This collection examines the important work of Black men and women to shape, expand, and preserve a multiracial American democracy from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

This book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, advocated for progressive reform by fighting for racial equality, challenging white male supremacy, and addressing class oppression.

Through stories of nature near at hand, Andrew Furman explores touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida, contemplating his place in a subtropical landscape stretching from the Everglades to the Atlantic coast.

In these stories, Craig Pittman introduces readers to the people, creatures, places, and issues that make up the Florida of today, capturing the heart of the nation’s fastest growing state.

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion.

Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 2 discusses military figures, artists, modern civil rights activists, and scholars, and celebrates the rise of recent scholarship on Black Greek-letter organizations.

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 1 tells the story of the organization’s founding and spotlights scientists, civil rights lawyers, athletes, and musicians.

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black prison writing from 1795 to 1901.

This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of history to future generations.

In this book, Douglas Wilson uses historical documents, Indigenous oral traditions, and the material record to provide a comprehensive overview of the historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest region from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries.

In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.

This volume focuses on how Indigenous communities of the Americas have long recognized degrees of personhood within their landscapes, and its case studies show how researchers can incorporate this worldview in archaeological investigations, community relations, and interpretations.

This book reconstructs the history of Iximche, the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in highland Guatemala, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical information.

In this cookbook, Ana Quincoces reimagines traditional Cuban recipes for today’s home chefs, helping readers make timeless dishes that showcase the distinctive flavors of classic Cuban cuisine while crafting meals that are accessible to everyone.

In this book, Thomas Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South’s dependence on systems of bound labor during the post-Reconstruction era through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, drawing attention to the injustices and abuses of misdemeanor convict leasing.

A rare glimpse into the history and literary culture of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro—a writer, printer, editor, and cigar factory lector—available in English for the first time.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the geography, history, science, and politics of Florida’s freshwater springs, informing readers about the deep past and current issues facing these natural wonders of the state.

An immersive journey into the stunning beauty, rich biodiversity, and fragile ecosystems of Dry Tortugas National Park, this book combines captivating photographs with insightful narratives to highlight a remote archipelago that has profound ecological significance.

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This revised edition is updated with information about new research and initiatives that are restoring native plants and wildlife populations in the twenty-first century.

This book publishes for the first time a newly discovered nineteenth-century manuscript titled The Storm, making widely available what may be the first novella written by a woman in Florida.

In a collection of photographs accompanied by essays, this book portrays the vulnerabilities experienced by residents of South Florida’s mobile home communities amid rapid urban transformation and the threat of economic displacement.

Explaining why the state is more than the “Florida Man” stories and other stereotypes, this book celebrates what makes Florida worth a deeper understanding in a lively trip through the state’s natural beauty and fascinating history.

This book tells the story of James Hudson, a Black philosopher, Florida A&M University professor, activist, and religious leader whose philosophical contributions laid a key piece of the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement.

Rich with photographs and colorful drawings, this history of south Florida’s Calusa people presents a vivid picture of the natural environment and teeming estuaries along Florida’s coasts that sustained the Calusa.

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state’s importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the peninsula.

A guide to the best scenic day hikes and overnight trips along the state-spanning Florida Trail, this book helps readers of all backgrounds and experience levels plan an adventure exploring natural Florida.

This book examines ceramic artifacts from the island of Guadeloupe to reveal information about daily life in the French colonial Caribbean.

In this book, Lynn Ramey explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, a twelfth-century French poet, playwright, and epic writer, providing translations and summaries of works never published before in English while delving into Bodel’s historical and cultural context.

This book explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region’s Indigenous peoples and rewriting its history to market the land to investors and tourists.

This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manuscript’s intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and religion.

This volume explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems and the ways these environments have adapted to anthropogenic changes over the course of millennia.

This book takes readers on a journey into Tampa’s historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup kitchens, clubs, and restaurants, telling the story of the city’s past through these fascinating social spaces—many of which can’t be found in official histories.

This book explores the environmental history of the largest open water estuary in Florida, revealing how people have interacted with nature throughout the long history of Tampa Bay.

This book highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities.

Presenting the most current research on the Maya rainforest city El Perú-Waka’, this volume discusses occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE and offers researchers an unmatched view of ancient life in a tropical urban environment.

This is the first history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company Pilobolus, with revelatory behind-the-scenes details of its creators and significant works.

With delicious recipes that showcase Florida’s bounty of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains, this book celebrates the seasonal harvests of the Sunshine State.

In this book, Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduction of cattle, beginning with imports by Spanish colonizers in the 1500s, shaped colonial American society.

Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State tells the grand and sometimes crazy story of Florida through the eyes of author and journalist Diane Roberts.

In this book, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of explorers and travelers who came to Florida during the past five centuries, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective of today.

This book provides a survey of contemporary archaeology in the United States, demonstrating the plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches that make this discipline in the US unique.

A wild ride through a century of Mafia lore, this book offers inside accounts and little-known stories of organized crime across Florida, from the Keys to Pensacola and Jacksonville.

In this book, Canter Brown, Jr. records the economic, social, political, and racial history of the Peace River Valley in southwest Florida in an account of violence, passion, struggle, sacrifice, and determination.