Derrick Wheeler's History of Florida Blog

Chapter 15 Worksheet  Who is the author of this chapter and what information can you find about the author elsewhere in the text?                                   Jerell H. Shofner. The contributors section says that he is a “retired professor of history at the University of Central Florida” as well as “the author of numerous books, including Nor Is It Over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction, 1863-1877, he became editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly in 1995” (Gannon 2018).   According to this chapter, list 2 things that were in desperate need of “reconstruction”  2 things that were in desperate need of reconstruction were the economy and transportation.   Florida stands apart from other areas of the South in the way that General Newton handled two main areas: politics & freedmen.  Discuss both In politics, seeing the “existing political vacuum...

The horse race is something small but very enjoyable to me. Firstly, I find it funny that Ishmael is so special that they have no doubt whatsoever that they can win against a racehorse. I also find it interesting that Tobias used his knowledge of racehorses to wager that the horse could not last 3 miles going full speed against Ishmael. Then, the suspense of the horse getting far ahead of Ishmael contrasted with the calm nature of Zech. Then at that very moment "Ishmael sprang forward as if until this point he had not been running at all. He stretched his neck out like a heron in flight, and his hooves barely touched the ground as he streaked across the rutted sand. In five seconds he was abreast of the bay and moving ahead; and when they reached the finish line, he was fifty yards in front of Thunder" (A Land Remembered 99). The icing on it all is that Hendry was a good sport about it all and even gave up their land.  Source Cited: Smith, P. D. (2011). A land remembered . Pi...

  (2) Cite your Article (in proper APA format): Parker, Susan et Coker, William Chapter 10: The Second Spanish Period in the Two Floridas . History of Florida. 1 pgs 162-178  Focus Questions: (1)    Who are the authors?  Susan Richbourg Parker and William S. Coker (5) Identify and discuss the issue of “perspective” with regards to Anglo writings of Spanish Government The issue of perspective with regards to Anglo writings of Spanish Government is that they “reflected the Anglophile viewpoints of earlier viewpoints” (Parker 163). They had presented a viewpoint of Spanish Florida “merely awaiting an inevitable takeover by the United States and its institutions” (Parker 163). The English sources on the matter hammered in that ideal and that is why the idea persists among Anglo writers and readers during the time-period. David J. Weber remarked that English and American writers “uniformly condemned Spanish rule,” leading to the broadly negative perspecti...

  Camp Milton: Site Visit Entrance to the preserve Me in front of the Entrance      Today I went to the Camp Milton Historic Preserve in Jacksonville, FL. The address is 1225 Halsema Rd N Jacksonville, FL 32220 United States. I visited on today's date October 8th, 2022 from 2:30-4:00 and I went with my mother where we were two of around 6 people I had seen in the preserve.  Me standing on timber fortifications    Being the largest confederate fortification in Florida, Camp Milton stood as "the first line of defense against the Union forces in Jacksonville" (City of Jacksonville, 1). Named after the governor of Florida John Milton, this fort was erected to defend against the Union's attempts to invade Jacksonville to stop the movement of goods and troops out of Florida and into the battleground states to its North. "After a portion of the remaining earthworks was discovered in 1973, efforts began to acquire the property," until 2006 with help from the ...

  The Most Argued Fact in Florida History: The Story: After a successful conquest of "Incan Peru in 1532-35" Hernando de Soto returned to his homeland of Spain seeking to become a ruler of his own territory (Gannon 26). In response to de Soto's request, Carlos V granted him the governorship of La Florida which was "previously awarded to Narvaez and Ayllon" and granted him sizable land to rule over (Gannon 26). Later, de Soto arrived in Florida with "600 soldiers, twelve priests, two women, servants and slaves, 223 horses, numerous mules and war dogs, and a herd of swine" (Gannon 28). From there he began his expedition into the interior of Florida to assess his newfound lands. Hernando De Soto The Debate: Now, the great debate which Gannon describes as the question where nothing has "been argued for the past half century (sic)" than where de Soto had landed with his expeditionary forces (Gannon 28). The options were: Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbo...

   (4) Cite your Article (in proper APA format): Gannon, Michael Chapter 2: First European Contacts. History of Florida. 1 pgs 18-40     Focus Questions: (1)    Who is the author?  Michael Gannon   (10) One argument presented is that Historic Accounts are not always cut & dry/ certain.  Discuss 2 examples within this chapter that supports this idea.  (pg 18.28) One example from the chapter is when in reference to the fountain of youth gannon states that it was “probably a gloss by Herrera based on an unsubstantiated account by Peter Martyr” (Ganon 19). It was much more common for conquistadors to be seeking God, glory and gold “the lust for which drove all conquistadors of the period” (Gannon 19). Additionally, where the party traveling with Hernando de Soto landed. Gannon claims that “of all the questions raised by students of the Florida discovery period, none has been more argued for the past century than [wher...

 Introduction: Personal Introduction: My name is Derrick Wheeler and I am, obviously, a student at FSCJ, I've been living in Jacksonville all my life (Except for August-December 2021 when I was in Tallahassee). My mother's side of the family has been in Florida for a very long time, and just like most people, they could not escape the vacuum that is Jacksonville, and they are now living here for the rest of time. My father's side of the family is a bit more complicated, we do not have much of a precedent in the US because my dad's side immigrated to the United States after World War II to escape the Nazis, but then they moved all over the place until joining the military landed my grandparents in Jacksonville.   Reflection upon materials: It was interesting to learn about the Paleoindians and how "they entered Florida around 10,000 B.C.," (Gannon 3).  In retrospect, it should have been obvious to me that the group of people who had crossed the Bering Strait wo...