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Josh Liller

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I became an avid reader at a young age, thanks to a combination of my mother's encouragement to read, the book availability provided by school and public libraries, and the rewards of Pizza Hut's "Book It" program. I never lost my love of reading, which mostly focused on non-fiction. In high school, I spent a year reading Shelby Foote's famous trilogy, The Civil War: A Narrative. All my life I have predominately read history, including some biography.

Since 2014, I have been Historian and Collections Manager for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society in Jupiter, Florida. I am also a Historian for the Florida Lighthouse Association. In those capacities I've been a frequent history public speaker and contributor to national and local magazin
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Storm Over Key West by Mike Pride
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In the 21st century we've gotten history books about the Civil War in Florida's largest city (Pensacola during the Civil War: A Thorn in the Side of the Confederacy), third-largest city (Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida), and ...more
Storm Over Key West by Mike Pride
" I recommend "Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast" by George Buker for the best book about the East Gulf Blockade ...more "
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Theodore Pratt by Taylor Hagood
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A Forgotten Front by Seth A. Weitz
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A Forgotten Front is a collection of ten essays looking aspects of the Civil War that have generally gotten less attention in the past. Amusingly, the book was published by University of Alabama Press despite none of the ten contributors teaching, wo ...more
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Storm Over Key West by Mike Pride
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A Forgotten Front by Seth A. Weitz
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Florida Lighthouse Trail by Thomas W. Taylor
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Skimmed through this book to get some lighthouse data and will not be reading it cover to cover.

Pros: well-organized, nice lists of basic data for each light, includes lighthouses no longer active (and some no longer standing).

Cons: beyond the bullet
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Florida in the Civil War by Lewis N. Wynne
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This book may have been the only modern general history of Florida in the Civil War when it came out, and when I read it in in 2014. That alone gave it some merit. The book covers a variety of aspects beyond the battles in Florida such as blockade op ...more
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Florida's Civil War by Tracy J. Revels
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Terrible Sacrifices is a short (under 200 pages) overview of Florida in the American Civil War. It serves as a synthesis of published literature on the subject, both books and lots of articles in Florida Historical Quarterly. Footnotes direct readers ...more
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A History of Fort Capron by Jean Ellen Wilson
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Fort Capron was a U.S. Army outpost located just north of what is now the city of Fort Pierce, in today's St. Lucie Village.

This book is a classic example of the strengths and weaknesses of a typical self-published history book. A local historian has
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