Florida Historical Quarterly

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Murphree interviews Cynthia Patterson, associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. In the interview, Dr. Murphree and Cynthia Patterson discuss her article titled, “Catching the Spirit: The Melrose Ladies Literary and Debating Society 1890-1899,” that was published in the Fall 2017 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Murphree interviews author Derek R. Everett, a faculty member at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and Colorado State University. In the interview, Everett discusses his article titled, “The Mouse and the State House: Intersections of Florida Capitals and Walt Disney World,” that was published in the Summer 2017 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Murphree talks to Keith Revell, Associate Professor of History at Florida International University, about his article titled, “The Rise and Fall of Copa City, 1944-1957: Nightclubs and the Evolution of Miami Beach,” from the Spring 2017 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Murphree interviews Gary Mormino, emeritus professor of history at the University of South Florida at St Petersburg. In the interview, Mormino discusses the special issue he recently guest edited for the FHQ titled, “500 Years of Florida History in the 20th Century”. This issue includes the final component of a series of six special issues published in recognition of the quincentennial of Ponce de Leon’s first visit to Florida in 1513. After the Mormino interview, the episode also includes two tributes to Michael Gannon and Jerold Shoffner, scholars who passed away in April of 2017.

In this episode we interviewed Judith Poucher about her article titled, “The Evolving Suffrage Militancy of Mary Nolan,” from the Fall 2016 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

In this episode Robert Cassanello interviewed Kathryn Palmer about her article titled “Losing Lincoln: Black Educators, Historical Memory, and the Desegregation of Lincoln High School in Gainesville, Florida” published in the Summer 2016 issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

In this episode of the Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast we interviewed Brad Massey, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, about his article on the Florida phosphate industry and the political controversy surrounding its arrangement with the Soviet Union in 1974.

In this episode Dr. Daniel Murphree interviews Dr. James Cusick is the curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida Library and author of The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida published by the University of Georgia Press. He edited the special issue on the first part of the 19th century. He discusses the authors and articles that appear in this issue.

In this episode of the Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast we interviewed John Paul Nuno from California State University at Northridge about his article, "República de Bandidos: Challenges to Emergent Racial Hierarchies in the Florida Borderlands in the Early Nineteenth Century."

In this episode of the Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast we interviewed Laura Brock about her article on the ERA fight and the Florida Legislature of the 1970s.

In this episode of the FHQ Podcast we look back at the career of Dr. Raymond A. Mohl. Dr. Mohl passed away in earlier in the year and his obituary is featured in the Spring 2015 issue. This episode features an interview with Dr. Robert Cassanello about the impact of Raymond Mohl and excerpts from an unaired 2011 interview of Mohl about interstate highway planning and protests.

In this episode, of the FHQ Podcast we interviewed Dr. Sherry Johnson who was the guest editor of the Special Issue of the FHQ that examines the 18th Century of Florida. This is the third of a 6 part special issue that will examine the Quincentennial of Ponce De Leon's first visit to Florida.

In this episode, we talked with C.S. Monaco about his article in the current issue of the FHQ titled "'Wishing that Right May Prevail': Ethan Allen Hitchock and the Florida War." We also spoke with him about his current research on the Second Seminole War and the create questions and debates that surround this period of Florida history.

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Lisa Lindquist-Dorr, Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama. She is the author of White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 published by the University of North Carolina Press. She spoke to us about her article " Bootlegging Aliens: Unsanctioned Immigration and the Underground Economy of Smuggling from Cuba during Prohibition," published in the Summer 2014 issue of the FHQ.

In this episode we talked with Matthew J. Clavin, Associate Professor of history at the University of Houston. He is the author of the book Toussaint Louverture and the Civil War: the Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution. He spoke to us about his article "An 'underground railway' to Pensacola and the Impending Crisis over Slavery," published in the Spring 2014 issue of the FHQ.

We interview Dr. Jane Landers who was the guest editor of the Special Issue of the FHQ that examines the 17th Century of Florida. This is the second of a 6-part special issue that will examine the Quintessential of Ponce De Leon's first visit to Florida.

This episode features and interview with Attorney Richard S. Dellinger, who co-edited this special issue on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. It is dedicated to the significant cases that have made it through the Middle District Court, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

We interviewed Dr. Sam Watson, Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy West Point, about his article “Conquerors, Peacekeepers, or Both? The U.S. Army and West Florida, 1810-1811, A New Perspective,” which appeared in this issue. It is about the 1810 West Florida Rebellion.

We interviewed Andrew Fairbanks and Dr. Christopher Meindl, about their article “Talking Trash: A Short History of Solid Waste Management in Florida,” which appeared in this issue. Christopher Meindl is Associate Professor of geography at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and Andrew Fairbanks received his MA in Florida Studies at USFSP.

For this episode, FHQ Assistant Editor Dr. Daniel Murphree interviewed Dr. Paul Hoffman, Paul W. and Nancy W. Murrill Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Professor Hoffman is the guest editor for this special issue, the first of a series of issues that re-examines the five hundred years of Florida history since the landing of Ponce de Leon in 1513. He is also the author of “The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century La Florida,” which appeared in this issue. This issue addresses the Sixteenth Century, and four more issues will come out yearly to re-examine subsequent centuries.

We interviewed Matthew G. Hyland from Duquesne University, about his article “The Florida Keys Hurricane House: Post-Disaster New Deal Housing.” The article, featured in this issue, is about hurricane houses during the Depression Era in Key West.

This episode features FHQ Assistant Editor Dr. Daniel Murphree’s interview of Professor Claire Strom, Rapetti-Trunzo Professor of History at Rollins College, about her article “Controlling Venereal Disease in Orlando during World War II.” The article is about Orlando's reaction and policies toward venereal disease and women's sexuality during World War II, and it was published in this issue.

We interviewed Professor David Jackson Jr. from Florida A & M University, about his article “Industrious, Thrifty and Ambitious”: Jacksonville’s African American Businesspeople during the Jim Crow Era,” which appeared in this issue. It is about the business class of Jacksonville during the Jim Crow Era. We also interviewed Tina Bucuvalas, who was the 2012 Jillian Prescott Memorial Keynote Speaker at the Florida Historical Society Meeting and Symposium in Tampa.

This episode features interviews with the guest editors of the special issue, Julian C. Chambliss and Denise K. Cummings, speaking about their article, “Florida: The Mediated State.” The entire issue is dedicated to an examination of how cultural actors have defined the way that we imagine Florida through popular culture.

This episode features interviews with all of the contributors for this special issue on the West Florida Revolt of 1810: “Introduction: Setting a Precedent for Regional Revolution: The West Florida Revolt Considered,” by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., “Some Thoughts on Spanish East and West Florida as Borderlands,” by James G. Cusick, “The Origins of the Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, the West Florida Revolt, and the No Transfer Policy,” by William S. Belko, and “The Rise and Fall of the Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant in West Florida,” by Cody Scallions. The entire issue is dedicated the global context and impact of the revolt from a variety of different perspectives.

This podcast features an interview with James M. (Mike) Denham, whose article “Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Pensacola” appeared in this issue. Professor Denham is the Director of Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College. In addition, we interviewed Professor Raymond A. Mohl, Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, about the life and legacy of Stetson Kennedy who passed away on August 27, 2011, at the age of 94.

This podcast is about a special issue devoted to literature in Florida. Dr. Connie Lester, Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly, interviewed Rebecca Sharpless, Associate Professor of History at Texas Christian University, about her article titled “The Servants and Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens and African American Life at Cross Creek.”

We interviewed Jessica Clawson, a graduate student at the University of Florida, about her article “Administrative Recalcitrance and Government Intervention: Desegregation at the University of Florida, 1962-1972,” which appeared in this issue. It concerns the racial integration of UF in the 1960s and ’70s.

We interviewed the three authors that contributed to this special issue, all of whom are graduate students finishing their Ph.D.s on Florida history topics. We asked the authors about their experiences researching a Florida topic while early in their scholarly careers. Our guests on this podcast were Deborah L. Bauer, author of “. . . in a strange place”: The Experiences of British Women during the Colonization of East & West Florida,” Nicole C. Cox, author of “Selling Seduction: Women and Feminine Nature in 1920s Florida,” and Peter Ferdinando, author of “A Translation History of Florida.”

We interviewed Gilbert C. Din, Professor Emeritus at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is the author of several books on colonial Louisiana and a frequent contributor to the FHQ. We interviewed him about his work on William August Bowles and about his article that appeared in this issue, titled “William August Bowles on the Gulf Coast, 1787-1803: Unraveling a Labyrinthine Conundrum.”

We interviewed Derrick E. White, Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. He wrote an article that appeared in this issue, titled “From Desegregation to Integration: Race, Football, and "Dixie" at the University of Florida.” It is about Confederate memory and racial integration at Florida universities during the 1960s.

We interviewed Daniel Feller, Professor of History and Editor/Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson. He gave the 2009 Catherine Prescott Lecture for the Florida Historical Society, which became an article in this issue. It is titled “The Seminole Controversy Revisited: A New Look At Andrew Jackson's 1818 Florida Campaign.”

We interviewed Nancy J. Levine, Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida. Professor Levine and her class recorded the history of the Hasting Library, a collaborative effort that is chronicled in an article in this issue, titled “Florida Classroom: Tea Sets, Tractors and T-1 Lines: The Survival of a Small Town Library: The Hastings Branch Library, Hastings, Florida.”

For this podcast, we interviewed Dr. Michael Bowen, assistant director at the Bob Graham center for Public Service, about his article “The Strange Tale of Wesley and Florence Garrison: Racial Crosscurrents of the Postwar Florida Republican Party,” and the research involved in writing that article. The article appeared in this issue.

This podcast features an interview with Professor Jack E. Davis. He is the author of An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, published by the University of Georgia Press. In this podcast, he discusses his article “Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel,” which appeared in this issue.