Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History

 

2012-2013 Lecture Series Line-up

• September 13 - William McKeen, "Mile Marker Zero - The Movable Feast of Key West
• October 4 - Andy Huse, "Florida Foodways"
• November 15 - Jonathan Sheppard, "Florida Soldiers in the Civil War"
• January 10 - Cynthia Barnett, "Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S."
• February 7 - Tom Corcoran, "Trials and Tribulations of Alex Rutledge"
• March 14 - Bill Belleville, "Perserving a Sense of Place in Florida: How Nature Shapes Culture"

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"A Tale of Two Sisters: They Moved to Florida on the Eve of Bloodiest Seminole War"

Listen to Dr. James M. Denham's interview on Florida's Antebellum Women. This broadcast was part of the WQCS Speakers Series (April 16, 2010).

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Florida Lecture Series presents Gary Noesner, "Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator"

Check out the pictures from Gary Noesner's lecture on January 13, 2011. Read or listen to WMNF's interview with Gary.

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Florida Citrus Hall of Fame

The Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History is proud to be affiliated with the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame.  Over the past two years we have assisted students in developing an official website featuring biographical information on inductees and industry related topics. Please watch our progress on the official website of the FCHF  at http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/.   In addition the FSC McKay Archives is cataloging Citrus Crate Labels from the private collection of Mr.  Jim Ellis, a sampling can be viewed at http://archives.flsouthern.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Flabels.

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Florida Humanities Council Audio Recording: "Uncovering Florida's Violent Legacy"

Listen to Professors Randolph Roth (Ohio State University) and James Denham (Florida Southern College) explore some of the motives behind Florida's extraordinary murder rate in the decades before the Civil War: the government's lack of credibility and its inability to enforce the law; the Southern penchant for honor; slavery and race; and the way of life on the open frontier. They also seek connections between the state's bloody past and its present. (March 2010, Florida Lecture Series, Robert & Rose Stahl Criminal Justice Lecture)

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Hear Dr. James M. Denham on WUSF's Florida Matters: The Economy (February 6, 2009)

Florida pioneer Hamilton Disston and the state's early land boom

The economic bust that led Florida to legalize pari-mutual betting at horse tracks

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