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Spanish Pensacola, 1700-1763, William B. Griffen

Florida Historical Quarterly

After more than a decade of explorations by Spain along the north and east shores of the Gulf of Mexico, a garrison has founded with all urgency at a bay called Pensacola* in the latter part of the year 1698 in an effort to keep other foreign powers, namely France and England, from obtaining a foothold in the region. These enemies of the Spanish dominions, so thought the Spaniards, would thus be obstructed from an area from which they could attack Spanish shipping and from which they would be able to penetrate and usurp portions of the northern Spanish colonies, …

The Founding Of Pensacola: Reasons And Reality, Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

October 1698 - Two rival expeditions - one French, the other Spanish - were sailing toward a pleasant harbor in the Gulf of Mexico. Neither of them knew about a third rival. But there it was, two little ships outbound from London, bringing Britons who coveted the same sunny southeastern province.

Tristan De Luna And Ochuse (Pensacola Bay), 1559, Charles W. Arnade

Florida Historical Quarterly

The conquest of America by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century was a momentous event which had profound consequences in world history. Portugal was the leader of the age of exploration during the fifteenth century, but Spain became the principal contender in conquest during the next century. It was she who blazed the trail of European penetration in South, Central and North America. It was she who left the first European footprints on Florida’s soil. It was she who unfurled the first flag over Pensacola Bay, and it was she who planted the first cross, symbol of Christianity, on the …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 37, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

Junior Historical Contest, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

More students from more schools entered the Society’s annual Junior Historical Writing Contest this year than ever before: over 100 papers from 29 schools. The papers were judged by Dr. Gilbert Lycan and Dr. John Johns of Stetson University and Mrs. Ella Teague DeBerard, all of DeLand. The following awards were recommended by the committee and approved by the Society.

Business Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes notes from the directors meeting, report of the treasurer, and annual membership meeting

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Program from the annual meeting

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie. By George Dallas Mosgrove, Edited by Bell Irwin Wiley. (Jackson, Tenn., McCowat-Mercer Press Inc., 1957. $6.00); Parson Clapp of the Strangers’ Church of New Orleans. Edited by John Duffy. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1957. 191 pp. $5.00); The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1776-1845. By Walter Brownlow Posey. (Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1957. x, 166 pp. $5.00.); Lee’s Dispatches; Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America 1862-1865. Edited by Douglas Southall Freeman and Grady McWhiney. …

Florida Bibliography And Historiography, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

I. The Development of Knowledge Regarding the Florida Indians; II. Writings In Florida History on the Period 1821-1860; III. Historical Writing on Twentieth Century Florida

Florida Pioneer, Adelaide H. Reed

Florida Historical Quarterly

Whether the source of the Manatee River was really the “Fountain of Youth” for which Ponce de Leon searched in vain is a question for historians - or geographers - to argue about. But, in its early days, the little town of Manatee really did have a “Fountain of Youth.” At least, it was named that. It was not exactly a fountain, but a little spring of clear, cold water bubbling up out of the ground, with a gourd hung on a nearby oak tree from which to drink.

The Democrat, Arthur Kennerly

Florida Historical Quarterly

For more than fifty years The Tallahassee Democrat has been the major newspaper of the capital city of Florida. * In the half-century since it first appeared, the newspaper has frequently changed its “face” and has been challenged by several short-lived local rival publications. But no matter how much opposition it has had and regardless of how many readers curse it, The Democrat has survived and prospered.

Zangara's Attempted Assassination Of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nathan D. Shappee

Florida Historical Quarterly

A communitiy's moment in history is not usually of its own choosing but comes as some unwanted thing which can be embarrassing and completely frightening. Such was the unhappy fate of Miami on the evening of February 15, 1933 when Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt with an $8.00 pistol. The attempt failed but Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago died from a bullet wound. And Zangara was electrocuted for his crime.

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 37, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Experiencia misionera en la Florida (siglos XVI y XVII). By P. G. J. Keegan and L. Tormo Sanz. Instituto Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Biblioteca “Missionalica Hispanica,” Series B. Vol. VII. (Madrid, Talleres Graficos Jura, 1957. 404 pp.); The Story of Southwestern Florida, By James W. Covington. (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1957. 2 vols. Maps, illustrations, index. $48.50.); Ante Bellum Alabama Town and Country. By Weymouth T. Jordan. Florida State University Studies, No. 27. (Tallahassee, Florida State University, 1957. viii, 172 pp. Bibliography. $3.00.); Lee Chronicle; Studies of the Early Generations of …

Reminiscences Of The Civil War, James M. Dancy

Florida Historical Quarterly

Life reminiscences of James M. Dancy, who first saw the light of day at Buena Vista on the east bank of the St. Johns River, on the 15 day of January, 1845; son of Francis L. and Florida F. Dancy; now at this date [June 30, 1933] eighty-eight and one-half years of age, writing this without glasses.

Marion County Newspapers, R. N. Dosh

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Press Association, in celebrating the 75th anniversary of that organization, asked me to prepare a history of the Ocala Star-Banner. The article prepared at that time has been revised somewhat and brought up to date.

Economic Problems Of Florida Governors, 1700-1763, John J. Tepaske

Florida Historical Quarterly

Many problems plagued the eighteenth-century Florida governor, but none vexed him more than the economic plight of his settlement. Florida was a poverty-stricken military outpost of the Spanish Empire on the northeastern fringe of New Spain. It was unable to sustain itself with mining or agricultural enterprises and was wholly dependent upon outside aid for its existence. Want, misery, and destitution were the lot of the soldiers and their families living in this unpopular community. Securing money and supplies for them was the governor’s greatest single responsibility; no colonial question received his more devoted attention.

What Became Of The Man Who Cut Off Jenkins' Ear?, Edward W. Lawson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost all histories mention the unfortunate experience of Master Robert Jenkins who achieved fame by giving his name to the War of Jenkins’ Ear. Some even tell that the man who removed Jenkins’ auricle was called Fandino, captain of a Spanish Coast Guard. What ultimately became of Fandino remains a mystery. He deserves better recognition in the history of Florida, for it was he who was largely responsible for the failure of General James Oglethorpe to capture St. Augustine’s Castillo de San Marcos, and hence the abandonment of the siege of our oldest city by the English in 1740.

Population Change As An Element In The Historical Geography Of St. Augustine, John R. Dunkle

Florida Historical Quarterly

The History of St Augustine, like the history of every place, is an intricate drama of personalities and events set against a backdrop of the physical and cultural environment. This paper attempts to outline the pattern of one facet of the cultural background: population. It is believed that this may be justified by the fact that population changes correlate with events and shed light on those events. Further, population changes serve as an index to changes in economy.

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 37, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Contents Of Volume Xxxvii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 37

Has America Departed From The Founders’ Vision Out Of Necessity Or Greed?: A Historical Inspection Of The Executive Branch, Faith Chudkowski, Aaron Van Allen

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

Edmund Burke: A Conservative Prophet, Kaitlyn Kenney, Christopher J. Smith

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Textual or Investigative

Qualifying And Assembling Executioners, Brendon Martin

Research Symposium

Death qualification, the policy and process by which the American legal system determines whether or not jurors are fit to serve on death penalty cases, functions today as an enshrined practice in criminal law after decades of scrutiny under the lens of both the Supreme Court and academic scholars. By tracing the evolution of the death qualification process as well as its impacts and implications on both jury composition and verdicts, this research considers whether death qualification merits continued utilization and protection. While this practice emanates from a value of balancing the interests of the state with that of the …

Blood At The Root, Jarrett Martin Drake

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

What is the sound of silence and what is the sight of absence? The following essay situates itself along those two questions by devoting close ethnographic attention to the lives and afterlives of seven people—Delia, Renty, Jem, Alfred, Fassena, Drana, and Jack—whose reflections resonate and resound throughout the world of archives. I argue that a theory of archival power must consider the role of process and place in the shaping of modern memory practices. The article begins by narrating the story of how these seven people came to occupy the center of the archival universe. Next, it traces a tale …

Inventing A Space To Speak: Ethos, Agency And United States’ Woman Suffrage Cookbooks (1886-1916), Danielle Nielsen

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

During the last forty years of the United States’ fight for woman suffrage, a handful of suffragists wrote cookbooks sponsored by suffrage organisations. These cookbooks created a rhetorical space and ethos within and through the kitchen. Because their activism was grounded in expected feminine actions, this home-bound ethos allowed the primarily white, middle-class suffragists to simultaneously advocate for women’s suffrage in public and maintain their adherence to the Cult of True Womanhood. The arguments put forth in the cookbooks illustrate an ethos that is influenced by both personal agency and the rhetor’s gendered, physical location in the kitchen. From this …

15 Nr 2001 Garrison Regiment Von Wissenbach, From February Respectively October 1780 Garrison Regiment Von Knoblauch -1780 – 1782, 1783 (January – July), Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

No abstract provided.

Two Parties One Year Apart, Kelci Baughman Mcdowell

Isolation - Physically Separated and Wearing Masks

No abstract provided.

15 Nr 2000 Garrison Regiment Von Wissenbach, From February Respectively October 1780 Garrison Regiment Von Knoblauch -1776 (April – December), 1778 (January – July, September – December), 1779, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

No abstract provided.