A Brief Bibliography of Florida History @ Florida OCHP
A Brief Bibliography of Florida History
All titles are available at the State Library of Florida.
Contact your local public library to borrow these and other titles on
Florida's history. If titles are not available, items may be borrowed from
the State Library through the interlibrary loan system.
Florida cowman: A history of Florida cattle raising by Joe A.
Akerman (Jimbob Printing Inc., 1989).
Florida's past: People and events that shaped the state, V. 1, 2,
3 by Gene M. Burnett (Pineapple Press, c1988).
Readable and informative essays on Florida history.
Florida: A short history by Michael V. Gannon (University
Press of Florida, c1993).
A compact (168 pp.) history using the oldest records and physical remains
of Europe in America and the latest in technology and space
to encapsulate the story of Florida.
The New History of Florida by Michael V. Gannon (University Press of
Florida, c 1996).
Twenty-two noted historians and anthropologists contributed to this
work, the first comprehensive history of the state in 25 years. Writing
for both lay and scholarly audiences, the authors present not only political,
economic, military, and religious information but also social history and
personal experiences.
- Apalachee: The land between the rivers by John H. Hann (University Presses
of Florida: University of Florida Press/Florida State Museum, c1988).
- The focus in this work is on the Apalachee Indians and their interactions
with the Spanish during the historic period.
- History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon
(University Presses of Florida, 1991, c1967).
- Sets the Second Seminole War in its broad historical context and demonstrates
the close connection between the coming of this Indian war and the general
issue of Negro slavery.
- Indian mounds of the Atlantic coast: A guide to sites from Maine
to Florida by Jerry N. McDonald (McDonald & Woodward Publishing
Company, c1987).
- A guide to the extant publicly accessible mounds, earthworks, shell
middens, stone structures, and other artificial landscape features built
by American Indians in the Atlantic Coast Region of the U.S.
- Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida by Jerald T. Milanich (University
Press of Florida, c1994).
- This record of precolumbian Florida brings to life the 12,000- year
story of the native American Indians who lived in the state. Describes
the indigenous cultures and explains why they developed as they did. Richly
illustrated.
- Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe by Jerald T. Milanich
(University Press of Florida(1995)).
- Focusing on the native peoples of Florida and their interactions with
Spanish and French explorers and colonists, the author describes the massive
cultural change that transpired as a result of these contacts.
- Yesterday's Florida by Nixon Smiley (E.A. Seemann Publishers
(1974)).
- Over 500 historic photographs, many of them never published before,
record visually the heritage that history has bestowed on today's
Floridians, natives or recent arrivals alike.
- A History of Florida by Charlton W. Tebeau (University
of Miami Press, 1980).
- Florida, its history and people, panoramically portrayed in an illuminating
text and over 100 photographs, maps, and drawings.
A Short History of Florida
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