As the official publisher for the State University System, the University Press of Florida (UPF) has been engaging educators, students, and discerning readers since 1945, currently releasing nearly 100 new titles each year.
Mesoamerican Osteobiographies: Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals
Gabriel D. Wrobel (ed.) and Andrea Cucina (ed.)
The term osteobiography is generally defined by a focus on individuals: the utilization of available data from a skeleton and its surroundings to reconstruct how a complex web of factors interacted to shape an individual’s body, life experiences, and, often, their lingering influence within the community after death.
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Motion Picture Paradise: A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry
David Morton
Overlooked and underestimated in its contributions to motion picture history, the film and television industry in Florida has played a vital role in shaping American visual culture for over a century.
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James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights
Larry Omar Rivers
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, James Hudson (1903–1980) was a philosopher, theologian, Baptist minister, pastor, college chaplain, academic administrator, and civil rights activist.
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The Storm: An Antebellum Tale of Key West
Ellen Brown Anderson and Keith L. Huneycutt (ed.)
This edited text publishes Ellen Brown Anderson’s The Storm with a contextualizing introduction and afterword. Told from the perspective of a young bride, Jenny Greenough, this novella is set in Key West, Florida during the hurricane year of 1846.
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