Browse by Subject: History

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Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary

The campaign that changed everything in Florida

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Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed

Travelling to Florida’s most interesting cemeteries, Haskins visits Napoleon’s nephew, tells the gruesome story of a man who dug up his love and lived with her for seven years, and even shares a murder mystery. Whether the final resting places of Civil War soldiers killed in battle or of the four-hundred-year-old remains of nuns peacefully interred by their shell-studded chapel, each plot has a unique story to tell.

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America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763–1858

America's Hundred Years' War offers more than a chronicle of the politics and economics of international rivalry. It provides a narrative of humanity and inhumanity, arrogance and misunderstanding, and outright bloodshed between vanquisher and vanquished as well.

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Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida

Where America's wildest dreams came true

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William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida

William Bartram denied their existence; history buried their stories

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College

An architectural icon's vision for American education

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Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing

Be a part of the legendary boxing gym in its prime

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Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida

This is the first book-length treatment of the German POW experience in Florida during WW II. Captured on U-boats off the Carolinas, and in Tunisia, Italy, & France, 378,000 Germans were held prisoners in 45 states--10,000 of them in 27 Florida camps.

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Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism

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Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture

The truth behind supermarket tabloids