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Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Director's Meeting, December 3, 1966, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the Directors meeting


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the Annual Meeting, Florida Conference of College Teachers of History, local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Robinson, The First Coming to America of the Book of Common Prayer, Florida, July 1565, by Michael V. Gannon; deCoste, True Tales of Old St. Augustine, by Theodore Pratt; Manucy, Florida’s Menendez: Captain General of the Ocean Sea, by M. Adele Francis Gorman; Scarborough, The Overseer Plantation Management in the Old South, by William Warren Rogers; Dos Passos, The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades, by Franklin A. Doty; Tebbel, The Compact History of the Indian Wars, by John K. Mahon; Capers, Occupied City: New Orleans Under the Federals, 1862-1865, by Jerrell H. Shofner; Tompkins (ed.), D-Days at …


A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere, Charles E. Bennett May 2021

A Footnote On Rene Laudionniere, Charles E. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Fort Caroline National Memorial, a facility of the National park Service near Jacksonville, includes the reconstructed sixteenth century fort and an interpretive museum, the latter containing priceless American and European artifacts. Fort Caroline, established by the French in 1564 under the leadership of Rene Laudonniere, was then the only European settlement in the territory which is now the United States. It was conquered in 1565 by Spanish forces under Pedro Menendez d’Aviles, who founded Saint Augustine, the country’s oldest city.


Suwannee River Steamboating, E. A. Mueller May 2021

Suwannee River Steamboating, E. A. Mueller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stephen Collins Foster's famous song, “Way Down Upon the Suwannee River,” has probably done more than anything else to elevate this relatively minor Florida river to a position of fame that it otherwise would not have achieved. Now the official state song of Florida, it was written in 1851 while Foster was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had originally decided to title it, “Way Down Upon The Pee Dee River,” but fortunately he changed his mind, and, as the story goes, examined a map and discovered the name of the little-known Florida river. Foster had certainly not seen the Suwannee when …


Florida's Golden Age Of Racing, Alice Strickland May 2021

Florida's Golden Age Of Racing, Alice Strickland

Florida Historical Quarterly

The honor of being “the first man to sit behind the controls of a self-propelled road vehicle,” goes to a French army engineer, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, who in the 1760s designed a monstrous steam carriage to transport artillery. Cugnot’s vehicle was so massive and unwieldy that it knocked over the wall of a courtyard while being tested, and on another occasion turned over on the streets of Paris. Its top speed was from two to six miles per hour.


Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman May 2021

Claude L'Engle, Florida Muckraker, Joel Webb Eastman

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first decade of the twentieth century has been dubbed the “Era of the Muckrakers.” These were the years when the great muckraking journalists - Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens -were writing their famous exposures of trusts, railroads, and government corruption in the celebrated national muckraking magazines - McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and American. Historical studies delving into this phenomenal concentration of reform writers have covered quite adequately its various aspects and impacts on the national level, but they fail to suggest that there might have been journalists and journals on the state and local level who could also …


Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I), Kenneth W. Porter May 2021

Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco) In The Seminole Wars (Part I), Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

If a group of informed Americans were asked to name a Seminole chief, it is likely that most of them would reply “Osceola.” If asked to recall a second Florida Indian, at least a majority of those responding would name “Billy Bowlegs.” The second choice would be more accurate, for Osceola was a Seminole only by adoption - being by birth a Red Stick Creek from Georgia or Alabama who came to Florida at about the age of ten. He was not a chief by hereditary right, whereas Billy Bowlegs, to use his common white-man’s nickname, was what an army …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 45, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


New Members And Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

New Members And Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A listing of new members to FHS, contributors to this issue


The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1966, Florida Historical Society May 2021

The Annual Meeting, May 5-7, 1966, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the Directors meeting, includes the treasurer's report


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Markers program, local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Abernethy, The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828, by William Warren Rogers; Ford, John James Audubon, by E. Ashby Hammond; Beals, War Within a War: The Confederacy Against Itself, by William E. Baringer; Wilson, The Black Codes of the South, by Irwin Unger; Mann, Atticus Greene Haygood, by Richard E. Blanchard; Newby, Jim Crow’s Defense: Anti-Negro Thought in America, by Charles C. Alexander; Golden, A Little Girl is Dead, by Harry Simonhoff; Highsaw (ed.), The Deep South in Transformation, by E. Merton Coulter; Colberg, Human Capital in Southern Development, by Edgar S. Dunn, Jr.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Tebeau and Carson, Florida: From Indian Trail to Space Age, by J. E. Dovell; Will, Okeechobee Boats and Skippers; and Okeechobee Catfishing, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Richardson, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877, by Joel Williamson; Cushman, A Goodly Heritage: The Episcopal Church in Florida, by Hamilton West; Gipson, The Triumphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770; and The Triumphant Empire: Britain Sails into the Storm, by Don Higginbotham; Cobourn, The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution, by Michael G. Kammen


Political Reconstruction In Florida, Jeffell H. Shofner May 2021

Political Reconstruction In Florida, Jeffell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

Until well into the 1930s historians accepted as standard the interpretations of Reconstruction offered by the “Dunning school.” Professor William A. Dunning and his students at Columbia University had undertaken extensive research in preparing scholarly monographs on the Reconstruction period in each southern state. But they wrote at a time when most Americans considered Negroes as inferior beings and their studies usually began with this basic assumption. It usually followed that the Congressional Radicals had been wrong in all they attempted. Helpless white populations had been subjugated by selfish outsiders who plundered the states, using ignorant Negro voters to maintain …


Early History Of The Cross-Florida Barge Canal, Charles E. Bennett May 2021

Early History Of The Cross-Florida Barge Canal, Charles E. Bennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

The dream of constructing an all-water route across the peninsula of Florida to carry freight and passengers has often been discussed and debated in the past history of this state. Many plans were projected and discarded, surveys were made, and work even began on a canal during the 1930s. However, only now is the Cross-Florida Barge Canal actually underway with completion scheduled for sometime after 1970.


Henry Bradley Plant And Florida, Dudley S. Johnson May 2021

Henry Bradley Plant And Florida, Dudley S. Johnson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida was a fertile field for developers during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Lumbermen were at work in the northern part of the state; the citrus industry was in its infancy; phosphate mining was just beginning; and northern vacationers and some invalids were discovering the restorative powers of Florida’s climate. Railroads were needed to serve and to further develop these diverse interests. Many men dreamed of building a network of rails in the state, and some began the project. Most failed, although a few succeeded. Henry Bradley Plant was one of the more successful. He constructed railroads, hotels, …


Bishop Michael J. Curley And Anti-Catholic Nativism In Florida, David P. Page May 2021

Bishop Michael J. Curley And Anti-Catholic Nativism In Florida, David P. Page

Florida Historical Quarterly

The four-hundred year history of the Catholic Church in Florida, beginning with the Spanish settlements of the sixteenth century, and continuing through successive English, Spanish, and United States occupations of the peninsula, has not been an entirely peaceful passage. It has been marked by periodic conflicts between Indians and missionaries, missionaries and Spanish officials, missionaries and English raiders, parish priests and governors, parishioners and United States officials, and, finally, during the first half of the nineteenth century, between parish trustees and pastors. In the years between the Civil War and World War I, the church in Florida enjoyed a consoling …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 45, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Directors' Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the annual Board of Directors' meeting


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Arthur W. Thompson Prize; Florida Library Association; local historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Carpenter, Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard, by Ralph Peek; Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965, by Maurice M. Vance; Wynes (ed.), The Negro in the South Since 1865: Selected Essays in American Negro History, by Joe M. Richardson; Shadgett, The Republican Party in Georgia: From Reconstruction through 1900, by Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.; Wilensky, Conservatives in the Progressive Era: the Taft Republicans of 1912, by George Norris Green; Bailey, Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century, by James H. Smylie; Batista, The Growth and Decline of the Cuban Republic, by …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Gannon, The Cross in the Sand, by Gerald J. Goodwin; Catholic Historical Review, by Luis R. Arana; McMurray, The Impeachment of Circuit Judge Richard Kelly, by Ben Krentzman; Hartsfield and Roady, Florida Votes: 1920-1962, by John M. DeGrove; Bradford, The Wind Commands Me: A Life of Sir Francis Drake, by James W. Covington; Cave, Jacksonian Democracy and the Historians, by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; Gates, Agriculture and the Civil War, by James C. Bonner; Horn (ed.), Tennessee’s War, by Adam Adams; Higdon, The Union vs. Dr. Mudd, by Merlin G. Cox.


An Episode In The Third Seminole War, James W. Covington May 2021

An Episode In The Third Seminole War, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Third Seminole War covers the period from December 1855 to the spring of 1858. Although this war brought to a complete standstill nearly all economic growth in central and southern Florida and involved a large expenditure of money and men by national and state forces, it has been virtually ignored by writers who have preferred to pay more attention to the much more famous conflict which lasted from 1835 to 1842. The Second Seminole War attained national attention because the Indians were not crushed and because such well-known figures as Thomas Jesup, Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Richard K. Call, …


Historical Beginnings Of Ybor City And Modern Tampa, Durward Long May 2021

Historical Beginnings Of Ybor City And Modern Tampa, Durward Long

Florida Historical Quarterly

The story of the revitalization of Tampa, Florida at the end of the nineteenth century is illustrative of many developments accompanying the expansion of cities in that era. Part of the story concerns the attempt to build Ybor City, separate from but adjacent to Tampa, based on immigrant capital and immigrant labor. While Ybor City failed to retain its separateness from Tampa, its cigars - “Hav-A-Tampa, ” “Tampa Nuggets,” “Tampa Straights,” and many others - widely advertised this Florida city. Tampa became famous for cigars even though production began in Ybor City in 1886, and her reputation continues. As late …


American Seizure Of Amelia Island, Richard G. Lowe May 2021

American Seizure Of Amelia Island, Richard G. Lowe

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1817 the United States took actions at a small island off the northeast coast of Florida which aroused protests from the Spanish government. A band of South American adventurers had occupied Spanish-owned Amelia Island in June and had been using their base as a smugglers’ gateway into Georgia and the southern states. In December 1817, the United States purged the island of its invaders, apparently trying to get rid of this group of troublesome ruffians and smugglers that were agitating along the southern border. A closer examination of this event, however, reveals an additional motive as well.


The Narrow Waters Strategies Of Pedro Menendez, Paul E. Hoffman May 2021

The Narrow Waters Strategies Of Pedro Menendez, Paul E. Hoffman

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a letter to Philip II from Cadiz on December 3, 1570, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Adelantado of Florida and Captain General of the Armada for the Guarding and Security of the Coasts, Islands, and Ports of the Indies, said that he planned to “place myself in the Bahama Channel where he [Jacques Sores, considered to be one of the best French corsairs and at the time at large in the Caribbean] could not come out without my seeing him.” Menendez recognized that the control of the Bahama Channel was essential for the security of the Caribbean. He said that …


This Was Fort Dade, Frank Laumer May 2021

This Was Fort Dade, Frank Laumer

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fort Dade was born on the twenty-third of December 1836. The announcement read: “A fort will be erected. . . on the Big Withlacoochee, at the point where the Fort King road crosses it, which will bear the name of the gallant and lamented Dade.”


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 45, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents