Daily Archives: July 18, 2026

Fort Brooke and Tampa in the Civil War: The Blockaded Storehouse (1861–1865)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines the role of Fort Brooke and the town of Tampa in the American Civil War, arguing that the bay’s importance in these years was economic before it was tactical. Tampa was a small and remote Gulf … Continue reading →

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Fort Brooke and the Seminole Wars: The Making of a Military Town (1824–1858)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper traces the founding of Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in 1824 and its central role across the three decades of conflict known collectively as the Seminole Wars. It argues that Fort Brooke was … Continue reading →

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Pirates, Privateers, and the Contested Gulf: Maritime Predation off Tampa Bay (1700s–1820s)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines maritime predation in the Gulf waters off Tampa Bay across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and it does so with a deliberate methodological aim: to separate what the documentary record supports from what later civic … Continue reading →

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The Spanish Entrada: Conquest, Resistance, and Failure at Tampa Bay (1528–1600s)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines Tampa Bay as the landing ground for the two earliest large armed European expeditions into the North American interior—those of Pánfilo de Narváez in 1528 and Hernando de Soto in 1539—and as the setting for the … Continue reading →

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Warfare and Defense in Pre-Columbian Tampa Bay

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper reconstructs the organization of conflict and defense among the indigenous peoples of the Tampa Bay estuary in the centuries before sustained European contact. Drawing on the archaeology of the Safety Harbor culture, the political geography implied by … Continue reading →

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