This book is a guide to the people, places, and events that made Gainesville the thriving city and educational center that it is today. Gainesville was established in the early 1850s in an area of Alachua County known for cotton farming, cattle, and citrus.
Entries from July 13th, 2009
Steve Rajtar. “A Guide to Historic Gainesville.” 2007.
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Local Interest
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Kevin McCarthy. “Cedar Key, Florida; A History.” 2007.
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Local Interest
Cedar Key is a good place to explore the romantic, almost forgotten history of old Florida. Cedar Key is today a quiet island community nestled among several smallish keys on the Gulf Coast.
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Drew Faust. “This Republic of Suffering; Death and the American Civil War.” Vintage, 2009.
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Book Reviews
Review by Tom Rider.
Drew Faust describes the ways in which death, on the scale that it was experienced in the Civil War, altered attitudes on an array of issues related to the end of life. These war casualties seemed unnatural to nineteenth-century Americans. The war killed young men in huge numbers, then the healthiest demographic [...]
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“Newspapers and Free Speech.” 2009.
July 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Essays
by Tom Rider.
There will always be threats to free speech in this country from various orthodoxies, be they religious, or political, or social. ‘Speech’ should, of course, always be free in the first amendment sense. However, the kinds of information essential to a working democracy cannot be free in another sense. You can’t have free [...]
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