The History of Florida (111 page)

Authors: Michael Gannon

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ulty since 1972. He is the author of
Racial
Crisis
and
Community
Conflict:
St.

Augustine,
Florida,
1877–1980
; coauthor of
Florida’s
Gubernatorial
Politics
in
the
Twentieth
Century
(with Richard K. Scher); and coeditor of
The
African
American

Heritage
of
Florida
(with Jane Landers).

Jack E. Davis is professor of environmental history at the University of Florida

and the author or editor of several books, including
Race
Against
Time:
Culture

and
Separation
in
Natchez
Since
1930
, winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award; and
An
Everglades
Providence:
Marjory
Stoneman
Douglas
and
the
American
Environmental
Century
, awarded the gold medal in nonfiction from the Florida

Book Awards.

Robin F. A. Fabel is the Hollifield Professor of Southern History at Auburn Uni-

versity, Alabama. He is the author of
Bombast
and
Broadsides:
The
Lives
of
George
Johnstone,
and
The
Economy
of
British
West
Florida,
1763–1783
; and the editor of
Shipwreck
and
Adventures
of
M.
Pierre
Viaud
.

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Michael Gannon is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of history at the

University of Florida. He is the author or editor of six books on Florida history,

four books on World War II themes, and a play. In 2010, the Florida Humani-

ties Council presented him with its first Florida Literary Lifetime Achievement

Award.

Thomas Graham is professor of history emeritus at Flagler Col ege in St. Au-

gustine, where he taught full-time for thirty-five years. He is the author of T
he

Awakening
of
St.
Augustine
and is a past president and life member of the St. Au-

gustine Historical Society. A native Floridian, he is a lineal descendant of Fran-

cisco Xavier Sanchez of St. Augustine.

John H. Hann (1926–2009) was site historian at San Luis Archaeological and

Historic Site in Tal ahassee and the author of
Apalachee:
The
Land
between
the

Rivers
,
Missions
to
the
Calusa
, and
A
History
of
the
Timucua
Indians
and
Missions
.

Paul E. Hoffman is professor of history at Louisiana State University. He has writ-

ten two award-winning books on early Florida:
A New Andalucia and a Way to

the Orient
and
Florida’s Frontiers
and is the author of
Spain and the Roanoke

Voyages
.

Jane Landers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vander-

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bilt University. She is the author of
Black Society in Spanish Florida
and
Atlantic

Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
; and editor of
Colonial Plantations and Economy

in Florida
and
Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Ameri-

cas
. She coedited
The African American Heritage of Florida
with David Colburn,

and
Slaves Subjects and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America
with Barry

Robinson.

Eugene Lyon is director of the Center for Historic Research at Flagler College.

The author of
The
Enterprise
of
Florida
and
Richer
than
We
Thought
, he is a frequent contributor to
National
Geographic.

Susan A. MacManus is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of

Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. She is

the author of
Young v. Old: Generational Combat in the 21st Century?
and
Target-

ing Senior Voters.
She is the coauthor of
Florida’s Politics
(3rd ed.), with Aubrey

Jewett, Thomas R. Dye, and David J. Bonanza;
Florida’s Politics: Ten Media Mar-

kets, One Powerful State
, with Kevin Hil and Dario Moreno;
and
Citrus, Saw-

mil s, Critters, and Crackers: Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County
,
with

Elizabeth Riegler MacManus.

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Jerald T. Milanich is curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of

Natural History, University of Florida. He is the author of
Archaeology
of
Preco-

lumbian
Florida
and
Florida
Indians
and
the
Invasion
from
Europe
; coauthor, with Susan Milbrath, of
First
Encounters:
Spanish
Explorations
in
the
Caribbean
and
the
United
States,
1492–1570
; and coauthor, with Charles Hudson, of
Hernando
de
Soto
and
the
Indians
of
Florida
.

Amy Mitchel -Cook is associate professor of history at the University of West

Florida. She is the author of several journal articles on maritime history and is

currently finishing a manuscript on shipwreck narratives, “A Sea of Misadven-

tures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America.”

Raymond A. Mohl is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Ala-

bama at Birmingham. He is the author, most recently, of
South
of
the
South:
Jew-

ish
Activists
and
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
in
Miami,
1945–1960
and numerous scholarly articles on the racial and ethnic history of modern Florida, especial y

Miami.

Gary R. Mormino is the Frank E. Duckwal Emeritus Professor of History at

the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the coauthor, with George

Pozzetta, of
The
Immigrant
World
of
Ybor
City
, and coeditor, with Ann Hender-son, of
Spanish
Pathways
to
Florida,
1492–1992
.

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Susan Richbourg Parker is executive director of the Saint Augustine Historical

Society and specializes in the Spanish presence in the Southeast. She served as

a historian and a historic preservation consultant with the Florida Department

of State and taught at the University of Florida, University of South Florida, and

University of North Florida. She has contributed chapters to
Signposts:
New
Di-

rections
in
Southern
Legal
History,
America’s
Hundred
Years’
War,
and
Colonial
Plantations
and
Economy
in
Florida
.

George E. Pozzetta (1942–1994) was professor of history at the University of

Florida for twenty-three years. A renowned authority on immigration history

and ethnicity, he coauthored, with Gary R. Mormino,
The
Immigrant
World
of

Ybor
City
.

Larry Eugene Rivers is president of Fort Valley State University. He has authored,

among other works,
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century

Florida
and the award-winning
Slavery
in
Florida:
Territorial
Days
to
Emancipation
. In col aboration with Canter Brown Jr., he has written
Laborers
in
the
Vine-

yard
of
the
Lord:
The
Beginnings
of
the
AME
Church
in
Florida,
1865–1895
and
For
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a
Great
and
Grand
Purpose:
The
Beginnings
of
the
AMEZ
Church
in
Florida,
1864–

1905
. They also coedited
The
Varieties
of
Women’s
Experiences:
Portraits
of
Southern
Women
in
the
Post–Civil
War
Century
and, with Professor Richard Mathews of the University of Tampa, John Willis Menard’s
Lays
in
Summer
Lands
.

Wil iam W. Rogers is retired Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at

Florida State University. He is the author of
Outposts
on
the
Gulf:
A
History
of
St.
George’s
Island
and
Apalachicola
from
Early
Times
to
World
War
II
;
The
OneGal used
Rebel ion:
Agrarianism
in
Alabama,
1865–1896
; and other monographs in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia history.

Daniel L. Schafer is professor of history emeritus and university distinguished

professor, the University of North Florida. He is the author of numerous journal

articles on African American and Florida history, and
Anna Madgigine
Jai
King-

sley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
;
Thunder on the River:

The Civil War in Northeast Florida
;
Wil iam Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of

British East Florida
; and
Zephaniah Kingsley and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader,

Plantation Owner, Emancipator
.

Del a Scott-Ireton is associate director of the Florida Public Archaeology Net-

work (www.flpublicarchaeology.org) and serves on the boards of the Advisory

Council on Underwater Archaeology and the Society for Historical Archaeol-

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ogy. She is also a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists and is

appointed to the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee. Her re-

search interests include public interpretation of maritime cultural heritage, both

on land and underwater.

Jerrell H. Shofner is retired professor of history at the University of Central Flor-

ida. The author of numerous books, including
Nor
Is
It
Over
Yet:
Florida
in
the
Era
of
Reconstruction,
1863–1877
, he became editor of the
Florida
Historical
Quarterly
in 1995.