Browse by Subject: History

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They Dared to Dream: Florida Women Who Shaped History

The untold stories of Florida’s most extraordinary women.

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The Minibook of Minigolf

A wacky and wonderful tour of miniature golf in the southeast

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Walking St. Augustine: An Illustrated Guide and Pocket History to America's Oldest City

Celebrate 450 years of history with a walking tour of the Old City.

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Category 5: The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane

A frightening account of the first Category 5 storm to strike the U.S.

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Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter: The Dark Side of Political Protest

Marshall Ledbetter's invasion of the Florida State Capitol is forever remembered as the biggest security breach of the building's history.

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Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War

Looks at the diversity of Civil War monuments built in Florida between Reconstruction and the present day, elucidating their emblematic and social dimensions.

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Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida

Sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida’s engagement on behalf of the South.

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Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast

Including transcriptions of the original Spanish documents as well as English translations, this volume presents--in their own words--the experiences and reactions of Spaniards who came to Florida with Juan Ponce de León, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hernando de Soto, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

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Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food

In Fed Up, Dale Slongwhite collects the nearly inconceivable and chilling oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives, and those of their families, were forever altered by one of the most disturbing pesticide exposure incidents in United States’ history.

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Going Ape: Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom

Tells the riveting story of the intense conflicts over teaching evolution in Florida, revealing how not just this state, but the entire country has been Going Ape over this hot-button issue.