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Full-Text Articles in United States History
In Search Of Community: Historic Preservation And The Quest To Recover Fort Gatlin, Scott Eidson
In Search Of Community: Historic Preservation And The Quest To Recover Fort Gatlin, Scott Eidson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In a city dominated by large numbers of transplant residents, very few citizens of Orlando know or care about the area's rich and colorful history or its historical figures. Local history is not taught in the Orange County schools "unless a teacher has a particular interest in the subject and makes a special effort."1 Recently, efforts have been made to curb this trend. In 1997, a small organization known as the Fort Gatlin Historical Group sought to trace Orlando's origins through a community-wide effort to preserve the presumed site of Fort Gatlin, a United States Army fort of the Second …
Legacy To The People: The Civic Origins Of The Orange County Regional History Center, Bob Beatty
Legacy To The People: The Civic Origins Of The Orange County Regional History Center, Bob Beatty
Florida Historical Quarterly
On September 29, 2000, history will change forever," proclaimed the Orange County Historical Society at the grand opening of the 35 million Orange County Regional History Center.1 History in Orange County had indeed changed forever. Over a half century, the museum (and the commission and society that shaped it) struggled for legitimacy, particularly in finding an appropriate home. Prior to opening the Regional History Center in the 1927 Orange County Courthouse, the museu. hosted exhibits in five different locations. But its current address in the restored Courthouse is particularly appropriate and in a sense represents a closing of a circle: …
Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society
Editor's Preface, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 2002, the Florida Historical Society mark its centenary. Organized on 26 November 1902 and chartered three years later, the Society was the successor to the Historical Society of Florida, formed in 1856. According to its charter, the Society's mission was twofold: "the collection arrangement and preservation of all material pertaining to the history of, or in any manner illustrative of Florida, . .. [and to] prepare, edit and publish articles, sketches, biographies, pamphlets, books and documents, descriptive or illustrative of Florida."1 To fulfill the second objective, the Society initiated the Publication of the Florida Historical Society in April 1908, …
Sunbelt Dreams And Altered States: A Social And Cultural History Of Florida, 1950-2000, Gary R. Mormino
Sunbelt Dreams And Altered States: A Social And Cultural History Of Florida, 1950-2000, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida's Big Bang represents an astonishing and complex story, a state swelling from 2.7 million inhabitannts in 1950 to 16 million only fifty years later. Demographically, Florida's tranformation is nothing short of revolutionary. On the eve of World War II Florida's population of l.9 million ranked twenty-seventh nationally and last in the South, trailing even lowly South Carolina and Arkansas. America's twentieth most populous state in 1950, Florida has vaulted to America's fourth largest in 2000, and stands poised to overtake New York. Like shifting tectonic plates, the post-World War II decade witnessed one of the great population shift in …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 81, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Index For Volume 80, Florida Historical Society
Index For Volume 80, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conferences/Call for Papers, Awards
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Hann, trans., An Early Florida Adventure Story by John James Clune; Landers, ed., Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida by Bradley C. Bond; O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Eliga H. Gould; Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 by Justin C. Eaddy; Stephens, Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895 by Edward Baptist; Sprague, The Florida War by Jay Jennings; Davis and Swentor, eds., Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant by David Coles; Grimsley and Simpson, …
The Salesman And His Swamp: Dick Pope's Cypress Gardens, Stephen E. Branch
The Salesman And His Swamp: Dick Pope's Cypress Gardens, Stephen E. Branch
Florida Historical Quarterly
In a 1922 article summarizing his family's entrepreneurial success, Edward F. Tilyou was sanguine in his assertion that "those of us in the amusement business have studied your psychology and tried to build our business on a few simple fundamental."1 Indeed, the Tilyou family was renowned for its ability to both anticipate and manipulate the entertainment seeking public. Whether manifested in their operations at Coney Island or Atlantic City, the Tilyous' popular culture acumen was effectively intertwined with the entertainment hucksterism pioneered by P.T. Barnum. And while the specific "fundamentals" of the amusement business necessarily evolve over time, understanding the …
Historic Notes And Documents: A Late Seventeenth-Century Journey To Tampa Bay, Ronald Wayne Childers
Historic Notes And Documents: A Late Seventeenth-Century Journey To Tampa Bay, Ronald Wayne Childers
Florida Historical Quarterly
At the close of th War of the League of Augsburg in 1697, Louis XIV of France found himself with enough free resources to make a fresh effort to colonize the Gulf Coasst. He had already tried this in 1684 when the Sieur de La Salle had departed France and founded a colony at Matagorda Bay in Texas.1 The colony lasted from 1685 to 1686, ending in disaster for the French. Louis, prevented from further expansion in Europe, again tried to expand his overseas possessions eleven years later.
Forgotten Sacrifice: Native American Involvement In The Construction Of The Castillo De San Marcos, Jason B. Palmer
Forgotten Sacrifice: Native American Involvement In The Construction Of The Castillo De San Marcos, Jason B. Palmer
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the past, historians have been quick to praise the remarkable hardships endured by Spanish soldiers and colonists in the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos.1 Their pay, food, and other supplies were siphoned off to help complete the construction. But seemingly lost in discussions of deprivation and hardship are the Native Americans who lived in the Spanish colony of La Florida. Apalachees, Timucuans, and Guales toiled for over twenty-four years under grueling condition to construct the first European-style stone fortress on North America's east coast.
Climate, Community, And Commerce Among Florida, Cuba, And The Atlantic World, 1784-1800, Sherry Johnson
Climate, Community, And Commerce Among Florida, Cuba, And The Atlantic World, 1784-1800, Sherry Johnson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In late June 1791, St. Augustine captain Don Antonio de Alcantara sailed into Havana harbor at the helm of his schooner, the Santa Catalina. As the captain and master of his own vessel, he was held in high esteem, and Spanish customs officials acknowldged his status by prefacing his name with the honorifie title "Don" (Sir).1 A decade earlier, his arrival would have been unthinkable. His port of origin was in British hands in the early 1780s, and Britain was at war with Spain. Even after the conflict ended in 1783, commerce with Cuba remained restricted.2 More important, Alcantara would …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 80, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conferences, Websites, Editor's Notes
The Historian's Craft, Jerald T. Milanich
The Historian's Craft, Jerald T. Milanich
Florida Historical Quarterly
In historical research, as in riding the hounds, the search is often at least as much fun as the end of the chase. Galloping through journals, books, and archival sources in search of an unknown historical figure can be positively exhilarating, epecially when the hunt is replete with fale trails, British baronets, a mysterious princess, and multiple pseudonyms.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Taylor, The Florida Lighthouse Trail, by Kevin McCarthy; Hurley, Lighthouses of Egmont Key, by Thomas W. Taylor; Marquardt, ed., The Archaeology of Useppa Island, by Arlene Fradkin; Smith, Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom, by Kathryn H. Braund; McGrath, The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane, by J.R. McNeill; Rabasa, Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest, by Lance R. Blyth; Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, by Edward G. Gray; Read, Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, …
Rassling A Governor: Defiance, Desegregation, Claude Kirk, And The Politics Of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, Randy Sanders
Rassling A Governor: Defiance, Desegregation, Claude Kirk, And The Politics Of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, Randy Sanders
Florida Historical Quarterly
In early April 1970, at a time when intransigence concerning desegregation measures below the Mason-Dixon line seemed to have played itself out, the entire nation watched as a southern governor challenged federal authority more directly than Orval Faubus or Ross Barnett or Gorge Wallace ever had. The 1970 confrontation sprang from political considerations: a governor seeking to bolster his chances for reelection defied a president who employed subterfuge to minimize the political liabilities of his desegregation enforcement duties. Historians and political observers of the 1960 and 1970s often refer to these Republican political appeals to the former Confederate states as …
Historic Notes And Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings's 1873 Description Of Mounds In East-Central Florida, Jerald T. Milanich
Historic Notes And Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings's 1873 Description Of Mounds In East-Central Florida, Jerald T. Milanich
Florida Historical Quarterly
Among the collection of new papers recently donated to the University of Florida's P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History by the family of Thomas and Georgine Mickler, owners for many years of Mickler Books, is a copy of a New York newspaper containing an important article about archaeological sites in Florida shortly after the Civil War.
Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane
Constructing The St. Johns: History As Literary Narrative, Jack C. Lane
Florida Historical Quarterly
In th fall of 1943, Farrar and Rinehart announced the publication of The St. Johns: A Parade of Diversities by James Branch Cabell and A.J. Hanna, the twenty-fourth volume in its prestigious Rivers in America series.1 The series was the brainchild of Constance Lindsay Skinner, prominent poet, novelist, journalist, writer of children's literature, and literary critic. Her idea, which Farrar and Rinehart adopted in 1935, was to produce a history of America and its people through the stories of its major rivers. The first woman to hold a major editorial position in American adult publishing, Skinner edited six volumes before …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 80, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras
"Custom Has The Force Of Law": Local Officials And Contraband In The Bahamas And The Floridas, 1748-1779, Alan L. Karras
Florida Historical Quarterly
The British colonies in East and West Florida and the Bahamas were frontier outposts. They were not central to European colonial ventures in the same way as Jamaica and Veracruz. British imperial perspective considered these settlements little more than "buffers," separating the established colonies of mainland North America from hostile group of Amerindians (principally Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws), as well a from Spanish imperial outposts in Cuba Santo Domingo, and remote Louisiana.1 The importance of such border societies to British officials in Westminster ought to be measured in terms of national security rather than in terms of economic productivity (i.e., …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conferences and Lectures, Websites, Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Clark, 200 Quick Looks at Florida History, by Benjamin D. Brotemarkle; Craig, Spanish Colonial Gold Coins in the Florida Collection, by Roger C. Smith; Carson, Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal, by Jane E. Dysart; Onuf, Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, by Michael E. Long; Francaviglia and Richmond, eds., Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848, by John M. Belohlavek; McMurry, Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy, by Judkin Browning; Grabau, Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign, by Richard L. Kiper; Litwicki , America's Public Holidays, 1865-1920, by …
Historic Notes And Documents: Telegraphic Correspondence Relating To The Jacksonville Fire Of 1901, Louis Zelenka
Historic Notes And Documents: Telegraphic Correspondence Relating To The Jacksonville Fire Of 1901, Louis Zelenka
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Friday, May 3, 1901, most of Jacksonville's downtown business and residential district was destroyed by fire. Mary L'Engle telegraphed her father, J.C. L'Engle, who represented Duval County in the State House: "Big fire Jax. Our three houses burned. We staying at Westmoreland Hotel. Fire still burning." In Tallahassee, Governor William S. Jenning received a telegram from an unknown correpondent: "The city of Jacksonville in flames. Armory destroyed. I think it would be advisable to send four companies [of militia] to the city at once."
Larry Eugene River's "Slavery In Florida": A Review Essay, James Oakes
Larry Eugene River's "Slavery In Florida": A Review Essay, James Oakes
Florida Historical Quarterly
Serious scholarly invetigation of slavery in Florida began with the 1973 publication of Julia Floyd Smith's Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860. In her own way Smith was a pioneer. She was the first to lay out the basic contours of slavery's history in Florida, and she grounded her narrative on extensive use of archival records, census data, traveler's accounts, legislation, and even slave narratives. Her focus was restricted to the American slaveholders who poured into middle Florida after 1821 and who thereafter extended the southern frontier of the cotton belt. She framed her book within the literature …
Jacksonville's Consolidation Mayor: Hans G. Tanzler Jr., James B. Crooks
Jacksonville's Consolidation Mayor: Hans G. Tanzler Jr., James B. Crooks
Florida Historical Quarterly
Jacksonville's consolidation with Duval County on October 1, 1968, marked a major turning point in the history of this northeastern Florida coastal city. Prior to this event, Jacksonville and the surrounding Duval County struggled with a variety of problems. Despite rapid growth in the metro area, the city lost population, endured racial conflict, and suffered substantial environmental pollution. While other Southern cities faced many of the same problems, the glamour that soon shone upon the Sunbelt seemed to elude this city on the St. Johns River. Partly it was comparative. Other Florida cities-Miami, Tampa-St. Petersburg and Orlando-had begun to achieve …
Plumb Lines, Politics, And Projections: The Florida Everglades And The Wright Report Controversy, Aaron D. Purcell
Plumb Lines, Politics, And Projections: The Florida Everglades And The Wright Report Controversy, Aaron D. Purcell
Florida Historical Quarterly
The drainage of the Florida Everglades haw been a highly debated issue since the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1840s, the United State Congress and the state of Florida passed legislation that encouraged reclamation.1 Nothing came from that effort, but during the next decade Congress began transferring Everglades land to the state of Florida, stipulating that all earnings made from the lands be reinvested in their reclamation.2 To manage the development of these lands, in 1855, the state created an Internal Improvement Fund and appointed trustees who oversaw projects that the Sunshine State hoped would attract people, capital, and agricultural developers. …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 80, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
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Historic Notes And Documents: The Spanish Dedication Tablets From San Marcos De Apalache, Ryan J. Wheeler
Historic Notes And Documents: The Spanish Dedication Tablets From San Marcos De Apalache, Ryan J. Wheeler
Florida Historical Quarterly
Several scholars have offered information and opinions on the date of construction of the Spanish stone fort and stone watchtower at San Marcos de Apalache.1 Two Spanish dedication tablets from the fort, presently in the collection of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Bach, have been cited in these attempts at temporal assignment, but there has been no scholarly attempt to doument the tablets or translate inscriptions on them.2 This essay presents information on the tablets, a transcription of the engraved tablet, comparison with similar architectural features, and some thoughts on the dating of the tablets and their bearing on …