Justice Pursued
The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
An in-depth look at a wrongful conviction and its landmark reversal, this book is the story of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams, who were released in 2019 after almost 43 years in prison in the first exoneration brought about through a Conviction Integrity Unit in Florida.
Textual and Critical Intersections
Conversations with Laurence Sterne and Others
In this collection of wide-ranging essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors from the past three centuries.
Wild Florida
An Animal Odyssey
A captivating visual and narrative journey into the ecology of Florida’s animals, this book features brilliant wildlife photography and intimate storytelling that introduces the variety of species within the state.
Once Upon a Time in Florida
Stories of Life in the Land of Promises
Curated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life in Florida by some of the nation’s most talented writers and scholars.
Dead Man's Chest
Exploring the Archaeology of Piracy
This book presents a variety of approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.
Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology
The Power of Public Engagement
This volume addresses the ways maritime archaeologists have engaged citizen scientists, presenting examples of projects and organizations that have involved volunteers in the important work of gathering and processing data.
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground
A History of African American Archaeology
Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century
Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
This book tells the story of how Lacandón Maya families have adapted to the contemporary world while applying their ancestral knowledge to create an ecologically sustainable future in Mexico’s largest remaining tropical rainforest.
The Making of Florida’s Universities
Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence of Domination in Indigenous Latin America
From Death Row to Freedom
The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to death during the civil rights era of the 1960s.
Genetic Joyce
Manuscripts and the Dynamics of Creation
Using genetic criticism, an approach focused on the materiality of the writing process, this book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts.
Heritage and Democracy
Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration
Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Broadening the familiar view of Mary McLeod Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, this book highlights Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora.