Florida History


A Land Remembered
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida (The Florida History and Culture Series)
The Everglades: River of Grass
The New History of Florida
Florida: A Short History
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
The Nickel Boys
Cross Creek
Haunted Pensacola (Haunted America)
Hidden History of Florida
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
A People's History of Florida 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State
Nancy Pickard
“ His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant? ”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“ A terrific microcosm of the great excitement and tragic years of Florida’s Golden Age land boom. Men, women, entire families flooded into Florida believing bold enterprise practically guaranteed sudden riches. This inspirational account is a must read to truly understand the hopes, dreams and struggles of the 1920s in the paradise called Florida. Debi Murray, Chief Curator The Historical Society of Palm Beach County ”
― Robert Yost, Late to the Party in the Roaring Twenties and That Tropical Paradise Called Florida

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