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Andrew Ranson: Seventeenth Century Pirate?, J. Leitch Wright, Jr. Apr 2021

Andrew Ranson: Seventeenth Century Pirate?, J. Leitch Wright, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The later half of the seventeenth century saw the swashbuckling heyday of piracy in the West Indies. Here, English, French, and Dutch buccaneers, and audacious seafarers claiming no nation, roamed the seas almost at will, delighting particularly in preying on galleons flying the Spanish flag and in sacking and ransoming cities along the Spanish Main. It is true that the policy of European nations was changing from encouraging or winking at buccaneer activities to supporting legitimate trade with Spanish America, and some serious efforts were made to curb these seagoing marauders. Nevertheless, this was of little consolation to the inhabitants …

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The Spanish Conquest Of British West Florida, 1779-1781, Albert W. Haarmann Apr 2021

The Spanish Conquest Of British West Florida, 1779-1781, Albert W. Haarmann

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida passed to British control in 1763 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. A Royal Proclamation on October 7 of that year established West Florida as a colony and Pensacola was designated as its capital.

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Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Treasurer's report and membership

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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue

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Minutes Of The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Minutes Of The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the annual meeting

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Minutes Of The Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Minutes Of The Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Meeting minutes from the directors meeting

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Program Of The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Program Of The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting

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News And Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Stonewall's Man: Sandie Pendleton. By W. G. Bean. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1959. 252 pp. Selected bibliography, index. $5.00); HISTORY OF KEY WEST, Today and Yesterday. By Louise V. White and Nora K. Smiley. (St. Petersburg, Fla., Great Outdoors Publishing Co., 1959. 104 pp. Illustrations. $1.00)

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Captain Nathaniel Wyche Hunter And The Florida Indian Campaigns, 1837-1841, Reynold M. Wik Apr 2021

Captain Nathaniel Wyche Hunter And The Florida Indian Campaigns, 1837-1841, Reynold M. Wik

Florida Historical Quarterly

In January, 1837, Captain Nathaniel Wyche Hunter arrived at Fort Huleman, Florida, to engage in the military campaigns against the Seminole Indians. His letters and diaries during the next four years provide a vivid account of military life in the Peninsula State. Although his observations do not alter the history of the Seminole wars, they do reflect the thoughts of a perceptive officer facing the frustrations common to this theater of frontier warfare. They also present a soldier’s view of the United States government’s action in removing the Florida Indians to lands beyond the Mississippi river.

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A French Document Relating To The Destruction Of The French Colony In Florida At The Hands Of The Spanish, 1565, A. E. Hammond Apr 2021

A French Document Relating To The Destruction Of The French Colony In Florida At The Hands Of The Spanish, 1565, A. E. Hammond

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the bloodiest and most publicized chapters in the early history of Florida was written by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, intrepid and unscrupulous agent of Philip II of Spain. On three occasions in the months of September and October, 1565, this Spanish gentleman, fired with true inquisitional fervor, ordered and supervised the systematic slaughter of remnants of the third French expedition to the Florida coast, thus ending the French attempt to colonize this disputed territory. Neither the events leading up to the massacres nor the details of the savage butchery requires retelling here. They are the subjects of …

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Grant Forecasts The Future Of Florida, James P. Jones Apr 2021

Grant Forecasts The Future Of Florida, James P. Jones

Florida Historical Quarterly

Throughout 1878 AND 1879 Americans followed ex-President Ulysses S. Grant’s world tour. At the same time, Republican “Stalwart” leaders launched the “Grant for President” boom. In September, 1879, to the distress of his friends, Grant landed in California and began a slow procession across the country. While the tide seemed to be running in Grant’s favor when he returned to the United States, his supporters sensed a turn for the worse as Grant crossed the country. Senator John A. Logan, a Grant man, wrote Elihu B. Washburne that the “reception business” was being overdone, and its continuance would benefit the …

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Pensacola Memorabilia, T. T. Wentworth, Jr. Apr 2021

Pensacola Memorabilia, T. T. Wentworth, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Since Andrew Jackson, one of America’s most colorful historical figures was associated with Cantonment on several occasions and spent four weeks with his troops here in 1821 just prior to the change of flags in Pensacola, which transferred The Floridas to the United States of America, I want to recount the events in which Jackson played a part.

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Military Events In Florida During The Civil War, 1861-1865, Allen W. Jones Apr 2021

Military Events In Florida During The Civil War, 1861-1865, Allen W. Jones

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the voluminous writings on the Civil War the region of the upper South has attracted attention as the battleground of the War and de military activity in the Confederate States of the lower South, especially Florida, has received little notice. The fighting in Florida began early in 1861 but was most active during the last two years of the War. This compilation of nearly one hundred forty military events at over eighty different places will give some indication as to the extent of the War in Florida.

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Florida In World War Ii: Tourists And Citrus, Ben F. Rogers Apr 2021

Florida In World War Ii: Tourists And Citrus, Ben F. Rogers

Florida Historical Quarterly

As 1941 drew to a close, in many states of the Union com- placent citizens still argued that the war in Europe and Asia was none of our business, that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were insurmountable barriers which no enemy could ever cross. In the state of Florida, however, this was not so. Led by their irrepressible Senator, Claude Pepper, Floridians had long been deeply concerned with the rising tide of totalitarianism; the Gallup polls found Florida one of the most interventionist of all states. During the preceding years, moreover, there had been a tremendous expansion of Florida’s military …

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Florida And The Compromise Of 1850, John Meador Apr 2021

Florida And The Compromise Of 1850, John Meador

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Compromise of 1850 which temporarily settled the sectional dispute over slavery in the territories, had a great impact upon the political party structure in the United States. The ultimate result was the destruction of the Whig party, even though it was that party’s leaders, Clay and Webster, who had been chiefly responsible for the Compromise. In the North, most of the party was drawn into the new Republican party, while its southern members either joined the Democrats or found refuge in such wobbly makeshifts as the American and Opposition parties. What the Compromise did to southern Whigs appears particularly …

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William Jennings Bryan And The University Of Florida, Samuel Proctor Apr 2021

William Jennings Bryan And The University Of Florida, Samuel Proctor

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State on June 8, 1915, and retired to his home in Florida. Edgar Lee Masters described him at this time as “the Christian Statesman, out of a job . . . no longer a presidential possibility, nor a law-maker nor a law-giver.” The last decade of Bryan’s life was not a period of inactivity, however. A critic has said that it was during these years that Bryan identified himself “with some of the worst tendencies in American life-prohibition, the crusade against evolution, real estate speculation, and the Klan.” As his national political power …

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Contents Of Volume Xxxix, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxxix, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 39

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Book Review: 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina, Maggie Albro Apr 2021

Book Review: 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina, Maggie Albro

South Carolina Libraries

No abstract provided.

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History, Nationalism, And Public Opinion: The Memorialization Of George Mason, Kasandra Fager Apr 2021

History, Nationalism, And Public Opinion: The Memorialization Of George Mason, Kasandra Fager

Honors Projects

The George Mason Memorial , built on the National Mall in 2002, captures the accomplishments of George Mason, a Founding Father, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and he refused to sign the U.S. Constitution. Identifying Mason's history and exploring the motivations and struggles of the creation of the memorial opens a conversation for public opinion regarding the memorial's physical manifestation. The height of the Jefferson Memorial, the height of the George Washington obelisk, and the beauty of the Lincoln Memorial is seen as a testament of their god-like status in American history. So, where does this leave Mason’s …

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We Exist Series 1: Family - Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd Apr 2021

We Exist Series 1: Family - Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd

Series 1: Family - Quotes

In this section, we have selected quotes that represent how Black residents in Maine view their family life. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project “Home Is Where I Make It”: African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine.” The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original intent of the “Home Is Where I Make It” project was to highlight Black residents’ history and struggle for community in southern Maine in both their formal organizational memberships and day-to-day activities. The interviews, however, unearthed a wealth …

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The Coeducation Decade: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Women At Wofford, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher Apr 2021

The Coeducation Decade: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Women At Wofford, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher

Library Exhibits

THE COEDUCATION DECADE: The 50th anniversary of Women at Wofford In February 1971, four women enrolled as day students at Wofford under a new policy that allowed for day student coeducation. The Board of Trustees had changed the policy to allow the admission of women in greater numbers, although women had been part of the student body in small numbers since the 1890s. Within five years, the college moved to full residential coeducation. No matter the status at Wofford, women have made contributions to the campus community. This exhibit celebrates the history of women at Wofford and the ways that …

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Stories Behind The Brick And Mortar: Voices Of Mississippi University For Women, Lauren Harmon Apr 2021

Stories Behind The Brick And Mortar: Voices Of Mississippi University For Women, Lauren Harmon

Merge

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Phyllis Hammel Oral History Interview April 19th, 2021, Henry B. Hammel Apr 2021

Phyllis Hammel Oral History Interview April 19th, 2021, Henry B. Hammel

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

Oral History Interview with Phyllis Hammel.

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New Members, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Territorial Papers of the United States, Volume XXIII The Territory of Florida, 1824-1828 and Volume XXIV The Territory of Florida, 1828-1834. Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter. (Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1958, 1959. Vol. XXIII, 1191 pp. Maps and index. $6.50; Vol. XXIV, 1143 pp. Maps and index. $8.00.); Historic Sites in and Around the Jim Woodruff Reservoir Area, Florida-Georgia. By Mark F. Boyd. River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 13. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 169. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1958. pp. 195-314. Plates, Bibliography,); Pioneer Florida. Edited by D. B. McKay. With a …

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Letters Of A Teenage Confederate, Henry Eugene Sterkx Apr 2021

Letters Of A Teenage Confederate, Henry Eugene Sterkx

Florida Historical Quarterly

The history of the Civil War is replete with many young men who patriotically went off to war hoping to make great contributions to their side. Some did not get a chance to prove themselves in battle. Many spent all of their time in camp where some became victims of disease rather than the enemy’s bullets. Thus it was with Langdon Leslie Rumph.

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Documents Pertaining To The Georgia-Florida Frontier, 1791-1793, Richard K. Murdoch Apr 2021

Documents Pertaining To The Georgia-Florida Frontier, 1791-1793, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the period from 1784 to 1821, one of the major causes of friction along the St. Marys River, the dividing line between the United States and East Florida, was the frequent disappearance of Negro slaves, usually fleeing from the American bank of the river into the sparsely populated Spanish colony where they hoped to find a refuge with the Indian population or among the freed Negroes and mulattoes in St. Augustine. Frequent arrangements were made by the authorities on both sides to return the runaways as soon as possible to their legitimate owners to avoid unnecessary diplomatic wrangling.

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The Journal Of A. B. Meek And The Second Seminole War, 1836, John K. Mahon Apr 2021

The Journal Of A. B. Meek And The Second Seminole War, 1836, John K. Mahon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Alexander Beaufort Meek was born in Columbia, South Carolina, March 17, 1814, the son of a methodist minister. While he was still young his parents migrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, taking him with them. Although inclined to be indolent, learning came easily to the boy. Proof of this is that at a tender age he memorized the entire Old Testament. At age nineteen he was graduated from the University of Alabama (1833), and at twenty-two was awarded a master’s degree from the same school. Meanwhile, in 1835 he had begun the practice of law in Tuscaloosa.

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The Episcopal Church In Florida During The Civil War, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr. Apr 2021

The Episcopal Church In Florida During The Civil War, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the Civil War approached, the Episcopal Church in Flor- ida found herself for the first time since the opening of the territory in a position of stability. She had weathered the hardships and uncertainties of the territorial period; her older parishes had become self-supporting congregations, and were embarking on vigorous parochial and educational projects; and a new group of lively missions was springing up in towns like Fernandina, Ocala, and Palatka, and in agricultural villages like Waukeena and Milton. The Diocese of Florida, which had been bishopless for thirteen years after its organization in 1838, had enjoyed the episcopal …

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