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FLORIDAHISTORICALSOCI ETY Volume XLIII July 1964-April 1965 Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 43 Number 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 43, Article 1 Number 1 1964 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, Issue 1 Florida Historical Society [email protected] Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1964) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, Issue 1," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 43 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol43/iss1/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, Issue 1 FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY V OLUME XLIII July 1964 - April 1965 CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIII “A South Carolina Lawyer Visits St. Augustine - 1837,” by John Hammond Moore, 361 A Southern Prophecy: The Prosperity of the South Dependent upon the Elevation of the Negro, by Blair, reviewed, 406 A Wake in Ybor City, by Yglesias, reviewed, 80 A Woman Set Apart, by Hartley, reviewed, 76 “A Plan to Homestead Freedmen in Florida in 1866,” by F. Bruce Rosen, 379 “Aftermath of Military Reconstruction, 1868-1869,” by Ralph L. Peek, 123 Alvarez, Eugene, “James Buckland: The Mystery of an Early Florida Visitor,” 266 American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862, by Howard, reviewed, 287 Amundson, Richard J., “Henry S. Sanford and Labor Problems in the Florida Orange Industry,” 229 And Tyler Too: A Biography of John & Julia Tyler, by Seager, reviewed, 286 “Annual Meeting, Miami, May 7-9, 1964,” 165 Aristocrat in Uniform: General Duncan L. Clinch, by Patrick, reviewed, 71 Arnade, Charles W., book review by, 277 Published by STARS, 1964 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43 [1964], No. 1, Art. 1 Bannon, John Francis (ed.), Bolton and the Spanish Border- lands, reviewed, 418 Barbour, Philip I., The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith, reviewed, 393 “Battle of Olustee: Its Meaning for the British,” by Lawrence E. Breeze, 207 Bearss, Edwin C., book review by, 289 Beeson, Kenneth H., Jr., book review by, 301 Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, by Bennett, reviewed, 197 Bennett, Lerone, Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962, reviewed, 197 Bingham, Millicent Todd, “Key West in the Summer of 1864,” 262 Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands, ed. by Bannon, reviewed, 418 Black Utopia, by Pease and Pease, reviewed, 196 Blair, Lewis H., A Southern Prophecy: The Prosperity of the South Dependent upon the Elevation of the Negro, reviewed, 406 Bonner, James C. (ed.), The Journal of a Milledgeville Girl, 1861-1876, reviewed, 403 Bradbury, John M., Renaissance in the South: A Critical History of the Literature, 1920-1960, reviewed, 300 “British Report on West Florida and Louisiana, November, 1812,” by Richard K. Murdoch, 36 Breeze, Lawrence E., “The Battle of Olustee: Its Meaning for the British,” 207 Brown, D. Alexander, The Galvanized Yankees, reviewed, 291 Brundage, Burr C., book reviews by, 184, 418 Bumgartner, Louis E., Jose del Valle of Central America, re- viewed, 416 Cabinet Diaries of Josephus Daniels, 1913-1921, ed. by Cronon, reviewed, 88 Callahan, North, Royal Raiders, The Tories of the American Revolution, reviewed, 185 Callcott, George H., book review by, 72 Campbell, Doak S., book review by, 79 Carleton, William G., book review by, 89 Carter, Hodding, Doomed Road of Empire: The Spanish Trail of Conquest, reviewed, 184 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol43/iss1/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, Issue 1 Caruso, John Anthony, The Southern Frontier, reviewed, 280 Catton, Bruce, Terrible Swift Sword, reviewed, 193 Cave, Alfred A., book review by, 286 Chalmers, David, The Social and Political Ideas of the Muck- rakers, reviewed, 407 Change in the Contemporary South, ed. by Sindler, reviewed, 93 Civil War in Louisiana, by Winters, reviewed, 194 Civil War Naval Chronology, Part III: 1863, ed. by Eller, re- viewed, 87 Clay, Henry, Papers of, Volume III: Presidential Candidate, 1821-1824, ed. by Hopkins and Hargreaves, reviewed, 285 Coleman, Kenneth, book review by, 403 “College News,” 99, 304 Colonial Georgia: A Study in British Imperial Policy in the Eighteenth Century, by Reese, reviewed, 282 Colonial Wars, 1689-1762, by Peckham, reviewed, 397 Conant, James B., Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education, reviewed, 81 Confederate Constitutions, by Lee, reviewed, 82 “Confederate Railroad Construction: The Live Oak to Lawton Connector,” by Jerrell H. Shofner and William Warren Rogers, 217 Conner, Frederick W., book review by, 300 “Contributors,” 103, 205, 314, 426 Corse, Carita Doggett, book review by, 75 Cotner, Robert C., book review by, 195 Covington, James W. (ed.), Pirates, Indians, and Spaniards: Father Escobedo’s “La Florida,” reviewed, 74; book review by, 278 Cox, John H., and Cox, LaWanda, Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866, reviewed, 292 Cox, LaWanda, and Cox, John H. Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866, reviewed, 292 Cox, Merlin G., “David Sholtz: New Deal Governor of Florida,” 142 Craker History of Okeechobee: “Custard Apple, Moonvine, Cat- fish and Moonshine,” by Will, reviewed, 389 Cronon, E. David (ed.), The Cabinet Diaries of Josephus Daniels: 1913-1921, reviewed, 88 Cuba, the Economic and Social Revolution, ed. by Seers, re- viewed, 413 Published by STARS, 1964 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43 [1964], No. 1, Art. 1 “Curbing of Voter Intimidation in Florida, 1871,” by Ralph L. Peek, 333 Cushman, Joseph D., Jr., “The Indian River Settlement: 1842- 1849,” 21; book review by, 86 Dalton, Jack P., book review by, 299 “David Sholtz: New Deal Governor of Florida,” by Merlin G. Cox, 142 “Davis, Jefferson, Letters and Papers of,” 425 Davis, Richard Beale, Intellectual Life in Jefferson’s Virginia, 1790-1830, reviewed, 399 Dawn Like Thunder, by Tucker, reviewed, 190 DeConde, Alexander, book review by, 190 DeGrove, John, book review by, 296 Democratic South, by Grantham, reviewed, 181 Diamond, Sigmund (ed.), The Nation Transformed: The Cre- ation of an Industrial Society, reviewed, 195 “Directors’ Meeting, May 7, 1964,” 165; “Directors’ Meeting, December 5, 1964,” 309 Doomed Road of Empire, by Carter, reviewed, 184 Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, book review by, 414 Dovell, J. E., History of Banking in Florida: First Supplement, 1954-1963, reviewed, 279; book review by, 409 Dunn, Edgar S., Jr., Recent Southern Economic Development as Revealed by the Changing Structure of Employment, re- viewed, 91 Eaton, Clement (ed.), The Leaven of Democracy: The Growth of the Democratic Spirit in the Time of Jackson, reviewed, 191 Editor’s Corner, 262, 379 Eller, E. M. (ed.), Civil War Chronology, Part III: 1863, re- viewed, 87 Everlasting South, by Simkins, reviewed, 182 Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870, by Ludlum, reviewed, 414 “Father Jerome,” 426 Federal Conservation Policy: 1921-1933, by Swain, reviewed, 409 “Florida College History Teachers’ Conference,” 102, 419 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol43/iss1/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, Issue 1 Florida Historical Society - “Annual Meeting, Miami, May 7-9, 1964,” 165 - “Directors’ Meeting, May 7, 1964,” 165; “December 5, 1964,” 309 - “Minutes of the Annual Meeting, May 9, 1964,” 169 - “New Members,” 174 - “Treasurer’s Report,” 172 “Florida Historical Quarterly, Foreign Subscribers,” 425 Florida: Past, Present, Future, by Jernigan, reviewed, 392 Flynt, Wayne, “Pensacola Labor Problems and Political Radical- ism,” 315 Foner, Philip S., A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, Volume IX: 1845-1895, reviewed, 199 “Fort Caroline,” 101 “Fort King Road, 1963, The,” by William M. Goza, 52 Fountain of Youth and Juan Ponce de Leon, by King, reviewed, 277 Fritz, Florence I., Unknown Florida, reviewed, 278 Fry, Alice, “Recollections of a Florida Schoolteacher,” 270 Gaibrois, Manuel Ballesteros, La idea colonial de Ponce de Leon: Un ensayo de interpretacion, reviewed, 177 Galvanized Yankees, by Brown, reviewed, 291 Gannon, Michael V., Rebel Bishop: The Life and Era of Augustin Verot, reviewed, 388; book review by, 197 Garwood, Harry C., Stetson University and Florida Baptists: A Documentary History of Relations between Stetson Univer- sity and the Florida Baptist Convention, reviewed, 79 “George Mason Papers,” 204 Gilded Age: A Reappraisal, ed. by Morgan, reviewed, 294 Glorious Revolution in America: Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689, ed. by Hall, Leder, and Kammen, reviewed, 395 Gold, Robert L., book review by, 280 Goza, Wilham M., “The Fort King Road, 1963,” 52; book re- view by, 87 Granberry, Julian, book review by, 74 Grantham, Dewey W., Jr., The Democratic South, reviewed, 181; book review by, 406 Green, A. Wigfall, The Man Bilbo, reviewed, 89 Green, G. N., “Republicans, Bull Moose, and Negroes in Florida, 1912,” 153 Published by STARS, 1964 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43 [1964], No. 1, Art. 1 Greene, Jack P., The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of As- sembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776, reviewed, 186; book review by, 395 Hall, Michael G., (ed.), The Glorious Revolution in America: Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689, reviewed, 395 Hamilton, Holman, Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Com- promise of 1850, reviewed, 400 Hanna, Kathryn Abbey, book review by, 182 Hargreaves, Mary W. M. (ed.),
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