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Hiram D. Williams

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Hiram D. Williams was a painter best known for his powerful, impressionistic figurative images that evoke the spectrum of human emotions ranging from the tragic to the comic. While serving as a faculty member of the University of Florida's art…

Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams, whose name has been synonymous with American Theater almost since the production of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, adopted Key West as his home in the 1940s and lived off and on there for more than 30 years. Williams won many of…

Laura Woodward

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Laura Woodward was Florida's most important nineteenth-century woman artist, one of its greatest publicists, and integral to the development of Palm Beach County. She was born in Mount Hope in Orange County, New York, on March 18, 1834, and by the…

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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In 1983, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music. Today, she is widely acknowledged as one of the most acclaimed American composers, writing largely in the post-modernist, neo-romantic style. A graduate of…

Cooperative

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Guidelines and forms help you apply, submit reports, revise your project, request payments and more.

Adult Literacy and ESOL

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Resources in support of adult literacy and ESOL programs in Florida’s libraries.

Construction

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View ranked applications and funded grants; review guidelines and forms to help apply, report, amend and make payment requests.

Engage

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Download data displays and find information on statewide partnerships.

Order Certificate of Status

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E-File your Certificate of Status.

Office of the Director

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Contacts for programs including the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Art in State Buildings, Poetry Out Loud, and the Florida Poet Laureate.

General Election Surveys

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Federal survey information on general election activity including survey links to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Election Administration and Voting Survey results and historical general election summaries.

Territorial Period

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As a territory of the United States, Florida was particularly attractive to people from the older Southern plantation areas of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who arrived in considerable numbers.

Statehood

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Florida became the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, 1845.

Civil War and Reconstruction

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During the Civil War, Florida was not ravaged as several other southern states were. Indeed, no decisive battles were fought on Florida soil. While Union forces occupied many coastal towns and forts, the interior of the state remained in…

World War II and Post-War Boom

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World War II spurred economic development in Florida. Because of its year-round mild climate, the state became a major training center for soldiers, sailors, and aviators of the United States and its allies.