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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

BILLY BARTRAM AND HIS GREEN WORLD, by Marjory Bartlett Sanger, reviewed by Wyatt Blassingame; A HISTORY OF FLORIDA BAPTISTS, by Edward E. Joiner, reviewed by Walter B. Posey; SOME WHO PASSED THIS WAY, by Ira A. Hutchinson, reviewed by John D. Ware; THE EVERGLADES TODAY: ENDANGERED WILDERNESS, by George X. Sand, reviewed by Thelma Peters; T. THOMAS FORTUNE: MILITANT JOURNALIST, by Emma Lou Thornbrough, reviewed by Jerrell H. Shofner; THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE NORTHERN VOYAGES, A.D., 500-1660, by Samuel Eliot Morison, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS IN HISTORY: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAN …

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This indicates the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway and as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Recently completed doctoral dissertations and masters theses are included.

Lumber And Trade In Pensacola And West Florida: 1800-1860, John A. Eisterhold

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of all the commercially significant communities along the Old South's gulf coast, Pensacola was most dependent upon lumber for its prosperity. Although it failed to develop into a great cotton port, Pensacola found that an expanding lumber industry offered a reliable export commodity upon which to base a steady if unspectacular rate of growth. Favorably situated near rich timber resources, and possessing a good harbor, only enterprise was needed to make the city one of the nation's leading lumber ports.

Status Of Negroes In A Southern Port City In The Progressive Era: Pensacola, 1896-1920, Donald H. Bragow

Florida Historical Quarterly

Booker T. Washington in his book, The Negro in Business, selected Pensacola, Florida, as a "typical Negro business community" to illustrate the economic progress of blacks since the Civil War. Pensacola, he felt, was "representative of that healthy progressive communal spirit, so necessary to our people...." Washington’s information, obtained largely from the periodical pages of the Colored American, was quite accurate in describing the community's Negro populace during the period 1896 to approximately 1913. In 1907 The Voice of the Negro provided a similar appraisal of Pensacola's Negroes: "It has been equally surprising to note the amount of business done …

Pelts, Plumes, And Hides: White Traders Among The Seminole Indians, 1890-1930, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Only a handful of Indians remained in Florida as the Third Seminole War ended in 1858. When Chief Billy Bowlegs led his band out of the Big Cypress Swamp, accepted a government indemnity, and boarded the steamer Grey Cloud which would take him and his group to their new home in the Indian Territory, he estimated that only thirty-eight warriors and their families were left behind. This was probably a low figure, but his information was relayed to the war department by Colonel Elias Rector, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and plans were made to locate the remaining bands. Throughout that …

Booker T. Washington's Florida Incident, 1903-1904, Arthur O. White

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Come without fail. You will receive kindly and friendly welcome. Address to be given in courthouse to both races." This telegram of February 4, 1903, reinvited Booker T. Washington, America’s best known black man, to speak on the occasion of the joint meeting of the General Education Board and county superintendents of education at Gainesville, Florida. It was front page news throughout the United States. Washington's acceptance of an earlier invitation from State Superintendent of Education William N. Sheats, one of the South's most renowned educators, had caused intense controversy among Floridians over the idea of a black man, however …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 51, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

Proceedings Of The Seventieth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes program and minutes, In Memoriam, new members, Gifts to the Society, Treasurer's Report

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities, Local Societies and Commissions

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No FURTHER RETREAT: THE FIGHT TO SAVE FLORIDA, by Raymond F. Dasmann, reviewed by Charlton W. Tebeau; ON PRESERVING TROPICAL FLORIDA, by John C. Gifford, reviewed by Polly Redford; ST. PETERSBURG AND ITS PEOPLE, by Walter Fuller, reviewed by Milton D. Jones; HISTORY OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY: A KING’S COUNTRY, by M. Luther King, reviewed by E. W. Carswell; JAMES BLAIR OF VIRGINIA, by Parke Rouse, Jr., reviewed by Jack P. Greene; THE LETTERBOOK OF ELIZA LUCAS PINCKNEY, 1739-1762, edited by Elise Pinckney, reviewed by Hugh Lefler; THE ANATOMY OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS, by Thomas B. Alexander and Richard E. …

Florencia Investigation Of Spanish Timucua, Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine on the Florida peninsula. Spanish activity pushed Spain's northern frontier up as far as Chesapeake Bay, but effective control extended only to Port Royal, South Carolina. Menéndez, and subsequent Florida governors, established missions and presidios along the Atlantic seacoast and in the interior areas to give added protection to Florida.

Florida's Image In Juvenile Fiction, 1909-1914, Peter A. Soderbergh

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the years between Appomattox and Sarajevo many young readers took their leisure pleasures from the pages of hardbacked novelettes. More respectable, to parents at least, than the "dime novel," the novellas exploded with the heady escapades of fictional boys and girls whose mental and physical reserves were unlimited. Descended from earlier models created by Martha Finley and William T. Adams— and rooted in the "success" ethos popularized by Horatio Alger, Jr.— the series published after 1898 outdid their prototypes in every aspect but quality.

Florida Prepares For War 1860-1861, George C. Bittle

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida in 1860 cast a peculiar aura. On the fourth of July, Susan Bradford Eppes, daughter of a prominent Tallahassee area planter, was "so proud of the Star-Spangled Banner" carried in a holiday parade by the Governor's Guards. Yet, members of the same militia unit may already have been contemplating the possibility of secession from the Union. West of Tallahassee, in Calhoun County, Florida’s most serious military event of the year was taking shape this same day. Despite ominous political tensions, North and South, local people seemed most concerned with their own immediate problems. A few years earlier two county …

Florida Live Oak Farm Of John Quincy Adams, William R. Adams

Florida Historical Quarterly

The preservation of America’s forests did not become a vital concern much before the end of the nineteenth century. The five laws that Congress passed prior to 1873 dealing specifically with the woodlands resulted primarily from a determination to insure an adequate supply of timber for the navy. The live oak, indigenous to the southern coastal area of the United States, was the principal object of the first three laws, the Naval-Timber Purchase Act of 1799 and the two Naval-Timber Reserve acts of 1817 and 1827. Highly prized by shipbuilders for its extremely hard and durable wood, the live oak …

Black Slaves, Red Masters, White Middlemen: A Congressional Debate Of 1852, James E. Sefton

Florida Historical Quarterly

A list of the most noteworthy congressional debates over slavery would include those on the Compromises of 1820 and 1850, the Gag Rule, the slave trade, and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, among others. Sometimes, however, debate on a comparatively minor episode of a large issue can be highly illuminating. In the spring of 1852, the House of Representatives devoted perhaps ten hours to a bill which brought to a close a bizzare story that had begun sixteen years earlier during federal efforts to remove the Seminole Indians from Florida. Ever since the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1819, white …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 51, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize in Florida History, Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Award, Award of Merit, Mary MacRae History Award, Announcements and Activities, Local Societies and Commissions

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

DUNCAN UPSHAW FLETCHER: DIXIE’S RELUCTANT PROGRESSIVE, by Wayne Flynt, reviewed by Williard B. Gatewood, Jr.; FORERUNNER COURAGEOUS: STORIES OF FRONTIER FLORIDA, by LeRoy Collins, reviewed by William M. Goza; TWO ISLANDS: GRAND MANAN AND SANIBEL, by Katherine Scherman, reviewed by E. Ashby Hammond; SPAIN AND HER RIVALS ON THE GULF COAST, edited by Ernest F. Dibble and Earle W. Newton, reviewed by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; ANGLO-SPANISH RIVALRY IN NORTH AMERICA, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr., reviewed by John J. TePaske; THE NORTH CAROLINA CONTINENTALS, by Hugh F. Rankin, reviewed by Edward S. Perzel; THE PAPERS OF JEFFERSON DAVIS: Volume I, …

Florida History In Periodicals, 1971, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1971. 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. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and which were not included in the list published in the July 1971 issue of the Quarterly.

St. Augustine School: Seventy-Five Years Of Negro Parochial Education In Gainesville, Florida, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Baptists and Presbyterians already had active congregations in Gainesville, Florida, when, in 1868, the Episcopalians formed "Trinity Parish." Land was secured and in 1873 a frame church was built on north Main Street where the Masonic Temple now stands. This structure served the needs of the parish for over three decades.

Rascal Or Representative?: Joe Oats Of Tallahassee And The "Election" Of 1866, Peter D. Klingman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ever since William Watson Davis, member of the so-called Dunning school of post Civil War historiography, popularized Florida’s Reconstruction as a period of dark, corrupt, rapacious rule, the image of the personalities and the events from 1865 to 1876, has remained tarnished. Revisionism, which overturned Davis's view by suggesting that Republican "rule" was tenuous at best and that corruption in politics was a sin of both parties, has only partially rehabilitated the traditional "tragic era." One incident still offered as "proof" for the traditional view of Negro and Republican rascality in Reconstruction is the story of Joe Oats and his …

Florida Whites And The Brown Decision Of 1954, Joseph A. Tomerlin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The United States Supreme Court delivered its epochal opinion in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954. Chief Justice Earl Warren, only recently confirmed by the senate, read the unanimous decision, which held that "in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place." The plaintiffs in the suit, subjected to racially segregated systems of education, were thereby "deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment." But then the court postponed implementing its decree to hear more arguments in the next session on …

Tallahassee Through The Storebooks: War Clouds And War, 1860, Clifton Paisley

Florida Historical Quarterly

Tallahassee was a properous community, and the tastes of her citizens on the eve of the Civil War ran to luxury goods and labor-saving devices as indicated in the daybook for 1860-1863 of the William P. Slusser store on Monroe Street, Tallahassee. In the fall of the year, when schooners, barks, and brigs arrived at St. Marks port to pick up the some 50,000 bales of cotton shipped yearly out of Apalachee Bay, the vessels unloaded a variety of consumer goods that were eagerly awaited: bathtubs, washing machines to replace or at least to supplement scrub boards, and pumps and …

Membership Of The Florida Constitutional Convention Of 1868. A Case Study Of Republican Factionalism In The Reconstruction South, Richard L. Hume

Florida Historical Quarterly

In accord with provisions of the Reconstruction Acts, members of the Florida constitutional convention assembled in Tallahassee in mid-January of 1868. An examination of the historiography of this controversial gathering, a body charged with framing the constitution which was to take effect when the state was returned to civilian rule, quickly reveals the existence of the standard Dunningite-revisionist dispute which has so characterized most writing on the postwar South. William Watson Davis, who completed his classic work on Reconstruction in Florida under the direction of William A. Dunning himself, believed that the delegates who attended the Florida "Black and Tan" …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 51, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Thomson, Jean Quarles, 1894-1982 (Sc 3625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3625. Paper, “Political Parties in America,” by Jean Thomson, Fayette County, Kentucky. The paper, illustrated with artwork and probably written while she was a student, describes the evolution of political parties from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. Also includes notes on the War of 1812.

A Viewer’S Guide To The John W Sweezy Archives, George W. Geib

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Italian Society During World War Ii, Shira Klein

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"This chapter showcases what life was like for ordinary Italians during the Second World War. Up to the 1980s, a typical textbook on Italian history told a narrative of victimhood and heroism, promoting the idea that most Italians had never wanted to join the war in the first place, and resisted both the Fascists and the Germans. It was Mussolini and his henchmen, according to this narrative, who led unwilling Italians into war. The Italian rank-and-file were anti-Fascist heroes and victims of the leadership’s repressive tactics, whereas the Fascist leaders were villainous perpetrators.[i] Since the 1990s, historians have shown that …

Theys Family Collection, 1924-1976, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

This collection consists of personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, film negatives, photos and other miscellaneous materials related to the Theys Family.

The collection is largely centered on the family of Helen R. (Cole) Theys, who was born on January 26, 1922 in Frontenac, Kansas. She married Emile Theys on September 1, 1941. They were married for 26 years until his death on October 2, 1967. Emile and Helen had two children, Sharon K. Theys, and Richard Theys. She was very active in her community until she passed away on June 30, 2017.