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Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal,or God's Protecting Providence: An Early American Castaway Narrative

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Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal,or God's Protecting Providence: An Early American Castaway Narrative

First published in 1699, “Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal” is a firsthand account of the 1696 wreck of the ship Reformation, the castaway’s journey up the east coast of Florida, and their encounters with the Indigenous people living there. This narrative has become a valuable resource for historians, archaeologists, ethnographers, and literary scholars. Edited with a fresh perspective, this book also includes previously unpublished, recently discovered material from 1696, that predates the familiar version of this important work.

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Dispatches from Beluthahatchee

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Dispatches from Beluthahatchee

Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011) was a life-long activist for social justice, environmental stewardship, and the preservation of traditional cultures. He wrote six published books, contributed to dozens of other volumes, and composed thousands of articles as a journalist and freelance essayist. Stetson used acerbic prose, down-home Southern humor, double entendre, and colorful idioms to engage his readers and to skewer those who would malign or exploit others.

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The Spanish Seminole: The Untold History of the Spanish Indians as Shared by a Descendant

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The Spanish Seminole: The Untold History of the Spanish Indians as Shared by a Descendant

In the 1700s, as Florida’s Indigenous tribes were displaced, the forebears of the Miccosukee and Seminole descended along the southwestern Gulf Coast. They soon began working with Hispanic and Indigenous fishermen from various Spanish colonies, who had seasonal operations along the barrier islands.

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Discovering A.S.J. Allen:  A Story of Skinfolk, Kinfolk, and Village Folk

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Discovering A.S.J. Allen:  A Story of Skinfolk, Kinfolk, and Village Folk

2023  Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award Winner

Growing up, Alonzo Felder heard just a few stories about his great-grandfather A.S.J. Allen. In this book the author shares his process, providing guidance to others seeking to discover the stories of their ancestors. The Rev. A.S.J. Allen was a respected African American community leader in Alachua County, Florida. In 1904, he was killed by a white neighbor over a property border dispute. In the Jim Crow era, the white neighbor faced no consequences for his actions.

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The Biography of John Wayne Mixson: Florida’s 39th Governor

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The Biography of John Wayne Mixson: Florida’s 39th Governor

2022 Samuel Proctor Award Winner

John Wayne Mixson served as a Florida state representative, Florida lieutenant governor, and briefly as the 39th governor of Florida. The results of his work while filling these roles continue to positively impact the state of Florida and its citizens.

Author Sid Riley was a political columnist, managing editor, and part owner of The Jackson County Times newspaper. For this book, Riley conducted extensive oral history interviews with John Wayne Mixson, and his wife Margie Mixson.

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An Englishman in the Seminole War: A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose

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An Englishman in the Seminole War: A Memoir Based Upon the Letters of John Bemrose

John Bemrose came to America from England as an unaccompanied 16-year-old in 1831. He served in the US Army as a dedicated hospital steward during the Second Seminole War. This exciting memoir, available to the public for the first time, provides valuable new insights into Florida history and culture from An Englishman in the Seminole War.

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Mastodons, Mansions and Antebellum Ghosts: A Sketchbook of Voices Rising Up From Florida's Red Hills

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Mastodons, Mansions and Antebellum Ghosts: A Sketchbook of Voices Rising Up From Florida's Red Hills

This fascinating “sketchbook” of Florida history and culture focuses on the rural Red Hills of north Florida. Comprised of what is now Madison, Jefferson, and Leon counties, this region is home to a rich heritage that includes prehistoric people and megafauna, Native Americans, Spanish settlers, British soldiers, and Southern Plantations dependent upon the work of enslaved people. Celt and African traditions became incorporated into the Southern folklore of the area, including colorful traditions and ghost stories.

 

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I Mean You No Harm

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I Mean You No Harm

"I Mean You No Harm" is the third book in the Kissimmee Valley Trilogy. Each book in the series is enjoyable by itself. Together, the connected stories follow some of the same characters through a century of Florida history.

In this conclusion to the Kissimmee Valley Trilogy we learn more about the mysterious Native American mentor of young Rawlerson family men. We follow the Indian with no name on his journey of self-discovery as he walks throughout the state, witnessing dramatic changes.

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What We Have Endured: A Novel of the Seminole War

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What We Have Endured: A Novel of the Seminole War

What We Have Endured tells the story of the Seminole Wars through the eyes of Aheedja, a Seminole woman who suffers through nearly a half-century of brutal warfare, forced displacement, and painful deprivation. Determined to remain in the land of their birth, she and her people struggle against the unforgiving Florida climate and the overwhelming military might of the United States government. Written by noted Seminole War historians and a senior tribal member, What We Have Endured faithfully follows the history of America's longest and costliest war against a Native American nation. Although Aheedja is a fictional character, the sufferings depicted are typical of what many Seminole people experienced at the hands of a nation determined to drive them from their homes and destroy their way of life.

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Brim of Panther Clan

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Brim of Panther Clan

Popular beliefs about the Seminole Indians relegate them to a short one or two centuries in Florida, but the reality is much more complex - and much more fascinating. In research that has never before been accomplished - or even attempted, the author has traced nearly four centuries of the lives and adventures of one Indian leader, whom the English dubbed the "Emperor Brim," and his Panther Clan lineage, all the way to their present-day equity in Florida and the lower Southeast, as citizens of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Dr. Patricia Riles Wickman has used her intimate knowledge of the people and their story, gained over two decades of living and working with them, to connect the stories and highlight their involvement with the land that the Europeans called "Florida."

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Don't Tell: The Secrets of Pinehurst Seminary

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Don't Tell: The Secrets of Pinehurst Seminary

2020 James J. Horgan Book Award Winner

Eleven-year-old Henry's life in Jacksonville, Florida is suddenly changed when his step mother convinces his father to send him and his sister Ruth to a boarding school in neighboring St. Johns County. The siblings quickly learn that their circumstances, and their new home, are not at all what they imagined. Henry struggles to stay out of trouble and avoid the wicked headmistress, Miss Gertrude, and her heavy-handed punishments. Henry learns a lot about himself, and how to survive in difficult situations.

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Calling Yankees to Florida: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Tourist Articles - Second Edition

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Calling Yankees to Florida: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Tourist Articles - Second Edition

With the publication of her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe became the most famous writer in America. Often overlooked is the fact that Harriet Beecher Stowe was also one of the first and greatest proponents of Florida as a popular tourist destination. In 1873, some of Stowe's descriptive and colorful "tourist articles" were published in the book Palmetto-Leaves. The book contains fascinating vignettes of Florida life not included in Palmetto-L eaves, with insightful commentary by John Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster. This new edition features Stowe's meeting with Mary Richards, a famous African American spy, and an introduction by the nationally known novelist Lois Leveen.

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Have You Not Hard of Floryda?: The Origins of American Multiculturalism in Florida's Colonial Literature, 1513-1821

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Have You Not Hard of Floryda?: The Origins of American Multiculturalism in Florida's Colonial Literature, 1513-1821

"In the first comprehensive examination of Florida’s remarkably rich library of colonial literature, Have You Not Hard of Floryda? explores how our southernmost state’s multicultural, multilingual roots continue to bear fruit today. The book’s fascinating interdisciplinary approach and delightful prose style create a savory blend of literary analysis and historical narrative, a true feast for anyone interested in the ways our past can shape our future." -- Eddie Huang

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Canaveral Light

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Canaveral Light

Canaveral Light is an explosive novel about the struggle of early Florida pioneers to live in harmony with the land and its native people.  Winner of the Patrick Smith book award from the Florida Historical Society.

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At The Dawn of Tourism in Florida: Abolitionists, Print Media, and Images of Early Vacationers

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At The Dawn of Tourism in Florida: Abolitionists, Print Media, and Images of Early Vacationers

John T. Foster Jr. makes a compelling argument that the birth of tourism in Florida did not begin with the railroad barons of the 1880s as is popularly believed, but with abolitionist writers of the Reconstruction era, following the C ivil War. Progressive Northerners were lured to the state with colorful descriptions of desirable weather and abundant natural beauty. It was with these forward-thinking writers that Modern Florida was born.

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The Flemings of Fleming Island: An Historic Florida Family

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The Flemings of Fleming Island: An Historic Florida Family

Irishman George Fleming arrived in Spanish East Florida in 1783. He established Hibernia on an island in the St. Johns River that is known today as Fleming Island. Hibernia became home to George's children and grandchildren, and in the course of over two hundred years, seven generations of the Fleming family have called it home. Among his descendants are Southern planters, soldiers, and statesmen--most notably Francis Philip Fleming, the fifteenth governor of Florida. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Fleming family transformed Hibernia into a winter hotel that became a celebrated destination in the early days of Florida tourism and into the twentieth century. Today, Hibernia is a small residential enclave where a few remnants of the Fleming family's rich history still stand to remind us of days gone by.

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Her Life and Legacy

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Her Life and Legacy

This book is easy and interesting reading. It presents the life and legacy of the late Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune holistically and concludes with testimonies from living witnesses. The author narrates Dr. Bethune's early years and documents how developments in those years influenced her later accomplishments. Permeating Dr. Bethune's spectacular career is a philosophy based on deep religious convictions and held that work was honorable, no matter how menial the task. - Dr. Oswald P. Bronson President of Bethune-Cookman College, July 19, 2004

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Old Tales of the Forgotten South in a Georgia - Florida Swamp: Paddling Okefenokee

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Old Tales of the Forgotten South in a Georgia - Florida Swamp: Paddling Okefenokee

This book will give you an appreciation for a delicate ecosystem to rival any wetland in the world! Ancient Indians, Seminoles, pioneers, soldiers, hunters/trappers, entrepreneurs, writers, exp lorers, scientists, artists, and musicians were all drawn here and are part of this historical tapestry. The work will also prove useful as a paddler's companion.

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Too Much Is Not Enough: The History In Harriett's Closet

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Too Much Is Not Enough: The History In Harriett's Closet

2019 David C. Brotemarkle Book Award Winner

This book delves into the life and legendary closet of Orlando fashion icon and philanthropist Harriett Lake (1922-2018). Through personal and vintage photos, lush photography exemplifying Harriett's signature styles, and quotes from the brassy, big-hearted grand dame herself, you will be awed by the magnitude of her wardrobe and magnanimity of this exceptional woman. This unique fashion biography begins with Harriett's childhood during the Great Depression, follows her service as a Marine during World War II, her flight from heartbreak to Miami Beach, and subsequent marriage. Harriett and her husband acquired wealth (and a closet full of jaw-dropping fashion) in Central Florida, thanks to the Disney World triggered 1960s real estate boom.

Stunningly illustrated with more than 800 impeccable photographs illustrating her 96 year life and highlighting over 200 of her favorite and most popular looks, the authors explain the connections between Harriett's life experiences and her fashion choices. Harriett oversaw the photo shoots herself, and expertly styled every look.

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Florida's Golden Age 1880-1930: The Rollins College Colloquy

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Florida's Golden Age 1880-1930: The Rollins College Colloquy

How did Florida, one of the country’s four smallest and least developed states in 1880, become within fifty years not only a tourist mecca but also a hub for technological innovation?

To explore this remarkable Golden Age, Rollins College brought together a wide variety of scholars and artists – historians and poets, biologists and environmental scientists, philosophers and literary critics – to help shine light on a period that, despite its challenges and failures, transformed the Sunshine State.  This volume brings together their insights as we all continue reflecting on our post, our present, and our future.

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Forcing Change

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Forcing Change

2018 James J. Horgan Book Award Winner

It is June 1963 and fifteen-year-old Margaret Jefferson is being arrested at a sit-in at a lunch counter in St. Augustine. The Civil Rights Movement has found its way into her hometown, and Maggie feels a deep need to be a part of it. She believes in the ideals of the movement and the ultimate goal of equality. She also finds the nonviolence that the protestors are committed to very comforting.

However, as the summer and fall of 1963 unfold in St. Augustine, their nonviolent protests are met with rising resistance, aggression, and intimidation from local government officials as well as the Ku Klux Klan. Cattle prods used on protestors, firebombs thrown into the homes of families trying to integrate the schools, teenagers held in jail indefinitely. No one is safe, it seems.

This story, told through Maggie's innocent and hopeful eyes, will help a new generation of young people to understand the strength and sacrifices of those who worked so hard for civil rights in this country. It will also help to shine the spotlight on the role that St. Augustine, and Florida, had in the movement.

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Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore America's First Civil Rights Martyr

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Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore America's First Civil Rights Martyr

On Christmas night, 1951, a bomb exploded in Mims, Florida, under the home of civil rights activist and educator Harry T. Moore.

Harry and his wife Harriette both died from injuries sustained in the blast, making them the first martyrs of the contemporary civil rights movement. They were killed twelve years before Medgar Evers, fourteen years before Malcolm X, and seventeen years before Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sound of the bomb could be heard three miles away in the neighboring town of Titusville, but what resonates today is the memory of the important civil rights work accomplished by Moore.

This new edition of Ben Green's comprehensive biography of Harry T. Moore includes updated material about the investigations into the bombing, and additional photographs commemorating Moore's legacy.

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The Frank Thomas Florida Songbook

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The Frank Thomas Florida Songbook

2018 David C. Brotemarkle Book Award Winner

Frank Thomas writes and performs songs about the history, people, and places of Florida. Songs such as Old Cracker Cowman, The Flatwoods of Home, Spanish Gold have earned him a loyal following. In 2013, Thomas was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

This songbook, which features lyrics and chords, is the only printed collection of songs by the legendary Frank Thomas. There are more than 80 songs in this collection, with introductions by Frank Thomas, Ann Thomas, and Lisa Thomas.

Thomas' Florida roots run deep. His family has lived here since the late 1700s, participating in the Seminole Indian Wars and the Civil War. When Frank Thomas returned to the Sunshine State in the 1970s, he met Florida Troubadour Will McLean, who encouraged him to write songs about Florida. Thomas joined other folk musicians such as Gamble Rogers, Paul Champion, and Bobby Drawdy in their efforts to preserve Florida stories in song.

Thomas has gained a reputation for strongly encouraging other performers to write songs about Florida history and culture. He performs regularly at the Florida Folk Festival each Memorial Day weekend, and at venues throughout the state.

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The Army Is My Calling: The Life and Writings of Major John Rogers Vinton 1801-1847

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The Army Is My Calling: The Life and Writings of Major John Rogers Vinton 1801-1847

The military career of John Rogers Vinton spanned three decades of American conflict and expansion, from the War of 1812 to the War with Mexico. Entering West Point at the age of twelve, he went on to serve in sensitive positions in the War Department, survived six years of service in Florida during the Second Seminole War, and gave his life in the siege of Veracruz.

Yet John Rogers Vinton was more than a career army officer. A committed Christian, he longed to enter the ministry, but circumstances prevented it. A member of one of Rhode Island’s leading families, he suffered through the agony of being an absent single parent while fighting the Indians of Florida. He is also remembered for his life-like and vivid artwork, much of it detailing the Florida frontier and his Seminole adversaries.

Working from an extensive collection of military journals and family correspondence, award-winning historians John and Mary Lou Missall open a fascinating window into the life of a dedicated soldier, gifted artist, and devoted family man

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Bound to Die

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Bound to Die

Bound to Die is the true crime story of Florida serial killer Bobby Joe Long. In 1984 Long was convicted of the heinous murders of nine women in Florida's Tampa Bay area. The first body of 19 year old disco dancer Lana Long was found in a field on Mother's Day. Six months later, the bloody rampage ended when the ninth victim was discovered. All had been tortured with rapes and savagely beaten and raped. The killer's confession of his crimes is haunting. The vividly rendered results of his historical trials and appeals are equally shocking.

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Doris Leeper: Legacy of a Visionary

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Doris Leeper: Legacy of a Visionary

Doris Leeper was a visionary artist and environmentalist. She was instrumental in the creation of the Canaveral National Seashore, established Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, and was a celebrated sculptor and painter. Doris Leeper died in 2000, one year after being inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

This book includes remembrances from people who knew her, worked with her to help realize her goals, and were inspired by her passion. Together, these essays, articles and anecdotes paint a fascinating portrait of Doris Leeper, and describe her outstanding contributions to Florida, and the world.

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Handfuls of History: Stories about Florida's Past

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Handfuls of History: Stories about Florida's Past

Dr. Jerald T. Milanich is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, and one of the most respected historical archaeologists in the state.

In this book, Handfuls of History: Stories About Florida’s Past, Dr. Milanich discusses pre-Columbian Florida, Colonial Period people and events, and the nineteenth century shipwreck of the steamship City of Vera Cruz.

Dr. Milanich explores the origins of archaeology in Florida with Clarence B. Moore, and offers advice to future archaeologists.  He may even stir up some controversy as he questions the authenticity of the Miami Circle.

Written in an engaging and conversational style, Handfuls of History: Stories about Florida’s Past is accessible to the general public as well as professional historians and archaeologists.

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Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy

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Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy

Stetson Kennedy was born in Jacksonville on October 5, 1916. From 1937 to 1942, Kennedy traveled the cities, towns, and rural backwoods of Florida documenting the cultural heritage of the state's diverse populations for the WPA's Florida Writer's Project. Kennedy later infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, exposing their secrets. He was an activist for positive social change, working to make life better for all Floridians until his death on August 27, 2011. This book is the first comprehensive look at the life and work of author, activist, folklorist, investigative journalist, and oral historian Stetson Kennedy.

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Andrew Jackson in Florida

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Andrew Jackson in Florida

Andrew Jackson is one of the most controversial figures in Florida history. He invaded Pensacola, the capital of Spanish-controlled Florida, during the War of 1812. He was commander of military operations during the First Seminole War, and his Indian Removal policies sparked the Second Seminole War. He briefly served as the first territorial governor of Florida.

No other person is more closely associated with the "Americanization" of Florida and its transformation from Spanish borderland to Deep South frontier. Jackson's military expeditions ended both Spanish and Native American control over Florida's Big Bend and Panhandle areas. From his own time to the present, opinion is divided on whether he deserves praise or condemnation for his actions.

This book includes scholarly perspectives previously published in the, Florida Historical Quarterly important primary source documents from Jackson's time, and new original analysis from contemporary scholars reflecting upon Jackson's legacy.

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Black Cloud: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

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Black Cloud: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928

The deadly hurricane of 1928 claimed 2,500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion. Among the dead were 700 black Floridians - men, women, and children who were buried in an unmarked West Palm Beach ditch during a racist recovery and rebuilding effort that conscripted the labor of blacks much like latter-day slaves. Palm Beach Post reporter Eliot Kleinberg has penned this gripping tale from dozens of interviews with survivors, diary entries, accounts from newspapers, government documents, and reports from the National Weather Service and the Red Cross. Immortalized in Zora Neale Hurston's classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, thousands of poor blacks had nowhere to run when the waters of Lake Okeechobee rose. No one spoke for them, no one stood up for them, and no one could save them. With heroic tales of survival and loss, this book finally gives the dead the dignity they deserve. The new, updated edition of this important book is published by the Florida Historical Society Press.

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Hannibal Square Heritage Collection, The: Photographs and Oral Histories

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Hannibal Square Heritage Collection, The: Photographs and Oral Histories

2017 Samuel Proctor Award Winner 

The historic photographs published in this book are part of the permanent collection and display at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center, located in Winter Park, Florida, USA. The center is a program of Crealdé School of Art and is operated in partnership with the City of Winter Park. The Heritage Center was established in 2007 as a tribute to the past, present and future of Winter Park's African American community. It is a unique cultural facility that celebrates community heritage through documentary photography and public art. Crealde School of Art is a forty year old, widely recognized visual arts school, offering an educational curriculum of over 100 courses for students of all ages and backgrounds, three galleries, and an award winning outreach program that brings arts and humanities to many underserved communities throughout Central Florida. Its mission is based on the belief that the arts are for everyone; every individual has a story worth telling and something creative to contribute, making a positive impact on family and community life.

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The Florida Adventures of Amos J. Cummings 1873-1893

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The Florida Adventures of Amos J. Cummings 1873-1893

Beginning in 1873, the mysterious adventurer "Ziska" wrote newspaper articles about the exciting frontier wilderness of Florida for his readers in New York City. Florida was largely untamed region with many colorful characters, while New York City was on the cutting edge of innovation with a subway, telephone service, and newspaper readers fascinated by Ziska's exploits in the wild "land of flowers."

For more than a century, Ziska's writings were forgotten and undisturbed in the New York Public Library. When eminent Florida archaeologist Jerald T. Milanich discovered the articles, he was determined to find out more about their mysterious author.

Ziska turns out to be the pen name of Civil War hero, journalist, Tammany boss, and U.S. Congressman Amos J. Cummings. In this book, Milanich reintroduces readers to the exciting stories of Cummings as he explores the young state of Florida.

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Elizabeth's War: A Novel of the First Seminole War

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Elizabeth's War: A Novel of the First Seminole War

2016 Patrick D. Smith Award Winner

Elizabeth's War by John and Mary Lou Missall is a work of fiction based on actual people and situations. At the end of the book, the authors separate fact from fiction and identify their sources. As writers and historians who specialize in the Seminole Wars, John and Mary Lou Missall are particularly qualified to engage in the educated supposition required to "in the blanks" the historical record. This book is a prequel to the Missall's book Hollow Victory: A Novel of the Second Seminole War, which is also published by FHS Press.

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Florida Boy

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Florida Boy

Florida Boy is the prequel to the award winning novel The Trouble With Panthers by William Culyer Hall. The Rawlerson family first settlesin south central Florida in the late nineteenth century. Pioneer life is very difficult but the family perseveres in this gripping story.

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In No Ways Tired: The NAACP's Struggle to Integrate the Duval County Public School System

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In No Ways Tired: The NAACP's Struggle to Integrate the Duval County Public School System

2016 Stetson Kennedy Award Winner

Abel Bartley's new book In No Ways Tired is both the unique story of a particular Florida community's struggle with the integration of public schools, and a reflection of similar experiences throughout the South there desegregation "with all deliberate speed" took decades to achieve.

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Floridanos, Menorcans, Cattle-Whip Crackers: Poetry of St. Augustine

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Floridanos, Menorcans, Cattle-Whip Crackers: Poetry of St. Augustine

Poetry from this collection has been published in anthologies and journals, read at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Annual Conference and Florida Literary Arts Coalition Conferences, recognized at the Florida Folk Festival, and recorded for the Florida State Historical Archives.

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French Florida

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French Florida

Presented in this volume is the first English translation of French historian Charles de La Roncière's Floride Française: Scénes de la Vie Indienne (1928): a fascinating narrative history of the first French settlements along with hand-colored reproductions of Dutch engraver Theodore de Bry's famous images of Indian life based on pictures by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues.

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Searching Sand and Surf: The Origins of Archaeology in Florida

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Searching Sand and Surf: The Origins of Archaeology in Florida

Archaeology as a discipline is well established in Florida, but that wasn.t always the case. Travel back to when archaeological sites were curiosities on the landscape and speculation as to their origins thrived. Searching Sand and Surf explores the roots of modern archaeology in the state, as seen through articles published in the Florida Historical Quarterly. Witness the evolution of contemporary archaeology in Florida and trace the development of the discipline through some of its most influential voices.

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Reflections from ZORA!

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Reflections from ZORA! Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities

Established in 1887, the town of Eatonville, Florida, is the oldest incorporated African American municipality in the United States. Writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and .30s, claimed Eatonville as her hometown. Since 1990, the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community (P.E.C.) has presented the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. This book features selected presentations made at the festival over the past quarter century, and other reflections from this important cultural event.

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Recovering Moments In Time

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Recovering Moments In Time

For more than two decades, artist Jackson Walker has created realistic paintings depicting scenes from Florida history. With painstaking attention to detail, the artist paints both expected and surprising scenes from Florida.s past. Always consulting with historians and other experts when approaching his work, Jackson Walker provides the viewer a unique glimpse into Florida.s past. This full-color 11. x 8.5. book is a wonderful representation of Jackson Walker.s important Florida paintings.

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Mosquito Soup

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Mosquito Soup

Weona Cleveland was a journalist for more than 30 years at the Melbourne Times and later Florida Today newspaper. Her articles about local history and culture earned her a dedicated audience of readers. In 2006, the Brevard County Commissioners named her Honorary County Historian. This book is a collection of some of Weona Cleveland's best articles about pioneer life in Brevard, Osceola, Orange and Indian River counties, including stories from Haulover Canal, Cape Canaveral, Bovine and Rockledge.

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Reparation - a novel

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Reparation - a novel

Racial injustices of the past catch up to the present in this exciting and suspenseful novel set in rural North Florida. As innocent four-year-olds in the late 1940s, Katie, who is white, and Delia, an African American girl, become best friends despite societal pressures against them. In 1960, when the girls are sixteen, Katie abandons her childhood friend when she is needed most. In 2006, Katie is working to earn Delia.s forgiveness as danger surrounds the women's reunion.

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Florida & Caribbean Native People Paintings

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Florida & Caribbean Native People Paintings

For more than ten thousand years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas and Juan Ponce de León gave La Florida its name, there were thriving, complex societies of indigenous people living here. The land that would become the state of Florida was home to powerful, innovative tribes including the Timucua, the Apalachee, the Tocobaga, the Calusa, the Ais, and later the Seminole. The fascinating Taíno people populated the Caribbean.

Theodore Morris is known as the preeminent painter of Florida's indigenous people, and he now adds Caribbean culture to his repertoire. His artwork graces the covers of academic books and fills the walls of historical museums and art galleries throughout the state. In this book, Florida & Caribbean Native People: Paintings by Theodore Morris, the artist's own commentary on his work is augmented by the insights of some of Florida's leading archaeologists including Steven H. Koski, Keith Ashley, Bonnie G. McEwan, Brent R. Weisman, Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert S. Carr, Ann S. Cordell, and James P. Pepe.

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The Voyages of Ponce de León: Scholarly Perspectives

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The Voyages of Ponce de León: Scholarly Perspectives

The voyages of Juan Ponce de León and his expeditions in Florida have long held a romantic and mythic place in American history. Speculation about his first landing in Florida, about the legend of the Fountain of Youth, and about Ponce de León.s reasons for setting sail to Florida have engaged chroniclers, historians, and even sailing masters for five centuries. In this volume, the Florida Historical Society has assembled articles by leading scholars who offer their perspectives on the voyages and trace changing views on Ponce de León as historians discover new information and reevaluate older works. This collection includes both new work and articles previously published in the FHS academic journal the Florida Historical Quarterly. The contributors include Eugene Lyon with Brandon Josef Szinável, J. Michael Francis, Jerald Milanich, Nara Milanich, T. Frederick Davis, Douglas T. Peck, and Amanda J. Snyder.

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Walkin' Lawton

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Walkin' Lawton

2013 Samuel Proctor Award Winner

Lawton Chiles was one of the most inspirational and influential politicians to come from Florida. His unique campaign style and passion for improving people.s lives established a legacy that deserves recognition today. John Dos Passos Coggin conducted more than one hundred interviews with the friends, family, and co-workers of Lawton Chiles to create this definitive biography. Coggin.s insightful writing based on extensive research illuminates both the political career and personal life of the fascinating Lawton Chiles. The Florida Historical Society Press is proud to publish this important work.

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Price:$12.47

Canoeing and Camping on the Historic Suwannee River: A Paddler's Guide

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Canoeing and Camping on the Historic Suwannee River: A Paddler's Guide

This practical river guidebook includes useful tips from an experienced outdoorsman on canoeing, camping, and cooking upon the legendary Suwannee River. Informative sectional maps will assist paddlers in planning day trips or long excursions. Significant historical and cultural locations along the river are designated, and specific directions on how to visit such sites are provided. This useful paddler.s guide begins in the Okefenokee Swamp and concludes at the Gulf of Mexico.

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Price:$24.95

Life and Death at Windover, Excavations of a 7000 year old Pond Cemetary

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Life and Death at Windover, Excavations of a 7000 year old Pond Cemetary

In 1982, a backhoe operator working at what would become the new Windover Farms housing development in Titusville, Florida, uncovered a human skull. The bones of several other individuals soon emerged from the peat bog. It would be determined that the human remains uncovered at Windover were between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, making them 3,200 years older than King Tutankhamen and 2,000 years older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. This was just the beginning of an archaeological adventure that continues today.

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Price:$19.95

The Florida Slave: Interviews with Ex-Slaves WPA Writers Project, 1930s and Testimony of Ex-Slaves Joint Congressional Committee Jacksonville, 1871

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The Florida Slave: Interviews with Ex-Slaves WPA Writers Project, 1930s and Testimony of Ex-Slaves Joint Congressional Committee Jacksonville, 1871

2012 Samuel Proctor Award Winner

"In the writings of Stetson Kennedy, education and social action are constantly joined. Generations of human rights advocates have used Stetson's investigative reporting and research to improve the conditions of agricultural workers, women, Latinos, and many others. Stetson Kennedy's pursuit of honesty, social equality, and freedom was unparalleled. He told the stories of America's forgotten people."
Dr. Paul Ortiz, Director Samuel Proctor Oral History Program University of Florida

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Chasing Bones: An Archaeologist's Pursuit of Skeletons

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Chasing Bones: An Archaeologist's Pursuit of Skeletons

In January 2001, Rachel Wentz walked away from a career as a firefighter/paramedic in Orlando to pursue a PhD in anthropology, specializing in the analysis of human remains. Her studies at Florida State University focused on ancient skeletons from the Windover site, but took her into the darker world of forensics and beyond. Travel with Dr. Wentz to the famed museums of London, Paris, and Italy, the fragrant landscapes of Ukraine, the beautiful shores of the Caribbean, and back to Florida. This engaging and fast-paced memoir provides the reader a first-hand glimpse into the fascinating world of bioarchaeology, where skeletons hold the clues to past lives and the ancient civilizations from which they came.

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Florida's Freedom Struggle: The Black Experience from Colonial Time to the New Millennium

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Florida's Freedom Struggle: The Black Experience from Colonial Time to the New Millennium

2011 Stetson Kennedy Award Winner

Dr. Winsboro's works bring into focus one of the most disturbing yet vital issues in Florida history. To get an idea of the breadth and dimension of the race problem in Florida's complex and long history, one needs only to read this collection of important essays and accompanying analysis by Dr. Winsboro. From this collection, the reader will find an amazing transformation in attitudes and academic research of this issue. For this wide and fresh perspective, we must give a hearty thanks to Dr. Winsboro and the Florida Historical Society Press. -Dr. Joe Knetsch, Historian and Author, Tallahassee, Florida

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Price:$24.95

Hollow Victory: A Novel of the Second Seminole War

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Hollow Victory: A Novel of the Second Seminole War

2012 Patrick D. Smith Award

The year is 1835 and the Florida Territory is on the verge of a major war. President Andrew Jackson has ordered the Seminole Indians to abandon their homes and move to a reservation west of the Mississippi. Called into action is Col. William Wooster, a career officer who understands that removing the Seminoles will be a long and arduous task. Standing against the colonel is Kachi-Hadjo, a determined Seminole leader who wages a desperate seven-year conflict to remain on his native soil and protect his people’s way of life. Both men fight the merciless climate, growing frustrations, and each other, both hoping the next battle will yield something more than a hollow victory.
Written by Seminole War historians with a deep understanding of this little known conflict, Hollow Victory takes the reader through one of the darkest chapters in American history, through a long and brutal war that left a lasting mark on Florida and has surprising similarities to the conflicts we wage today.

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Price:$19.95

Conservation In Florida: Its History and Heroes

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Conservation In Florida: Its History and Heroes

Gary White has provided us with a fascinating general history of Florida's environmental movement from Bartram to Nat Reed. Part environmental, and part conservation history, this book is both interesting and informative. White lends a journalistic flair to his subject and the reader will be rewarded with a brisk, entertaining, and well-written history. --   James M. Denham, director of the Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History   at Florida Southern College in Lakeland

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Price:$19.95

Henry Plant: Pioneer Empire Builder

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Henry Plant: Pioneer Empire Builder

“This is a must read for every railroad buff. It adds to the literature on Henry Bradley Plant and the machinations of late 19th century transportation barons. Plant led an interesting life—as a Confederate and a Yankee—juggling the demands for business success with an ever-changing political milieu. Plant’s achievements rivaled those of Henry Flagler in making modern Florida.” - Nick Wynne, The Florida Historical Society

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Price:$19.95

Florida's Maritime Heritage: The Sketchbook of Philip Ayer Sawyer 1938

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Florida's Maritime Heritage: The Sketchbook of Philip Ayer Sawyer 1938

This is intended to be a faithful reproduction of the original, with background information added as a Introduction and to accompany some of the sketches. Sawyer's expectation was that his drawings should eventually illustrate a manuscript which would describe the maritime history of Florida. In a small way it is hoped this book, in his memory and seventy-five years later, may that purpose.

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Price:$29.95

Florida's Frontier: The Way Hit Wuz

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Florida's Frontier: The Way Hit Wuz

"The Way Hit Wuz" is a novel about Florida's history similiar to Patrick Smith's book "A Land Remembered". Recently reprinted 2010 with new cover. 

As a Mizell family descendant who married and had children with a Barber, author Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearhart has a personal interest in the infamous Barber-Mizell Family Feud. Florida’s Frontier: The Way Hit Wuz is written as a compelling, action-filled novel set between 1841 and 1870, but is firmly based in historical fact. In addition to offering descriptions of pioneer life in Florida from running cattle, to making soap, to cane grinding, the author provides insight about the Spanish colonization of Florida, the Seminole Indian Wars, the Civil War, and other topics

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The Trouble With Panthers

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The Trouble With Panthers

2011 Patrick D. Smith Award

“The trouble with panthers is they can’t change. With the whole world changin round it, old panther got no choice but to go on bein a panther. It can’t reason like you and me -- can’t decide to earn its livin a little differently.”

Central Florida, November 2004. Upon hearing this admonition from his dying grandfather, young cowman, Bodie Rawlerson, doesn’t hesitate to promise the old man that he won’t be like the panther. Though he hates change, fears it more than anything else, he vows to do whatever necessary to carry on the family legacy of raising cattle on the land he so dearly loves. But unbeknownst to Bodie, forces are already in motion to render his promise impossible to keep. Within days of his grandfather’s passing, these forces of human (and inhuman) nature will convince him that nothing lasts forever, that change is life’s only certainty -- that time and chance do indeed rule us all.

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Price:$19.95

Palmetto Country

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Palmetto Country

Stetson Kennedy collected folklore and oral histories throughout Florida for the WPA between 1937 and 1942. The result was this classic Florida book, back in print for the first time in more than twenty years with an Afterword update and dozens of historic photographs never before published with this work. Alan Lomax said, "I doubt very much that a better book about Florida folklife will ever be written."

“I don't know of any book on my whole shelf that hits me any harder than Palmetto Country. It gives me a better trip and taste and look and feel for Florida than I got in the forty-seven states I've actually been in body and tramped in boot. If only, and if only, all our library books could say what [Kennedy does]—the jokes and songs and old ballads about voodoo and the hoodoo and the bigly winds down in your neck of the woodvine.”  --Woody Guthrie Folk Musician and singer-songwriter, This Land is Your Land

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Price:$29.95

DeLuna: Founder of North America's First Colony

Title:
DeLuna: Founder of North America's First Colony

"Pensacola author John Appleyard based this dramatic historical novel upon the letters, journals, and other accounts of the effort to establish a Spanish colony at Ochuse, La Florida in 1559-61. This expedition to present-day Pensacola was the first attempted European settlement in North America."

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Price:$14.95

A Trip To Florida For Health and Sport

Title:
A Trip To Florida For Health and Sport

2010 Patrick D. Smith Award Winner

More than eighty years before Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published The Yearling, Cyrus Parkhurst Condit wrote this coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy in Florida who learns to hunt, builds a fence, and takes a fawn as a pet. Undiscovered and unpublished until now, this engaging story is historically significant as one of the first Florida novels ever written. Fascinating historical and literary context is provided by the editors.

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Price:$14.95

Saving Home

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Saving Home

Saving Home is an historical novel set during the English siege of St. Augustine in 1702. The story is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Luissa de Cueva and her friends, ten-year-old Diego de las Alas, and a Timucuan Indian girl named Junco. Based on meticulous research, Saving Home engages readers of all ages with descriptions of Spanish and Native American families seeking refuge for more than six weeks within the walls of the Castillo de San Marcos as St. Augustine goes up in flames and a battle rages around them. This exciting historical novel has messages about life, family, and what is important that will resonate with both the young and the young at heart.

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Price:$19.95

Overhead The Sun

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Overhead The Sun

Overhead The Sun, a gripping historical novel about race relations in Florida during the late Nineteenth Century. Written by the late John Ashworth, Overhead The Sun is based on the tragic story of Rosewood, a small Florida community of African-Americans that was destroyed by a mob of whites in 1923. The central character in Overhead The Sun is Julia Clayton, a young woman striving mightily to achieve emotional and intellectual independence. Her husband, Tom Clayton, works for Arthur Wilkins (who is based on the real life person of Henry Flagler) who seeks to extend his hotel and railroad empire across the Sunshine State. Neglected and verbally abused, Julia Clayton takes a heretical economics professor, Thorstein Brach, as her lover. The intrigues and conflicts of personality that mark these tortured relationships light up the pages of Overhead The Sun.

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Price:$10.00

Florida's Civil War: Explorations into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory

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Florida's Civil War: Explorations into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory

Welcome to Florida Historical Society Press’ initial volume in its newly created Gold Seal series. This is the first of what will eventually be a multi-volume series of specialized books that deal with narrowly focused issues in Florida history.

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Price:$14.95

Florida's Big Dig: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

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Florida's Big Dig: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

2008 Rembert Patrick Award Winner

This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

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Price:$29.95

Then Sings My Soul: The Scott Kelly Story

Title:
Then Sings My Soul: The Scott Kelly Story

2008 CHARLTON TEBEAU BOOK AWARD WINNER

“In this exciting book—part political history, part travelogue—Dorothy Smiljanich sheds light on 1960s Florida with her vivid portrayal of one of Florida’s most colorful political figures, Scott Kelly. Mayor of Lakeland at 28 and legislative power broker in his 30s, Kelly strode a wide path in the swirling political cauldron of 1960s Florida. Kelly twice came within an eyelash of being governor. This vivid portrayal of Kelly’s life begins in the Old Florida of tobacco and turpentine, and concludes with the New Florida of huge housing developments and super expressways, a Florida Kelly helped create.”
James M. Denham, Professor of History, Florida Southern College

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Price:$10.00

High Above The Hippodrome

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High Above The Hippodrome

Rudy longs to be an aerialist, but Shorty wants him to follow in his own clown footsteps. When Rudy learns the truth behind his objections, he has hard choices to make. Will he follow his father's path, or will he risk his anger and its repercussions to make his dream a reality?

Fans of the award-winning novels, Tasso of Tarpon Springs and Panther Girl welcome High Above The Hippodrome, a captivating behind-the-scenes story of circus life on the road with The Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1927.

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Price:$10.00

Pioneer Commercial Photography The Burgert Brothers, Tampa Florida

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Pioneer Commercial Photography The Burgert Brothers, Tampa Florida

The firm of S. P. Burgert and Son was one of the most prolific photographers of the period and their images recorded the evolution of Tampa Bay from a small village on Florida's west coast to a dynamic city that epitomized the tremendous growth that marked Twentieth Century Florida. From it founding in 1899 until the mid-1950s, the Burgerts took thousands of images of the best and worst of the city.

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Price:$24.95

River Road Stories

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River Road Stories

River Road Stories is a little masterpiece of story telling. Mary Eschbach, a Rockledge resident, captures life along the Indian River as only a resident can. What a wonderful way to celebrate a way of life that has passed us all by! --Patrick Smith, author of A Land Remembered

There are some authors and some books that you start to read with interest and finish with envy. River Road Stories is such a book. Packed in a few pages, Stories manages to describe in great detail the daily humdrum and occasional excitement of a young girl's life along the Indian River Lagoon. At the same time, River Road Stories is a song of praise for a lifestyle that is largely gone, but which exists forever in the mind of the author. Once you read River Road Stories, you'll become part of the past. --Nick Wynne, PhD, The Florida Historical Society

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Price:$15.00

Weird Florida

Title:
Weird Florida

This book chronicles examples of Florida's fascinating and funny weirdness. "Florida is the home of more nuttiness per square mile than any place on earth-- and we dare the world to prove us wrong."

Author Eliot Kleinberg is that rarest of Floridians: a native. Born in South Florida, he has spent some four decades in both broadcast and print news, including 30 years at the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach.

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Price:$15.95

Phillip's Great Adventures: Spies, Root Beer and Alligators

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Phillip's Great Adventures: Spies, Root Beer and Alligators

Adam was on his bike headed toward the beach in Boca Raton, Florida to look for treasures washed up by the waves. Instead he bumped into Phillip, a man who enchanted him with tales of adventures growing up on the same beach during World War II. Adam found his treasure it was Phillip's friendship and amazing hair-raising adventures of life in the small town of Boca Raton during the war years.

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Price:$10.00

Faces On The Frontier: Florida Surveyors And Developers In The 19TH Century

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Faces On The Frontier: Florida Surveyors And Developers In The 19TH Century

Joe Knetsch has successfully captured the problems and triumphs of early surveyors in Florida as they battled hostile Native Americans, disease, weather and political pressures to "lay out" the Florida Peninsula for settlement. Without these intrepid pioneers of the 19th Century, the Sunshine State would still be a daunting wilderness of swamps and jungles.

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Price:$19.95

Weird Florida II: In a State of Shock

Title:
Weird Florida II: In a State of Shock

Cows in the Intracoastal Waterway? A bloodsucking night creature on the loose in Miami? The Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich? Nationally known talk show host high on drugs? The mayor of one small town who banned Satan? The mayor of another small town who campaigned on a platform of "hot loins?" Yep! All this and more too! It's all in Eliot Kleinberg's Weird Florida II; In A State of Shock.

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The St. Johns From The Marshlands To The Atlantic

Title:
The St. Johns From The Marshlands To The Atlantic

The authors are not historians or experts of any kind but they have traversed the waters of the river by air boat from the flood-plain and marshes southwest of Fellsmere which mark its beginning, and later by larger vessel to the point where its waters join one of the great oceans of the world. We have endeaved to show the river as we saw it and to provide accurate descriptions and information.

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Price:$10.00

Crossing Division Street: An Oral History of the African-American Community in Orlando

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Crossing Division Street: An Oral History of the African-American Community in Orlando

This book includes an overview of the people, institutions, and events that shaped the establishment, growth and history of the African-American community in Orlando. We examine the creation of the neighborhood's educational centers, places of worship, and businesses, and the irony of how desegregation inadvertently led to the decline of the community. Significant instances of racial unrest in Orlando that are often overlooked are detailed in this manuscript.

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Price:$19.95

A Bosnian Diary - A Floridian's Experience In Nation Building

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A Bosnian Diary - A Floridian's Experience In Nation Building

William Potter served as an International election supervisor in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as the Air Force legal advisor to the Office of the High Representative and government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, he served as the Head of the Rule of Law Department in the administration of the High Representative Paddy Ashdown.

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Price:$10.00

Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village

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Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village

Ben Green's Finest Kind is the classic history of Cortez, the small fishing village on the Gulf. Green looks at the history of small commercial fishermen in the town, their struggle to survive increasingly onerous government regulations and how the drug explosion of the '60s and '70s changed the very nature of this small town.

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Price:$10.00

Memoir on the Geography, and Natural and Civil History of Florida

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Memoir on the Geography, and Natural and Civil History of Florida

First published in 1821, Darby's Memoir served as the guide for the earliest American settlers in newly acquired Florida. This volume faithfully reproduces the original, including the large folded map on the inside cover. Handsomely "HardBack" bound and stamped, this volume offers scholars an affordable volume of rare work.

Dr. Joe Knetsch, a noted historian of early Florida, has written an introduction that places the man Darby in the context of the expansion of the United States and manifest destiny.

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Price:$10.00

Guardian Angel 911: A series of Interconnected True Stories

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Guardian Angel 911: A series of Interconnected True Stories

Not unlike all our lives this book is a series of stories, separate but interconnected. They are all true with the exception of some literary license where details were lost in the telling and retelling. Guardian Angel 911 will provide an insight to the sojourn of a native, born in the isolated hammocks and swamps of the real Florida, before the population exploded in the third quarter of the twentieth century. - J.T. Glisson

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Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian

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Joseph Mills White: Anti-Jacksonian Floridian

In the turbulent world of Florida politics in the early to mid-1800's, Joseph M. White played a prominent role in organizing opposition to the territorial and national efforts of Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Ernest Dibble has done an excellent job of capturing the essence of the political struggles of the era.

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War in Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida

Title:
War in Paradise: Stories of World War II in Florida

War in Paradise is a collection of articles about the impact of World War II on the Sunshine State. It covers subjects such as (1) German prisoners of war; (2) U-boat attacks along the Florida coast; (3) three Florida natives killed at Pearl Harbor; (4) Army Air Force bombing runs that fell on civilians in Florida; (5) German saboteurs who landed on the Florida peninsula; (6) RAF trainees in Florida; (7) the suicide of a German POW; and (8) the murder of a Floridian in German custody. The book also contains maps, pictures, and sources.

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Price:$16.95

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