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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 89, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; Call for Papers 2011 Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Lecture Series 2010-2011; 51st Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians Call for Papers and Participation; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida HIstorical Quarterly


A Translation History Of Fontaneda, Peter Ferdinando Apr 2022

A Translation History Of Fontaneda, Peter Ferdinando

Florida Historical Quarterly

The captivity of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda by the Calusa Indians led to the creation of a series of documents that vividly depict the indigenous peoples of southern Florida. These writings clearly have proto-ethnographic qualities. Students of Florida history and archaeology have frequently utilized this information to better understand native peoples who lived on the peninsula.2 In the case of Fontaneda's writings, however, we must ask vital questions about translation. He wrote in sixteenth century Spanish, yet the current lingua franca of the academic and research community in the United States is the English of the twenty-first century. This paper …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hall Jr., Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast. by Linford D. Fisher; Gragg, The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class. by Jennifer Lockard Connerley; White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic. by John Davies; Morrisey, Pirate Hunter, A Novel. by Edward C. Woodward. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society. by Richard Jensen; Bernath, Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South. by Martin P. Johnson; Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. by Janie Gould; …


Selling Seduction: Women And Feminine Nature In 1920s Florida Advertising, Nicole C. Cox Apr 2022

Selling Seduction: Women And Feminine Nature In 1920s Florida Advertising, Nicole C. Cox

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1925, Tampa's Booster Record and Publishing Company debuted its latest jingle, "Tampa Steps Out," with words and music by Frank W. Salley. The song, and many others like it, promoted the state and the city of Tampa during the 1920s real estate frenzy known as the Florida land boom. Following the United States' long booster musical tradition, Florida songbooks featured colorful pictorial covers designed to function as a sort of billboard depicting the region's charms and progress. City and state developers, hotel proprietors, real-estate salesmen, and other boosters engaged professional songwriters, including the renowned Irving Berlin, to develop original …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 89, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


" … In A Strange Piace ... ": The Experiences Of British Women During The Colonization Of East & West Florida, Deborah L. Bauer Apr 2022

" … In A Strange Piace ... ": The Experiences Of British Women During The Colonization Of East & West Florida, Deborah L. Bauer

Florida Historical Quarterly

In April 1767, a young woman named Miss Row married a man who had proposed to her several times over the past year and a half despite the fact that he was not the same man with whom she had engaged in a torrid affair in British East Florida.1 When Miss Row married William Gerard De Brahm, a German who recently had been appointed as Surveyor General of the Southern Colonies, it ended a tumultuous period in her life that had begun when she immigrated to East Florida sometime between late 1764 and early 1766. 2 Within a few months …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; Florida Lecture Series 2010-2011; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida HIstorical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America. by Tiya Miles; Schafer, Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida. by Judith F. Gentry; Huibregtse, American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935. by Thomas A. Castillo; Pacheco, Tales from the 5th St. Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing. by Andrew Smith; Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890 - 1940. by Darius J. Young; Winsboro, Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement. by Christopher B. …


Freezes, Fights, And Fancy: The Formation Of Agricultural Cooperatives In The Florida Citrus Industry, Scott Hussey Apr 2022

Freezes, Fights, And Fancy: The Formation Of Agricultural Cooperatives In The Florida Citrus Industry, Scott Hussey

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Majorie Kinnan Rawlings' autobiographical Cross Creek, the author recalls the actions taken in her orange grove while preparing for a freeze: "Night came and the temperature dropped steadily. The fatal 28 came at midnight and I gave word for the lighting of the fires ... The work is so cruel that it seems to me the least I can do is take care of the men properly ... There is a healthy challenge and danger and a certain spiritual sustenance comes from fighting it. For all the losses they have cost me, I would not choose to have lived …


Thomas De Saliere Tucker: Reconciling Industrial And Liberal Arts Education At Florida's Normal School For Colored Teachers, 1887-1901, Peter A. Dumbuya Apr 2022

Thomas De Saliere Tucker: Reconciling Industrial And Liberal Arts Education At Florida's Normal School For Colored Teachers, 1887-1901, Peter A. Dumbuya

Florida Historical Quarterly

At one and the same time, Thomas de Saliere Tucker's life and career in academia exemplified the triumph of liberty and human rights over slavery in the second half of the 19th century and the difficulty often encountered by those who challenged the long-held notion that equal education could be provided to blacks and whites in separate but equal educational institutions. In 1889 the Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction proclaimed that "it has become a settled policy in the State that competent colored teachers shall be employed to teach the colored children and youth."1 Seven years later, the United States …


Murder, Insanity And The Efficacy Of Woman's Role: The Gwendolyn Hoyt Case, George B. Crawford Apr 2022

Murder, Insanity And The Efficacy Of Woman's Role: The Gwendolyn Hoyt Case, George B. Crawford

Florida Historical Quarterly

Shortly before 1 a.m. on 20 September 1957 Gwendolyn Hoyt, a 32-year-old Tampa housewife, lost any semblance of self-possession as she flew into a rage and crushed her husband's forehead and face with a baseball bat. Her subsequent trial for murder initiated a lengthy series of legal proceedings that highlighted the power of a shared assumption about the role of women in U.S. society during the 1950's. Despite the emergence of social, economic and intellectual forces to challenge such a conception, the notion of a legally sanctioned, prescribed woman's role informed the treatment of the case by attorneys, judges and …


William Augustus Bowles On The Gulf Coast, 1787-1803: Unraveling A Labyrinthine Conumdrum, Gilbert C. Din Apr 2022

William Augustus Bowles On The Gulf Coast, 1787-1803: Unraveling A Labyrinthine Conumdrum, Gilbert C. Din

Florida Historical Quarterly

Colorful William Augustus Bowles has presented problems to historians for as long as they have written about him. He purposely promoted confusion about himself to inflate his personality and achievements, and historians unacquainted with his devious machinations made them worse by repeating them. One egregious error mixed him up with Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco), a nineteenth-century Seminole chief, and he sometimes was called Billy Bowles, a moniker absent in the multitude of contemporary documents written by and about him.1 The most common mistake describes him as the director general of the Creeks. Though Bowles gained military sway over a group …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 89, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Cumulative Index, Volume 88, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Cumulative Index, Volume 88, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida History In Publications, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Florida History In Publications, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly Now on Facebook; Florida Historical Awards; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Military Slave Rentals, The Construction Of Army Fortifications, And The Navy Yard In Pensacola, Florida, 1824-1863, Thomas Hulse Apr 2022

Military Slave Rentals, The Construction Of Army Fortifications, And The Navy Yard In Pensacola, Florida, 1824-1863, Thomas Hulse

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the first half of the nineteenth century, expansion of the abolitionist movement led to increasing pressure on the federal government to substantiate military labor policies in regard to the construction of defense installations and public works projects. The manifestation of this pressure resulted in the passage of a law in 1842 by Congress that required government agencies to account for the use of slave labor. As a result, a "resolution of the House of Representatives lStin stant" forced Navy Secretary A. P. Upshur to respond to questioning on August 10, 1842. When asked "what number of "colored" persons there …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ethridge and Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South. by Julie Anne Sweet; Cashin, Guardians of the Valley: Chickasaws in Colonial South Carolina and Georgia. by Roger M. Carpenter; Shields, ed., Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean. by Paul G. E. Clemens; Smith and Hilton, eds., Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s. by Andrew K. Frank; Hall, A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. By Shawn Leigh Alexander; …


From Desegregation To Integration: Race, Football, And "Dixie" At The University Of Florida, Derrick E. White Apr 2022

From Desegregation To Integration: Race, Football, And "Dixie" At The University Of Florida, Derrick E. White

Florida Historical Quarterly

On a chilly December day in 1962 just before the New Year's holiday, the University of Florida (UF) Gators football team played the Penn State Nittany Lions in the eighteenth annual Gator Bowl. Penn State entered the game a heavy favorite. The media and coaches ranked the Nittany Lions ninth in the country, and the Eastern College Athletic Conference awarded the team the Lambert Trophy as the best team in the East. The game was Penn State's second consecutive Gator Bowl appearance. The Nittany Lions made history the previous season as the first desegregated team to play in the Gator …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 88, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


When Modern Tourism Was Born: Florida At The World Fairs And On The World Stage In The 1930s, David Nelson Apr 2022

When Modern Tourism Was Born: Florida At The World Fairs And On The World Stage In The 1930s, David Nelson

Florida Historical Quarterly

More than any other moment in Florida's history, the debut of the state's exhibit at Chicago's Century of Progress world's fair in 1933 marked the beginning of modern Florida tourism. From this point until the end of the 20th century and beyond, Florida promoted and depended upon tourism more than upon any other industry. This proved to be the moment Florida ceased to be southern in the popular mind and assumed the image of a racially-and regionally-neutral land of sunshine, fun, and endless opportunity. It was at Chicago in 1933 that Florida became genuinely and definitively exotic and tropic in …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

2010 Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection; Florida History Lecture Series; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Finlay, Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security. by Anne B. Effland; Alderson, Jr., This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794, by Rafe Blaufarb; O'Connor and Monroe, Florida's American Heritage River: Images from the St. Johns Region. by R. Bruce Stephenson; Davis, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. by Gregory Bush; Griffin, ed., The Odyssey of an African Slave. By Sitiki. by Michael Guasco; Brana-Shute and Sparks, eds., Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World. by Timothy R. Buckner; Curnutt and …


Looks Like Acquittal: Sex, Murder, And The Tampa Morning Tribune, 1895, J. Thomas Perry Apr 2022

Looks Like Acquittal: Sex, Murder, And The Tampa Morning Tribune, 1895, J. Thomas Perry

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the morning of August 22, 1894, W.M. Hendley fished alone on a St. Petersburg, Florida dock. Sela P. Harrison approached the man from behind wielding a double-barreled shotgun, one barrel loaded with buck-shot and the other with slugs cut from a metal bar. Hendley was unaware of his assailant and no words were exchanged. Within ten feet of the victim, Sela fired both barrels striking Hendley in the torso and taking off the right side of his head. Sela remained calm. He did not attempt to flee the scene or dispose of the gun, rather, he walked slowly up …


The Jacksonville Mutiny Of 1865, John F. Fannin Apr 2022

The Jacksonville Mutiny Of 1865, John F. Fannin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the fall of 1865, white officers of the 3rd Regiment, United States Colored Troops (3rd USCT) hung a black enlisted man by his thumbs on the Jacksonville parade ground-a misdemeanor-level punishment-for stealing a jar of molasses from the field kitchen. Black soldiers gathered around the officers standing in front of the dangling prisoner and loudly objected to the thumb-hanging. The protest quickly turned into a melee in which enlisted soldiers and officers exchanged gunfire and grappled hand-to-hand. Subsequently, six soldiers would be tried for mutiny and executed. Another seven received lengthy prison sentences and one was released without penalty. …


Wetlands And Wildlife: Martin Johnson Heade In Florida, Charlotte M. Porter Apr 2022

Wetlands And Wildlife: Martin Johnson Heade In Florida, Charlotte M. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Florida drew the attention of a number of literary figures, naturalists and landscape artists who were vocal in the national conservation movement.1 Often traveling as observers for developers and entrepreneurs, they documented landscapes in words and paintings that now constitute a national treasure. In 1867, Charles Beecher, brother of novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe arrived at the mouth of the St. Johns River. "The river stretched away so boundlessly," he wrote that "it seemed rather [like] a great sea or lake."2 Impressed by the expansive beauty, Beecher described his gateway as a …


The Seminole Controversy Revisited: A New Look At Andrew Jackson's 1818 Florida Campaign, Daniel Feller Apr 2022

The Seminole Controversy Revisited: A New Look At Andrew Jackson's 1818 Florida Campaign, Daniel Feller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Americans began their experiment in self-government with the notion that republics naturally love peace and monarchies naturally love war. As Thomas Paine explained in Common Sense, wars began when "crowned ruffians" attacked their neighbors-or their own subjects-in pursuit of personal wealth, power, or glory. "In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion." Since the people at large were naturally peace-loving, republics would fight only in self-defense. Not by coincidence, said Paine, had …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 88, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers, 2010 Annwal Meeting of the Florida Historical Society; The Friends of the Florida Historical Society Present The 2009/2010 Discover Florida Series Speakers; Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida History Lecture Series; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly