Available again! One year after UF’s 2025 national championship and just in time for #MarchMadness, POND BIRDS tells the definitive story of the University of Florida basketball program from its beginnings to the arrival of Billy Donovan, as told by a former player and longtime Gator sports analyst.
ON A RISING SWELL by Dan Reiter is a 2025 Foreword INDIES finalist!
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March is Women's History Month, and we invite you to browse our publications on women's history and activism, including ALIVE IN THEIR GARDEN, SISTERLY NETWORKS, and SOUTHERN METHODIST WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
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SENTIENT SEAS by Ian McNiven offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and interacted with the sea through cosmology, spirituality, and ritual.
Engagingly written and extensively illustrated, EARLY SPANISH FLORIDA by Judith Bense 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. Co-published with Florida Humanities.
Presenting case studies and regional overviews, ETHICS IN CARIBBEAN ARCHAEOLOGY, edited by Felicia J. Fricke, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, and Maaike S. de Waal, offers insights and strategies for transforming the ethics of archaeological practices in the Caribbean.
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We are attending the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance 2026 biennial conference hosted by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina! If you’re attending, please stop by our table to browse our books on African diaspora dance.
Browse our conference discount online at floridapress.org/31CADD26.
A starred review for INFINITE STEPS by Gavin Larsen and Gene Schiavone in LIBRARY JOURNAL!
“A bravura performance in which Schiavone’s exquisite photographs and Larsen’s perceptive profiles introduce readers to some remarkable current, former, and aspiring dancers.”
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Gifts of any amount will be appreciated, and every donation will receive a “Read Florida Books” sticker. Gifts of $100 or more will also receive a “Read Florida Books” tote bag featuring our brand-new University Press of Florida and UF Press logos.
Your contribution will support our internship program, which provides students with hands-on workplace experience and the opportunity to explore a career in publishing. You’ll also support publications by first-time authors, enabling the Press to publish change-making works by new voices.
Giving Day is today, February 19!
We hope you will consider making a gift to support our not-for-profit scholarly publishing program. 📖 📚
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THE “GIDEON” CASE by Bruce R. Jacob 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.
NICOLAI SERGUÉEFF AND “THE SLEEPING BEAUTY” by Maureen Gupta traces the legacy of the man who preserved the classic ballet’s original nineteenth-century choreography by examining its evolution over more than a century of productions.
Since I’m supposed to be self-promoting here, I have a chapter in this cool book! Check it out!
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We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2026 issue of the University Press of Florida and UF Press newsletter is now available, on our newly redesigned website! The newsletter features a mini-tour of the website, and much more.
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Book covers are arranged in slanted rows against a white background. Some of the book covers featured are, “Black Panther in Exile by Paul J. Magnarella, “Havana Hardball” by César Brioso, “To Tell a Black Story of Miami” by Tatianna D. McInnis, and “Dreams and Nightmares” by Britta Waldechmidt-Nelson.
February is Black History Month! We encourage you to explore our titles in African American and Black Diaspora studies. Order with code 31NEW26 for 30% off through February 28.
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Through archaeological sites and materials that document pivotal moments as well as lesser-known parts of the state’s history, THE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS by Joseph Bagley and Holly Herbster chronicles the diverse story of the commonwealth from the seventeenth century to today.
IMAGINING A NEW NATURAL HISTORY, edited by Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian, offers a fresh perspective on the Latin American Climate crisis and shows how writers, artists, and curators are rethinking approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature as separate entities. #UFPress
The House Un-American Activities Committee was given sweeping powers to investigate subversion in the US in the mid-20th century.
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We are very pleased to introduce our Spring & Summer 2026 season! Visit floridapress.org/spring2026 to browse our new books publishing in March through August 2026.
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THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND THE NEW LEFT, edited by Michelle Chase and Isabella Cosse, offers new insights into Cuba’s global influence by shifting the focus to show how everyday lives, family dynamics, and notions of gender and sexuality have impacted revolutionary transformation. #UFPress
This week @floridapress.bsky.social releases the edited volume "Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology", which I co-edit with Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal 🎉 We are hosting a hybrid book launch on Thurs 12 Feb at 4pm CET. Hope to see you there! 😊 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION, edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez, explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production. #UFPress
The book cover image of “Dreams and Nightmares” by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, which features the faces of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. The book cover is set against a background of a photograph of King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered during the March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Now in paperback: DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES is a concise dual biography that looks at the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, two icons of of the #CivilRightsMovement, illuminating their goals, visions, and legacies. #MLKDay
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THE HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF MICHIGAN by Dean L. Anderson, Michael S. Nassaney, and Krysta Ryzewski explores the historical archaeology of the past four hundred years in Michigan, illustrating the state’s history through themes such as immigration, capitalism, and civil rights.
UN-AMERICANISM by George Lewis offers a long history of the term “un-American,” from Jefferson’s vision of the early Republic to the present, tracing what the term has meant to whom through close looks at the most prominent contests for control of its definition and deployment.
If you're in the Gainesville area, don't miss Julie Marie Wade, author of OTHER PEOPLE'S MOTHERS, at The Lynx Books this Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6:00pm! Julie Marie Wade will be in conversation with our own Carlynn Crosby, @floridapress.bsky.social acquiring editor. Click the link below to register.
RADA PHOTOGRAPHY 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.
