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The Frogmen In Florida: U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Training In Fort Pierce, 1943-1946, Robert A. Taylor Mar 2022

The Frogmen In Florida: U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Training In Fort Pierce, 1943-1946, Robert A. Taylor

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the most serious challenges facing the Allies in World War II was the necessity of conducting amphibious landings against fortified enemy coasts. German and Japanese engineers shaped concrete, metal, and wood into a variety of fixed obstacles designed to damage or destroy landing craft and stop an invasion before it ever could really begin. By the end of 1942 American military planners were already pondering how to smash through such defenses so the European continent could be liberated from the Nazis. Soldiers, sailors, and civilian scientists sought a mechanical means of removing these sometimes ingenious traps. In the …


"Brasshats" And "Baby Fingers": The Battle Over Rural Education, Stephen D. Andrews Mar 2022

"Brasshats" And "Baby Fingers": The Battle Over Rural Education, Stephen D. Andrews

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in 1919, Grover Rogers returned to the cotton farms of Albertville, Alabama, after service in the “Great War.” Rogers had received his discharge six months earlier, and had worked his way slowly from Florida, through Georgia, and finally home to Alabama. Rocking on the front porch of his family’s sharecropping shack, Grover told an avid audience of family and neighbors about his travels. Along with tales of battle and Europe, he spoke of a hamlet called Plant City, Florida.


"The Privations & Hardships Of A New Country": Southern Women And Southern Hospitality On The Florida Frontier, Anya Jabour Mar 2022

"The Privations & Hardships Of A New Country": Southern Women And Southern Hospitality On The Florida Frontier, Anya Jabour

Florida Historical Quarterly

In October 1826, Laura Wirt wrote to her cousin, Louisa Cabell Carrington, regarding her forthcoming marriage and move from her parents’ comfortable home in the Upper South to a lonely plantation in the newly-opened Florida territory. “I cannot endure the thought! The very prospect breaks my heart!” she exclaimed. 1 But, like many southern women, Laura found that her own preferences had little weight when set against her male relatives’ eagerness to achieve the fabled wealth of the Florida frontier. Laura’s father, U.S. Attorney General William Wirt, and her uncles, Robert and John Gamble of Richmond, Virginia, had invested in …


City Planning In West Palm Beach During The 1920s, John F. Eades Mar 2022

City Planning In West Palm Beach During The 1920s, John F. Eades

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1922 members of the newly formed Planning Board of the City of West Palm Beach agreed to have their municipality enter into a contact with city planner John Nolen. At the time, Nolen’s planning firm was the largest in the United States, and Nolen, along with a small host of other planners, was busy laying the cornerstones of the planning profession. The shaky business relationship between Nolen and West Palm Beach was a short one, lasting only about a year. By the time Nolen fulfilled his contractual obligations, the planning activity in West Palm Beach had fallen into utter …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 75, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Business Meeting Of The General Membership, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Business Meeting Of The General Membership, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the May 25, 1996 Florida Historical Society Business Meeting of the General Membership Cocoa Beach, FL


Board Of Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Board Of Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the May 23, 1996 Florida Historical Society Board of Directors Meeting


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society 94th Annual Meeting


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

JOSE MARTI IN THE UNITED STATES: THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE, by Louis A. Perez, Jr., reviewed by Leland Hawes; FLORIDA’S PIONEER NATURALIST: THE LIFE OF CHARLES TORREY SIMPSON, by Elizabeth Ogren Rothra, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia, PANIC IN PARADISE: FLORIDA’S BANKING CRASH OF 1926, by Raymond B. Vickers, reviewed by John J. Guthrie, Jr.; THE FLORIDA LAND BOOM: SPECULATION, MONEY AND THE BANKS, by William Frazer and John J. Guthrie, Jr., reviewed by Raymond B. Vickers; FEMINA PERFECTA: THE GENESIS OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, by Robin Jeanne Sellers, reviewed by Tracey J. Revels; THE NAKED WARRIORS: THE STORY OF THE …


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Awards and Honors, Call for Papers,


"We Could Have Sent The Old Barbarian Back To The Hermitage": Joseph M. White And Anti-Jacksonianism In Territorial Florida, 1821-1839, Ernest F. Dibble Mar 2022

"We Could Have Sent The Old Barbarian Back To The Hermitage": Joseph M. White And Anti-Jacksonianism In Territorial Florida, 1821-1839, Ernest F. Dibble

Florida Historical Quarterly

In early territorial Florida, two political groups emerged with allegiances to national presidential leaders. One group was led by Richard Keith Call and other friends of Andrew Jackson.1 The second was led by Joseph M. White, friend of James Monroe and the Adamses. As a symbol of these early antebellum allegiances, Andrew Jackson’s “cronies” in Florida occasionally visited Jackson’s home, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee. For similar reason, Joseph M. White journeyed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1831, to pay homage to his presidential circle by attending a Harvard commencement. Both John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams thought it opportune …


Skilled Slave Labor In Florida: 1850-1860, Christopher E. Linsin Mar 2022

Skilled Slave Labor In Florida: 1850-1860, Christopher E. Linsin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Writing of the two weeks she had just spent in “oppression and misery” in Florida, Mary Chestnut, the opinionated South Carolina aristocrat, saw her trip through Fernandina to Charleston in 1860 as a return “to the world”— her world of the civilized South.1 While Florida towns such as Fernandina did not offer the fine cultural characteristics of Charleston, the peninsular state— especially the five counties comprising “Middle Florida”— was as much a part of the political, social, and economic world of the South as was South Carolina. Like the older state, Florida became one of the first members of the …


Railroads, Farmers And Senatorial Politics: The Florida Commission In The 1890s, Tracy E. Danese Mar 2022

Railroads, Farmers And Senatorial Politics: The Florida Commission In The 1890s, Tracy E. Danese

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 1887 Florida Legislature created the state’s first Railroad Commission to curb monopoly abuses by railroad companies. 1 The legislation, which vested regulatory jurisdiction in a three-person commission appointed by the governor, was popular and suited to the reform tenor of the times. It had passed unanimously in the house and with only three dissenting votes in the senate. 2 Yet, in a peculiar twist of Florida political history, the commission’s statutory basis was abruptly repealed only four years later. Florida’s intrastate rail service was left once again unfettered by regulatory constraints.3 Then, six years later, the legislature reestablished the …


Company Towns And Social Transformation In The North Florida Timber Industry, 1880-1930, Jeffrey A. Drobney Mar 2022

Company Towns And Social Transformation In The North Florida Timber Industry, 1880-1930, Jeffrey A. Drobney

Florida Historical Quarterly

The history of industry and labor in the Post-Civil War South for many historians is a story of coal mining and textile manufacturing. Both industries have generated hundreds of historical monographs and represent a very visible part of Southern labor history, when the South’s largest industry, lumbering, has been virtually ignored. Historian Edward Ayers has reminded us, however, that the lumber industry “captures the full scope of economic change in the New South, its limitations as well as its impact.“1 A few monographs, such as Nollie Hickman’s study of Mississippi and Robert Maxwell and Robert Baker, and Ruth Allen’s work …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 75, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the Florida Historical Society Board of Directors, January 20, 1996


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Obituary


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SPANISH TREASURE. FLEETS, by Timothy R. Walton, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; FLORIDA IN POETRY A HISTORY OF THE IMAGINATION, edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice J. O’Sullivan, reviewed by Kevin M. McCarthy; THE COLUMBIA RESTAURANT SPANISH COOKBOOK, by Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco, reviewed by Martin Favata; HISTORY OF BREVARD COUNTY, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by Gordon Patterson; A HISTORY OF ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by William Warren Rogers; FLAGS ALONG THE COAST; CHARTING THE GULF OF MEXICO, 1519-1759: A REAPPRAISAL, by Jack Jackson, reviewed by William S. Coker; TIDECRAFT: THE BOATS OF …


Florida History In Periodicals, James A. Schnur Mar 2022

Florida History In Periodicals, James A. Schnur

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the fields of Florida history, archaeology, geography, political science, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1995. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume.


Wife-Killers And Evil Temptresses: Gender, Pardons And Respectability In Florida, 1889-1914, Vivien Miller Mar 2022

Wife-Killers And Evil Temptresses: Gender, Pardons And Respectability In Florida, 1889-1914, Vivien Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida's State Board of Pardons, created by the state constitution of 1868, was a necessary component of the state’s criminal justice system in the late 19th and 20th centuries due to the general inadequacy of the penal arrangements,1 the frequency with which judges imposed death penalties on those convicted of firstdegree murder, and the absence of any probation or parole facilities. Letters to the pardoning board, to successive governors and to newspapers such as the Florida Times Union and the Tampa Tribune, indicate accord among diverse sections of Florida society on the need for harsh punishment for those who committed …


Finding Freedom In Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, And Colonists, 1670-1816, Patrick Riordan Mar 2022

Finding Freedom In Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, And Colonists, 1670-1816, Patrick Riordan

Florida Historical Quarterly

The entry of the lower south into a world marketplace wrought transformations on its European, native, and African American populations. As production demands increased after the turn of the 18th century, African laborers began to escape their European masters in greater numbers and more frequently sought permanent freedom. When they entered “Indian country,” African Americans confronted native peoples with a difficult choice. Native Americans could assist them in escape, incorporate them into native groups, or return them to the Europeans with whom Native Americans maintained a delicate balance of diplomacy and trade.


Landlords And Tenants: Sharecropping And The Cotton Culture In Leon County, Florida, 1865-1885, Clay Ouzts Mar 2022

Landlords And Tenants: Sharecropping And The Cotton Culture In Leon County, Florida, 1865-1885, Clay Ouzts

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1875 the poet Sidney Lanier visited Leon County, bordering Georgia in northern Florida. Lanier left a favorable account of the red-hill countryside surrounding Tallahassee, the state capital. He described the area as having long fences which marked off pastures, ancient live oaks and other hardwoods spread across the rolling hills where "ample prospects, [came] before the eye."1 Almost ten years later a northern observer remarked that the region was "exceptionally attractive" and that it was one of the "most desirable localities imaginable for several characters of farm industry."2 Promotional literature in the 1890s continued to depict Leon County as …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 75, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Index To Volume Lxxiv, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Index To Volume Lxxiv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MIAMI BEACH: A HISTORY, by Howard Kleinberg, reviewed by Paul S. George; WILLIAM BARTRAM AND THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS, edited and annotated by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund, reviewed by Paul Wehr; HAD I THE WINGS: THE FRIENDSHIP OF BACHMAN AND AUDUBON, by Jay Shuler, reviewed by Steven Valdespino; STEPPING OUT OF THE SHADOWS: ALABAMA WOMEN, 1919-1990, edited by Mary Martha Thomas, reviewed by Sarah P. Vickers; THE STRUGGLE FOR THE GEORGIA COAST: AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SPANISH RETROSPECTIVE ON GUALE AND MOCAMA, by John E. Worth, reviewed by Richard Durshlag; AFTER APPOMATTOX: How THE SOUTH WON THE WAR, …


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Call for Papers


A Letter From West Florida In 1768, Robin F. A. Fabel Mar 2022

A Letter From West Florida In 1768, Robin F. A. Fabel

Florida Historical Quarterly

It has been generally accepted by historians writing on the subject that “there is little evidence that the inhabitants of West Florida were particularly aware of events such as the Sugar Act, Colonial Currency Acts, Townshend Acts. . .” and that “the inhabitants actually were little aware of the disturbances occurring in the northern colonies. . . .“1 The author of the following letter would not have agreed. His letter demonstrates that he was no Tory, had read Dickinson’s Letter of a Pennsylvania Farmer, and was well aware of the “disturbances occurring in the northern colonies.”


Florida's Frontier Constitution: The Statehood, Banking & Slavery Controversies, Stephanie D. Moussalli Mar 2022

Florida's Frontier Constitution: The Statehood, Banking & Slavery Controversies, Stephanie D. Moussalli

Florida Historical Quarterly

Floridians wrote their first constitution in the winter of 1838-1839 in the panhandle town of St. Joseph. It was implemented in 1845 when Florida was admitted to the Union.1 Writing a constitution that would pass congressional inspection was an essential step in completing the process from territorial status to statehood in accordance with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.2 It had become customary for constitutional conventions to rely on models from older states. From 1776 to 1838, the older states had made 41 different constitutions, giving Florida’s founders an extensive and lively constitutional tradition from which to draw.3 They used Alabama’s …


Long Time Coming: Miami's Liberty City Riot Of 1968, Eric Tscheschlok Mar 2022

Long Time Coming: Miami's Liberty City Riot Of 1968, Eric Tscheschlok

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1898, Josiah Strong predicted that “the problem of the twentieth century will be the city.” Five years later, W. E. B. Du Bois declared that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.“1 The turbulent 1960s proved both men prophetic: from Newark to Los Angeles, the nation’s black communities erupted in violence and destruction. For much of the decade, Dade County, Florida escaped this pattern of violence. But in August 1968, as the Republican national convention took place in Miami Beach, the Miami ghetto community of Liberty City erupted into several days of rioting.


Anthony Hutchins: A Pioneer Of The Old Southwest, Ethan A. Grant Mar 2022

Anthony Hutchins: A Pioneer Of The Old Southwest, Ethan A. Grant

Florida Historical Quarterly

The story of British and Spanish Natchez, and the early territorial days of Mississippi cannot be complete without reference to Anthony Hutchins. This temperamental and volatile character was involved in much of the history of the region from his arrival in 1772 until his death in 1802. Barely five feet tall and slender, Hutchins combined the reputed traits of bantam rooster and bulldog. His voice was reedy and his temper was short. By bluff, bluster, and native intelligence, he normally came out at the top of every dispute, and he had many.