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Resources for the 2007-08 Florida History Fair

Sponsored by the Museum of Florida History, the Florida History Fair (FHF) is an annual, statewide activity that enhances the teaching and learning of history at elementary and secondary levels.

National History Fair Theme: Conflict and Compromise in History
A Florida History Fair entry can address any person, event, or idea from any time or place in history, but it also must relate to the annual theme. The following are resources available online from the Florida State Archives relating to the suggested Florida History Fair topics. This list gives examples of resources available, but is not comprehensive. Additional resources are available at the State Archives of Florida in Tallahassee and the Florida Electronic Library online.

Florida Topics

• A Lonely Life: Survival Strategies for Florida’s Lighthouse Keepers and Their Families
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    121 images (Search Lighthouse Keepers.)
    
• Anti-Catholic Sentiment of Governor Sidney J. Catts
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    16 images (Search Catts.)
    
• Battling the Cold: The Impact of the 1899 and 1989 Freezes on the Citrus Industry
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    7 images (Search citrus freeze.)
    
• Beacons in the War: Confederate and Union Attempts to Control Florida’s Lighthouses
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    568 images (Search lighthouses.)
    
• Bernardo de Gálvez and the Spanish Victory at the 1781 Battle of Pensacola
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    1 image (Search Bernardo de Gálvez.)
    3 images ( Search Pensacola (Fla.) History Siege, 1781.)
    
• Black Men in Blue Coats: African American Soldiers in the Civil War in Florida
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    9 images (Search African American Civil War.)
    11 images (Search 54th Regiment.)
    
• Black Seminoles during the Seminole Wars
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    1 image (Search Black Seminole interpreter.)
    
• Conflict, Compromise - and Betrayal: General Jessup’s False Use of the White Flag of Truce
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    1 image (Search General Thomas Sidney Jessup.)
    
• Conflict and Compromise on the Florida Frontier: The 1763 Treaty of Paris
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    2 images (Search 1763 Treaty of Paris.)
    
• Conflict on the Border: Andrew Jackson and Spanish Florida
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    22 images (Search portrait Andrew Jackson.)
    
• Convict Labor Leasing in Florida
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    37 images (Search convict labor.)
    
• An End to Reconstruction: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    1 image (Search 1876 election)
    
• Environmental Compromise: From Draining the Everglades to Protecting Them
  • Photo Exhibits
    The Everglades in the Time of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
    
• Environmental Compromise: Stopping Construction of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    49 images (Search Cross-Florida Barge Canal)
    260 images (Search Cross Florida Canal)
    
• Florida Teachers’ Strike of 1968
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    2 images (Search teachers walkout.)
    
• Who Owns History? The State of Florida versus Mel Fisher
  • Florida Photographic Collection
    16 images (Search Mel Fisher.)

The list of Florida topics was developed by staff of the Museum of Florida History and the Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State. National History Day assembled the list of national and global topics.