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On February 15, 1898, scarcely a month after the Royal Palm opened its doors for a second season, the USS Maine, stationed in Havana harbor ostensibly to protect American interests against the incursion of Spanish colonialists, was blown up and sunk. While historians still debate whether or not the catastrophe was a put-up job, “…
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Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Whatever the final count, it is generally agreed that more than half of the thousand or so residents and workers caught on the Matecumbes that day lost their lives.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
blacks “were rather weird creatures dedicated to nonviolence in the midst of a nation as violent as America is, has been, and will be.”
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry. And we would be wrong.
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The response to the Ponce de Leon was so enthusiastic, however, that Flagler was soon at work on a companion hotel nearby, the Alcazar, where he intended that guests of more modest means could experience something of the sybarite’s lifestyle. Flagler and his new wife took a suite at the Ponce de Leon, meanwhile, and announced that Florida was now t
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By the 1880s, Key West had become the center of a thriving cigar-making business, much of it presided over by immigrants from nearby Cuba, fleeing the iron-fisted rule of Spanish colonialists.