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Florida And The World's Columbian Exposition Of 1893, Stephen Kerber Jan 2022

Florida And The World's Columbian Exposition Of 1893, Stephen Kerber

Florida Historical Quarterly

It is a common misconception that Chicago, Illinois, is known as “the Windy City” for its weather. Actually, the name originated during the nineteenth century as a derisive comment upon the often-exaggerated rhetoric employed by Chicagoans engaged in praising their community. This prideful attitude would find its finest and most enduring expression in the poetry of Carl Sandburg. It was this same spirit of aggressive boosterism which in the 1890s enabled Chicagoans to win congressional approval to host on behalf of the nation a great international exposition celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, and …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jan 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 66, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


From The Femme Fatale To The Femme Fatalist: Re-Envisioning Gendered Iconography In Classic Hollywood Cinema, Noah Volz Jan 2022

From The Femme Fatale To The Femme Fatalist: Re-Envisioning Gendered Iconography In Classic Hollywood Cinema, Noah Volz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This thesis re-imagines cultural-historical texts from contemporary perspectives to argue for the visibility of the femme fatalist figure in classic Hollywood cinema. The project contends that the femme fatalist, as an identity, more substantively accounts for women's multidimensionality as filmic characters, beginning with an assessment of this figure in two films noir and arriving at an assessment of her presence in a psychological thriller. To demonstrate the necessity of re-envisioning female multiplicity in the cinema, this study investigates how the motion pictures The Killers (1946), Gilda (1946), and The Spiral Staircase (1946) contribute to an understanding of the femme fatalist …


Creating A Reverberating Beat: Digital Curation Of The Women Writers Of The Beat Generation, Elena Maria Rogalle Jan 2022

Creating A Reverberating Beat: Digital Curation Of The Women Writers Of The Beat Generation, Elena Maria Rogalle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

The focus of my study is the creation of a special topics American literature or Women's Studies course about the women writers of the Beat Generation; this course provides students with a variety of explorations of women's writing during and after Post World War II America. This period saw many changes in terms of women's roles as they challenged the mid-20th century societal constructs. My research examines the women Beat writers by centering on their distinct women's discourse and how their voices challenged the patriarchally-driven canon of Beat Generation writers. To accomplish this task, my research focuses on expanding the …


National Identity And Civil War Memory In The American South: How History, Ideology, And Media Inform The Culture Wars Of The Late Twentieth Century, John Lancaster Jan 2022

National Identity And Civil War Memory In The American South: How History, Ideology, And Media Inform The Culture Wars Of The Late Twentieth Century, John Lancaster

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

On Veterans Day weekend, 1994, the remains of a Confederate soldier named Lewis Powell were reinterred in a cemetery in Geneva, Florida and given military honors. This thesis begins by historicizing Powell's burial ceremony to the final decades of the twentieth century to argue for new ways of viewing and understanding how Americans engaged with Civil War memory and legacy at a time of particularly felt social and cultural change. The 'culture wars' of the 1980s and 1990s describe the many battles and debates fought over issues as wide-ranging as race, politics, gender, sexuality, religion, and education, and were often …


History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation Meeting, National Register of Historic Places, Florida Archaeology Bibliography, Exhibition, Announcements and Activities


Index To Volume Lxv, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Index To Volume Lxv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Directors' Meeting of the Florida Historical Society


Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, and other institutions. Those interested in using particular collections should correspond with the library or archives in question.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE IDEA OF FLORIDA IN THE AMERICAN LITERARY IMAGINATION, by Anne E. Rowe, reviewed by Richard Dwyer; INDIANS, COLONISTS, AND SLAVES: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF CHARLES H. FAIRBANKS, edited by Kenneth W. Johnson, Jonathan M. Leader, and Robert C. Wilson, reviewed by Elizabeth J. Reitz; THE ARCHEOLOGY OF SLAVERY AND PLANTATION LIFE, edited by Theresa A. Singleton, reviewed by John S. Otto; THE PAPERS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, VOLUME 5, 1853-1855, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix, reviewed by Bertram Wyatt-Brown; ON THE THRESHOLD OF FREEDOM: MASTERS AND SLAVES IN CIVIL WAR GEORGIA ,by Clarence L. Mohr, reviewed …


Roosevelts "Tree Army": The Civilian Conservation Corps In Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner Dec 2021

Roosevelts "Tree Army": The Civilian Conservation Corps In Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Civilian Conservation Corps— officially known as Emergency Conservation Work until 1937— was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s favorite New Deal programs and certainly one of the most popular among the American people. Roosevelt saw great opportunities in the prospect of an agency which would help stimulate the devastated economy of the nation while salvaging two of its most valuable resources, the land and the nation’s youth. At the president’s urging, Congress enacted a law on March 31, 1933, authorizing emergency conservation work in which 300,000 young men could be employed in wholesome work preserving the nation’s natural resources. …


Marion Post And The Farm Security Administration In Florida, Robert E. Snyder Dec 2021

Marion Post And The Farm Security Administration In Florida, Robert E. Snyder

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between 1933 and 1940, and continuing through World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spent billions of dollars through a number of agencies on a variety of relief and recovery measures. Persuading Congress and the American public that mammoth appropriations were necessary to ameliorate the privations suffered by the bottom third of the nation required a constant lobbying and educational effort. To show the needs of the ill-housed, ill-fed, and ill-clothed during the Great Depression, and to record the progress made by the New Deal, a documentary photography project was established in 1935 in the Resettlement Administration (RA), and became …


"Yonder Come Day": Religious Dimensions Of The Transition From Slavery To Freedom In Florida, Robert L. Hall Dec 2021

"Yonder Come Day": Religious Dimensions Of The Transition From Slavery To Freedom In Florida, Robert L. Hall

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Confederate firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 was a watershed not only in the political and military history of the United States, but also a turning point in its social history. The heady wine of secessionism and the rupturing of lines of communication and calm moral discourse were experienced in some religious polities for more than a decade before the fateful military event. Southern Methodists and Baptists had parted company with their non-southern counterparts by 1845, when, as John Hope Franklin has written, “slavery had become as much a part of the religious orthodoxy of the South as the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 65, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Charlton Tebeau Chair, D. B. McKay Award, Announcements and Awards, Obituary


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MAY MANN JENNINGS: FLORIDA’S GENTEEL ACTIVIST, by Linda D. Vance, reviewed by Joan S. Carver; A HISTORY OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN MANATEE COUNTY, FLORIDA, by Robert E. King, reviewed by Mark V. Barrow; LA REPÚBLICA DE LAS FLORIDAS: TEXTS AND DOCUMENTS, compiled by David Bushnell, reviewed by Bruce S. Chappell; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774 - 1789, VOLUME 11: OCTOBER 1, 1778 - JANUARY 31, 1779, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerald W. Gawalt, Ronald M. Gephart, and Eugene R. Sheridan, LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 12: FEBRUARY 1, 1779 - MARCH 31, 1779, edited …


Major General James Patton Anderson: An Autobiography, Margaret Uhler Dec 2021

Major General James Patton Anderson: An Autobiography, Margaret Uhler

Florida Historical Quarterly

Although James Patton Anderson has received relatively little historical recognition, the contributions he made to Florida’s Civil War effort are worthy of historical study.


Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses completed in 1986 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is listed.


The Seymour Decision: An Appraisal Of The Olustee Campaign, William N. Nulty Dec 2021

The Seymour Decision: An Appraisal Of The Olustee Campaign, William N. Nulty

Florida Historical Quarterly

Just before seven A.M. on February 20, 1864, Colonel Guy V. Henry’s mounted brigade, the advance guard of the Union forces commanded by Brigadier General Truman Seymour, departed Barber’s Ford, Florida, heading west on the Lake City and Jacksonville Road. Composed of the Fortieth Massachusetts Mounted Infantry with the First Massachusetts Independent Cavalry attached and Captain Samuel S. Elder’s Horse Battery with four pieces of artillery, the mounted men soon outdistanced those marching in brigade columns. The sky was clear and gold sunlight was just starting to filter down through the pines. In a report written two days later, Seymour …


Open-Range Cattle-Herding In Southern Florida, John S. Otto Dec 2021

Open-Range Cattle-Herding In Southern Florida, John S. Otto

Florida Historical Quarterly

The herders of the Old South held little land and few slaves but owned considerable numbers of livestock. They grazed their livestock on the unclaimed public lands, or “open-range,” at no charge, a practice which was safeguarded by state laws until after the Civil War. Living throughout the Old South, the herders were especially numerous in the mountains and the coastal plain, where the soil possessed little fertility, and where most of the land was unclaimed public domain. In the southern mountains, herders raised hogs in the unfenced hardwood forests, exporting porkers to southern plantations and to midwestern slaughter houses. …


Black Immigrants: Bahamians In Early Twentieth-Century Miami, Raymond A. Mohl Dec 2021

Black Immigrants: Bahamians In Early Twentieth-Century Miami, Raymond A. Mohl

Florida Historical Quarterly

Miami is generally thought of as a new immigrant city— a city that only recently became the haven of Caribbean and Latin American exiles and refugees. Until the first big wave of Cubans began to arrive in 1959, Miami seemed the quintessential tourist town and retirement haven. From the 1920s through the 1950s, sun and surf, gambling and horse racing, and endless promotional extravaganzas helped to shape Miami’s public image. The fact is, however, that Miami has always had a magnetic attraction for peoples of the Caribbean. Indeed, the magnitude and diversity of current immigration to Miami tends to mask …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 65, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


History News, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Conferences, Exhibitions, Announcements and Activities


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops, 1986


Cow Cavalry: Munnerlyn's Battalion In Florida, 1864-1865, Robert A. Taylor Dec 2021

Cow Cavalry: Munnerlyn's Battalion In Florida, 1864-1865, Robert A. Taylor

Florida Historical Quarterly

Secession and civil war filled the air along with the blossoms of spring in Florida and the rest of the rebellious South in 1861. Florida’s membership in the new Confederate States of America augmented southern leader’s confidence in the region’s basic agricultural strength. It was well known that antebellum Florida possessed large numbers of beef cattle, which in an emergency could feed thousands of rebel soldiers. Florida beef would figure prominently in Confederate logistics, but could never meet the high expectations placed upon it by the government.


Florida Seminoles In The Depression And New Deal, 1933-1942: An Indian Perspective, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. Dec 2021

Florida Seminoles In The Depression And New Deal, 1933-1942: An Indian Perspective, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Great Depression of the 1930s, following as it did the exuberant prosperity and financial excesses of the “Roaring Twenties,” caught millions of Americans both economically and psychologically unprepared to deal with the collapse which was to follow. One of the few groups which was not adversely affected immediately, if only because they were already living perilously close to the poverty level, was the Seminole Indians of Florida. As late as the turn of the century they had participated in a profitable trading relationship with white merchants in the south Florida region. These merchants had purchased a great volume of …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

JACKSON COUNTY, FLORIDA— A HISTORY, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by William Warren Rogers; THE LIVES OF VIZCAYA: ANNALS OF A GREAT HOUSE, by Kathryn Chapman Harwood, reviewed by Marcia J. Kanner; EDUCATING HAND AND MIND: A HISTORY OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN FLORIDA, by Robert G. Stakenas, reviewed by Arthur O. White; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME 10: DECEMBER 12, 1774-JANUARY 4, 1776, edited by David R. Chesnutt, et al., reviewed by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN OF THE OLD SOUTH. THE PECULIAR SISTERHOOD IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, by Minrose C. Gwin, reviewed by Emma Lou Thornbrough; …


Standards Of Nutrition In A St. Augustine Hospital, 1783-1821, Ann P. Emerson Dec 2021

Standards Of Nutrition In A St. Augustine Hospital, 1783-1821, Ann P. Emerson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Established by royal decree of the king of Spain in 1776, the Regulations for Royal Hospitals provided guidelines for hospital care in royal Spanish hospitals. This included the one in St. Augustine, Florida, during the Second Spanish Period (1783-1821). Other Spanish hospitals at this time were located in Mobile and New Orleans. The set of regulations is among the earliest written documents specifying the role and responsibilities of medical personnel, treatment of patients, content of regular and special diets, and preparation of food for patients. Earlier, in 1570, Phillip II of Spain had established a law to provide his subjects …


Union Academy: A Freedmen's Bureau School In Gainesville, Florida, Murray D. Laurie Dec 2021

Union Academy: A Freedmen's Bureau School In Gainesville, Florida, Murray D. Laurie

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Union Academy was one of the most important institutions in Gainesville’s black community for over fifty years. It was the town’s first public high school and from its graduating classes came most of Alachua County’s black teachers and black leaders. The facility which housed the Academy was built during Reconstruction by black carpenters who had learned their skill as slaves. Land for the building had been purchased by the school’s board of trustees. A symbol of self-sufficiency and pride for Gainesville’s black citizens for many decades, the Union Academy also represented the value they placed on education.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 65, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents