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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4 Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 71 Number 4 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume Article 1 71, Number 4 1992 Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4 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 (1992) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 71 : No. 4 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss4/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4 Published by STARS, 1992 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 4, Art. 1 COVER The corner of South Andrews Avenue and South River Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Much of the Maxwell Arcade was destroyed in the hurricane of Sep- tember 1926. Photograph courtesy Fort Lauderdale Historical Society. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss4/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4 The Florida Historical Quarterly Volume LXXI, Number 4 April 1993 The Florida Historical Quarterly (ISSN 0015-4113) is published quarterly by the Florida Historical Society, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, and is printed by E. O. Painter Printing Co., DeLeon Springs, FL. Second-class postage paid at Tampa, FL, and at additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Florida Historical Quarterly, P. O. Box 290197, Tampa, FL 33687. Copyright 1993 by the Florida Historical Society, Tampa, Florida. Published by STARS, 1992 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 4, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Samuel Proctor, Editor Mark I. Greenberg, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD David R. Colburn University of Florida Herbert J. Doherty University of Florida Michael V. Gannon University of Florida John K. Mahon University of Florida (Emeritus) Joe M. Richardson Florida State University Jerrell H. Shofner University of Central Florida Charlton W. Tebeau University of Miami (Emeritus) Correspondence concerning contributions, books for review, and all editorial matters should be addressed to the Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, Box 14045, University Station, Gainesville, Florida 32604-2045. The Quarterly is interested in articles and documents pertaining to the history of Florida. Sources, style, footnote form, original- ity of material and interpretation, clarity of thought, and in- terest of readers are considered. All copy, including footnotes, should be double-spaced. Footnotes are to be numbered con- secutively in the text and assembled at the end of the article. Particular attention should be given to following the footnote style of the Quarterly. The author should submit an original and retain a copy for security. Authors are asked to submit articles in IBM WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1, or ASCII; please include both a hardcopy and a diskette. The Florida Historical Society and the Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly accept no responsi- bility for statements made or opinions held by authors. The Quarterly reviews books dealing with all aspects of Florida history. Books to be reviewed should be sent to the Editor to- gether with price and information on how they may be ordered. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss4/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4 Table of Contents FLORIDA'S FUDGED IDENTITY Stephen J. Whitfield 413 JOSEPH URBAN'S PALM BEACH ARCHITECTURE Donald W. Curl 436 JOSEPH L. WILEY: A BLACK FLORIDA EDUCATOR Joe M. Richardson 458 REVIEW ESSAYS JESSIE BALL DUPONT: A GRACIOUS AND GENEROUS LADY James B. Crooks 473 HENRY CLAY AND THE HISTORIAN: A ONE-HUNDRED-YEAR PERSPECTIVE John M. Belohlavek 481 B OOK REVIEWS . 492 B OOK NOTES . 528 HISTORY NEWS . 536 DIRECTORS MEETING . 542 INDEX TO VOLUME LXXI . 549 Published by STARS, 1992 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 4, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS SPANISH PATHWAYS IN FLORIDA: 1492-1992, edited by Ann L. Henderson and Gary R. Mormino reviewed by Luis Rafael Arana HEAVY ARTILLERY AND LIGHT INFANTRY: A HISTORY OF THE 1ST FLORIDA SPECIAL BATTALION & 10TH INFANTRY, C.S.A., by Don Hillhouse reviewed by William Nulty JACKSONVILLE AFTER THE FIRE, 1901-1919: A NEW SOUTH CITY, by James B. Crooks reviewed by Raymond Arsenault IDELLA: MARJORIE RAWLINGS’ “PERFECT MAID,” by Idella Parker with Mary Keating reviewed by Jim Haskins SPANISH OBSERVERS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1783, by Light Townsend Cummins reviewed by Sherry Johnson SACRED REVOLT: THE MUSKOGEE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW WORLD, by Joel W. Martin reviewed by Harry A. Kersey, Jr. LADIES, WOMEN, & WENCHES: CHOICE & CONSTRAINT IN ANTEBELLUM CHAR- LESTON & BOSTON, by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease reviewed by Janet Allured AMBIGUOUS LIVES: FREE WOMEN OF COLOR IN RURAL GEORGIA, 1789-1879, by Adele Logan Alexander reviewed by Maxine D. Jones THE FIRE-EATERS, by Eric H. Walther reviewed by Christopher Morris THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION OF 1861: AN INQUIRY INTO AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, by Marshall L. DeRosa reviewed by Timothy S. Huebner THE FIRST DAY AT GETTYSBURG: ESSAYS ON UNION AND CONFEDERATE LEADERSHIP, edited by by Gary W. Gallagher reviewed by Richard M. McMurry THE CONFEDERACY'S FIGHTING CHAPLAIN: FATHER JOHN B. BANNON, by Phil- lip Thomas Tucker reviewed by John T. Foster, Jr. LET US HAVE PEACE: ULYSSES S. GRANT AND THE POLITICS OF WAR AND RE- CONSTRUCTION, 1861-1868, by Brooks D. Simpson reviewed by William. Warren Rogers, Jr. THE SULTANA TRAGEDY: AMERICA'S GREATEST MARITIME DISASTER, by Jerry O. Potter reviewed by Lynn Willoughby GLORIOUS CONTENTMENT: THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, 1865-1900, by Stuart McConnell reviewed by Vincent P. DeSantis MORMONS & COWBOYS, MOONSHINERS & KLANSMEN: FEDERAL LAW ENFORCE- MENT IN THE SOUTH & WEST, 1870-1893, by Stephen Cresswell reviewed by Carl Ryant LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT: THE HIDDEN LIFE AND ART OF MARION POST WOL- COTT, by Paul Hendrickson reviewed by Robert E. Snyder THE CLOSING DOOR: CONSERVATIVE POLICY AND BLACK OPPORTUNITY, by Gary Orfield and Carole Ashkinaze reviewed by Linda O. McMurry INDIANS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY, edited by J. Anthony Paredes reviewed by Michael D. Green SENDING MY HEART BACK ACROSS THE YEARS: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN NATIVE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Hertha Dawn Wong reviewed by Floyd A. O’Neil https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol71/iss4/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, Number 4 FLORIDA’S FUDGED IDENTITY by S TEPHEN J. W HITFIELD “ o symbols where none intended,” the warning that N Samuel Beckett issued near the end of his second novel, would drive American Studies professors out of business and push them into an occupation of greater social benefit.1 For it is the point of this essay to find some inadvertent symbols and to discern iconographic significance in the history of a state. Florida should make an especially promising subject because of its mythic status, tapping into the nation’s definition of itself. Its saga appears to be more than a combination of geographic con- straints and political boundaries and economic developments and demographic patterns. Its history also incorporates a mys- tique, which no state in the union needs but which a few states have nevertheless transmitted. Florida might well be such a rar- ity because it has claimed to be a kind of hologram of Paradise, a place where the most ancient, Edenic memories of the race are somehow re-invented in the form of contemporary fantasies. Florida is therefore “a state of mind” as much as it is a “state of being.“2 Here is what John Muir recorded in his journal, having arrived in Fernandina soon after the Civil War and shortly before finding Yosemite: “I am now in the hot gardens of the sun, where the palm meets the pine, longed and prayed for and often visited in dreams.” He felt “lonely to-night amid this multitude of . strange plants, strange winds blowing gently . and strange birds also, everything solid or spiritual Stephen J. Whitfield is professor of American Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. The author presented a version of this paper at the Florida Historical Society annual meeting, May 1992, St. Augustine. He wishes to thank Raymond O. Arsenault, Joseph Boskin, Jack E. Davis, John D. Ibson, Gary R. Mormino, Louise Westiing, Joan S. Whitfield, and Lee C. Whit- field—and Samuel Proctor, for the inspiration that he has provided. 1. Samuel Beckett, Watt (London, 1963; reprint ed., Paris, 1953), 255. 2. Mark Derr, Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida (New York, 1989), 13; Maurice O’Sullivan, Jr., and Jack C. Lane, eds., Introduction to The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise from 1530 to the Present (Sarasota, 1991), 11-13. [413] Published by STARS, 1992 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 71 [1992], No. 4, Art. 1 414 F LORIDA H ISTORICAL Q UARTERLY full of influences that I never felt, yet I thank the Lord with all my heart for his goodness in granting me admission to this mag- nificent realm.” A few years later, in 1873, the journalist Edward King toured the former Confederacy for Scribner’s Monthly. Spending his first night in Jacksonville, he found the ambience “slumbrous, voluptuous, round and graceful. Here beauty peeps from every door-yard. Mere existence is pleasure; exer- tion is a bore”—for some whites at least. “Through orange-groves and grand oaks thickly bordering the broad avenues gleams the wide current of the St. Johns river,” King exulted. Yet his de- light in such settings, one scholar observes, was always “coupled with a practical eye for their commercial development.
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