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Indian River Lagoon traces the winding story of the waterway, showing how humans have altered the area to fit their needs and also how the lagoon has influenced the cultures along its shores.

Beginning with the state's colonial history, Florida's Other Courts challenges narratives that paint Spain's administration of its New World holdings as corrupt, inefficient, and tyrannical, using research into archival records scattered across Spain, Cuba, and other New World sites. 

In this authoritative and friendly guide, Roger Hammer shares more than thirty years' experience tempting butterflies and hummingbirds into tropical Florida's gardens.

The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Miami Herald columnist Al Burt's tribute to "Crackers," or lovers of "the real Florida": Zora Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Virgil Hawkins, John DeGrove, Harry Crews, and lots of everyday folks who have in common their memory of Florida as a wild, rare place.

The story of several vessels in a Spanish convoy wrecked by a hurricane along the Virginia/North Carolina coastline, the discovery of the wreckage of the convoy's flagship two and a half centuries later, and the legal battle over salvage rights.