Download or read book Florida in Turmoil written by Museum of Southern History (Gainesville, Fla.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida in Turmoil written by Ben H. Willingham and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the war, there were 182 engagements fought on Florida soil. The state had the highest percentage of military age men to volunteer in the Confederacy and suffered the highest percentage of casualties. Florida supplied the Armies of Tennessee and Northern Virginia cattle, grain, and salt until the end of the war. Tallahassee was the only capital not captured by a Union army. Florida's history has been overlooked in the War's historiography. Hopefully, this book will show Florida's lasting contribution to the war effort.
Download or read book Gaia in Turmoil written by Eileen Crist and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.
Download or read book Florida and the Crisis of 1850 written by Herbert J. Doherty and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida s Economic Future and the Child Care Crisis for Families written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Prisons in Turmoil written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fernandina a City in Turmoil 1863 1888 written by Jesse T. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racial Change and Community Crisis written by David R. Colburn and published by Gainesville : University of Florida Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colburn presents the facts and is not afraid to interpret them. His narrative captures the inherent drama of specific events and situations: the ruthless beatings of demonstrators, the complacency and fear of many white moderates, the genuinely incredible power of nonviolence to accomplish grand political ends, and the great courage this weapon required of those who wielded it." --Reviews in American History In 1964, racial reform and racial extremism clashed in St. Augustine, Florida, the city the Southern Christian Leadership Conference targeted for the activities of its nonviolent army. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the SCLC staged demonstrations in St. Augustine that they hoped would pressure the U.S. Congress into passing civil rights legislation. Extremists, led by Ku Klux Klan and John Birch Society members, saw in St. Augustine a last opportunity to halt the forces of racial change. What resulted--beatings, shootings, bombings, and mass arrests--was some of the ugliest racial violence the nation has witnessed.
Download or read book Florida in the Civil War written by Sandra Downs and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Florida's important role in the Civil War as a Confederate state despite its problems with Union sympathizers, troop shortages, and difficulty defending its 6,000-mile coastline.
Download or read book Filibusters and Expansionists written by Frank L. Owsley and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the roles that Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe played in the saga of Gulf Coast territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny. Focusing on expansion into the south and southwest, the authors describe the relentless official and unofficial federally sponsored efforts and filibustering expeditions used to encourage Americans to fulfill their goal of landownership. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Florida the Seeds of Crisis written by Red Flag Charrette. Gainesville, Fla.? and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Close to Crisis Florida s Environmental Problems written by Robert B. Rackleff and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Governors written by Robert Buccellato and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Florida has a unique place in the annals of national history and has been a constant contributor to the country's identity. The 51 men who have served as the state's governors are an essential part of its complex identity and have produced resonant material for historians of all ages. They have been farmers, generals, boat captains, restaurant owners, presidents, and sons of presidents. They have been given the office by both popular mandate and the happenstance of fate. These individuals have represented virtually every category of what it means to be a Floridian. Their lasting legacies can be felt every day by the state's citizens. Since the drainage of the Everglades and the transformation of swamplands into beachfront paradises, Florida has lured Americans from various states to its sunny shores. It has seceded from the Union, determined the final verdict in many presidential elections, was the site of railroad monopolies, developed into a playground of the rich, and is the birthplace of a new kind of theme park--all while being led by these distinct individuals who, at their core, were Floridians first.
Download or read book Governor Sidney J Catts Florida s Bigoted Reformer written by Cl Gammon and published by Deep Read Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people are bigger than life - they just are. Sidney Johnston Catts, Florida's 22nd Governor was one of those people. In 1917, Catt became the first Governor of Florida since 1877 (during the period of Reconstruction) to represent a party other than the Democratic Party. As of this date, Catts remains the only person ever elected to a statewide office on the Prohibition ticket. However, Catts was more than just a "third-party" leader.Florida, as was the rest of America, was in turmoil for decades after the end of the Civil War. Racism, anti-foreignism, and anti-Catholicism were rampant. The states of the old Confederacy were even more receptive to intolerance than the rest of the country. This led to the rise of several loud and rambunctious demagogues. The populists won elections across the South with wild, emotional appeals to religious and racial bigotry. If the mass of voters did not agree with the intolerance preached by these men, enough did agree to elect them to afford them great power. Florida's most important addition to the Southern demagoguery was Sidney J. Catts. Catts enjoyed a meteoric rise in Florida beginning in 1916 and while he only won one election, he remained an important political figure in Sunshine State until around 1930. While many condemned Catts, and often for good reason, one cannot doubt he made some important and positive changes in the Sunshine State during his single term as Governor.Catts was a natural born earth shaker. He also threw convention to the wind. After the Florida Democratic Party connived with the State Supreme Court and denied him the Democratic nomination for Governor that he rightly won, he accepted the nomination of the Prohibition Party, defied all odds, and won the General Election. This brief volume sketches the life and political career of Sidney Catts. It is a fair accounting of Catts the man and Catts the politician. There is no doubt that Sydney Catts was a great reformer and there is no doubt that he was a raging bigot. It would not be fair to the reader, or to Catts, to leave out either side of his story. This book also looks at the age in which Catts lived and the attitudes of that age.
Download or read book Vanishing Florida written by David T. Warner and published by River City Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For most people, Florida means palm trees, beaches, and Mickey Mouse. But there's anoth- er, more timeless, Florida, of places like Crescent City and the St. Johns River, where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's books Cross Creek and The Yearling come alive; of places like Eatonville, where Zora Neale Hurston lived, and St. Petersburg, where Jack Kerouac died; of places like Cassadaga, where you can have your fortune told, and Tallahassee, where the presidency and our nation's fortunes were twice decided. This is David Warner's Florida. Vanishing Florida."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Politics in Florida written by Thomas R. Dye and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, yet engaging introduction to the institutions, processes, and people of Florida politics. Written by the best-selling state and local author, Tom Dye, who brings the same level of scholarship and currency to coverage of Florida Government.
Download or read book Florida s Past Vol 2 written by Gene M. Burnett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
