The Matheson History Museum will host “Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and Steamboats too!): Florida Transportation History” presented by Dr. Steve Noll on Wednesday, Sept. 17.

The free event will take place at 7p.m. at 513 E University Ave. Click here for in-person registration.

Noll’s presentation covers the decades of development and infrastructure of Florida’s transportation industry, as well as its intersections with contemporary issues affecting the state. This program is a partnership between Florida Humanities and the Matheson History Museum as part of Florida Humanities’ Florida Talks program.

Noll, an instructional professor in the University of Florida’s history department, taught in the public schools of Alachua County for 28 years before moving full-time to UF in 2004. He has written on both Florida history and disability history and has presented around the state for Florida Humanities. In 2013, the Princeton Review named Noll one of the 300 best professors in the U.S. and, in 2025, he was named undergraduate teacher of the year for the UF history department for the fourth time.