Raymond A. Mohl. South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. x + 263 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2693-0.
Reviewed by Melanie R. Shell-Weiss (Department of History, Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-Florida (March, 2004)
Abel A. Bartley. Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. x + 177 pp. $87.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-31035-5.
Reviewed by Paul Ortiz (Department of Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz) Published on H-Florida (March, 2004)
Jacksonville, Oh Jacksonville
Brent Richards Weisman. Pioneer in Space and Time: John Mann Goggin and the Development of Florida Archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xxi + 176 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2573-5.
Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Mitchem (Arkansas Archeological Survey, Parkin Research Station) Published on H-Florida (February, 2004)
Julian M. Pleasants. Orange Journalism: Voices from Florida Newspapers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvi + 345 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2653-4.
Reviewed by David Lee McMullen (Departments of History, University of Aberdeen, and University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Published on H-Florida (January, 2004)
Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xxx + 399 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-497-8.
Reviewed by Lee L. Willis (Department of History, Florida State University) Published on H-Florida (January, 2004)
The Southern Evangelical Mind in Florida
Richard E. Foglesong. Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xvi + 251 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-08707-9; $19.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-09828-0.
Reviewed by James B. Crooks (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of North Florida) Published on H-Florida (January, 2004)
A One-Sided Marriage
James M. Denham, Canter Brown Jr.., eds. Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillet Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. x + 215 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57003-512-8; $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-346-9.
Reviewed by Nicholas J. Linville (Department of History, University of Florida) Published on H-Florida (January, 2004)
Charles R. Ewen, John H. Hann. Hernando de Soto among the Apalachee: The Archaeology of the First Winter Encampment. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. x + 256 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-1557-6.
Reviewed by Sherry Johnson (Department of History, Florida International University) Published on H-Florida (January, 2004)
John W. Griffin. Archaeology of the Everglades. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xx + 399 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2558-2.
Reviewed by Mason W. Sheffield (Archaeologist, New South Associates) Published on H-Florida (December, 2003)
Harry A. Kersey, Jr. The Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale: A Pioneer Family of New River. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvii + 98 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2666-4.
Reviewed by William E. McGoun (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Florida (December, 2003)
Fort Lauderdale's First Family
Fort Lauderdale's First Family
Samuel C. Jr.. Hyde, ed. Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. x + 275 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2577-3.
Reviewed by Raymond Mohl (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Published on H-Florida (December, 2003)
Civil Rights Movements
Nano Riley, Davida Johns. Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvii + 208 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2592-6.
Reviewed by Kelly A. Minor (Department of History, University of Florida) Published on H-Florida (November, 2003)
Hidden Harvest: Making Florida's Farmworkers Visible
William Barnaby Faherty; S.J. Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xix + 205 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2563-6.
Reviewed by Bettyann Kevles (Department of Science History, Yale University) Published on H-Florida (November, 2003)
Suzanne Marshall. "Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water": Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. 384 pp.
Reviewed by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer (Department of History, Northern Illinois University) Published on H-Florida (August, 2003)
The Far Reaching Effects of Water Pollution
The Far Reaching Effects of Water Pollution
Glen H. Doran, ed. Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xix + 392 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2510-0.
Reviewed by Tamara Spike (Department of History, Florida State University) Published on H-Florida (July, 2003)
