<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In Florida the great conquistador hoped to find a Golconda. Instead, he found a Golgotha. </span></span></p>
<p>"We have permanently safeguarded an irreplaceable primitive area," said President Truman as he dedicated Everglades National Park in 1947. Bit what is permanence, and what is "safeguarded"? Did he speak too soon?</p>
<p><span class="deck"> Branded a traitor by the government he once served, John C. Breckinridge ran a perilous race for freedom rather than risk capture by the North</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">On a warm Florida evening in 1933 a madman with a pistol and a personality profile now all too familiar—“unskilled, unfriendly, unmoneyed, and unwell”—came within inches of altering the course of American history in one of its most critical moments</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> With Epcot, Walt Disney turned his formidable skills to building a city where man and technology could live together in perfect harmony. The result is part prophecy, part world’s fair. Here, America’s leading authority on technological history examines this urban experiment in the light of past world’s fairs, and tells why it fails where they succeeded—and why that matters.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> All this Florida boy wanted to do was rejoin his regiment. Instead they drafted him into the Confederate secret service.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The Florida Speed Carnivals at Daytona lasted less than a decade, but they saw American motoring grow from rich man’s sport to national obsession</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> The shady courtyards, tiled roofs, and white stucco walls of 1920s Palm Beach owed something to the style of the Spanish Renaissance and everything to the vision of Addison Mizner</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Sexy and melancholy, festive and forlorn, the island has always heated the Yankee imagination. The author visits there in the late afternoon of a straitened era and looks back on four centuries of passionate misunderstandings.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A curious discovery on the Florida seashore, when a water cannon destroyed a suspicious package later found to contain </span><span class="body"><span class="body">miniature portraits by the celebrated American painter Gilbert Stuart</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A hurricane sank a fleet in Pensacola Bay 450 years ago, dooming the first major European attempt to colonize North America, a story that archaeologists are just now fleshing out.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> As a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt’s attention to nature and love of animals were much in evidence, characteristics that would later help form his strong conservationist platform as president</span> </p>
<p>In Florida during the 1830s, a young Indian warrior led a bold and bloody campaign against the government's plan to relocate his people west of the Mississippi River.</p>
<p>A sad footnote to the horrific shootings in Broward county Florida is the soiling of the name of the environmental pioneer for whom the Parkland high school was named.</p>
