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Claude Pepper and Ed Ball

Politics, Purpose, and Power

Tracy E. Danese

A Most Disorderly Court

Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary

Martin A. Dyckman

The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodger L. Tarr, Brent E. Kinser

Mary Edwards Bryan

Her Early Life and Works

Canter Brown Jr., Larry Eugene Rivers

Nurses Among the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee, 1934–1971

Christine Ardalan

Cassadaga

The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community

John J. Guthrie, Jr., Phillip Charles Lucas, Gary Monroe

Florida's Lost Galleon

The Emanuel Point Shipwreck

Roger C. Smith

Voices from Mariel

Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift

José Manuel García

Return to Launch

Florida and America's Space Industry

Stephen C. Smith

The Kite and the Snail

An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World

Hilary Flower

Early Spanish Florida

Unearthing the History of America's Oldest Colony

Judith A. Bense

The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

Michele Wehrwein Albion

An Early Florida Adventure Story

The Fray Andrés de San Miguel Account

John H. Hann, Fray Andrés de San Miguel

The Gideon Case

Inside the Supreme Court's Historic Right to Counsel Decision

Bruce R. Jacob

Rada Photography

Mid-Century Architecture and Culture in South Florida and the Caribbean

Victor Deupi

Southern History Remixed

On Rock ’n’ Roll and the Dilemma of Race

Michael T. Bertrand

For a Great and Grand Purpose

The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905

Canter Brown Jr., Larry E. Rivers

Water from Stone

Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs

Jason O'Donoughue

A Town without Pity

AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South

Jason Vuic

Cow Creek Chronicles

The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch

Gregory Enns

Just Freedom

Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle

Daniel Rivero

State of War

A History of World War II in Florida

Anthony D. Atwood

Motion Picture Paradise

A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry

David Morton

Mission, with a New Preface

An American Congressman's Voyage to Space

Bill Nelson

Fort Mose, Second Edition

Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom

Kathleen Deagan, Darcie MacMahon, Jane Landers

Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810–1968

Robert Cassanello

Al Burt's Florida

Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers

Al Burt

From Rights to Economics

The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South

Timothy J. Minchin

Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

Richard Brust

On a Rising Swell

Surf Stories from Florida's Space Coast

Dan Reiter

Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice

Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century

Janet Allured, M. Kathryn Armistead

Seagull One

The Amazing True Story of Brothers to the Rescue

Lily Prellezo, José Basulto

Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

M. Genevieve West

The First Hollywood

Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking

Shawn C. Bean

Of Slash Pines and Manatees

A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

Andrew Furman

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Volume 1

Judson L. Jeffries

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Volume 2

Judson L. Jeffries

More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Continuing the Struggle

Kent Spriggs

The Wilder Heart of Florida

More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature

Jack E. Davis, Leslie K. Poole

Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers

The Transformation of Florida

John T. Foster, Sarah Whitmer Foster

Missions to the Calusa

John H. Hann, William H. Marquardt

Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World

Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator

Daniel L Schafer

Tears and Flowers

A Poet of Migration in Old Key West

Feliciano Castro, Joy Castro, Rhi Johnson

New Dawn for the Kissimmee River

Orlando to Okeechobee by Kayak

Doug Alderson

Florida Springs

From Geography to Politics and Restoration

Christopher F. Meindl

The Storm

An Antebellum Tale of Key West

Ellen Brown Anderson, Keith L. Huneycutt

Florida Spectacular

Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives

Cathy Salustri

James Hudson

Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights

Larry Omar Rivers

Fighting Shirley Chisholm

James Haskins

The Calusa and Their Legacy

South Florida People and Their Environments

Darcie A. Macmahon, William H. Marquardt

The Letters of George Long Brown

A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

James M. Denham, Keith L. Huneycutt

When Tobacco Was King

Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont

Evan P. Bennett

Selling Vero Beach

Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole

Kristalyn Marie Shefveland

From Saloons to Steak Houses

A History of Tampa

Andrew T. Huse

Tampa Bay

The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Evan P. Bennett

The Enduring Seminoles, Revised and Expanded Edition, with a New Preface

From Alligator Wrestling to Casino Gaming

Patsy West

Dream State, with a New Preface

Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife

Diane Roberts

Florida's Space Coast

The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State

William B. Faherty

Florida's Peace River Frontier

Canter Brown Jr.

Tracing Florida Journeys

Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now

Leslie Kemp Poole

NASA and the American South

Brian C. Odom, Stephen P. Waring

André Michaux in Florida

An Eighteenth-Century Botanical Journey

Walter Kingsley Taylor, Eliane M. Norman

Justice Pursued

The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams

Bruce Horovitz

Travels on the St. Johns River

John Bartram, William Bartram, Thomas Hallock, Richard Franz

How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism

The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks

David J. Nelson

The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida

Patrick W. McClane, Debra A. McClane

Once Upon a Time in Florida

Stories of Life in the Land of Promises

Jacki Levine

Mickey and the Teamsters

A Fight for Fair Unions at Disney

Mike Schneider

Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away

Memories of Early Cuban Exiles

David Powell

Operation Pedro Pan, Revised Edition

The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children

Yvonne M. Conde

Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock

Michael Ray FitzGerald

The Making of Florida’s Universities

Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Carl Van Ness

From Death Row to Freedom

The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case

Phillip A. Hubbart

Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist

Ashley Robertson Preston

Castles in the Sand

The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher

Mark S. Foster

Latino Orlando

Suburban Transformation and Racial Conflict

Simone Delerme

Janet Reno

A Life

Judith Hicks Stiehm

The Allure of Immortality, with a New Preface

An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet

Lyn Millner

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

Forces of Nature

A History of Florida Land Conservation

Clay Henderson

Maximum Vantage

New Selected Columns

Bill Maxwell

America's Fortress

A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida

Thomas Reid

State of Defiance

Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties

Judith G. Poucher

Lost Storytellers

The Information Apocalypse in the Modern Newsroom

John Pendygraft

Key West on the Edge

Inventing the Conch Republic

Robert Kerstein

Reubin O'D. Askew and the Golden Age of Florida Politics

Martin A. Dyckman

The Cuban Sandwich

A History in Layers

Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, Jeff Houck

The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale

A Pioneer Family of New River

Harry A. Kersey

Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children

Deborah Shnookal

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey

A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

Sonya Y. Ramsey

Marge and Julia

The Correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham

Rodger L. Tarr, Brent E. Kinser, Florence M. Turcotte

Sunshine in the Dark

Florida in the Movies

Susan J. Fernandez, Robert P. Ingalls

Dreams in the New Century

Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida’s Turning Point

Gary R. Mormino

Writing for the Public Good

Essays from David R. Colburn and Senator Bob Graham

Steven Noll, David R. Colburn, Senator Bob Graham

Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine

Thomas Graham

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Brian C. Odom, Stephen P. Waring

Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle

Darius J. Young

The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida

Christine Ardalan

Queering the Redneck Riviera

Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism

Jerry T. Watkins III

Indian River Lagoon

An Environmental History

Nathaniel Osborn

A Punkhouse in the Deep South

The Oral History of 309

Aaron Cometbus, Scott Satterwhite

The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat

Austin J. Bell

Maximum Insight

Selected Columns

Bill Maxwell

Florida Scrub-Jay

Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird

Mark Jerome Walters

The Gulf South

An Anthology of Environmental Writing

Tori Bush, Richard Goodman

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Conquest of Florida

A New Manuscript

Gonzalo Solís de Merás, David Arbesú

Come to My Sunland

Letters of Julia Daniels Moseley from the Florida Frontier, 1882-1886

Julia Winifred Moseley, Betty Powers Crislip

Tampa

Impressions of an Emigrant

Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte, Noel M. Smith, Noel M. Smith, Andrew T. Huse

Chesterfield Smith, America's Lawyer

Mary E. Adkins

Florida's Healing Waters

Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas

Rick Kilby

Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Governing on the Wrong Side of History

Gary R. Mormino

Seeking the American Tropics

South Florida's Early Naturalists

James A. Kushlan

The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno

Miami's Trailblazing Journalist

George Hurchalla

The Governors of Florida

R. Boyd Murphree, Robert A. Taylor

This Day in Florida History

Andrew K. Frank, J. Hendry Miller, Tarah Luke

The Changing South of Gene Patterson

Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968

Roy Peter Clark, Raymond Arsenault

Sunshine Paradise

A History of Florida Tourism

Tracy J. Revels

Yamato Colony

The Pioneers Who Brought Japan to Florida

Ryusuke Kawai, John Gregersen, Reiko Nishioka

Deadly Virtue

Fort Caroline and the Early Protestant Roots of American Whiteness

Heather Martel

The Modern Republican Party in Florida

Peter Dunbar, Mike Haridopolos

The Rosewood Massacre

An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence

Edward González-Tennant

The Mariel Boatlift

A Cuban-American Journey

Victor Andres Triay

Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World

Cher Krause Knight

Jacksonville

The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars

James B. Crooks

Florida and the 2016 Election of Donald J. Trump

Matthew T. Corrigan, Michael Binder

University Press of Florida
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