................................8

Swahili ................................9

Somali ...............................10

Kinyarwanda.....................22

Portuguese.........................23

Forgotten Crime And Cultural Boom: New York And Brazil's Coffee Trading Relationship In The Early Twentieth Century, Collin Green

The Forum: Journal of History

In the United States of America, coffee and its ever-evolving culture has become a focal point of everyday life. However, we did not just stumble upon this phenomenon; the popularity of coffee was carefully calculated by leaders of the wealthiest coffee companies of the early 20th century in America’s biggest city, New York. In this paper, the history of the powerful coffee trading relationship between Brazil and New York is analyzed on two different levels. Firstly, I examine how New York's big coffee companies successfully participated in criminal activity on an international and national level. Secondly, my focus shifts to …

Stigma On Campus: The Precarious Situation Of Iranian Students At Cal Poly, November 1979, Chance Coates

The Forum: Journal of History

Exploring the ways in which the seizure of the American embassy and subsequent hostage situation of American nationals within Tehran in 1979 transcended international boundaries, this paper discusses the backlash that Iranian students at Cal Poly faced during this pivotal geopolitical crisis. In doing so, I review various protests and public statements that gave rise to a distinct social discourse that stigmatized Iranian students, effectively transforming this group into an “Other.” Further, I explore the ways in which the university as an institution contributed to this stigmatization. The paper overall concludes that the Iranian students on campus were, like the …

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