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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Dessens, Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans. by Thomas N. Ingersoll; Clavin, Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers. by Watson Jennison; Revels, Florida's Civil War: Terrible Sacrifices. by Angela M. Zombek; Massey, The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado. by Katharine Dahlstrand; Horne, Race to Revolution: The United States and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow. by Sarah L. Franklin; Martinez-Fernandez, Revolutionary Cuba: A History. by Emily Kirk; Katagiri, Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menance: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South. by David A. …


Frederick C. Cubberly: "A Friend Of The Oppressed", Nicole Brown Jul 2022

Frederick C. Cubberly: "A Friend Of The Oppressed", Nicole Brown

Florida Historical Quarterly

Little is known about the life of Floridian Fred Cubberly, despite his importance in the legal and political history of Florida in the early twentieth century. This is unfortunate. He played a key role in initiating the United States Department of Justice's decades-long campaign against peonage, a form of slavery. His efforts led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1905 decision that secured the federal government's authority to prosecute perpetrators of this crime. In the course of his career he was a mine superintendent, lawyer, U.S. Customs Collector, U.S. District Commissioner, U.S. District Attorney, Gainesville Municipal Judge, candidate for Florida Attorney …


Catching The Spirit: The Melrose Ladies Literary And Debating Society 1890-1899, Cynthia L. Patterson Jul 2022

Catching The Spirit: The Melrose Ladies Literary And Debating Society 1890-1899, Cynthia L. Patterson

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the January 19, 1894 public dedication of their newly-completed meeting hall, the members of the Melrose Ladies Literary and Debating Society listened attentively while the society president, Mrs. Eliza M. King, recited for a public audience including many of the town's leading citizens, the proud history of the society's first three years. Society secretary, Miss Nellie Glen, also read from a report she had presented previously (privately to club members in February 1893) that in "mid summer of 1890," members of the club, "having caught something of the spirit in this progressive age," met together to plan "some cooperative …


William Panton, British Merchant And Politico: Negotiating Allegiance In The Spanish And Southern Indian Borderlands, 1783-1801, David Narrett Jul 2022

William Panton, British Merchant And Politico: Negotiating Allegiance In The Spanish And Southern Indian Borderlands, 1783-1801, David Narrett

Florida Historical Quarterly

Panton and his business partner John Leslie were the most politically adept merchants of Florida's shores from the height of the American Revolutionary War until the close of the eighteenth century. Renowned for their mastery of the Indian trade, they were native Scots who exemplified their country's rising place in the British Empire over distant comers of the globe. Immigrating to South Carolina in the early 1770s, both men did business there and in neighboring Georgia, where Panton came to reside. While they may not have known each other personally at the time, the war would bring them together. After …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 96, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; "The Florida Historical Society Presents: Florida Frontiers": The Television Series; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 1, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Mouse And The Statehouse: Intersections Of Florida's Capitols And Walt Disney World, Derek R. Everett Jul 2022

The Mouse And The Statehouse: Intersections Of Florida's Capitols And Walt Disney World, Derek R. Everett

Florida Historical Quarterly

The construction projects announced in 1965 reflected Florida's ascendance as one of the country's largest and most influential states. The first enabled a commission to either expand or replace the aging, insufficient capitol in Tallahassee. An Orlando newspaper announced the second, declaring that Walt Disney intended to build an east coast version of Disneyland there. These seemingly disparate endeavors dovetailed in myriad ways for nearly two decades, particularly in their employment of symbolic architecture. Carefully orchestrated visions for the Florida capitol complex and Walt Disney World reflected the Sunshine State's growth and popularity as both a tourist destination and place …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

De Meras, Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Conquest of Florida: A New Manuscript. by Paul E. Hoffman; Hallock and Franz, eds., Travels on the St.Johns River: John Bartram and William Bartram. by Daniel L. Schafer; Shire, The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida. by Jon Del Buono; Gallagher and Waugh, The American War: A History of the Civil War Era. by John G. Selby; Binnington, Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the lmagined South in the Civil War. by George C. Rable; Gillin, Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900. by Richard …


Cocoa And Cabbage: Two Palms Vie To Officially Represent The State Of Florida, Jonathan (Jono) Miller Jul 2022

Cocoa And Cabbage: Two Palms Vie To Officially Represent The State Of Florida, Jonathan (Jono) Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Every state in the Union has a state seal and a state tree despite neither the United States Constitution nor the U.S. Congress mandating the official designation of either. Nevertheless, these seals and trees and the process by which they are adopted and modified can illuminate the political personalities and historical peregrinations of a state. The cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) did not officially make it onto Florida's State Seal until after Woodstock and the first manned lunar landing. The saga of Florida's State Seal and tree contains intriguing tidbits oflore. Who knew that a study of Florida's State Seal would …


Diary Of A Freedmen's Bureau Agent: Alfred B. Grunwell In Jefferson County, Florida, Alva T. Stone Jul 2022

Diary Of A Freedmen's Bureau Agent: Alfred B. Grunwell In Jefferson County, Florida, Alva T. Stone

Florida Historical Quarterly

"I despair of ever seeing these white people so free from their prejudices as to accord justice to all without regard to color." Thus wrote A. B. Grunwell in his diary1 only three weeks into his job as the Freedmen's Bureau agent in Monticello, Florida.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 96, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Panic At The Picture Show: Southern Movie Theatre Culture And The Struggle To Desegregate, Susannah L. Broun Jul 2022

Panic At The Picture Show: Southern Movie Theatre Culture And The Struggle To Desegregate, Susannah L. Broun

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper explores the complex desegregation process of movie theatres in the southern United States. Building off of historiography that investigates regulations of postwar teenage sexuality and recent scholarly work that acknowledges the link between sexuality and civil rights, I argue that movie theatres had a uniquely delayed desegregation process due to perceived sexual intrigue of the dark, private theatre space. Through analysis of drive-in and hardtop theatres, censorship of on-screen content, and youth involvement in desegregation, I contend that anxieties of interracial intimacy and unsupervised teenage sexuality produced this especially prolonged integration process.


Amjambo Africa! (July 2022), Kathreen Harrison Jul 2022

Amjambo Africa! (July 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Amjambo Arts ......................2/3

Adama Delphine Fawundu Arisa White • Genius Black

Education ..................................4

Youth Fellowship Moonglade ................................ 5

4th of July • Hanji Chang

APIDA books for kids

Editorial & Letters.................... 6

Tips & info ...........................8-15

Fully translated

Useful info: Stimulus checks,

Resources, Marijuana, scams World Market Basket .............16

Farm market in Wales All about the workforce... 18/19

Licensing • Networking Community Happenings..20/21

News from Africa .......22/23/36

Congo Basin • Rwanda Ethiopia • DRC

Health & Wellness ............24-30

Lead poisoning - Fully Translated

Ask the Doctor • COVID Monkeypox • Suicide prevention

Community org. columns ....32

Financial …


Catastrophic Christianity: An Iconological Study Of The Messianic Idea In American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940, Adam D. J. Brett Jul 2022

Catastrophic Christianity: An Iconological Study Of The Messianic Idea In American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940, Adam D. J. Brett

Dissertations - ALL

A historically variegated emblem of trust and faith, the messianic idea is the offer of religion to the people for salvation from the coming catastrophe. This dissertation analyzes the messianic idea in "America." The foci of the study are popular messianic figurations that serve as heuristic devices to explicate early 20th century U.S. culture, revealing two ideological impulses that encapsulate collective responses to the anxieties of the age: authoritarian-populism and catastrophic-utopianism. Four case studies, encompassing four different genres of media, define and illustrate these ideological impulses: The Fundamentals, Superman comic books, Bruce Barton's capitalist Christianity, and The Wizard of Oz …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 4, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Early Tourism and Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Discovery of Stowe's First Published Descriptions of Florida by John T. Foster Jr. Plant's Folly and Tampa's Treasure: Boosters and the Creation of a Tampa Icon by Alena Pirok Early Motoring in Florida: Making Car Culture and Race in the New South by Fon L. Gordon The Rise and Fall of Copa City, 1944-1957: Nightclubs and the Evolution of Miami Beach by Keith D. Revell Book Reviews End Notes Florida in Publications, 2016 Index to Volume 95


Index To Volume 95, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Index To Volume 95, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Comprehensive Index: 2016-2017 (Volume 95)


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam; Florida Historical Society Awards; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; "The Florida Historical Society Presents: Florida Frontiers": The Television Series; The Florida Historical Society 2017 Annual Meeting and Symposium; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Florida In Publications, 2016, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Florida In Publications, 2016, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Rise And Fall Of Copa City, 1944-1957: Nightclubs And The Evolution Of Miami Beach, Keith D. Revell Jun 2022

The Rise And Fall Of Copa City, 1944-1957: Nightclubs And The Evolution Of Miami Beach, Keith D. Revell

Florida Historical Quarterly

On December 23, 1948, Copa City, the world's greatest nightclub, opened on Miami Beach. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. No gaudy neon sign announced its presence, quite unlike the other clubs that crowded the area. Instead, the building itself was an icon: a dramatic, sweeping, curved structure, conceived by the renowned industrial and set designer, Norman Bel Geddes, at the behest of Copa City's young impresario, Murray Weinger, a transplanted New Yorker who had cut his teeth managing nightclubs on Coney Island. Weinger intended Copa City as more than a stage for big-name entertainers and spectacular floor …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jennings ed., The Rower Hunter and the People: William Bartram in the Native American Southeast. by Thomas Hallock; May, Slavery, Race and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America. by Brian Loveman; Gleason and Lewis, The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War. by Evan C. Rothera; Rucker, Mine Eyes Have Seen: Firsthand Reminiscences of the Civil War in West Florida. by Mark C. Curenton; Prince, Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915. by Edward O. Frantz; Epperson, Roads through the Everglades: The Building of …


Early Motoring In Florida: Making Car Culture And Race In The New South, Fon L. Gordon Jun 2022

Early Motoring In Florida: Making Car Culture And Race In The New South, Fon L. Gordon

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the turn of the twentieth century the emergence of the American romance and religion of the motorcar arose within an historic context that included the World's Fairs between 1876 and 1916. The World's Fairs reified the twin ethos of technology and racial imperatives of exclusivity in the form of Jim Crow segregation and exclusion at home and overseas imperialism. The international expositions between Reconstruction and the eve of the United States entry into World War I were "the most extravagant cultural events" of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.1 The World's Fairs conferred legitimacy on the racialization of mass …


Plant's Folly And Tampa's Treasure: Boosters And The Creation Of A Tampa Icon, Alena Pirok Jun 2022

Plant's Folly And Tampa's Treasure: Boosters And The Creation Of A Tampa Icon, Alena Pirok

Florida Historical Quarterly

After four years of construction and fanfare, the Tampa Bay Hotel opened its doors to northern tourists on February 11, 1891. Journalists on the scene reported that the hotel's builder, interior designer, owner, and all around mastermind, Henry B. Plant, had invited the people of Tampa, prospective hotel guests, and even rival businessmen to view his wondrous new resort.1 At its surface the building was a marvel to behold and quite a contrast to the collection of meager structures and rail lines that made up the "arid desert of sand" that was Tampa.2 Its fine red brick walls and wide …


Early Tourism And Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Discovery Of Stowe's First Published Descriptions Of Florida, John T. Foster, Jr. Jun 2022

Early Tourism And Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Discovery Of Stowe's First Published Descriptions Of Florida, John T. Foster, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

While many living today may not realize it, Harriet Beecher Stowe was the most famous American woman of the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, she was so famous that when she visited President Lincoln at the White House, he is believed to have greeted her with these words: "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." This statement, of course, refers to the far-reaching impact of Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. For all its faults, this work exposed a horrible truth about slavery: that a slave owner possessed the right to maim or kill a …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 95, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 6, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 95, Number 6, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A Special Issue Introduction by FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree Twentieth-Century Florida: A Bibliographic Essay by Gary R. Mormino "A New Social Awakening": James Hudson, Florida A.&M. University's Religious Life Program, and the 1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott by Larry 0. Rivers "We Are Not Hired Help": The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike and the Formation of Modern Florida by Jody Baxter Noll The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living to "Suburban Slum" in Latino Orlando by Simone P. Delerme Book Reviews End Notes


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; "The Florida Historical Society Presents: Florida Frontiers": The Television Series; The Florida Historical Society 2017 Annual Meeting and Symposium; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jun 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

de la Cova, Colonel Henry Theodore Titus: Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer. by Victor Andres Triay; Porcher Jr. and Judd, The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An lllustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom. by Hayden R. Smith; Warren, The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History. by Michael T. Bernath; Dom, Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation. by Glenn Robins; McKinley, Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina. by Peter A. Coclanis; Stanonis, Faith in Bikinis: Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South …


"We Are Not Hired Help": The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike And The Formation Of Modern Florida, Jody Baxter Noll Jun 2022

"We Are Not Hired Help": The 1968 Statewide Florida Teacher Strike And The Formation Of Modern Florida, Jody Baxter Noll

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the spring of 2010, a debate over merit pay and tenure for teachers swept across Florida. While this was not a new debate, the introduction of Senate Bill 6 by the Republican led-legislature fanned the flames of discord between teachers and the state. Calling for a merit-based system of pay and teacher retention through standardized testing, as well as diminishing local school board autonomy, the bill directly conflicted with educators' demands for professional respect in a continuously besieged occupation. In passing the bill, the Legislature created an atmosphere of resistance among Florida's teachers who flooded the Governor's office with …


The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living To "Suburban Slum" In Latino Orlando, Simone P. Delerme Jun 2022

The Fractured American Dream: From Country Club Living To "Suburban Slum" In Latino Orlando, Simone P. Delerme

Florida Historical Quarterly

One evening in July of 2010, an Internet user who goes by "GinnyFavers" posted a question to the city-data.com forum: "I heard from someone that the Buena Ventura Lakes (BVL) subdivision was a majority to all Hispanic area. Just curious if that's really true? No negative implication intended! -Amanda."1 Twenty-two minutes later "Metrowester" responded. "Yes, BVL is a primarily Hispanic area. Landstar homes was heavily marketed in Puerto Rico several years ago."2 "Metrowester" continued, and spoke favorably about the Publix Sabor supermarket in the area with a deli that serves Cuban coffee, pastries, and roasted pork. He identified himself as …