A compelling story of scandal and reform at the highest levels of state government

The overlooked story of one of nineteenth-century America's popular writers of mass market fiction

The biography of a Honduran writer who defied conventions through her life and writing

Witness participant, 'blasé as a boulevardierin the spring Paris air,' Buckley couples a lyric po...

Afterword by Josh McloughlinThomas Chatterton, born 1752, was the son of the sexton at St Mary Re...

From the 'vernal ponds' and 'fishyvicissitudes' of everyday life laid bare by a charismatic imagi...

Toward HealingHere are fifty voices speaking toward healing. Not all the poets have seen the batt...

Not since I sat down half a century ago on a bookstore floor with a paperback copy of Alan Dugan'...

On behalf of all of us at Longleaf--and previous Longleaf Press Book Prize winners-- who helped r...

Beguiled by Webb's poetry since October '99, when I found myself in a bookstore poetry section un...

Highlighting men and women across the globe who have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits o...

Translation of: Quand la science explore l'histoire.

This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John ...

Philippe Charlier - dubbed the ''Indiana Jones of the graveyards'' - travels to Haiti where rumou...

In February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dr...

After Panama assumed control of the Panama Canal in 1999, its relations with the United States be...

When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destro...

Balancing personal dignity and first amendment concerns has become increasingly challenging in th...

Explores Seminole and Miccosukee culture through information provided by archaeology, ethnography...

'Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were co...

The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, stud...

Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come ...

Wall Street Journal's Five Best Books About Cults

In this book, Canter Brown, Jr. records the economic, social, political, and racial history of th...

Tucked in a bend of the Trinity River a few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden ...

Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellec...

Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the l...

'The history of Florida is the story of North America in miniature. By telling it with such eloqu...

This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in ficti...

In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, pol...

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is...

Marc Frank is a freelance journalist based in Cuba, who works for Thomson Reuters and the Financi...

First-time travelers to Florida often imagine the state as just a vacationland or a swamp - a pla...

Combining the nuanced perspective of an insider with the critical distance of a historian, Alexan...

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the...

The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, stud...

This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Pr...

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seve...

The Great New Wilderness Debate is an expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivot...

The Shadow of Selma is the first thorough analysis of the historical importance and legacy of the...

The Sunshine State has an exceptionally stormy past. Vulnerable to storms that arise in the Atlan...

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into 'dead h...

Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intel...

In this collection of fiction and essays, Crews focuses on the people and places of Florida—full ...

'This absorbing tale, documenting the forgotten history of early moviemaking in St. Augustine, is...

In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insight...

Did humans live in Florida during the Ice Age?  In 1916, to the shock of the science world, a Flo...

This collection presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by s...