This book tells the story of the south's oldest spirtualist community, Cassadaga, founded in central Florida over 125 years ago on the principle of continuous life, the idea that spirits of the dead commune with the living.
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This book tells the story of how Cape Canaveral’s “second space age” reshaped the trajectory of the US space program and helped usher in a new era of spaceflight in the twenty-first century.
This book tells the definitive story of the University of Florida basketball program from its beginnings to the arrival of Billy Donovan, told by a former player and longtime Gator sports analyst.
Engagingly written and extensively illustrated, this book delves into archaeological discoveries to uncover the 250-year history of Spanish colonization in Florida, the state with the oldest recorded history of European contact.
This book offers an unparalleled history of the pivotal legal battle that established the right to a public defender and reshaped the American justice system, written by the lawyer who argued and lost the case before the Supreme Court.
This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida’s Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of a teenager who journeyed from Spain to Mexico, Havana, and Florida, presenting an inside view of the sailing experience in the sixteenth century and insight into the ambitions, concerns, and religiosity of his fellow Spaniards.
This is the first critical biography of the life and work of Annette and Rudi Rada, two photographers who captured the rise of Tropical Modern architecture in South Florida and the Caribbean during the mid-twentieth century.
In Miami’s Art Boom, art critic Elisa Turner captures the evolution of Miami’s visual arts community before and after the inaugural Art Basel Miami Beach, revealing how local artists, galleries, and museums transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchange.
This guidebook highlights 43 intriguing, little-known destinations in the northern part of the Florida peninsula that reflect the stories and communities of the region and show what makes this area of the state unique.
This book recounts two stories of small-town injustice that rose to national prominence at the end of the Reagan era and forced a reckoning with the staying power of social division and prejudice.