In this high-speed glide through Florida surf culture, Dan Reiter chronicles stories of the sport in a region that has produced some of the world’s finest surf champions, Pipe masters, and surfboard builders.

This volume presents a global array of case studies on the management of shipwreck sites in intertidal zones, including strategies for conservation, archaeological research, and public outreach focused on such vulnerable sites.

This volume explores how populist movements and politics present new challenges to public archaeologists, using global examples to propose practical forms of community engagement amid increasing polarization and extremism.

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.

"Sugar Baron is a brilliant, highly original narrative of the fluctuating fortunes of Cuba and its sugar industry during the republican period."—Franklin W. Knight, professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University

"McAvoy’s “subject' is not simply Manuel Rionda as an individual, but the entire history of U.S.-Cuban relations from the Spanish-Cuban-American War to the Revolution of 1933. Believe it or not, such a story can be told from the vantage point of this one individual, and McAvoy has done it in exemplary fashion."—Cesar Ayala, University of California, Los Angeles

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston’s historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston’s writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years after her death. 

This book tells the story of the emergence of Jacksonville, Florida, at the center of the film industry in the early 1900s. By 1928 Jacksonville was home to fifteen major production companies and the location for filming hundreds of movies, including the first Technicolor picture ever made.

This book tells the modern-day adventure story of Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban refugees they flew to safety, written in collaboration with the group’s founder, José Basulto.

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.