History

WINNER OF THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S 2024 CHARLTON TEBEAU AWARD • An award-winning work that weaves together architectural, church and Florida history, this sumptuous hard-bound volume features engrossing storytelling, an abundance of...

Allen and Gwen Yates were born and raised in segregated Jacksonville, Florida, but each of them had the benefit of hard-working, caring family and teachers who inspired them to aim...

In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy--and...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a...

Irishman George Fleming arrived in Spanish East Florida in 1783. He established Hibernia on an island in the St. Johns River that is known today as Fleming Island. Hibernia became...

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who...

The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s birth and featuring a new introduction by...

New York Times BestsellerFrom the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitationThe epic of the...

Since 1925, the Florida Historical Society has been publishing books. Our first book was this one, History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity 1513 to 1924 by T. Frederick Davis. A...

The musical and cultural impact of the Fab Four in Florida   “A well-researched book detailing every move the Beatles made in Florida in 1964. . . . Kealing reveals all...

With the publication of her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe became the most famous writer in America. That book helped to fuel the raging debate over...

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the past and those that are...

 "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." --The New York Times "It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this...

Many white Americans do not understand or accept the reality of systemic racism. They do not want to admit that their community, their schools, their government, their churches have a...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: "Beautifully told."--CNN - "A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating."--USA Today - "Oh, it's a good one!"--Fox News A "beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies" emerges from the horrors of World...

YEAR 3 EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) READING TEXT 2024-2025 The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time--from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence A product of electrifying scholarship...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith--and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter...

First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the...

'A wonderful connecting of two women writers' stories more than a century apart.' Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong The first-ever biography of the pioneering female journalist who fought...

The acclaimed book Oliver Stone called "the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance," JFK and the Unspeakable details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate...

Bob Kealing is the author of six critically acclaimed books about Florida history and culture. He has founded four Florida Heritage sites, and was instrumental in the development of the...

When Florida Breezes, or Florida New and Old was first published in 1882, residents of the state, and Tallahassee in particular, were not happy. Many of them bought the book by Ellen Call Long,...

William Warren Rogers, professor of history emeritus at Florida State University, provides vignettes of Florida's capital city and surrounding area.  From essays on bank robbers and crime to a look...

The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Beecher in Reconstruction Florida “A compelling account of Florida during the Reconstruction era, when Yankee reformers attempted to remake the state to their...

Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award A colorful look at a forgotten era of Florida tourism   “Kilby’s compelling narrative along with the captivating images made...

"Has a great narrative velocity. Even though we know how this story is going to end--tragically, of course--Kealing keeps us turning the page as we follow Gram Parsons through his...

Short takes on five centuries of history   “Takes readers on a 365-day virtual tour through Florida’s 500-year history, from the first documented encounters of Indigenous peoples and Spanish colonial explorer-conquistadors through...

Florida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida Nonfiction Curated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life...

Bishop's Institute recommendation March 2025 An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration.Americans have come...

Jacksonville architect Ted Pappas designs a building to be of its site, not on it. He brings the outside inside. Much of his work focuses on spaces of contemplation such...

RECOMMENDED IN SEPTEMBER 2024 WALL STREET JOURNAL, “A marvelous work of scholarship and storytelling" (Wall Street Journal​), offering a global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book A...

This modern classic explores the key concepts and people who have shaped our Christian spiritual heritage.  Concise and readable Holmes begins this introduction to Christian spirituality with the Jewish antecedents,...

From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America--a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns's favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an...

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It...

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of...

* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of...