Browse by Subject: History

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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

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. Concentrati

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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

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Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II

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Coming to Miami: A Social History

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Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration