Research Guides: Undergraduate Research @ SFSC: "A Sense of Home" NEH Funded Seminars (2016-2020)

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Index of Seminars

A Water Ethic for Florida - Cynthia Barnett 2/20/2020
an examination of water as a unifying force with the potential to build an environmental ethos across generations
Florida Dreams Amid the Storms: An Environmental History of Modern Florida - Dr. Gary Mormino 1/30/2020
an environmental overview of Florida and discussion on the eco-system of the Lake Wales Ridge
African-American Diaspora in Florida - Dr. Anthony Dixon 11/14/2019
thoroughly researched, wide-ranging talk focused on the multitude of important economic contributions made by members of the diaspora
Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980 -- Dr. J. Michael Butler 11/16/2017
“Confederate Imagery and Police Brutality: Racial Unrest and the Long Civil Rights Movement in one Florida Community”
Zora Neale Hurston and Eatonville --Dr. Anna Lillios 10/5/2017
Stetson Kennedy: The Quiet Florida Legend -- Dr. Ron Cooper 10/5/2017
Progressive-Era Women, Women’s Clubs and the Conservation Movement in Florida-- Dr. Leslie Kemp Poole 3/23/2017
focus on the role that women and women’s clubs played in forwarding early conservation and environmental movements in Florida
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida: Its Consequence and Implications-- Dr. Robert Cassanello 2/9/2017
Florida's Antebellum Frontier: White, Black and Native American - Dr. James M. Denham 11/3/2016
Florida's Spanish-Indian Missions, 1565-1763: New Lives in an Old World - Dr. Jerald T. Milanich 9/22/2016
When Worlds Collided: The European Invasion of Florida in the Sixteenth Century - Dr. Jerald T. Milanich 9/21/2016

A Water Ethic for Florida - Cynthia Barnett

Through a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, Cynthia Barnett presented “A Water Ethic for Florida” on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 4:30 p.m., in Building B, Room 204, on the SFSC Highlands Campus.

Barnett’s presentation at SFSC examined water as a unifying force with the potential to build an environmental ethos across generations.

She is an author of popular books on water and climate change including “Rain: A Natural and Cultural History,” which was long-listed for the National Book Award. Barnett is an Environmental Journalist in Residence at the University of Florida’s (UF) College of Journalism and Communications and an Environmental Fellow at UF’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service, where she works on Environmental Civics: helping develop the service, civic engagement and leadership ethos needed to make progress on the profound challenges facing the world and us.

Barnett earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism, her master’s in environmental history, and was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan specializing in freshwater resources. She is the recipient of numerous journalism and book awards and just finished her fourth book, a story of humanity and seashells.

America, the Owner's Manual by Bob Graham; Chris Hand
Call Number: JK1764 .G71 2017
ISBN: 9781506350585
Publication Date: 2016-08-16
In 2016, Americans fed up with the political process vented that frustration with their votes. Republicans nominated for president a wealthy businessman and former reality show host best known on the campaign trail for his sharp rhetoric against immigration and foreign trade. Democrats nearly selected a self-described socialist who ran on a populist platform against the influence of big money in politics. While it is not surprising that Americans would channel their frustrations into votes for contenders who pledge to end business as usual, the truth is that we don't have to pin our hopes for greater participation on any one candidate. All of us have a say--if we learn, master and practice the skills of effective citizenship. One of the biggest roadblocks to participation in democracy is the perception that privileged citizens and special interests command the levers of power and that everyday Americans can't fight City Hall. That perception is undoubtedly why a 2015 Pew Charitable Trusts survey found that 74 percent of those Americans surveyed believed that most elected officials didn′t care what people like them thought. Graham and Hand intend to change that conventional wisdom by showing citizens how to flex their citizenship muscles. They describe effective citizenship skills and provide tips from civic experts. Even more importantly, they offer numerous examples of everyday Americans who have used their skills to make democracy respond. The reader will see themselves in these examples of citizens who chose to be victorious participants rather than tranquil spectators in the arena of democracy. By the end of the book, you will have new confidence that citizen participation is the lifeblood of America -- and will be ready to make governments work for you, not the other way around.
Blue Revolution by Cynthia Barnett
Call Number: TD223 .B37 2011
ISBN: 9780807003176
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what's now our largest crop--the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don't realize these freshwater sources are in deep trouble. Blue Revolution exposes the truth about the water crisis--driven not as much by lawn sprinklers as by a tradition that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farmers to utilities, to tap more and more. But the book also offers much reason for hope. Award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett argues that the best solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a water ethic for America. Just as the green movement helped build awareness about energy and sustainability, so a blue movement will reconnect Americans to their water, helping us value and conserve our most life-giving resource. Avoiding past mistakes, living within our water means, and turning to "local water" as we do local foods are all part of this new, blue revolution. Reporting from across the country and around the globe, Barnett shows how people, businesses, and governments have come together to dramatically reduce water use and reverse the water crisis. Entire metro areas, such as San Antonio, Texas, have halved per capita water use. Singapore's "closed water loop" recycles every drop. New technologies can slash agricultural irrigation in half: businesses can save a lot of water--and a lot of money--with designs as simple as recycling air-conditioning condensate. The first book to call for a national water ethic, Blue Revolution is also a powerful meditation on water and community in America.
The Calusa and Their Legacy by Darcie A. MacMahon; William H. Marquardt
Call Number: E99 .C18 M33 2004 Florida
ISBN: 9780813027739
Publication Date: 2004-12-31
This history, rich with photographs and colorful drawings of the remarkable Calusa Indians who controlled all of south Florida when Europeans first arrived in the New World, presents a vivid picture of the luxurious natural environment that sustained the Calusa--the teeming estuaries along Florida's coasts, which have supported people for thousands of years. The Calusa were the last native Florida Indian people to succumb to colonization, but by the mid-1700s they had disappeared entirely. This book describes the artifacts they left behind and the plants and animals that inhabited the landscape and the underwater world of their ecosystem. It also discusses their traditions that survive to the present day among modern fisherfolk and the vibrant culture of Native Americans in south Florida--the Seminole and Miccosukee peoples. The strength of this book is its dual treatment of both culture and environment. The authors' premise is that culture affects every aspect of people's existence and that to understand a culture, one must first appreciate the environment in which it develops. By learning about both, modern citizens will be better equipped to make the right decisions for wise stewardship of the earth. The Calusa and Their Legacy will inspire readers to value south Florida's multicultural history and ecology. It is written for a broad audience of all ages (from elementary schoolers to senior citizens) and all educational levels. It will be enjoyed by environmentalists, eco/heritage tourists, and everyone interested in understanding a sense of place in the natural world. The book's dramatic and authentic illustrations of Calusa life were created by artists working at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, where a major permanent exhibition has interpreted this story since 2002.
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis
Call Number: F296 .D38 2018
ISBN: 9781631494024
Publication Date: 2018-03-20
Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic" (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is "by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of 'America's Sea' " (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America's political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf's fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood's role in the country's first offshore oil wells, this "vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a 'national sacrifice zone' " (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers "a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written" (Edward O. Wilson).
Nature's Allies by Larry Nielsen
Call Number: QH26 .N536 2017
ISBN: 9781610917957
Publication Date: 2017-02-02
It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges--but we need inspiration more than ever. With political leaders who deny climate change, species that are fighting for their very survival, and the planet's last places of wilderness growing smaller and smaller, what can a single person do? In Nature's Allies, Larry Nielsen uses the stories of conservation pioneers to show that through passion and perseverance, we can each be a positive force for change. In eight engaging and diverse biographies--John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland--we meet individuals who have little in common except that they all made a lasting mark on our world. Some famous and some little known to readers, they spoke out to protect wilderness, wildlife, fisheries, rainforests, and wetlands. They fought for social justice and exposed polluting practices. They marched, wrote books, testified before Congress, performed acts of civil disobedience, and, in one case, were martyred for their defense of nature. Nature's Allies pays tribute to them all as it rallies a new generation of conservationists to follow in their footsteps. These vivid biographies are essential reading for anyone who wants to fight for the environment against today's political opposition. Nature's Allies will inspire students, conservationists, and nature lovers to speak up for nature and show the power of one person to make a difference.
Rain by Cynthia Barnett
Call Number: QC925 .B315 2015b
ISBN: 9780804137119
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey's mopes and Kurt Cobain's grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Rising by Elizabeth Rush
Call Number: GB459.4 .R86 2018
ISBN: 9781571313812
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD ACHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 AGUARDIAN, NPR'sSCIENCE FRIDAY,PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, ANDLIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune),Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. InRising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand testimonials from those facing this choice--a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago--with profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of these vulnerable communities,Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins. In a new afterword for the paperback edition, Rush highlights questions of storytelling, adaptability, and how to powerfully shift conversation around ongoing climate change--including the storms of 2017 and 2018: Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael.
Saving Florida by Leslie Kemp Poole
Call Number: QH76.5.F6 P66 2015 Florida
ISBN: 9780813060811
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
"Gives long-overdue recognition to the women who shaped the state's environmental movement and saved Florida's water, land, and quality of life from worse destruction."--Cynthia Barnett, author of Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis "Highlights the overlooked role of women in Florida's environmental leadership. This is an exciting, important book."--Buddy MacKay, former governor of Florida "A brilliant exposition of the varied types of talent it takes to fight the battles, wars and votes which must be undertaken if even a fraction of Florida's heritage is to be saved."--Victoria Tschinkel, vice chairperson, 1000 Friends of Florida "Shows how passionate, strong minded, independent women did what was necessary to change the hearts and minds of policy makers to keep our air and water healthy."--Clay Henderson, former president, Florida Audubon Society "Poole's portraits of these indomitable women, many of them previously unknown, could well inspire the next generation of activists."--Judith G. Poucher, author of State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties Florida is renowned for its beautiful beaches, natural springs, and subtropical wilderness, but it is widely joked that the official bird should be the construction crane. Dredge-and-fill projects, air pollution, and pesticides spread so uncontrollably during the twentieth century that they sparked an environmental movement within the state, and those who led the fight were very often women. Saving Florida reveals how women's clubs prompted legislation to establish Florida's first state park, which became the core of Everglades National Park, in 1916--before women even had the right to vote. It tells the story of Doris Leeper, who convinced her community and federal government to protect a 24-mile stretch of sandy beach that is now the breathtaking Canaveral National Seashore. It remembers Clara Dommerich, who summoned the "Who's Who" of Central Florida to her living room for the first meeting of the Florida Audubon Society. And it celebrates the towering environmental legacy of the three "Marjories": author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, scientist Marjorie Harris Carr, and journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. These and many other women led the fight for unprecedented changes in how the Sunshine State reveres its unique natural resources. They set the foundation for this century's environmental agenda, which came to include the idea of sustainable development. As a collective force they forever altered how others saw women's roles in society.
The Swamp by Michael Grunwald
Call Number: F317.E9 G78 2007 Florida
ISBN: 9780743251075
Publication Date: 2007-03-27
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land. The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. Now America wants its swamp back. Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. And this book is a cautionary tale for that era. Through gripping narrative and dogged reporting, Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3515 .U789 T639 1990 Florida
ISBN: 9780060916503
Publication Date: 1937-09-18
"Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." -- Saturday ReviewFair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
Call Number: GC89 .G66 2018
ISBN: 9780316260206
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's thermometer, we are moving closer to the brink of broad disaster. By century's end, hundreds of millions of people will be retreating from the world's shores as our coasts become inundated and our landscapes transformed. From island nations to the world's major cities, coastal regions will disappear. Engineering projects to hold back the water are bold and may buy some time. Yet despite international efforts and tireless research, there is no permanent solution-no barriers to erect or walls to build-that will protect us in the end from the drowning of the world as we know it. The Water Will Come is the definitive account of the coming water, why and how this will happen, and what it will all mean. As he travels across twelve countries and reports from the front lines, acclaimed journalist Jeff Goodell employs fact, science, and first-person, on-the-ground journalism to show vivid scenes from what already is becoming a water world. "An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears." (Jennifer Senior, New York Times)

Water Quality and Quality of Life
Communities like Pensacola, Florida depend on clean water for healthy fisheries, recreation, tourism, and more. The United States uses more than 340 billion gallons of fresh water each day.
King Tides and Permeable Foundations
Florida residents cope with "sunny day floods" advancing from below ground. Rising sea levels create high tides that push up through underground infrastructure and water tables. Miami is situated on fossiliferous limestone and 20% of residences use sewage septic tanks; floods mix with waste, creating more hazardous conditions. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Water Resources: The Habitable Planet
Oceans contain 97% of the Earth's water; water available for human consumption is less than 1%. Prof. Thomas Maddock studies water in the desert plains of the American southwest. Prof. Wendy Graham studies industrial and agricultural land use impact on fresh water springs in Florida.

Florida Department of Health Environmental Health Tracker
Florida Environmental Public Health Tracking
works in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track diseases that may be related to environmental exposures. This website provides data sets on environmental hazards and associated health outcomes. The purpose of these efforts is to inform communities about disease trends and to design interventions that lead to better health outcomes.
CDC National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Data
The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) brings together health data and environment data from national, state, and city sources and provides supporting information to make the data easier to understand. The Tracking Network has data and information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health.
A Water Ethic for Florida
Provides guiding principles to secure Florida’s water resources for the long-term future:
Floridians value water, from appreciating local streams to being willing to pay an appropriate price for water.
We work together to use less and less – rather than fight each other to grab more and more.
We try to keep water local in order to avoid the financial, environmental and energy costs of long distance transfers.
We avoid the two big mistakes of our history: over-tapping our natural supplies and over-relying on the costliest fixes that bring unintended consequences to future generations.
We leave as much as prudently possible in nature – aquifers, wetlands and rivers – so that our children and grandchildren, with benefit of time and evolving knowledge, can make their own decisions about water.

Florida Dreams Amid the Storms: An Environmental History of Modern Florida - Dr. Gary Mormino

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Through a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, Dr. Gary R. Mormino presented “Florida Dreams Amid the Storms: An Environmental History of Modern Florida” on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 4 p.m., in Building B, Room 204, on the SFSC Highlands Campus.

Dr. Mormino presented an environmental overview of Florida and discussed the eco-system of the Lake Wales Ridge. The Lake Wales Ridge runs approximately 150 miles, from Highlands County in the south through Lake County in the north, and provides habitat for 21 federally listed plant species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth.

Dr. Mormino is the Frank E. Duckwall professor emeritus of Florida history at the University of South Florida (USF) St. Petersburg and the scholar in residence at the Florida Humanities Council. He is the recipient of the 2015 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing. Two decades ago, he began to research a social history of modern Florida. Published in 2005, his book, “Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida,” follows the rapid development and growth of Florida in the 20th century. Dr. Mormino has written several op-eds for the Tampa Bay Times that urge Floridians to help restore and preserve the state’s natural environment.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and began teaching at USF in 1977. In 2003, the Florida Humanities Council named him its first Humanist of the Year.

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: a social history of modern Florida by Gary R. Mormino; Raymond Arsenault (Foreword by)
Call Number: HN79.F6 M67 2005 Florida
ISBN: 0813028183
Publication Date: 2005-06-30
From New Spain, to Old South, to New South, to Sunbelt, the story of how and why millions have come to Florida and created a megastate of constant social, cultural, and economic change. Florida is a story of astonishing growth, a state swelling from 500,000 residents at the outset of the 20th century to some 16 million at the end. As recently as mid-century, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Florida was the smallest state in the South. At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular: space coast, climate control, growth management, retirement community, theme park, edge cities, shopping mall, boomburbs, beach renourishment, Interstate, and Internet. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams attempts to understand the firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its transformation. Gary Mormino ranges far and wide across the landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America's southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean. From the capital, Tallahassee--a day's walk from the Georgia border--to Miami--a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba and Haiti--Mormino traces the themes of Florida's transformation: the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. Beneath the iconography of popular culture is revealed a complex and complicated social framework that reflects a dizzying passage from New Spain to Old South, New South to Sunbelt.
The Tropic of Cracker by Al Burt
Call Number: F316.2 .B84 1999 Florida
ISBN: 9780813016955
Publication Date: 1999-10-10
Drawing upon his long career as a roving Florida journalist, Burt uses a series of vivid biographical profiles to explore the full range of 'crackerdom,' from the good old boys and 'pork chopper' politicians of the Panhandle to the native Conchs of Key West. Perhaps most impressive, he brings these endangered subcultures to life without resorting to sensationalist caricature or lapsing into nostalgic revery. Cracker Florida, which surely has suffered more than its share of condescension and misunderstanding, has finally found its laureate.

African-American Diaspora in Florida -- Dr. Anthony Dixon

Dr. Anthony E. Dixon

Through a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, SFSC offered a presentation called “African-American Diaspora in Florida” on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 4 p.m., in Building B, Room 206, on the Highlands Campus.

Dr. Anthony E. Dixon was the presenter for “African-American Diaspora in Florida.” This thoroughly researched, wide-ranging talk focused on the multitude of important economic contributions made by members of the diaspora. He identified and described a number of diverse communities making up the diaspora, thus countering the monolithic view of African-American history so often assumed by white audiences. The contributions of Bahamanian, Jamaican, Haitian, and other African-descended peoples were discussed, as well as the hidden history of the Florida Maroons and Black Seminoles.

In 1994, Dr. Dixon received a Bachelor of Science in History with a minor in African-American Studies from Florida A&M University. In 2001, he received a Master of Applied Social Science from Florida A&M University with a concentration in History. In 2007, he was awarded his doctorate from Indiana University’s History Department where he majored in the African Diaspora. His studies included African-American history and African history, with a minor in Library Science/Special Collections and Archives. Dr. Dixon is a native of Fort Valley, GA.

Dr. Dixon is the founder and president of Archival and Historical Research Associates, L.L.C., field director for the Florida African-American Heritage Preservation Network, and adjunct professor of History at Florida A&M University.

African-Americans in Florida by Kevin M. McCarthy (As told to); Maxine D. Jones
Call Number: E185.93 .F5 M37 1993 Florida
ISBN: 9781561640300
Publication Date: 1993-10-01
Brief essays profile over 50 African Americans during four centuries of Florida history. Traces the role African Americans played in the discovery, exploration, and settlements of Florida, through the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement. For classroom use: one free teacher's manual with the purchase of three books.
The African American Heritage of Florida by David R. Colburn (Editor); Jane L. Landers (Editor)
Call Number: E185.93 .F5 C65 1995 Florida
ISBN: 0813013321
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
These 12 essays examine the rich and substantial African American heritage of Florida, documenting African American contributions to the state's history from the colonial era to the late 20th century.
Black Florida by Kevin McCarthy
Call Number: Desoto Circulation -- E185.93.F5 M38 1995 Florida
ISBN: 0781802911
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
From the use of Florida as a center for the smuggling of slaves and the massacre in the town of Rosewood to the founding of the country's first free community if ex-slaves and the Civil Rights demonstrations in Tampa and Tallahassee, the history of African Americans in Florida has mirrored their history across the U.S.-painful and triumphant. This city-by-city guide introduces the reader to churches, schools, homes and other significant sites in more than 70 different towns across Florida, providing information on their historical importance, present condition, and availability for visiting. Included are the memorial to a slave shipwrecked in 1701 off the coast of Key West and locations associated with famous personalities like Ray Charles (st. Augustine and Greenville), the author Zora Neale Hurston (Eatonville and Fort Pierce), Daniel Chappie James, Jr., the nations first black four-star general (Pensacola), and the Civil Rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (Daytona Beach). Highlighting over 450 years of contributions by African Americans to the rich culture of Florida, this volume is an excellent resource for visitors to Florida, as well as its residents.
Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State by T. D. Allman
Call Number: F311 .A44 2013 Florida
ISBN: 9780802120762
Publication Date: 2013-03-05
In Finding Florida, journalist T.D. Allman reclaims the remarkable history of Florida from the state's mythologizers, apologists, and boosters. Allman traces the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida, its transformation from a swamp to "paradise." Palm Beach, Key West, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando boomed, fortunes were won and lost, land was stolen and flipped, and millions arrived.
Florida's Heritage of Diversity by Mark I. Greenberg; William W. Rogers; Canter Brown
Call Number: F311 .F56 1997 Florida
ISBN: 1889574031
Marriage and community construction in St Augustine, 1784-1804 / Sherry Johnson -- Cracker women and their families in nineteenth-century Florida / James M. Denham -- "They faught like devils": black troops in Florida during the Civil War / David J. Coles -- Baptist minister James Page: Alternatives for African American leadership in post-Civil War Florida / Larry E. Rivers -- Tampa Mayor Herman Glogowski: Jewish leadership in Gilded Age Florida / Mark I. Greenberg -- Prelude to the Poll Tax: Black republicansand the Knights of Labor in 1880s Florida / Canter Brown, Jr. -- The Florida Seminoles, 1880-1990: cultural survival, political revitalization, and the exercise of sovereignty / Harry A. Kersey, Jr. -- Sister Mary Ann: "Jacksonville's angel of mercy" / Edward F. Keuchel -- Mob violence in Tallahassee, Florida, 1909 / Ric A. Kabat and William Warren Rogers -- Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen: the spirit of Florida / Sally Vickers -- World War II era Florida: change in the 1940s / Tracy Jean Revels -- The Latinization of Florida / Raymond A. Mohl -- Samuel Proctor / Ralph L. Lowenstein.
Sister Mary Ann: "Jacksonville's angel of mercy" / Edward F. Keuchel -- Mob violence in Tallahassee, Florida, 1909 / Ric A. Kabat and William Warren Rogers -- Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen: the spirit of Florida / Sally Vickers --World War II-era Florida: change in the 1940s / Tracy Jean Revels -- The Latinization of Florida / Raymond A. Mohl -- Samuel Proctor / Ralph L. Lowenstein.
Go Sound the Trumpet! by David H. Jackson; Canter Brown
Call Number: E185.93.F5 G6 2005 Florida
ISBN: 9781879852426
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
A History of Florida by Charlton W. Tebeau; William Marina
Call Number: F311 .T42 1999 Florida
ISBN: 9780870243387
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
This new edition rearranges and updates the chapters dealing with Florida following World War II and into the population explosions of the fifties, sixties and seventies, in which a number of issues emerged including civil rights, reapportionment, refugees from Cuba, education, protection of the environment, growth management and the rise of the Republican Party.
The New History of Florida by Michael Gannon (Editor)
Call Number: F311.5.N49 2012 Florida
ISBN: 9780813044316
Publication Date: 2012-11-04
Florida's first inhabitants entered the peninsula and panhandle about 10,000 years ago. The Spaniard Juan Ponce de León stumbled ashore near Melbourne Beach in 1513. He called the place La Florida, the first permanent geographic name of European origin to be etched upon the maps of the American continent. Over three centuries of Spanish and English colonial history followed before the United States acquired Florida in 1821. The first state flag was raised over a new capitol in Tallahassee on May 26, 1845. Written to observe the sesquicentennial of statehood, this work will document the rich history of the Sunshine State for general readers, students, and scholars well into the twenty-first century.
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation by Larry Eugene Rivers
Call Number: E445 .F6 R58 2000 Florida
ISBN: 0813018137
Publication Date: 2000-11-13
This important illustrated social history of slavery tells what life was like for bond servants in Florida from 1821 to 1865, offering new insights from the perspective of both slave and master. Starting with an overview of the institution as it evolved during the Spanish and English periods, Larry E. Rivers looks in detail and in depth at the slave experience, noting the characteristics of slavery in the Middle Florida plantation belt (the more traditional slave-based, cotton-growing economy and society) as distinct from East and West Florida (which maintained some attitudes and traditions of Spain). He examines the slave family, religion, resistance activity, slaves' participation in the Civil War, and their social interactions with whites, Indians, other slaves, and masters. Rivers also provides a dramatic account of the hundreds of armed free blacks and runaways among the Seminole, Creek, and Mikasuki Indians on the peninsula, whose presence created tensions leading to the great slave rebellion, the Second Seminole War (1835-42). Slavery in Florida is built upon painstaking research into virtually every source available on the subject--a wealth of historic documents, personal papers, slave testimonies, and census and newspaper reports.

African-American Life in Jacksonville by Herman S. Mason
Call Number: F319 .J1 M37 1997 Florida
ISBN: 9780752408835
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
African-American Life in Jacksonville is a work that will delight the lifelong resident and the first time visitor, the serious scholar and the casual observer. It is a lovingly composed look at a proud people and their heritage. Included are glimpses at such famous civic, social, and business figures as James Weldon Johnson, principal at Stanton Public School and composer of the great anthem Lift Evry Voice and Sing; James Charles Edd Craddock, owner of the palatial Two Spot nightclub; Eartha M. M. White, who operated the Clara White Mission; and Abraham L. Lewis, founder of Afro-American Life Insurance Company.
African American Sites in Florida by Kevin M. McCarthy
Call Number: E185.93 .F5 M378 2007 Florida
ISBN: 9781561643851
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
African Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of Congress in the twenty-first century. They have played an important role in making Florida the successful state it is today. This book takes you on a tour, through the 67 counties, of the sites that commemorate the role of African Americans in Florida's history. If we can learn more about our past, both the good and the not-so-good, we can make better decisions in the future. Behind the hundreds of sites in this book are the courageous African Americans like Brevard County's Malissa Moore, who hosted many Saturday night dinners to raise money to build a church, and Miami-Dade's Gedar Walker, who built the first-rate Lyric Theater for black performers. And of course also featured are the more famous black Floridians like Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, Mary McCleod Bethune, and Ray Charles.
Alachua County, Florida by Lizzie P. R. B. Jenkins
Call Number: F317.A4 J46 2007 Florida
ISBN: 9780738543741
Publication Date: 2007-06-13
Alachua County's African American ancestry contributed significantly to the area's history. Onceenslaved pioneers Richard and Juliann Sams settled in Archer as early as 1839. They were former slaves of James M. Parchman, who journeyed through the wilderness from Parchman, Mississippi. They and others shaped the county's history through inventions, education, and work ethics based on spirituality. This book shows people working together, from the early1800s rural farm life, when racial violence was routine, until African Americans broke the chains of injustice and started organizing and controlling civic affairs.
The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence by Marvin Dunn
Call Number: E185.61 .D895 2013 Florida
ISBN: 9780813041636
Publication Date: 2013-02-05
A symbolic embodiment of racial violence and hatred, "The Beast" openly prowled the nation between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The reasons it appeared varied, with psychological, political, and economic dynamics all playing a part, but the outcome was always brutal--if not deadly. From the bombing of Harriette and Harry T. Moore's home on Christmas Day to Willie James Howard's murder, from the Rosewood massacre to the Newberry Six lynchings, Marvin Dunn offers an encyclopedic catalogue of The Beast's rampages in Florida. Instead of simply taking snapshots of incidents, Dunn provides context for a century's worth of racial violence by examining communities over time. Crucial insights from interviews with descendants of both perpetrators and victims shape this study of Florida's grim racial history. Rather than pointing fingers and placing blame, The Beast in Florida allows voices and facts to speak for themselves, facilitating a conversation on the ways in which racial violence changed both black and white lives forever. With this comprehensive and balanced look at racially motivated events, Dunn reveals the Sunshine State's too-often forgotten-or intentionally hidden-past. The result is a panorama of compelling human stories: its emergent dialogue challenges conceptions of what created and maintained The Beast.
Black Miami in the Twentieth Century by Marvin Dunn
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780813015309
Publication Date: 1997-12-09
"A necessity for every African American who has ever lived in Dade County, or South Florida for that matter."--Garth Reeves, publisher emeritus, Miami Times "A very ambitious project, and therein lies its great contribution: no one before has written a comprehensive history of Greater Miami's unique black community."--Paul S. George, Miami Dade Community College The first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and courage during the first 100 years of the city's history. Firsthand accounts and over 130 photographs, many of them never published before, bring to life the proud heritage of Miami's black community. Beginning with the legendary presence of black pirates on Biscayne Bay, Marvin Dunn sketches the streams of migration by which blacks came to account for nearly half the city's voters at the turn of the century. From the birth of a new neighborhood known as "Colored Town," Dunn traces the blossoming of black businesses, churches, civic groups, and fraternal societies that made up the black community. He recounts the heyday of "Little Broadway" along Second Avenue, with photos and individual recollections that capture the richness and vitality of black Miami's golden age between the wars. A substantial portion of the book is devoted to the Miami civil rights movement, and Dunn traces the evolution of Colored Town to Overtown and the subsequent growth of Liberty City. He profiles voting rights, housing and school desegregation, and civil disturbances like the McDuffie and Lozano incidents, and analyzes the issues and leadership that molded an increasingly diverse community through decades of strife and violence. In concluding chapters, he assesses the current position of the community--its socioeconomic status, education issues, residential patterns, and business development--and considers the effect of recent waves of immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. Dunn combines exhaustive research in regional media and archives with personal interviews of pioneer citizens and longtime residents in a work that documents as never before the life of one of the most important black communities in the United States.
Clearwater by Sandra W. Rooks; Randolph Lightfoot
Call Number: E185.93.F5 R66 2002 Florida
ISBN: 9780738514734
Publication Date: 2002-11-25
African American history in Clearwater dates back to the early 1500s when the first blacks arrived as part of Panfilo de Narvaez's exploration party. Since that time, the community has grown and made indelible marks on this city as well as Florida state history. Rare images coupled with informative text highlight the people, places, events, and accomplishments at the very heart of this community for residents, visitors, and future generations to enjoy.
Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 by Paul Ortiz
Call Number: e-Book
ISBN: 0520239466
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles during which African Americans struck for higher wages, took up arms to prevent lynching, forged independent political alliances, boycotted segregated streetcars, and created a democratic historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to previous claims that African Americans made few strides toward building an effective civil rights movement during this period, Ortiz documents how black Floridians formed mutual aid organizations--secret societies, women's clubs, labor unions, and churches--to bolster dignity and survival in the harsh climate of Florida, which had the highest lynching rate of any state in the union. African Americans called on these institutions to build a statewide movement to regain the right to vote after World War I. African American women played a decisive role in the campaign as they mobilized in the months leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1920 contest culminated in the bloodiest Election Day in modern American history, when white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan violently, and with state sanction, prevented African Americans from voting. Ortiz's eloquent interpretation of the many ways that black Floridians fought to expand the meaning of freedom beyond formal equality and his broader consideration of how people resist oppression and create new social movements illuminate a strategic era of United States history and reveal how the legacy of legal segregation continues to play itself out to this day.
Jackson County, African-American Life by Gilmore Academy-Jackson County Training School Alumni Association Staff; Roy Roulhac
Call Number: F317.J2 G5 2000 Florida
ISBN: 0738500984
Publication Date: 1999-12-07
Documenting the lives of African-American citizens in the days of slavery through the difficult and often violent Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras to the increasing tolerance of the last century, Jackson County, Florida tells the singular story of this proud community's struggles and successes.
Key West by Norma Jean Sawyer
Call Number: F319.K4 S28 2002 Florida
ISBN: 0738506842
Publication Date: 2002-04-09
Known best as a vacation destination and home to artists, beach bums, and celebrities, Key West also boasts a proud African-American heritage that has its roots in the immigration of Caribbean settlers in the late 1800s. Bringing with them valuable skills, such as shipbuilding and other marine trades, and a strong sense of family and community, these immigrants and their descendants made significant contributions to the life of this unique island.
Levy County Florida by Carolyn Cohens
Call Number: F317.L6 C64 2005 Florida
ISBN: 9780738541969
Publication Date: 2006-01-18
Driving along Levy County highways, one can always see crops of corn, watermelons, peanuts, cantaloupes, and vegetables. The county contains the cities of Cedar Key, noted for its romantic atmosphere and annual seafood and art festivals; Chiefland, a small town with a friendly atmosphere; and Rosewood, noted today for its tours and markers dedicated to those who tragically lost their lives.
Orlando by Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson
Call Number: F319.O75 T56 2003 Florida
ISBN: 9780738515366
Publication Date: 2003-07-30
Black America: Orlando illuminates the lives and accomplishments of African Americans in one of Central Florida's largest cities. Images from the late 1800s to the mid-1980s depict schools, churches, businesses, housing developments, prominent homes, celebrations, and significant personalities in Orlando's black community. This volume guides readers through more than 150 years of remarkable history.
Pleasant City, West Palm Beach by Everee Jimerson Clarke
Call Number: F319.W53 C58 2005 Florida
ISBN: 9780738517582
Publication Date: 2005-04-20
Pleasant City, a neighborhood of West Palm Beach, Florida, is the oldest African-American community in Palm Beach County. The first black settlers came to a place called the Styx--later owned by white millionaires who then rented their backyards to black workers--to work on the railroad and Henry Flagler's hotel and mansion. Forced out when the land became valuable, the blacks purchased land and settled Pleasant City. Pleasant City was marketed as a "High Class Colored Subdivision" in 1913, and many of the pioneers still have descendants in the area today.
Seminole County by Altermese S. Bentley
Call Number: F317 .S5 B46 2000 Florida
ISBN: 9780738506340
Publication Date: 2000-10-30
From a citrus and truck-farming region to the leading bedroom community of Orlando, Seminole County boasts a distinctive past that has been shaped and enriched by the presence of African Americans for more than 400 years.
Tallahassee Florida by Althemese Barnes; Ann Roberts
Call Number: F319 .T14 B37 2000 Florida
ISBN: 073850551X
Publication Date: 2000-02-16
The African-American community in Tallahassee from the late 1800s to the 1960s was characterized by a persevering spirit, a strong work ethic, and a love for home, family, and community. During that long period of racial inequity, this same community set about developing its own institutions and activities, from Florida A&M University to the annual Emancipation Proclamation festival, and what emerged was a rich cultural life that produced and attracted some of the best and brightest minds.
Tarpon Springs by Sandra Rooks; Carol Mountain
Call Number: F319.T23 R66 2003 Florida
ISBN: 0738515973
Publication Date: 2003-11-05
African Americans originally came to Tarpon Springs in the mid-1880s to work in the lumber mills. In the 1890s, a number of sponge divers arrived from the Bahamas and Key West to harvest and prepare the wealth of sponges found in the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Anclote River. Devoutly religious, these pioneers founded the African American Episcopal Church in 1887 and the Baptist Church in 1892. Union Academy School, the first African-American school in Tarpon Springs, was established in the early 1900s. The dedicated work ethic of early African-American settlers continues today. Many of their descendants serve as educators, politicians, and ministers.
Things Remembered by Rowena F. Brady; Canter Brown
Call Number: F319.T2 T47 1997 Florida
ISBN: 1879852535
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
A stroll down memory lane -- African Americans and the Tampa Bay Area to World War I / by Canter Brown -- Before the new century -- The early twentieth century -- The roaring twenties -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- The era of World War II -- The fifties -- The sixties, new beginnings and unexpected costs -- St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Afterword : special friends.

Batemen, Rebecca B. “Africans and Indians: A Comparative Study of the Black Carib and Black Seminole.” Ethnohistory 37.1 (1990): 1-24.
Compares the histories and social structures of two Afro-Indian groups, the Black Carib and the Black Seminole, to uncover more about how they originated as distinctive 'new peoples.' Role that the structure of domestic and community relations has played in preserving their distinctiveness; Differences between the groups in regard to their relationship with the Indians whose names they bear.
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Batemen, Rebecca B. “Naming Patterns in Black Seminole Ethnogenesis.” Ethnohistory 49.2 (2002): 227-257
Examines the naming patterns in relation to the origins of the Black Seminoles in the U.S. Existence of African derived-naming practices with features similar to those of a Konglo-Angolan system; Discussions on the African-American naming patterns among slaves; Details on the cultural background of former slaves who became the Black Seminoles.
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Black Society in Spanish Florida by Jane Landers; Peter H. Wood (Foreword by)
Call Number: F320.N4 L36 1999 Florida
ISBN: 9780252067532
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom. Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived not in cotton rows or tobacco patches but in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Here the Spanish Crown afforded sanctuary to runaway slaves, making the territory a prime destination for blacks fleeing Anglo plantations, while Castilian law (grounded in Roman law) provided many avenues out of slavery, which it deemed an unnatural condition. European-African unions were common and accepted in Florida, with families of African descent developing important community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparent choices. Assisted by the corporate nature of Spanish society, Spain's medieval tradition of integration and assimilation, and the almost constant threat to Spanish sovereignty in Florida, multiple generations of Africans leveraged linguistic, military, diplomatic, and artisanal skills into citizenship and property rights. In this remote Spanish outpost, where they could become homesteaders, property owners, and entrepreneurs, blacks enjoyed more legal and social protection than they would again until almost two hundred years of Anglo history had passed.
British West Florida, 1763-1783 by Cecil Johnson
Call Number: F301 .J6 1971 Florida
ISBN: 0208010327
Publication Date: 1971-04-01
Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida by Jane G. Landers (Editor)
Call Number: F319. F734 D43 1995 Florida
ISBN: 0813024862
Publication Date: 2000-08-26
"Life in Florida 200 years before the Epcot Center was a complex and painful story of speculation and exploitation, of high hopes and bitter realities. This very southern story has remained unknown to most Americans for too long. Now a diligent group of Florida historians is mining late 18th-century sources to uncover a forgotten world of English and Spanish, Minorcans and Greeks, Ibos and Fulani, Creeks and Seminoles. This timely volume brings together some of their best and most recent work, offering a varied, coherent, and detailed introduction to the work-in-progress that is early Florida history during the crucial period long after De León and De Soto and shortly before Jackson and Osceola."--Peter H. Wood, Duke University This illustrated collection documents the rich history of Florida's earliest indigo, rice, and cotton plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks. Based on primary research in archives in England, Scotland, Spain, Cuba, Minorca, and Florida as well as upon archaeological investigations, the essays trace for the first time the relationship of Florida to both the Caribbean and the Atlantic economies and document Florida's national and international significance in the colonial period. Contents Introduction, by Jane G. Landers 1. "A Swamp of an Investment"? Richard Oswald's British East Florida Plantation Experiment, by Daniel L. Schafer 2. Blue Gold: Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrna Plantation, by Patricia C. Griffin 3. Success through Diversification: Francis Philip Fatio's New Switzerland Plantation, by Susan R. Parker 4. Francisco Xavier Sánchez, Floridano Planter and Merchant, by Jane G. Landers 5. Zephaniah Kingsley's Laurel Grove Plantation, 1803-1813, by Daniel L. Schafer 6. Free Black Plantations and Economy in East Florida, 1784-1821, by Jane G. Landers 7. The Plantation System of the Florida Seminole Indians and Black Seminoles during the Colonial Era, by Brent R. Weisman 8. The Cattle Trade in East Florida, 1784-1821, by Susan R. Parker 9. Spanish East Florida in the Atlantic Economy of the Late 18th Century, by James Gregory Cusick Jane G. Landers, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, is author of Black Society in Spanish Florida, editor of Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, and coeditor of The African American Heritage of Florida (UPF, 1995).
Fort Mose: colonial America's Black fortress of freedom by Kathleen A. Deagan; Darcie A. MacMahon
Call Number: Oversize F319. F734 D43 1995 Florida
ISBN: 0813013518
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
In 1738, the Spanish established the fort-town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose as the first legal, free Black community in the United States. This book shows how the people of Fort Mose shaped Spanish international policy on slavery and provided inspiration for all slaves.

Landers, Jane. “Black-Indian Interaction in Spanish Florida.”
The history of the lives of non-white peoples in the United States largely has been neglected although the Spanish bureaucrats kept meticulous records of the Spanish Mission period in Florida. These records represent an important source for the cultural history of these groups and offer new perspectives on the tri-racial nature of frontier society. Africans as well as Indians played significant roles in Spain's settlement of the Americas. On arrival in Florida the Africans ran away from their captors to Indian villages. The Spanish, perceiving an alliance of non-white groups, sought to separate them, and passed special legislation forbidding living or trading between the two groups. There were continuous episodes of violence by the Indians who resisted Spanish labor and tribute demands, efforts to convert them, and changes in their social practices. Villages were reduced to mission sites where they could more readily supply the Spaniards with food and labor. Indian and black surrogates were used to fight the English and helped build the massive stone fort at St. Augustine. The end of the Spanish Mission system came with the war of 1700, English forces from the Carolinas raided mission sites killing thousands of Indians and taking many into slavery. The Spaniards lacked regular troops and relied heavily on Indians and Africans during these raids. The Seven Years War ended with the Treaty of Paris that required Spain to deliver Florida to England. The entire Spanish population including the black villagers of Mose, Yamassees, and other nations evacuated to Cuba. After centuries of warfare, dislocation, and disease, the native population was decimated. (NL)
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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990-Mar-24
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Historical Materials
Pages: 25
Landers, Jane. “Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida.” American Historical Review 95.1 (February, 1990): 1-34.
Focuses on the history and significance of the town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose in Florida based on historical and archeological research. Lure of Spanish Florida for fugitive slaves from British colonies due to a liberal religious sanctuary policy; Political significance of Mose black militia in defense against British attacks; Role of Mose settlers in ethnic and racial diversity in Spanish Florida.
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Riordan, Patrick. “Finding Freedom in Florida: Native Peoples, African Americans, and Colonists, 1670-1816.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, 1996, pp. 24–43.
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Siebert, Wilbur H. “Slavery and White Servitude in East Florida, 1726 to 1776.” The Florida Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, 1931, pp. 3–23.
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Florida's Seminole Wars 1817-1858 by Joe Knetsch
Call Number: E83.817.K54 2003 Florida
ISBN: 9780738524245
Publication Date: 2003-04-30
Among the most well known of Florida's native peoples, the Seminole Indians frustrated troops of militia and volunteer soldiers for decades during the first half of the nineteenth century in the ongoing struggle to keep hold of their ancestral lands. While careers and reputations of American military and political leaders were made and destroyed in the mosquito-infested swamps of Florida's interior, the Seminoles and their allies, including the Miccosukee tribe and many escaped slaves, managed to wage war on their own terms. The study of guerrilla warfare tactics employed by the Seminoles may have aided modern American forces fighting in Vietnam, Cambodia, and other regions. Years before the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Florida witnessed a clash of wills and ways that prompted three wars unlike any others in America's history, although many of the same policies and mistakes were made in the Indian wars west of the Mississippi.

Boyd, Mark F. “Events at Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River, 1808-1818.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, 1937, pp. 55–96.
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Murdoch, Richard K. “The Return of Runaway Slaves, 1790-1794.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, 1959, pp. 96–113.
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Wright, J. Leitch. “A Note on the First Seminole War as Seen by the Indians, Negroes, and Their British Advisers.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 34, no. 4, 1968, pp. 565–575.
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Africans and Seminoles by Daniel F. Littlefield
Call Number: E99.S28 L57
ISBN: 0837195292
Publication Date: 1977-08-05
A new edition of a standard work documenting the interrelationship of two racial cultures in antebellum Florida and Oklahoma
Amidst a Storm of Bullets by Frank Laumer (Editor); Seminole Wars Historic Foundation Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: E83.835 .P875 1998 Florida
ISBN: 1879852594
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
The Black Seminoles by Kenneth W. Porter (Editor)
Call Number: E99.S28 P67 2013 Florida
ISBN: 9780813044880
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
"A powerful and stirring story."--San Antonio Express-News ; "An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would--without exaggeration--defeat armed forces both white and Indian, make possible settlement of the West, earn the country's highest military honors, and have nothing to show for it."--Miami Herald ; "This fascinating story chronicles the lives of fugitive slaves who aligned themselves with Seminole Indians in Florida beginning in the early 1800s, fought with them in the Second Seminole War, and were removed, along with them to Indian Territory, where they struggled to remain free. To prevent reenslavement, their remarkable leader, John Horse, led much of the group to Mexico. . . . Recommended."--Library Journal ; "Porter spoke directly with Chief Horse's descendants and with older black Seminoles who either knew him or had heard first-hand stories about him. . . . A gripping account of a people's struggle both for identity and freedom."--Naples Daily News ; "This book's sweep is broad, its story is provocative, and the human saga it evokes is compelling. No exercise in political correctness, this is a detailed, factual account of a remarkable people's struggle for survival over multiple generations and in the face of calamitous challenges. This history will surprise, while it intrigues. Kenneth Porter has made an enduring contribution, for which we are indebted to him."--Tampa Tribune
The exiles of Florida; : or, The crimes committed by our government against the Maroons who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish laws. by Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed) 1795-1864
Call Number: E83.817 .G45 1858 Florida
Publication Date: 1964
A facsim. reproduction of the 1858 ed., with introd.by Arthur W. Thompson.
The Florida Wars by Virginia B. Peters
Call Number: E83.817 .P46 Florida
ISBN: 0208017194
Publication Date: 1979-03-01
Florida's Peace River Frontier by Canter Brown
Call Number: F317.P37 B76 1991 Florida
ISBN: 9780813010373
Publication Date: 1991-03-20
Peace River is a location near Lake Hancock, north of present-day Bartow. Seminole hunting towns on Peace River lay in a five or six mile wide belt of land centered on and running down the river from Lake Hancock to below present-day Fort Meade. Oponay, who also was named Ochacona Tustenatty, was sent into Florida as a representative to the Seminoles on behalf of the Creek chiefs remaining loyal to the United States during the Seminole War. Oponay occupied the land adjacent to Lake Hancock and Saddle Creek. Peter McQueen and his party occupied the area to the south of Bartow. Quite likely their settlement included the remains of Seminole lodges and other facilities located on the west bank near the great ford of the river at Fort Meade. This important strategic position would have allowed the Red Sticks (Indians) to control not only access to the hunting grounds to the south, but communication and the trade with the Cuban fishermen at Charlotte Harbor, as well as the passage of representatives of Spain and England through the harbor.
Freedom on the Border by Kevin Mulroy
Call Number: E99.S28 M84 1993 Florida
ISBN: 0896722503
Publication Date: 2003-09-15
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, black runaways braved an escape from slavery in an unprecedented alliance with Seminole Indians in Florida. This is the story of the maroons’ ethnogenesis in Florida, their removal to the West, their role in the Texas Indian Wars, and the fate of their long quest for liberty and self-determination along both sides of the Rio Grande. Their tale is rich, colorful, and epic, stretching from the swamps of the Southeast to the desert Southwest. From a borderlands mosaic of slave hunters, corrupt Indian agents, Texas filibusters, Mexican revolutionaries, French invaders, Apache and Comanche raiders, frontier outlaws, lawmen, and Buffalo Soldiers, emerges a saga of enslavement, flight, exile, and ultimately freedom.
History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon
Call Number: E83.835 .M3 1991 Florida
ISBN: 9780813010977
Publication Date: 2010-03-24
By the third decade of the 19th century the growing American nation had expanded so far into the Florida peninsula that in 1832 a group of Seminole tribal chiefs accepted the terms of a treaty which provided for the removal of their tribes to the West. Wiley Thompson was appointed to supervise the migration.
In Bitterness and in Tears by Sean Michael O'Brien
Call Number: E381 .O27 2005
ISBN: 9781592286812
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
A gripping account of the Creek War of 1813, the Seminole War of 1818, and the tragic displacement by the U.S. Army of the defeated Creeks and other Native Americans to marginal lands west of the Mississippi. The Creek War of 1813 - 1814 and its extension, the First Seminole War of 1818, had significant consequences for the growth of the United States. Beginning as a civil war between Creek factions, the struggle escalated into a war between the Creeks and the U.S. after insurgent Red Sticks massacred over 250 whites and mixed-bloods at Fort Mims on the Alabama River on August 30, 1813 - the worst frontier massacre in U.S. history. After seven months of bloody fighting, U.S. forces inflicted a devastating defeat on the Red Sticks at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River on March 27, 1814. It was the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by Native Americans. The defeat of the Creeks, the only serious impediment to U.S. westward expansion, opened millions of acres of land to white settlers, and firmly established the Cotton Kingdom and slavery in the Deep South.For southeaster Native Americans, the war resulted in the destruction of their civilization and forced removal west of the Mississippi. O'Brien presents both the American and Native American perspectives of this important episode in U.S. history. He also examines the roles of the neighbouring tribes and African-Americans who lived in the Creek nation. IN BITTERNESS AND IN TEARS is a tale for the ages, thrilling and moving, a pivotal point in the tragic and heroic saga that is our national history.
Indian removal; : the emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians by Foreman, Grant 1869-1953
Call Number: E78 .I5 F8 1953 Florida
Publication Date: [1953]
"This book is the account of the removal of the southern Indians. In the North weaker and more primitive tribes yielded with comparatively small resistance to the power and chicane of the white man. A different situation in the southern states called into requisition different methods and resulted in a more complicated story. At least four of the tribes of southern Indians had so far advanced in learning and culture as to establish themselves permanently on the soil, build homes and farms, cultivate the land, raise herds and varied crops, including cotton which they carded, spun, and wove into cloth with which they clothed themselves. They laid out roads, built mills, engaged in commerce, and sent their children to schools conducted by the missionaries ... Naturally, a people of such achievements, aware of their rights under prior possession and treaty guarantees with the national government, stubbornly resisted the aggressions of the whites. The forcible uprooting and expulsion of sixty thousand such people over a period of more than a decade, developed a story without parallel in the history of this country and resulted in a vast accumulation of manuscript material from which this account is mainly written"--Preface.
Letters from the Frontiers by George A. (George Archibald) 18 McCall (Created by)
Call Number: F315 .M22 2016 Florida
ISBN: 9781374043398
Publication Date: 2016-08-29
Like Beads on a String by Brent Richards Weisman
Call Number: E99 .S28 W43 1989 Florida
ISBN: 9780817304119
Publication Date: 1989-02-28
Florida's Seminole Indians are exerting an ever increasing influence on crucial issues in state politics, economy, and law. From a position of near obscurity less than a century ago, these Native Americans have staged a remarkable comeback to take an active hand in shaping Florida society, present and future. Anthropologists have long been fascinated with the Seminoles and have often remarked upon their ability to adapt to new circumstances while preserving the core features of their traditional culture. Early observers of the Seminoles also commented on the dynamic tension that existed for the individual, clan, and tribe, that drew them together, "like beads on a string," into a resilient and viable society. This study traces the emergence of these qualities in the late prehistoric and early historic period in the Southeast and demonstrates their influence on the course of Seminole culture history.
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and their quest for freedom in the Atlantic World by Millett, Nathaniel
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2003
Massacre! by Frank Laumer
Call Number: E83.835 .L37 Florida
ISBN: 0813004799
Publication Date: 1968-01-01
History of Dade's Massacre, a battle between the U.S. Army under the command of Major Francis L. Dade and the Seminole Indians during the Florida War or Second Seminole War. There were three survivors of Major Dade's Regiment.
The Negro in the reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877 by Richardson, Joe Martin
Call Number: F316 .R5 Florida
Publication Date: 1965
Notices of Florida and the campaigns by Cohen, M. M. (Myer M.)
Call Number: E83.835 .C67 1836 Florida
Publication Date: 1964
A facsim. reproduction of the 1836 ed., with introd. by O. Z. Tyler, Jr.
The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida War by Sprague, J. T. (John Titcomb) 1810-1878
Call Number: E83.835 .S77 1848 Florida
Publication Date: 1964
A facsim. reproduction of the 1848 ed., with introd. by John K. Mahon
Red Patriots by Charles H. Coe; Charlton W. Tebeau (Introduction by)
Call Number: E99 .S28 C6 1898 Florida
ISBN: 0813004012
Publication Date: 1974-09-01
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Red Patriots: The Story Of The Seminoles Charles H. Coe The Editor publishing company, 1898 Seminole Indians
Reminiscences of the Second Seminole War by John Bemrose; Mahon (Editor)
Call Number: E83.835 .B4 Florida
ISBN: 187985273X
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
John Bemrose came from England to the U.S. in September 1831. When he enlisted in the army on November 1, he was 18 years old and gave his occupation as chemist. He was assigned to the Second Regiment of Artillery, and found himself in Florida in the midst of the Second Seminole War. This record of his service is unique in having been written by an enlisted man in an era when few enlisted men were literate. His recollections of the everyday life and military and medical struggles are fresh and insightful.
The Seminole Wars by John Missall; Mary Lou Missall
Call Number: E83.817 .M57 2004 Florida
ISBN: 9780813027159
Publication Date: 2016-09-20
"In this insightful book the conflicts known as the Seminole Wars are placed in the larger context of American history. Twenty-first-century Seminole Indians and all other Floridians have been shaped in part by those nineteenth-century events."--Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History The Seminole Wars were the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all the Indian wars fought by this nation. Written for a popular audience, this illustrated history is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of all three wars. John and Mary Lou Missall examine not only the wars that were fought between 1817 and 1858 but also the events leading up to them and their place in American history. In particular it sheds new light on the relationship between the wars, the issue of slavery, and the prevailing attitudes toward Native Americans. While fought in Florida, the Seminole Wars were a major concern to the nation as a whole. In addition to the issue of slavery, a culture of national arrogance and religious fervor fostered an attitude that allowed the conflicts to happen. The first war, led by General Andrew Jackson, was part of an attempt to wrest Florida from Spain and had international repercussions that led to a lengthy congressional investigation. The second, which lasted seven years, took the lives of more than 1,500 soldiers and resulted in the forced removal of more than 3,000 Seminole Indians from Florida and the deaths of countless others. During 1836 and 1837 it was the predominant story in national newspapers, and public support for the war was fueled in part by fear among slaveholders that black Seminoles might inspire a general slave uprising. The third war, fought on the eve of the Civil War, was an attempt to remove the final remnants of the Seminole Nation from their homes in the Everglades. The authors describe the wars as both a military and a moral embarrassment--a sad chapter in American history that has been overshadowed by the Civil War and by Indian wars fought west of the Mississippi. The conflicts were the nation's first guerrilla wars. They offered the country its first opportunity for aggressive territorial expansion and highlighted the dangers of an inflexible government policy. Analyzing events of the wars against larger issues, the authors observe: "It often seems as if the Seminole Nation was the nail being pounded by the hammer of American policy. What interested us most was why the hammer was swung in the first place." Based on original research that makes use of diaries, military reports, and archival newspapers, this work will be of interest to general readers as well as historians of Florida and Native American life and to those who study the antebellum South and the early American Republic. John and Mary Lou Missall serve on the board of directors of the Seminole Wars Historic Foundation, Inc. A volume in the Florida History and Culture series, edited by Raymond Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino
Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860 by Julia F. Smith
Call Number: E445 .F6 S65 Florida
ISBN: 0813003237
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
Swamp Sailors by George E. Buker
Call Number: E83.835 .B8 Florida
ISBN: 9780813003528
Publication Date: 1975-08-01
The territorial papers of the United States by Carter, Clarence Edwin 1881-1961
Call Number: E173 .C3 Florida
Publication Date: 1934-
v. 22. The territory of Florida, 1821-1824 -- v. 23. The territory of Florida, 1824-1828 -- v. 24. The territory of Florida, 1828-1834 -- v. 25. The territory of Florida, 1834-1839 -- v. 26. The territory of Florida, 1839-1845

Adams, George R. “The Caloosahatchee Massacre: Its Significance in the Second Seminole War.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 1970, pp. 368–380.
JSTOR Article
Anderson, Robert L. “The End of an Idyll.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, 1963, pp. 35–47.
JSTOR article
Bittle, George C. “First Campaign of the Second Seminole War.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1, 1967, pp. 39–45.
JSTOR Article
Bittle, George C. “The Florida Militia's Role in the Battle of Withlacoochee.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, 1966, pp. 303–311.
JSTOR Article
Boyd, Mark F. “Events at Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River, 1808-1818.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, 1937, pp. 55–96.
JSTOR Article
Braund, Kathryn E. H. “The Creek Indians, Blacks, and Slavery.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 57, no. 4, 1991, pp. 601–636.
JSTOR Article
Brown, Canter. “Race Relations in Territorial Florida, 1821-1845.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, 1995, pp. 287–307.
JSTOR Article
Brown, Canter Jr. "Tales of Angola: Free Blacks, Red Stick Creeks, and International Intrigue in Spanish Southwest Florida, 1812-1821."
Book excerpt from "Go South the Trumpet! Selections of Florida's African American History." David H. Jackson, Jr. and Canter Brown, Jr., editors. Published by University of Tampa Press.
The exiles of Florida; : or, The crimes committed by our government against the Maroons who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish laws
Full Text found in the Florida History and Heritage General Collection in the UF Digital Collection.
The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida War
Full Text found in the Florida History and Heritage Collection in the UF Digital Collection.
Susan A. Miller "Seminoles and Africans under Seminole Law: Sources and Discourses of Tribal Sovereignty and "Black Indian" Entitlement"
White, John C., Jr. "American Military Strategy in the Second Seminole War.".
Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Masters of Science of Military Studies, April l995
Brown, Canter. “The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 4, 1995, pp. 419–442.
JSTOR Article

Oliver, Andrea L. "Stony the Road We Trod: Aspiration, Agency and Change in Black Madison County, Florida 1929 1990."
PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 2010

Freedom in the Family by Tananarive Due; Patricia Stephens Due
Call Number: E185.97.D76 D84 2004
ISBN: 0345447344
Publication Date: 2003-12-30
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement--its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements--and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning two generations of struggles is an unforgettable story.
Old South, New South, down South? by Irvin D. S. WINSBORO
Call Number: E185.93.F5 O43 2009 Florida
ISBN: 9781933202440
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
How does a state, tarnished with a racist, violent history, emerge from the modern civil rights movement with a reputation for tolerance and progression? Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement exposes the image, illusion, and reality behind Florida's hidden story of racial discrimination and violence. By exploring multiple perspectives on racially motivated events, such as black agency, political stonewalling, and racist assaults, this collection of nine essays reconceptualizes the civil rights legacy of the Sunshine State. Its dissection of local, isolated acts of rebellion reveals a strategic, political concealment of the once dominant, often overlooked, old south attitude towards race in Florida.

Duffourc, Danielle. "Social Equity and the One Florida Initiative: Minority Student Admission, Retention, and Graduation in the University System."
Dissertation, Florida State University, 2010
Hughes, Cynthia C. "A Study of Social Control in Florida: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on the Designation of Individuals as Habitual or Career Offenders."
PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 2007

The Apalachicola Courier (Apalachicola [Fla.]) 1839-1840
available in microform at UCF (Orlando) and unspecified at UF (Gainesville)
Apalachicola Gazette (Apalachicola, Fla.) 1836-1840
available as unspecified at UF (Gainesville) and original at the University of Georgia (Athens)
Jacksonville Courier (Jacksonville, East Fla.) 1835-1838
available as unspecified at UF (Gainesville)
Key West Enquirer (Key West, Fla.) 1834-183?
available as unspecified at UF (Gainesville)
NILE'S WEEKLY REGISTER
free ebook through Google Books
St. Augustine News (St. Augustine, Fla.) 189?-1???
available in microform at UCF (Orlando) and unspecified at UF (Gainesville)
Tampa morning tribune. (Tampa, Fla.) 1904-1958
Also called Tampa Sunday Tribune.
available in microform at University of Miami (Coral Gables) and Tmapa-Hillsborough County Public Library (Tampa) and as unspecified at UF (Gainesville)

Florida Frontiers TV - Free Black Settlements in Spanish Colonial Florida
Free black communities were established in Spanish Colonial Florida as enslaved people escaped from British colonies to the north.

Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980 -- Dr. J. Michael Butler

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Dr. Mike Butler presented “Confederate Imagery and Police Brutality: Racial Unrest and the Long Civil Rights Movement in one Florida Community” in the final seminar of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) series on Thursday, Nov. 16, 4-6 p.m., in Building B, Room 202, Highlands Campus.

Dr. Butler is a professor of history at Flagler College. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Spring Hill College, a Jesuit college in Mobile, Ala., where he was a President’s Scholar. He received both his master’s degree and doctorate in history from the University of Mississippi, where he specialized in 20th century southern history with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement.

Beyond Integration by J. Michael Butler
Call Number: E185.93 .F5 B88 2016
ISBN: 9781469627472
Publication Date: 2016-05-16
In 1975, Florida's Escambia County and the city of Pensacola experienced a pernicious chain of events. A sheriff's deputy killed a young black man at point-blank range. Months of protests against police brutality followed, culminating in the arrest and conviction of the Reverend H. K. Matthews, the leading civil rights organizer in the county. Viewing the events of Escambia County within the context of the broader civil rights movement, J. Michael Butler demonstrates that while activism of the previous decade destroyed most visible and dramatic signs of racial segregation, institutionalized forms of cultural racism still persisted. In Florida, white leaders insisted that because blacks obtained legislative victories in the 1960s, African Americans could no longer claim that racism existed, even while public schools displayed Confederate imagery and allegations of police brutality against black citizens multiplied. Offering a new perspective on the literature of the black freedom struggle, Beyond Integration reveals how with each legal step taken toward racial equality, notions of black inferiority became more entrenched, reminding us just how deeply racism remained--and still remains--in our society.
Long Past Slavery: representing race in the Federal Writers' Project by Catherine A. Stewart
Call Number: E185.625 .S763 2016
ISBN: 9781469626260
Publication Date: 2016-04-25
From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. Stewart demonstrates how project administrators, such as the folklorist John Lomax; white and black interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston; and the ex-slaves themselves fought to shape understandings of black identity. She reveals that some influential project employees were also members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, intent on memorializing the Old South. Stewart places ex-slaves at the center of debates over black citizenship to illuminate African Americans' struggle to redefine their past as well as their future in the face of formidable opposition. By shedding new light on a critically important episode in the history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a prominent archive used to construct that history.
Victory after the Fall by H. K. Matthews; J. Michael Butler
Call Number: F316.23 .M38 A3 2007
ISBN: 9781603060004
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Reverend H. K. Matthews is one of the unsung heroes of the Southern civil rights movement. Among his activism, he participated in the first sit-in demonstrations in northwest Florida, and led a campaign against the use of Confederate symbols at an area high school, and much more. And he served time in state prison for a crime that never occurred.However, his memoir Victory After the Fall is much more than one man?s account of his life experiences. It is a first-person narrative of the challenges and opportunities blackcitizens encountered before, during, and after the 1960s struggle for racial equality. Matthews reveals what impact the unique community of Snow Hill, Alabama, had upon him as a young boy. He describes the influence other pioneer activists such as Rev. W. C. Dobbins had on his life, and tells of the close encounters he had with the Klu Klux Klan in Florida. The book also provides insight into the impact his activities had upon race relations in Pensacola and how his ordeal still impacts the city.Victory After the Fall provides a fascinating journey into the civil rights battlegrounds of northwest Florida and beyond, but it is also a story of moral courage and personal redemption. Matthews tells how he lost everything as a result of his ceaseless campaign for human dignity and left Pensacola a broken man. But he discovered in Alabama that some things could never be taken from him. This book outlines the rise, fall, and ultimate victory that a remarkable person endured because of his efforts to improve relations between his fellow men.
Reforming Jim Crow by Kimberley S. Johnson
Call Number: E185.61.J694 2010
ISBN: 9780195387421
Publication Date: 2010-04-16
Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigid caste system. While the 1950s was a watershed era in Southern and civil rights history, the tendency has been to paint the preceding Jim Crow era as a brutal system that featured none of the progressive reform impulses so apparent at the federal level and in the North. As Kimberley Johnson shows in this pathbreaking reappraisal of the Jim Crow era, this argument is too simplistic, and is true to neither the 1950s nor the long era of Jim Crow that finally solidified in 1910. Focusing on the political development of the South between 1910 and 1954, Johnson considers the genuine efforts by white and black progressives to reform the system without destroying it. These reformers assumed that the system was there to stay, and therefore felt that they had to work within it in order to modernize the South. Consequently, white progressives tried to install a better--meaning more equitable--separate-but-equal system, and elite black reformers focused on ameliorative (rather than confrontational) solutions that would improve the lives of African Americans. Johnson concentrates on local and state reform efforts throughout the South in areas like schooling, housing, and labor. Many of the reforms made a difference, but they had the ironic impact of generating more demand for social change among blacks. She is able to show how demands slowly rose over time, and how the system laid the seeds of its own destruction. The reformers' commitment to a system that was less unequal--albeit not truly equal--and more like the North led to significant policy changes over time. As Johnson powerfully demonstrates, our lack of knowledge about the cumulative policy transformations resulting from the Jim Crow reform impulse impoverishes our understanding of the Civil Rights revolution. Reforming Jim Crow rectifies that.
St. Petersburg's Historic 22nd Street South by Jon Wilson; Rosalie Peck
Call Number: F319 .S24 P43 2006 Florida
ISBN: 9781596290839
Publication Date: 2006-02-13
With this powerful, evocative new book, St. Petersburg residents Jon Wilson and Rosalie Peck present an informative narrative that explores the history of St. Petersburg, Florida's most vibrant African American neighborhood: 22nd Street South or "the deuces." Throughout the city's history, no other area has personified strength for the African American community like this segregation-era thoroughfare. A haven during the brutal Jim Crow years, 22nd Street South was a place where prominent businessmen and community leaders were the role models and residents and neighbors looked out for one another. The close-knit community encouraged strong, positive values even as its members were treated as second-class citizens in the wider world. Authors Wilson and Peck tell the story of this unique district and how its people and events contributed to and helped to shape the history of St. Petersburg in the context of the greater South and the Civil Rights Movement.
The Pain and the Promise: The struggle for civil rights in Tallahassee, Florida by Glenda Rabby
Call Number: F319 .T14 R33 2016 Florida
ISBN: 9780820350059
Publication Date: 2016-02-15
This study of the civil rights movement in Florida's capital during the 1950s and 60s shows that Tallahassee was a key player in the South in that era. Drawing on eye witness accounts and local newspaper coverage, the author chronicles events and analyzes the shifting goals of the movement.
Remembering Paradise Park: tourism and segregation at Silver Springs by Lu Vickers; Cynthia Wilson-Graham
Call Number: E185.93.F5V53 2015 Florida
ISBN: 9780813061528
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Paradise Park was the "colored only" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. Together the two parks comprised one of the biggest recreational facilities in the country before Disney World. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River--blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they seldom crossed the invisible line in the water. Full of vivid photographs, vintage advertisements, and interviews with employees and patrons, Remembering Paradise Park portrays a place of delight and leisure during the painful era of Jim Crow. Racial violence was at its height in Florida--the famous Groveland rape case happened right as Paradise Park opened--and many African Americans saw the park as a safe place for families. It was a popular vacation spot for the area's black community, one of the most cohesive and prosperous in the South. Tracing the color line through Florida's most famous spring, this book compares the park to other tourist destinations set aside for African Americans in the state and across the country. Though Silver Springs was Florida's only attraction to operate a parallel facility for African Americans, Paradise Park has been just a whisper in the story of Florida tourism until now.

Zora Neale Hurston and Eatonville --Dr. Anna Lillios

Dr. Anna Lillios is an English Professor at the University of Central Florida. She teaches a variety of Literature courses. In addition to her teaching, Dr. Lilios is an accomplished author. Her latest book, "Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings," and her essay compilation, Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World are two of her most notable works.

Reflections from Zora! by Maya Angelou (Contribution by); Alice Walker (Contribution by); N. Y. Nathiri (Contribution by); Winifred Hurston Clark (Contribution by); Evelyn Hester (Contribution by); Ella Dinkins (Contribution by)
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z848 2014
ISBN: 9781886104686
Publication Date: 2014-01-15
For 25 years, the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities has been held in the historic town of Eatonville, Florida, the oldest incorporated African American municipality in the United States. The event celebrates the life and work of the town's most famous resident, writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. This book features presentations made at the event over the past quarter century from such notable figures as Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, and many others.
Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life by Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z797 2005
ISBN: 1592132898
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
A historian hoping to reconstruct the social world of all-black towns or the segregated black sections of other towns in the South finds only scant traces of their existence. In Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, Tiffany Ruby Patterson uses the ethnographic and literary work of Zora Neale Hurston to augment the few official documents, newspaper accounts, and family records that pertain to these places hidden from history. Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction focused on the day-to-day life in all-black social spaces as well as the Negro farthest down in labor camps. Patterson shows how Hurston's work complements the fragmented historical record, using the folklore and stories to provide a full description of these people of these towns as active human subjects, shaped by history and shaping their private world. Beyond the view and domination of whites in these spaces, black people created their own codes of social behavior, honor, and justice. In Patterson's view Hurston renders her subjects faithfully and with respect for their individuality and endurance, enabling all people to envision an otherwise inaccessible world.
Sorrow's Kitchen: the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston by Mary E. Lyons
Call Number: PS3515.U789 Z78 1990
ISBN: 0020444451
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
Lyons offers the biography of one of the greatest African-American woman writers, Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote Mules & Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora in Florida by Stephen J. Glassman (Editor); Kathryn L. Seidel (Editor)
Call Number: PS3515.U789 Z955 1991
ISBN: 0813010500
Publication Date: 1991-05-20
Following years of neglect, Zora Neale Hurston's status in American letters is restored: she is now recognized as one of the foremost African-American writers of the twentieth century--an artist of the Harlem Renaissance and a native Florida writer. Zora in Florida focuses on the place that nurtured and inspired her work, the frontier wilderness of central Florida and the all-black town of Eatonville.
Jump at de Sun by A. P. Porter; Lucy Ann Hurston (Foreword by)
Call Number: Children's Book PS3515 .U789 Z83 1992
ISBN: 0876145462
Publication Date: 1992-08-01
In Jump at de Sun, A.P. Porter takes readers on the lonely and exciting road that brought Zora from Eatonville to a place in history.
The Life and Times of Joseph E. Clark by Olga Mitchell; Gloria Magbie; Marion Elden (As told to)
Call Number: E185.97.C583 M58 2012 Florida
ISBN: 9781479306428
Publication Date: 2012-10-04
On August 15, 1887, 22 years out of slavery a group of 27 black men, including Joseph E. Clark, met in the Oddfellows Hall, a building donated to the new community by Lewis Lawrence, and voted on the question of incorporating the Town of Eatonville in Orange County, Florida in response to a legal notice advertised in the "Maitland Courier." These men, all residing within the boundaries of the proposed town, voted unanimously to incorporate the municipality, Eatonville, named for Capt. Josiah Eaton of Maitland, is recognized today as the oldest incorporated all-black town in the United States.

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (streaming video)
Zora Neale Hurston, trailblazing novelist and pioneering anthropologist, is responsible for establishing African-American vernacular as a valid voice in literature. With the rediscovery by the modern academic community of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston became one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon. This definitive film biography portrays Hurston in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, controversial, and always fiercely original. The program intersperses insights from scholars and rare footage of the rural South (some of it shot by Hurston herself) with reenactments of a revealing 1943 radio interview—and examines her life both as a writer and as an ethnographer. (84 minutes).

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
“I have the strength to walk my own path, no matter how hard, in my search for reality, and not cling to the splendid wagon of desperate illusions.” A writer of novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and essays, Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative talent. This illuminating biography of Hurston—a compelling story of a free spirit who achieved national prominence yet died in obscurity—examines the rich legacy of her writings, which include Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tell My Horse, and Dust Tracks on a Road. Interviews with Lucy Anne Hurston, Zora’s niece and author of the biography Speak, So You Can Speak Again, and with Henry Louis Gates Jr., W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, are featured. The program amply demonstrates that Hurston truly had, as it said in her high school yearbook, “A heart with room for every joy.” A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (42 minutes)

Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive
Launched in 2006 by Anna Lillios, Mark L. Kamrath, and J.D. Applen, the Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive has two goals. Its primary purpose is to provide an academic site that will provide a repository of biographical, historical, critical, and other contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work. The site also seeks to make available various teaching resources so that both teachers and students can more fully appreciate the cultural and literary richness of Hurston's numerous writings. With time and funding, we hope to also develop a digital edition of Hurston's writings.

A secondary goal of the site is to work closely with the city of Eatonville, Florida, The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, and other interested parties in documenting Hurston's accomplishments both as a regional ethnographer and anthropologist and one of the world's most talented African–American women writers.

Stetson Kennedy: The Quiet Florida Legend -- Dr. Ron Cooper

Dr. Ron L. Cooper is a Senior Professor in Philosophy and Humanities at the College of Central Florida.

White Terror by Allen W. Trelease
Call Number: E668 .T7 1971
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
"Allen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during the Reconstruction period, and based as it is on massive research in primary sources, it remains the most comprehensive treatment of the subject. In addition to the Klan, Trelease discusses other night-riding groups, including the Ghouls, the White Brotherhood, and the Knights of the White Camellia. He treats the entire South state by state, details the close link between the Klan and the Democratic party, and recounts Republican efforts to resist the Klan."
The Florida Slave:interviews with ex-slaves WPA Writers Project, 1930s and testimony of ex-slaves, Joint Congressional Committee, Jacksonville, 1871 by Stetson Kennedy (Editor); Joyce Kennedy (As told to)
Call Number: F316.S74 2011 Florida
ISBN: 1886104484
Publication Date: 2011-10-25
Author and activist Stetson Kennedy was born in Jacksonville, Florida in1916 and he died there in 2011. This book was the last project he completed. Kennedy was a human rights activist, and author of many books on Florida history and culture. He was head of the Florida Writers Project unit on folklore, oral history, and socio-ethnic studies between 1937 and 1942, resulting in the classic book Palmetto Country. Following World War II, Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, an experience he detailed in the book The Klan Unmasked. In this newly compiled and edited work, Stetson Kennedy offers a fresh perspective on this collection of Florida slave narratives and their relevance to contemporary society.
Stetson Kennedy: applied folklore and cultural advocacy by Peggy A. Bulger
Call Number: GR55.K456B85 2017 Florida
ISBN: 1886104891
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
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 Writers' 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.
Southern Exposure by Stetson Kennedy
Call Number: F215.K33 2011
ISBN: 9780817356729
Publication Date: 2011-02-28
Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who's Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the "hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever." The first paperback edition brings to a new generation of readers Kennedy's searing profile of Dixie before the civil rights movement.
The Klan Unmasked by Stetson Kennedy (Preface by); David Pilgrim (Introduction by)
Call Number: HS2330.K64 K38 2011
ISBN: 9780817356743
Publication Date: 2011-03-15
Stetson Kennedy's infiltration and exposure of the KKK.
Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan by Richard Bowers; National Geographic Kids Staff
Call Number: PN6728. S9 B69 2012
ISBN: 9781426309151
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force. It is the story Ku Klux Klan's development from a club to a huge money-making machine powered by the powers of fear and hate and of the folklorist who--along with many other activists-- took on the Klan by wielding the power of words. Above all, it tells the story of Superman himself--a modern mythical hero and an embodiment of the cultural reality of his times--from the Great Depression to the present.
Jim Crow Guide: the way it was by Stetson Kennedy
Call Number: E184. A1 K35 1990
ISBN: 0813009871
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
"A tongue-in-cheek travel guide to the United States as Stetson Kennedy saw it in the 1950s when segregation was still firmly in place and when there were many barriers in housing, education, and job opportunities for blacks, Native Americans, Jews, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and almost anyone who was not a white Protestant. . . . The Guide was [first] published in Paris in 1956 by Jean-Paul Sartre because the author could find no American publisher who was willing to issue the book. In this new edition, Kennedy has added an afterword that provides his impressions of contemporary 'desegregated racism'."--Florida Historical Quarterly Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls "the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming." The mock guidebook covers every area of activity where the tentacles of Jim Crow reached. From the texts of state statutes, municipal ordinances, federal regulations, and judicial rulings, Kennedy exhumes the legalistic skeleton of Jim Crow in a work of permanent value for scholars and of exceptional appeal for general readers.

Official Stetson Kennedy Website
Clan of the Fiery Cross Episodes 1-16
According to Kennedy, in 1946, he provided information – including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals – to the writers of the Superman radio program, intending to strip away the Klan's mystique. There was a series of 16 episodes in which Superman took on the Klan. He claimed that the trivialization of the Klan's rituals and codewords likely had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership.
Stetson Kennedy Papers (University of Georgia)
Georgia State University Library's Southern Labor Archives' digitized collection of Stetson Kennedy papers reflect his life and work, particularly in the areas of labor and civil rights.
Stetson Kennedy collection 1916-1950 (New York Public Library)
Research files on organizations, individuals, and subjects collected for Kennedy's books, I RODE WITH THE KU KLUX KLAN (1954) and SOUTHERN EXPOSURE (1946), and newspaper and magazine articles. Includes correspondence, transcripts of articles, first person accounts of Klan meetings, notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, and printed material including publications. Subjects include the Klan in Georgia and Tennessee; Klan leaders such as J.B Stoner; the Columbians, a Georgia white power group; the Christian Americans and the right-to-work movement in the 1940s; and Georgia politics, including Eugene and Herman Tallmadge.

Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0354. Southern Oral History Program Collection
Veteran activist Stetson Kennedy describes his desire to strike down segregation in the American South and some of the ways he translated this impulse into action, including his infiltration of racist organizations. Kennedy describes himself as utterly opposed to segregation and racism, and his total devotion to a broad cause allowed him to avoid the internecine battles of the civil rights era. Despite his satisfaction with some of the victories of the civil rights era, Kennedy is not optimistic about the future of race in the United States.
Interview with Stetson Kennedy Date: September 22, 1981
Three reel to reel recordings. In the interview, Kennedy discusses Stanley Papio; the WPA and the Federal Writers Project; working with anthropologist/writer Zora Neale Hurston; Carita Doggett Corse; collecting folklife during the 1930s; painter Mario Sanchez; his many books; infiltrating the KKK; work with labor unions; and the reprinting of the Folk Songs of Florida by Alton Morris, and Kennedy's Palmetto Country. Stetson Kennedy was one of the earliest folklorists working in Florida. Born in 1916, the Jacksonville native began collecting Northeast Florida folk sayings as a teenager. After a stint at the University of Florida, Kennedy joined the Florida WPA Writers Project in 1937 to administer the folklore, oral history, and ethnic studies section. Among the workers he supervised was novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Soon thereafter he published Palmetto Country, an exploration of Florida folklife edited by Erskine Caldwell. His papers from the WPA are housed within the Florida Folklife Collection. Although he remained a lifelong folklife supporter, in the 1940s and 1950s, Kennedy also worked to end Jim Crow laws and helped exposed the Ku Klux Klan with several publications.
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Official Stetson Kennedy Website
Provides Foundation events, biographical information about Stetson Kennedy, quotes or "Stetsonisms", a list of his books, videos, photos and songs galleries, and articles.

Progressive-Era Women, Women’s Clubs and the Conservation Movement in Florida-- Dr. Leslie Kemp Poole

Dr. Leslie Kemp Poole is an environmental historian at Rollins College where she teaches a range of courses, including environmental history, environmental justice, and women and the environment.

The New History of Florida by Michael Gannon (Editor)
Call Number: F311.5.N49 2012 Florida
ISBN: 9780813044316
Publication Date: 2012-11-04
Read: Chapter 10: Free and Slave, by Jane Landers; Chapter 11: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Peoples, by John K. Mahon and Brent R. Weisman, Chapter 12: U.S. Territory and State, by Daniel L. Schafer

Florida Women: Forestry and Fire
The article is located on page 77 of the link.
The Women of the Early Florida Audubon Society: Agents of History in the Fight to Save State Birds
Article begins on page 33 of the linked PDF.

Florida Women's Heritage Trail
Content include digital copies of the Florida Women's Heritage Trail series publication which "briefly outlines of over 100 women significant in Florida's history". Sponsored by the Florida Dept. of State Division of Historical Resources

The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida: Its Consequence and Implications-- Dr. Robert Cassanello

Dr. Robert Cassanello is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. He describes himself as a “social historian interested in public history.”

The New History of Florida by Michael Gannon (Editor)
Call Number: F311.5.N49 2012 Florida
ISBN: 9780813044316
Publication Date: 2012-11-04
Read: Chapter 10: Free and Slave, by Jane Landers; Chapter 11: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Peoples, by John K. Mahon and Brent R. Weisman, Chapter 12: U.S. Territory and State, by Daniel L. Schafer
Florida's Civil War: terrible sacrifices by Tracy J. Revels
Call Number: E470.7 .R48 2016 Florida
ISBN: 9780881465891
Publication Date: 2016-11-01
Though far from the major theaters of battle, Floridians experienced every facet of the Civil War. While most Florida soldiers fought forthe Confederacy, many Floridians, including former slaves, enlisted with the Union. Families were divided and partisanship tore communities apart. Some Floridians produced salt, beef, and supplies for the Confederacy; others profited during Union occupations. The one notable battle fought in Florida, the Battle of Olustee, was disproportionately bloody. is a true tale of survival, ingenuity, and opportunism. Though the third state to secede, Florida was ignored and unprotected by the Confederacy. The home front was contested, especially in port cities, and many Floridians became refugees. Raids and guerilla activity inflicted misery on civilians. While Confederate patriotism ruled in Middle Florida, in other areas apathy or a growing Unionism led to deprivations and desertion. Slaves fled to freedom and neighbor turned against neighbor. A frontier at the start of the war, the conflict left Florida even more of a wilderness. Florida's Civil War: Terrible Sacrifices highlights the diverse experiences of Florida's population. Whether Confederate or Unionist, free or slave, male or female, no Floridian could escape the war's impact. A concise narrative of life on the home front, this book explores how Floridians endured the war. Women, slaves, and Unionists are considered in detail, as well as how various areas of the state reacted to Federal incursions. The story of Florida's Civil War is complex
The 1st Florida Cavalry Union Volunteers in the Civil War by Sharon Marsh
Call Number: E502.6.F5 M37 2017 Florida
ISBN: 9780998817002
Publication Date: 2017-03-15
The 1st Florida Union Cavalry was formed in 1863 from men primarily from south Alabama and northwest Florida. These men were both deserters from the Confederate Army and men who had avoided conscription or turned eighteen during the war. The regiment was stationed at Fort Barrancas in Pensacola, Florida and served along the upper Gulf Coast with other Union regiments and participated in the Battle of Marianna, FL, the Mobile Campaign and the occupation of Montgomery, AL. The book explores the history of the area before and during the early years of the war and the history of the regiment including information on any engagements the 1st Florida Union Cavalry participated in (locations - then and now, regimental opponents, victors and summaries of the engagements). In addition, it includes data on the individual men who served in the regiment (detailed military data-Union and Confederate, 1860 census, birth and death, burial, and pension information). Together the information provides a glimpse of this area of the deep South during the Civil War.
A Small but Spartan Band by Zack C. Waters; James C. Edmonds; Robert K. Krick (Foreword by)
Call Number: E558.4.W38 2013 Florida
ISBN: 9780817357740
Publication Date: 2013-11-05
A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War's eastern theater. Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have produced a study that covers all units from Florida in the ANV, and does so in an objective and reliable fashion. Drawn from what was then a turbulent and thinly settled frontier region, the Florida troops serving in the Confederacy were never numerous, but they had the good or bad luck of finding themselves at crucial points in several significant battles such as Gettysburg where their conduct continues to be a source of contention. Additionally, the study of these units and their service permits an examination of important topics affecting the Civil War soldier: lack of supplies, the status of folks at home, dissension over civilian control of soldiers and units from the various Confederate states, and widespread and understandable problems of morale. Despite the appalling conditions of combat, these soldiers were capable of the highest courage in combat.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida by Kelly Rodgers
Call Number: Children's Book F316 .R645 2017 Florida
ISBN: 9781493835393
Publication Date: 2016-10-30
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida reader provides teachers with a valuable classroom resource to excite students as they examine social studies content. This engaging nonfiction reader delves deeper into Florida state studies with primary source documents. Build valuable literacy and content area knowledge with this informational text that provides an intimate glimpse of what life was like for Floridians during the Civil War era. Purposefully designed to strengthen student understanding of the material, this book contains text features to increase academic vocabulary, such as headings, glossary, and index. The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida reader connects to Florida state standards for Social Studies and English Language Arts, as well as WIDA and the NCSS/C3 Framework.
The Jackson County War by Daniel R. Weinfeld
Call Number: F317.J2W45 2012 Florida
ISBN: 0817317457
Publication Date: 2012-03-19
The Jackson County War offers original conclusions explaining why Jackson County became the bloodiest region in Reconstruction Florida and is the first book-length treatment of the subject. From early 1869 through the end of 1871, citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered their neighbors by the score. The nearly threeyear frenzy of bloodshed became known as the Jackson County War. The killings, close to one hundred and by some estimates twice that number, brought Jackson County the notoriety of being the most violent county in Florida during the Reconstruction era. Daniel R. Weinfeld has made a thorough investigation of contemporary accounts. He adds an assessment of recently discovered information, and presents a critical evaluation of the standard secondary sources. The Jackson County War focuses on the role of the Freedmen's Bureau, the emergence of white "Regulators," and the development of African American political consciousness and leadership. It follows the community's descent after the Civil War into disorder punctuated by furious outbursts of violence until the county settled into uneasy stability seven years later. The Jackson County War emerges as an emblem of all that could and did go wrong in the uneasy years after Appomattox and that left a residue of hatred and fear that endured for generations.
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Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor by Canter Brown
Call Number: F316 .H34 B76 1997 Florida
ISBN: 0807121371
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821-1874)--a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state--from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart's life and career, Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day--the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in particular--and enriches our understanding of the complexities of Reconstruction. Brown traces Hart's life from his privileged childhood in the newly founded port town of Jacksonville through his service as a volunteer soldier in the Second Seminole War, his education in South Carolina, and the dawn of his legal and political career on Florida's Atlantic frontier to his election as governor in 1872 and his premature death sixteen months later. Brown's multifaceted biography offers a rare glimpse at the persistence of Loyalism in the post-Civil War South and clearly illustrates the pivotal role played by both Loyalists and African Americans in southern politics of that era and how these two groups merged to resist carpetbag rule.
After War Times: an African American childhood in reconstruction-era Florida by T. Thomas Fortune; Daniel R. Weinfeld (Editor); Dawn J. Herd-Clark (Introduction by); Tameka Bradley Hobbs (Afterword by)
Call Number: F317.J2 F67 2014 Florida
ISBN: 9780817318369
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune''s "After War Times," Daniel R. Weinfeld brings together a series of twenty-three autobiographical articles Fortune wrote about his formative childhood during Reconstruction and subsequent move to Washington, DC. By 1890 Fortune had founded a predecessor organization to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. "The Long Civil War: A Historiography of the Consequences of the Civil War."
An essay is presented on historical scholarship of the American Civil War. It argues that researchers often ignore the historiographical aspects, including social, political, and racial issues, of the long-term implications of the conflict. Topics covered include the violent aspects of partisan politics, the process of emancipating slaves during and after the war, and race relations in the American South. Authors mentioned in the essay include Eric Foner, Mark Bradley, and Steven Hahn.
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Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. "The Long Civil War: A Historiography of the Consequences of the Civil War." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 119, no. 2 (2011): 106-53.
Pyne, John, and Gloria Sesso. "A Humanities Approach for Teaching the Reconstruction Era: Encouraging Active Learning in the Classroom."
Examines the challenges and possibilities of teaching Reconstruction in the classroom.
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Citation: Pyne, John, and Gloria Sesso. "A Humanities Approach for Teaching the Reconstruction Era: Encouraging Active Learning in the Classroom." The History Teacher 31, no. 4 (1998): 467-94.

Florida's Antebellum Frontier: White, Black and Native American - Dr. James M. Denham

Dr. James M. Denham is a professor of history and director of the Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College.

A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, by James M. Denham
Call Number: HV6793.F6 D46 1997 Florida
ISBN: 0817308474
Publication Date: 1997-04-30
This text traces the growth and social development of the Florida frontier through its experience with crime and punishment. Using court records, government documents, newspapers and personal papers, it explores how crime affected ordinary citizens in antebellum Florida.
Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: the Florida reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams by James M. Denham (Editor); Canter Brown (Editor)
Call Number: F315.K44 2003 Florida
ISBN: 1570035121
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, the two shared the adventure, hardship and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era.
Florida Founder William P. Duval: Frontier Bon Vivant by James M. Denham
Call Number: F315.D46 2015 Florida
ISBN: 9781611174663
Publication Date: 2015-07-15
Each day thousands of revelers trudge down DuVal Street in Florida's Key West, but few know for whom the street is named. In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America.
Florida's Peace River Frontier by Canter Brown
Call Number: F317.P37 B76 1991 Florida
ISBN: 9780813010373
Publication Date: 1991-03-20
Peace River is a location near Lake Hancock, north of present-day Bartow. Seminole hunting towns on Peace River lay in a five or six mile wide belt of land centered on and running down the river from Lake Hancock to below present-day Fort Meade. Oponay, who also was named Ochacona Tustenatty, was sent into Florida as a representative to the Seminoles on behalf of the Creek chiefs remaining loyal to the United States during the Seminole War. Oponay occupied the land adjacent to Lake Hancock and Saddle Creek. Peter McQueen and his party occupied the area to the south of Bartow. Quite likely their settlement included the remains of Seminole lodges and other facilities located on the west bank near the great ford of the river at Fort Meade. This important strategic position would have allowed the Red Sticks (Indians) to control not only access to the hunting grounds to the south, but communication and the trade with the Cuban fishermen at Charlotte Harbor, as well as the passage of representatives of Spain and England through the harbor.
Florida Cowman : A History of Florida Cattle Raising by Joe A. Akerman, Jr.
Call Number: F311 .A5 Florida
Publication Date: 1976
Echoes from a Distant Frontier: the Brown sisters' correspondence from antebellum Florida by Corinna Brown Aldrich; Ellen Brown Anderson; James M. Denham (Editor); Keith L. Huneycutt (Editor)
Call Number: F315.A43 2004 Florida
ISBN: 1570035369
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Echoes from a Distant Frontier is an edited, annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna and Ellen Brown, two single women in their twenties, who left a comfortable New England home in 1835 for the Florida frontier. Moving with two aunts and a brother following the deaths of their parents, the Brown sisters settled near the village of Mandarin on the east bank of the St. Johns River, just south of present-day Jacksonville. These two articulate and literate women, both aspiring authors, wrote of their experiences and observations to family members - most important their brother Mannevillette Brown, an artist who lived in various European locales and eventually in Utica, New York. Within a month of their arrival on the shores of the St. Johns, the frontier erupted in Indian war. The Browns witnessed the terror and carnage firsthand, and their letters paint a vivid picture of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). observations about everyday life in a time, place, and society for which a very limited record remains. Resolute and independent, the Brown sisters eventually married men who were actively engaged in the conflict - an army officer and a surgeon attached to the army. The sisters corresponded from the many places they lived during their fifteen-year residence in Florida, including St. Augustine, Newnansville, Fort King (Ocala), Pensacola, and Key West. Both as transplanted New Englanders struggling to survive in America's southernmost frontier and as wives of southern-born men, the sisters provide valuable insights on their social and domestic circumstances and on a largely undocumented region of the South.
Fort Meade, 1849-1900 by Canter Brown
Call Number: F319.F73 B76 1995 Florida
ISBN: 081730763X
Publication Date: 1995-04-30
The oldest town in interior south Florida, Fort Meade lies about 50 miles east of Tampa and 10 miles south of Polk CountyÕs seat of Bartow. In this volume, Polk County native Canter Brown recounts the intriguing story of the founding and evolution of Fort Meade during the last half of the 19th century, when it was first established as a military outpost to separate Seminoles from white pioneer families desirous of cattle-grazing lands. A civilian community coalesced at Fort Meade under the pressures of the Billy Bowlegs War of 1855Ð58. Quickly the village developed as a cattle-industry center, which was important to the Confederacy until its destruction in 1864 by home-grown Union forces. In the postwar era the cattle industry revived, and the community prospered. The railroads arrived in the 1880s, bringing new settlers, and the village grew into a town. Opportunities expanded as well with the growth of citrus, phosphate mining, truck farming, and tobacco industries. A boom-and-bust economy alternately bolstered and rocked the town, and the disastrous freezes of 1894Ð95 almost delivered a fatal blow. Little has been written about town development on the Florida frontier. This book portrays the extremely complicated and often exciting processes and influences at play in interior south Florida, and the very precarious hold that town life possessed on that frontier.Local history the way it should be written. Canter Brown has managed to score several significant accomplishments in Fort Meade, 1849-1900. The book contributes to the growing body of good, solid monographs dealing with Florida state and local history and represents the building blocks necessary for a state and regional synthesis. The cumulative research compiled for this volume is impressive and daunting. Canter Brown proves that good local history requires considerable detective work and far-ranging inquiries.Ñgary R. Mormino, University of South Florida.
The New History of Florida by Michael Gannon (Editor)
Call Number: F311.5.N49 2012 Florida
ISBN: 9780813044316
Publication Date: 2012-11-04
The New History of Florida, the first comprehensive history of the state to be written in a quarter of a century, is the culmination of the most recent and significant work from a galaxy of specialists. Each of the 22 chapters, which weave together in one continuous narrative, was written especially for this volume. Their authors present here not only political, economic, military, and religious information but also social history and personal experiences. Endnotes and a bibliography are appended to each chapter. nbsp;Florida's first inhabitants entered the peninsula and panhandle about 10,000 years ago. The Spaniard Juan Ponce de León stumbled ashore near Melbourne Beach in 1513. He called the place La Florida, the first permanent geographic name of European origin to be etched upon the maps of the American continent. Over three centuries of Spanish and English colonial history followed before the United States acquired Florida in 1821. The first state flag was raised over a new capitol in Tallahassee on May 26, 1845. Written to observe the sesquicentennial of statehood, this work will document the rich history of the Sunshine State for general readers, students, and scholars well into the twenty-first century. Contents Introduction, by Michael Gannon Original Inhabitants, by Jerald T. Milanich First European Contacts, by Michael Gannon Settlement and Survival, by Eugene Lyon Republic of Spaniards, Republic of Indians, by Amy Turner Bushnell The Missions of Spanish Florida, by John H. Hann Raids, Sieges, and International Wars, by Charles W. Arnade Pensacola, 1686-1763, by William S. Coker British Rule in the Floridas, by Robin F. A. Fabel The Second Spanish Period in the Two Floridas, by William S. Coker and Susan R. Parker Free and Slave, by Jane Landers Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Peoples, by John K. Mahon and Brent R. Weisman U.S. Territory and State, by Daniel L. Schafer The Civil War, 1861-1865, by Canter Brown, Jr. Reconstruction and Renewal, 1865-1877, by Jerrell H. Shofner Prelude to the New Florida, 1877-1919, by Samuel Proctor Fortune and Misfortune: The Paradoxical Twenties, by William W. Rogers The Great Depression, by William W. Rogers World War II, by Gary R. Mormino Florida Politics in the Twentieth Century, by David R. Colburn The African American Experience in Twentieth-Century Florida, by Maxine D. Jones From Migration to Multiculturalism: A History of Florida Immigration, by Raymond A. Mohl and George E. Pozzetta The Big Change in the Sunshine State: A Social History of Modern Florida, by Raymond A. Mohl and Gary R. Mormino Michael Gannon, volume editor, is Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Institute for Early Contact Period Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Rebel Bishop (1964), The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870 (UPF, 1965, 1983), Operation Drumbeat (1990), and the novel Secret Missions (1994); as well as the bestselling Florida: A Short History (UPF, 1993), which won a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History.

"The Florida Cracker before the Civil War as Seen through Travelers' Accounts,"
The specific article is located on pages 49-64 of the issue PDF.
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Denham, James M . "The Florida Cracker before the Civil War as Seen through Travelers' Accounts," Florida Historical Quarterly, 72.4: 453-468.
Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanties Council Vol. 30, No. 01 (Winter : 2006)
Long before the Wild West, Florida’s rancheros, Seminoles, and Crackers were riding, roping (and sometimes rustling) our country’s first cattle on the steamy, subtropical frontier. That story, plus Patrick Smith, moonshiners, Bone Mizell, He-Coons, and lots more.

Florida's Spanish-Indian Missions, 1565-1763: New Lives in an Old World - Dr. Jerald T. Milanich

Dr. Jerald T. Milanch

Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida; and Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Milanich holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Florida.

Laboring in the Fields of the Lord by Jerald T. Milanich
Call Number: Highlands Circulation -- E78.S65M55 2006
ISBN: 9780813029665
Publication Date: 2006-02-10
The missions of Spanish Florida are one of American history's best kept secrets. Between 1565 and 1763, more than 150 missions with names like San Francisco and San Antonio dotted the landscape from south Florida to the Chesapeake Bay. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, much conducted in the last 25 years, Milanich offers a vivid description of these missions and the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua Indians who lived and labored in them. First published in 1999 by Smithsonian Institution Press, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord contends the missions were an integral part of Spain's La Florida colony, turning a potentially hostile population into an essential labor force. Indian workers grew, harvested, ground, and transported corn that helped to feed the colony. Indians also provided labor for construction projects, including the imposing stone Castillo de San Marcos that still dominates St. Augustine today. Missions were essential to the goal of colonialism. Together, conquistadors, missionaries, and entrepreneurs went hand-in-hand to conquer the people of the Americas. Though long abandoned and destroyed, the missions are an important part of our country's heritage. This reprint edition includes a new, updated preface by the author.
Black Society in Spanish Florida by Jane Landers
Call Number: F320.N4L36 1999 Florida
ISBN: 025202446X
Publication Date: 1999-06-01
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom. Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived not in cotton rows or tobacco patches but in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Here the Spanish Crown afforded sanctuary to runaway slaves, making the territory a prime destination for blacks fleeing Anglo plantations, while Castilian law (grounded in Roman law) provided many avenues out of slavery, which it deemed an unnatural condition. European-African unions were common and accepted in Florida, with families of African descent developing important community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparent choices. Assisted by the corporate nature of Spanish society, Spain's medieval tradition of integration and assimilat

Forum : Vol. 35, No. 03 (Fall : 2011)
Contents: Exploring Florida’s shape-shifting past : Our Spanish story continues to evolve -- Dreams lost, dreams found in the quest for Florida -- Who started the myth about a Fountain of Youth? / By J. Michael Francis -- How seashells saved St. Augustine: A city of ‘firsts’ -- The life and death of Spanish missions -- A remarkable figure emerges from the past: Ferreting out an amazing story from 300-year-old documents / By Darcie MacMahon -- Florida’s villages were global / By Gary R. Mormino -- Native tribes were decimated -- Humanities Alive! -- Pensacola: A mixing pot of humanity / By John J. Clune and Margo S. Stringfield -- Spain’s empire crumbles / By Gary R. Mormino -- Hispanic ties still shape Florida / By Paul Dosal -- Bridging Cultures: Multiculturalism is a journey / By Maude Heurtelou -- My Favorite Florida Place: Waiter, there’s a snake in my soup! / By Peter B. Gallagher.
Forum : Vol. 36, No. 03 (Fall : 2012)
What was the view from the shore? / by Barbara O'Reilley -- Humanities Alive! -- How power was brokered in Spanish colonial Florida / by J. Michael Francis -- Bridging cultures / by Willie Johns -- Windswept history / by Peter B. Gallagher -- My favorite Florida place / by Bob Morris.

When Worlds Collided: The European Invasion of Florida in the Sixteenth Century - Dr. Jerald T. Milanich

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Dr. Jerald T. Milanch

Following Columbus’s voyages, the Spanish crown sanctioned expeditions to explore North America. Numerous voyages undertaken between 1513-1559 were informed by maps and navigation information provided by royal cosmographers. Early attempts failed, doomed by storms, bad decisions, and opposition by the native population. Dr. Jerald T. Milanich charts these expeditions in order to reconstruct the social geography of the region referred to as La Florida

Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe by Jerald T. Milanich
Call Number: E78.F6M55 1998 Florida
ISBN: 9780813016368
Publication Date: 1998-06-22
When the conquistadors arrived in Florida in the early sixteenth century, as many as 350,000 native Americans lived in the territory. For more than twelve centuries their ancestors had resided here, fishing, hunting, gathering wild plants, and sometimes cultivating crops. Two and a half centuries later, Florida's Indians were gone. Focusing on those native peoples and their interactions with Spanish and French explorers and colonists, Jerald Milanich delineates this massive cultural change. Using information gathered from archaeological excavations and from the interpretation of historical documents left behind by the colonial powers, he explains where the native groups came from, where they lived, and what happened to them. He closes with the tragic disappearance of the original inhabitants in the eighteenth century and the first appearance of the ancestors of Florida's present Native Americans. With maps, photographs, drawings, and a vivid writing style, Milanich creates a sense of history and place--an opportunity to correlate modern towns to colonial events and sixteenth-century trails to twentieth-century highways--that will illuminate history for residents and tourists of Florida as well as for archaeologists and historians.
Discovering Florida: first-contact narratives from Spanish expeditions along by John E. Worth (Edited and Translated by)
Call Number: F314.D59 2016 Florida
ISBN: 9780813061900
Publication Date: 2016-01-15
"Gives voice to a period in U.S. history that remains virtually unknown, even to specialists in the field."--J. Michael Francis, coauthor of Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida "With these transcriptions and translations, Worth provides an important service to ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and others who share an interest in the Spanish colonial explorations of the greater Southeast."--Mariah F. Wade, author of Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans "A model for how to handle important primary sources. The historical introduction is a treasure in its own right."--Amy Turner Bushnell, author of Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission provinces of Florida Florida's lower gulf coast was a key region in the early European exploration of North America, with an extraordinary number of first-time interactions between Spaniards and Florida's indigenous cultures. Discovering Florida compiles all the major writings of Spanish explorers in the area between 1513 and 1566. Including transcriptions of the original Spanish documents as well as English translations, this volume presents--in their own words--the experiences and reactions of Spaniards who came to Florida with Juan Ponce de Le#65533;n, P#65533;nfilo de Narv#65533;ez, Hernando de Soto, and Pedro Men#65533;ndez de Avil#65533;s. These accounts, which have never before appeared together in print, provide an astonishing glimpse into a world of indigenous cultures that did not survive colonization. With introductions to the primary sources, extensive notes, and a historical overview of Spanish exploration in the region, this book offers an unprecedented firsthand view of La Florida in the earliest stages of European conquest.
Handbook of North American Indians - Vol. 14 by Smithsonian Institution Staff; Raymond Fogelson (Editor)
Call Number: Reference -- E77 .H25 v.14
ISBN: 0160723000
Publication Date: 2004-09-20
The Smithsonian Institution’s Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14, Southeast The Southeast Indians were sophisticated farmers, hunters, gatherers, and fishers occupying a diverse region extending from the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Southern Appalachians, the Carolina Piedmont, the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains, Florida, and west of the mountains to the rich valley of the southern Mississippi River. The complexity and uniqueness of the Southeast culture area is detailed in The Smithsonian Institution’s Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14, Southeast. Its 64 chapters, written by 63 leading authorities, both anthropologists and historians, describe and illustrate the culture of each major tribe and tribal group, their history, transformation, and evolution over time. Regional and sub-regional overviews frame these and summarize the long prehistory of the area. Special topic chapters examine broad aspects of culture that characterize the Southeast and cross tribal lines. Introductory chapters explore the history of research in the area, languages spoken, and environment, and synthesize information on many small groups inadequately described in the historical literature. 508 illustrations--maps, drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs. Essays on sources, extensive bibliography, detailed index.
Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present by Jerald T. Milanich
Call Number: E78.F6 M555 1998 Florida
ISBN: 9780813015989
Publication Date: 1998-09-30
"An exceptional book for popular consumption. . . . It is a wonderful synthesis, and will be avidly read by both professional archaeologists and the general public."--Marvin T. Smith, Valdosta State University Florida's Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creeks. When the first Indians arrived in what is now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land far different from the modern countryside, one that was cooler, drier, and almost twice the size. Thousands of years later European explorers encountered literally hundreds of different Indian groups living in every part of the state. (Today every Florida county contains an Indian archaeological site.) The arrival of colonists brought the native peoples a new world and great changes took place--by the mid-1700s, through warfare, slave raids, and especially epidemics, the population was almost annihilated. Other Indians soon moved into the state, including Creeks from Georgia and Alabama, who were the ancestors of the modern Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. Written for a general audience, this book is lavishly illustrated with full-color drawings and photographs. It skillfully integrates the latest archaeological and historical information about the Sunshine State's Native Americans, connecting the past and present with modern place-names, and it gives a proud voice to Florida's rich Indian heritage. Jerald T. Milanich, curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, is the author of Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (UPF, 1995) and Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida (UPF, 1994), among numerous other books.
New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida by Neill J. Wallis (Editor); Asa R. Randall (Editor)
Call Number: Highlands E78.F6 N45 2014 Florida (Print)
ISBN: 9780813049366
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
"Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded. Sets a course for exciting new directions in archaeology at the edge of the American South and the broader Caribbean world."--Christopher B. Rodning, coeditor of Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States "Successfully repositions the story of Florida's native peoples from the peripheries of history and anthropology to center stage."--Thomas E. Emerson, author of Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Yet Florida traditionally has been considered peripheral in the study of ancient cultures in North America, despite what it can reveal about social and climate change. The essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is in fact a crucial hub of archaeological inquiry. New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida represents the next wave of southeastern archaeology. Contributors use new data to challenge well-worn models of environmental determinism and localized social contact. Indeed, this volume makes a case for considerable interaction and exchange among Native Floridians and the greater southeastern United States as seen by the variety of objects of distant origin and mound-building traditions that incorporated extraregional concepts. Themes of monumentality, human alterations of landscapes, the natural environment, ritual and mortuary practices, and coastal adaptations demonstrate the diversity, empirical richness, and broader anthropological significance of Florida's aboriginal past.