The Cultures of Florida

Native American * African-American * European * Cracker/Pioneer * Cuban

General

Burnett, Gene. Florida's Past: People and Events that Shaped the State. 3 vols.
     Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 199 .

Congdon, Kristin G. Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales. Illus. Kitty Kitson
     Petterson. UP of Mississippi, 2001.

Essays in Florida History. Tampa: Florida Endowment for the Humanities, nd.

The First 25 Years of the Florida Folk Festival, 1953-1977. Sound disc. FFP 101
     Florida Folklife Program. White Springs, FL: Florida Folklife Program, 1981.

Gannon, Michael, ed. The New History of Florida. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1995.

Gardner, Janette C. An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. St.
     Petersburg: Little Bayou Press, 1983.

Glassman, Steve and Maurice O'Sullivan. Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine
     State. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1997.

Hatton, Hap. Tropical Splendor: An Architectural History of Florida. NY: Knopf, 1987.

*Hiassen, Carl. Paradise Screwed: Collected Columns of Carl Hiassen. NY: Putnam Group, 2001.

_____. Kick Ass: Collected Columns of Carl Hiassen. The Berkeley Group, 1999.

_____. Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World . Library of Contemporary
     Thought/Random House, 1998

*Housewright, Wiley. A History of Music and Dance in Florida, 1565-1865. U of
     Alabama P, 1991.

*Jahoda, Gloria. Florida: A Bicentennial History. NY: Norton, 1976.

*_____. The Other Florida. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967.

Kaufelt, Lynn Mitsuko. Key West Writers and Their Houses. Englewood and F.
     Lauderdale: Pineapple and Omnigraphics, 1986.

*Kennedy, Stetson. Palmetto Country. 1942. Rpt. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1989.

Mason, Walter Scott. The People of Florida as Portrayed in American Fiction.
     Nashville, TN: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1949.

*McCarthy, Kevin, ed. The Book Lover's Guide to Florida. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1992.

McRory, Mary C. Florida in Fiction: A Bibliography. Tallahassee: Florida State Library,
     1958.

McIver, Stuart B. Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags. Vol. 1. The Florida Chronicles.
     Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 199 .

_____. Murder in the Tropics. Vol. 2 The Florida Chronicles. Sarasota: Pineapple Press,
     1995.

Mormino, Gary. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern
      Florida. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2005.

Morris, Allen. Florida Place Names. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995.

*Rowe, Anne. The Idea of Florida in the Literary Imagination. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
     State UP, 1986.

*Shofner, Jerrell. Florida Portrait: A Pictorial History of Florida. The Florida Historical
     Society. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1990.

*Tebeau, Charlton W. A History of Florida. 1970 Rev. ed. Coral Gables: U of Miami P,
      1980.

*Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of
     Florida (including Stetson Kennedy and Zora Neale Hurston). Florida: A Guide to
     the Southernmost State. 1939. Rpt.

Native American

Pre-Columbian

Brown, Robin C. Florida's First People: 12,000 Years of Human History. Sarasota:
      Pineapple Press, 1995.

*Hann, John H. A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions. Gainesville: UP of
     Florida

_____ed. and trans. Missions to the Calusas. Gainesville: U of Florida P and Florida
      Museum of Natural History, 1991.

Milanich, Jerald. Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe. Gainesville: UP of
     Florida

Widmer, Randolph J. The Evolution of the Calusa: A Nonagricultural Chiefdom of the
     Southwest Florida Coast. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1988.

Seminoles and Miccosuckees

Covington, James W. The Seminoles of Florida. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1993.

Densmore, Frances. Seminole Music. Washington: Smithsonian, 1956.

*Jumper, Betty Mae with Peter Gallagher. Legends of the Seminoles. Sarasota:
        Pineapple Press, 1994.

*Jumper, Moses, Jr. Echoes in the Wind. Seminole Tribe of Florida, 1990. Poetry.

*Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War 1835-1842. 1967. Rev. ed.
      Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1985.

*Whitman, Albery Allson. The Rape of Florida; or Twasinta's Seminoles. 1884. Rpt.
     Miami: Mnemosyne Publishing, 1969. Poetry.

Wickman, Patricia R. Osceola's Legacy. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1991.

Wright, J. Leitch, Jr. Creeks and Seminoles: Destruction and Regeneration of the
      Muscolge People. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1986.

African-American

Colburn, David R. and Jane L. Landers, eds. The African American Heritage of
      Florida. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1995.

Deagan, Kathleen A. and Darcie McMahon. Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black
     Fortress of Freedom. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1995.

Drop on down in Florida: recent field recordings of Afro-American traditional music.
     2 sound discs. FFP 102-103 Florida Folklife. White Springs, FL: Florida Folklife
    Program, 1981.

*Due, Tananarive, and Patricia Stephens Due. Freedom in the Family: A
      Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. One World, 2003.

Evans, Arthur S. and David Lee. Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers.
    Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic UP/UP of Florida, 1990.

Goodwin, Gary and Suzanne Walker. Florida Black Heritage Trail. Tallahassee:
    Department of State, 1992.

Greenbaum, Susan D. Afro-Cubans in Ybor City: A Centennial History. Tampa, 1986.

*Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. 1935. Rpt. NY: Harper & Row, 1990. Folklore

*Johnson, James Weldon. Seven Negroe Sermons in Verse. 1927. Poetry

Jerry, Daisy. My Life Story -- A Sharecropper's Daughter. Ed. Connie Gross and Joyce
     Johnson Balkum. Rochester, NY: Eastern Printing and Publishing, 1984.

Jones, Maxine D. and Kevin M, McCarthy. African Americans in Florida. Sarasota:
    Pineapple Press, 1993.

Monroe, Gary. The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters.
     Gainesville: U of  Florida P, 2001.

Neyland, Leedell W. Twelve Black Floridians. Tallahassee: Florida A&M University
      Foundation, 1970.

Otey, Frank M. Eatonville, Florida: A Brief History of one of America's First
     Freedmen's Towns. Winter Park: Four-G Pub., 1989.

*Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation.
      Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000.

Wells, Sharon. Forgotten Legacy: Blacks in Nineteenth Century Key West. Key West:
     Historic Key West Preservation Board, 1982.

European

English

Dickinson, Jonathan. Jonathan Dickinson's Journal. 1699. Rpt. New Haven: Yale UP,
      1961.

French

Laudonniere, Rene. Three Voyages. 1565. Rpt. U of Alabama Press, 2001.

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques. The Narrative of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues in
the New World. 1591. Rpt.. Ed. Stefan Loran. NY: Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1946.

Ribaut,Jean. The Whole & True Discoverye of Terra Florida. 1563. Facs. Gainesville:
    U of Florida P, 1964.

Italian

Mormino, Gary R. and George E. Possetta. The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians
     and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1987.

Minorcan

Corse, Carita Doggett. Dr. Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna Colony. 1919.

Romans, Bernard. Natural History of East and West Florida. 1775.

Spanish

Devereux, Anthony Q. Juan Ponce de Leon, King Ferdinand, and the Fountain of
     Youth. Spartanburg, SC: Waccmaw P in assoc. with the Reprint Co., 1993.

*Henderson, Ann L. and Gary R. Mormino, eds. Spanish Pathways in Florida.
     Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 199

Jackson, W.R. Early Florida Through Spanish Eyes. Coral Gables: U of Miami P, 1954.

Manucy, Albert. Menéndez: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Captain General of the Ocean
     Sea. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995.

Walton, Spanish Treasure Fleets. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1994.

Cracker/Pioneer

Bruce, Annette. Tellable Cracker Tales. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1996.

Denham, James M. and Keith L. Huneycutt, eds. Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The
     Brown Sisters' Correspondence from Antebellum Florida. Columbia: University of
     South Carolina Press, 2004.

Haase, Ronald W. Classic Cracker: Florida'sWood-Frame Vernacular Architecture.
     Sarasota, Pineapple Press, 1995.

Hanna, Alfred and Kathryn. Lake Okeechobee. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill, 1948.

Kennedy, Stetson. Southern Exposure. 1946 rpt. Gainesville: UP of FL, 1991.

_____The Klan Unmasked. 1954. rpt. Boca Raton: FAU Press, 1990.

*Keyworth, Suzanne. Markers. Bay City, MI: Mayapple Press, 2005. Poetry

Will, Lawrence. Cracker History of Lake Okeechobee. St Petersburg: Great Outdoors,
      1964.

Cuban

*Hospital, Carolina and Jorge Cantera. A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida.
     Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1996.

Pizzo, Anthony P. Tampa Town: The Cracker Village with a Latin Accent. Coconut
     Grove: Hurricane Press, 1968

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